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CRKN Board of Directors
Howard Alper
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario
Designated by:
University of Ottawa (contact institution)
Bylaw Provision:
Clause 9(1)(g)(i)
Chair,
CRKN Board
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Howard Alper is Professor of
Chemistry and Vice-President, Research, at the University
of Ottawa. The basic research Dr. Alper has been pursuing
spans organic and inorganic chemistry, with potential applications
in the pharmaceutical, petrochemical, and commodity chemical
sectors of industry.
He chairs the Steacie Prize committee (NRC), and is
a member or chair of several corporate boards. He represents
Canada on the NATO
Science Committee. Dr. Alper was appointed
as a Titular Member of the European Academy of Arts,
Sciences, and Humanities (1996), and as an Officer of
the Order of Canada (1999). He was named President of
the Royal Society of Canada for a two-year term commencing
November 2001. In 2004, he was elected to a three year
term as Co-Chair of the Inter-American Network of Scientific
Academies.
He has served on a number of NSERC committees (e.g.
Committee on Research Grants), and as Chair of the Partnership
Group for Science and Engineering (PAGSE).
Dr. Alper has published 471 papers, has 37 patents,
and has edited several books. He
is passionate about Canada, research and chocolate.
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Robert Best
Association of
Universities and
Colleges of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
Designated by:
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
Bylaw Provision:
Clause 9(1)(d)
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A native of southern Alberta,
Robert Best studied political science at the University of
Lethbridge, Carleton University and the University of Alberta.
From 1982 to 1989, Mr. Best worked for the Consumers'
Association of Canada in Ottawa, mostly as Senior
Policy Research Officer. He has been at the Association
of Universities and Colleges of Canada since 1989,
first as a policy analyst, then as Director of Government
Relations and Public Affairs for ten years, and since
2001, as Vice-President, National Affairs, overseeing
AUCC's research and policy analysis, government relations
and public affairs, and publications and communications
divisions.
Mr. Best has been involved in numerous policy
advocacy coalitions and has served on a number
of advisory committees, steering committees and
boards. Throughout his career, Mr. Best has frequently
been a guest speaker at conferences and seminars
and has appeared before parliamentary committees
on many occasions. He has guest lectured on policy
and government relations at Carleton University,
the University of Ottawa and Mount Allison University
and has written extensively, including briefs
and submissions to government, policy documents,
and articles and editorials.
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Jonathan Blay
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Designated by:
Elected by CRKN members
Bylaw Provision:
Clause 9(1)(b)
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Dr. Jonathan
Blay is Acting Assistant Dean of Student Programs and Research
Promotion in the Faculty
of Medicine at Dalhousie University. He is also an Associate
Professor of Pharmacology and an active cancer researcher
who has contributed at an administrative level in many
aspects of research peer review and training initiatives.
His own research encompasses studies of the role of the tumour
microenvironment, aspects of cancer cell behaviour, and potential
novel therapeutics for use against cancer. He is the Unit
Head for pharmacology teaching in medicine, and also teaches
undergraduate and graduate students in a variety of disciplines.
Dr. Blay is Past President of the Nova Scotian Institute for Science and
has served an active role in a number of not-for-profit organizations. He
has played an important part in the early stages of CNSLP through participation
on the Evaluation Task Group (ETG), and
is a strong proponent of investment in knowledge systems as a means of enhancing
the effectiveness of research
and
the training of future Canadian researchers.
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Ronald Bond
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
Designated by:
Board of Directors
Bylaw Provision:
Clause 9(1)(h)
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Dr. Ronald
Bond holds a PhD in Renaissance English Literature from the
University of Toronto (1972), and has an Associateship in
Piano (Solo Performer) from the Royal Conservatory of Music,
Toronto (ARCT) and in Organ from the Royal Canadian College
of Organists (ARCCO).
Since 1997, Dr Bond has been the
Provost and Vice-President (Academic) at the University
or Calgary.
He was first appointed
to the University of Calgary in 1973, and promoted to Full
Professor in 1988. He has served as Head of the English
Department (1985-89), Assistant Dean of Humanities (1977-79),
Associate
Dean of Humanities (1979-81), and as Dean of Humanities
(1989-1997).
Dr. Bond has published two
books (an edition of Certain Sermons or Homilies [University
of Toronto Press, 1987] and a co-edition,
The Yale Edition of the Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenser [Yale UP, 1989];
c. 60 essays, articles, and reviews in places such
as Spenser Studies, English Studies in Canada, English
Literary Renaissance, Renaissance and Reformation, Journal
of English
and Germanic Philology, Mosaic, The
Sixteenth-Century Journal, The Spenser Encyclopaedia,
the Dictionary of Biblical Tradition
in English Literature.
His national service includes terms
as President of the Canadian Association of Chairs of English;
Vice-President
of the Canadian
Society for Renaissance Studies; President of the Canadian
Conference of Deans of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences;
Vice-President (Research Dissemination) for the Humanities
and Social Sciences Federation of Canada. He is currently
a member of the Steering Committee for the Faculty Bargaining
Project of the Canadian Association of University Business
Officers (CAUBO).
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Amit Chakma
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
Designated by:
Elected by CRKN members
Bylaw Provision:
Clause 9(1)(c)
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Dr.
Amit Chakma is Vice-President, Academic and Provost at the
University of Waterloo. Prior
to joining Waterloo in 2001, he served as Vice-President
(Research) at the University of Regina, and Dean of Engineering.
He is a graduate of the Algerian Petroleum Institute (Dip.
Ing., 1982) and the University of British Columbia (Master
of Science, 1984 and PhD, chemical engineering, 1987).
In recent years, Dr. Chakma has been honoured as a Canada Top 40 Under 40
Award recipient, was elected a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
and has received the academy's Kapitsa Gold Medal.
Dr. Chakma is a leading expert in areas related to petroleum research and
energy management. Dr. Chakma has served as a consultant to a number of universities
and government agencies and has provided advice on university administration,
academic planning and capacity building, curriculum development and research
matters. Dr. Chakma has been a founding member of the CNSLP Steering
Committee since September 2000.
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Patricia Clements
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Designated by:
Elected by CRKN members
Bylaw Provision:
Clause 9(1)(b)
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Dr.
Patricia Clements (BA, Alberta; DPhil, Oxford) is Professor
of English
and Director of the
Orlando Project at the University of Alberta. As Dean of
Arts at the University of Alberta (1989-1999), she worked
on several key issues and initiatives, including raising
the profile of research in the social sciences, humanities
and fine arts, the employability of Arts graduates, developing
community relations and fund development, and shaping an
international focus.
The Orlando Project, which has been funded by SSHRC and the
CFI, is an experiment in
literary history and humanities computing. It is addressing
issues in the application of technologies to text. Dr.
Clements has written previously on the cultural exchange
between French and English writing in the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries (Baudelaire and the English
Tradition, Princeton, 1985) and been co-author of the
first international reference work to women's writing
in English (A Feminist Companion to Literature in English,
Yale, 1995).
Dr. Clements is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
She has served as President of the Canadian Federation
of the Humanities and Social Sciences, as a member of
the Board of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council, and on the Board of Governors of the Edmonton
Concert Hall Foundation and the Edmonton Symphony Society.
She is currently a member of the Science Advisory Board
of Health Canada.
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Jean-Pierre Côté
Université de Montréal
Montréal, Québec
Designated by:
Sous-comité des bibliothèques de la Conférence
des recteurs et des principaux des universités du Québec
Bylaw Provision:
Clause 9(1)(a)
Vice-Chair,
CRKN Board
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Jean-Pierre
Côté was appointed Director general of Libraries
at Université de Montréal in June 2000. Under
his leadership, Université de Montréal Libraries
have joined the Association for Research Libraries (ARL),
the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
(SPARC), the Council on Library and Information Resources
(CLIR) and progress is under way with European research
library networks. Mr. Côté previously served
for ten years as Director general of Libraries at Université du
Québec à Montréal, following eight
years as Director of Technical and Information Technology
Services at the same university where he presided over
the development of an entirely new library integrated system.
He has held numerous professional positions including President
of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)
and of the Conférence des recteurs et des principaux
des universités du Québec (CREPUQ) Libraries
Committee.
As his achievements suggest, Jean-Pierre Côté has
taken every opportunity throughout his professional life
to exploit two powerful levers of transformation : information
technology and partnerships. From the start he was closely
involved in the Canadian National Site Licensing Project.
He served five years on the Steering Committee of the Project
from 1999 to 2004. Moreover, he is presently working on the
development of a cooperation project, the Red Interamericana
de Conectividad de Bibliotecas Universitarias (RICBLU) in
Latin America with the Colegio de Las Americas (COLAM).
Jean-Pierre Côté is now chairing the Advisory
Board of the Canadian Institute for Scientific and Technical
Information (CISTI)
after having been a member from 1999. He is also a member
of the Board of the Canadian Institute
for Historical Microreproductions
(CIHM) since 2002.
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Joyce Garnett
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
Designated by:
Virtue of position as President, Canadian Association of Research
Libraries
Bylaw Provision:
Clause 9(1)(e)
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Joyce
Garnett is the President of the Canadian Association of
Research
Libraries (CARL),
and the University Librarian at the
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
Ms. Garnett has 25 years experience
as a librarian and library administrator in the public
and private sectors. She
is Treasurer of the Ontario
Council
of University Libraries (OCUL),
Chair of the Project Management Team for OCUL's Ontario
Information Infrastructure project,
member of the Association of Research Libraries' Membership
Committee and member of OCLC's
Canada Advisory Council.
Ms. Garnett has 20 years of university
teaching experience in the areas of information retrieval,
scholarly communication,
and scientific research resources, and is currently responsible
for a graduate course entitled "Academic Libraries" in
the Library and Information Science program at the Faculty
of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western
Ontario. She is particularly interested in the impact
of the digital library on teaching, learning and research;
by the role of technology in transforming information access
and communication; and by the emergence of information
literacy as a core competency for the knowledge economy.
She holds
an undergraduate degree in science and a graduate degree
in library and information
science, both from McGill University.
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Sara Lochhead
Acadia University
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Designated by:
Council of Atlantic University Libraries
Bylaw Provision:
Clause 9(1)(a)
Treasurer,
CRKN Board
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Sara
Lochhead is currently the University Librarian at Acadia
University. She represents
the Council of Atlantic University Libraries (CAUL)
on the CRKN Board of Directors. Prior to her position at
Acadia
University, Sara was the University Librarian and Assistant
Vice-President for Student Administrative Services at Mount
Allison University. She has also worked in community college,
public and special libraries across Canada. In 1996
she was a member of the AUCC/CARL Taskforce on Scholarly
Communications. She has been an invited speaker at APLA and
CLA conferences, Chair of CAUL, President of APLA and President
of the Canadian Association of Small University Libraries
(CASUL) and is a member of CLA and ALA.
Previously, Ms. Lochhead was a member of the advisory board
of the BC Electronic
Library Network (ELN),
representing the interior colleges.
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Carolynne Presser
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Designated by:
Canadian Association of Research Libraries
Bylaw Provision:
Clause 9(1)(f)
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Carolynne Presser
has been the Director of Libraries at the University of Manitoba
since 1990. Born, raised and educated in New York City, she
moved to Winnipeg after 19 years at the University of Waterloo
where she held various positions, including Head of the Engineering,
Mathematics and Science Library, and the Associate Librarian
for Planning and Systems. She began her library career at Temple
University in Philadelphia, before moving to Canada in 1969,
working in Toronto at the Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education.
In her position at the University of Manitoba, she manages
a $16 Million operation, employing over 200 academic and support
staff, spread out among 18 libraries on the Fort Garry, Bannatyne
campuses and in the hospitals.
Ms. Presser has spoken at conferences, published papers and
done consulting work in North America, Australia, Britain and
Europe, talking about the electronic library of the future
and other subjects related to library automation, staff development,
library cooperation and resource sharing.
She is the past President of the Canadian Association of Research
Libraries, (CARL). Ms. Presser was appointed to the National
Library of Canada Advisory Board through an Order in Council
appointment, serving from 1991 through 1994 and served as a
member of the Board of the Canadian Institute for Historical
MicroReproduction from 1994 to 1996. She was a member of the
Board of the Association of Research Libraries, (ARL) from
1998- 2001. Presently, she is a member of the Province of Manitoba
Public Library Advisory Board.
Ms. Presser was a member of the Board of the YM-YWCA of Winnipeg.
She is presently a member of the Board and Treasurer of the
Riverview Health Centre.
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Michael Ridley
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario
Designated by:
Ontario Council of University Libraries
Bylaw Provision:
Clause 9(1)(a)
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Michael Ridley
has been the Chief Librarian at the University of Guelph
(Ontario, Canada) since
1995 and a professional librarian since 1979. Mr. Ridley
worked previously as an Associate University Librarian at
the University
of Waterloo, Head of Systems and Technical Services at the
Health Sciences Library at McMaster University and at the
University of Guelph Library in a variety of professional
roles.
He has served as President of the Canadian Association
for Information Science (CAIS),
President of the Ontario Library Association (OLA),
Board member of the Canadian Association of Research
Libraries (CARL)
and Chair of the Ontario Council of University Libraries
(OCUL). Recently he has been assisting
the Ontario Library Association develop ideas and plans
for the proposed Ontario Digital Library (ODL).
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Marnie Swanson
University of Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia
Designated by:
Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries
Bylaw Provision:
Clause 9(1)(a)
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Marnie Swanson
is currently the University Librarian at the University of
Victoria; a position she has held for 16 years. Before going
to Victoria, she held a variety of positions including Area
Head, Arts and Humanities at the University of Calgary, Corporate
Partner in two different library and information consulting
firms and Medical Librarian at the University of Alberta.
She has taught library related courses at the University
of Alberta, the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.
An active participant in professional associations, Marnie
has held a variety of executive positions, including Director
of the Canadian Association of Special Libraries and Information
Services (CASLIS);
President of the Canadian Library Association (CLA);
and President of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries
(CARL). She is currently
Vice-Chair of the Council of Prairie and Pacific
University Libraries (COPPUL) and will serve a two year term
as Chair of the Council beginning in September, 2004.
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Leslie Weir
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario
Designated by:
University of Ottawa (contact institution)
Bylaw Provision:
Clause 9(1)(g)(ii)
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Leslie Weir became University
Chief Librarian at the University of Ottawa in January 2003
after acting in the position for a year.
Leslie was a member of the Canadian National Site Licensing Project (CNSLP) Steering Committee (2002-2004) and Chair
of the CNSLP Management Sub-committee (2002-2004).
Since 2001 Leslie has been Chair of the Task Group on
Access to Scholarly Information resources (SIR). This group
is charged with implementation of the Ontario Scholars
Portal (OSP), the Ontario Information Infrastructure
project that is developing a leading edge interface for
University researchers to access electronic resources.
Leslie is also a member of the OSP Project Management
Team and the OSP Board.
Previously, Leslie was Assistant Chief Librarian, responsible
for Electronic Resources & Systems at the University
of Ottawa. During the past couple of years she has been
actively
involved in a number of information resource-related projects,
including
the Canadian National Site Licensing Project (CNLSP), SmartLibraries
(an Industry Canada funded, OCRI sponsored project to implement
Z39.50
between five National Capital area libraries), OCULIR (the
Ontario
Council of University Libraries Information Resources),
a provincial
consortium that negotiates licences for university access
to electronic resources.
Before joining the University in 1992, Leslie worked at
the National Library of Canada where she was a senior manager
in information technology. She has worked as an information
professional
since 1979, and holds a Masters of Library Science from
McGill University.
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