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CARLI Announces New Director of Electronic Resources
CARLI is pleased to announce the appointment of Cindy Clennon to the position of Director of Electronic Resources, effective October 1, 2007.
Under the direction of the CARLI Executive Director, Clennon will responsible for identifying, negotiating and contracting for desirable electronic resources for CARLI libraries. In her new role, she will work closely with the CARLI Board of Directors, the Electronic Resources Working Group, and representatives from 135 diverse educational and research institutions throughout Illinois that comprise the CARLI membership.
Clennon is currently Director of Operations for the Bureau of Educational Research at the University of Illinois College of Education, where she is responsible for Bureau budget oversight, education of faculty regarding external funding issues, and communication with campus and agency offices.
From 1996 through 2007, Clennon worked at the Center on Library Initiatives, Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). Beginning in 1996, Clennon served as the Program Manager for Library Collaboration, Center for Library Initiatives where she negotiated and administered $7.8 million in licenses, contracts and agreements for more than 90 digital library products for the CIC. Since 1996, the library-licensing program has saved the CIC libraries more than $33 million plus the funds and staff time that were saved through the use of centralized negotiation and administration.
As Program Manager, Clennon coordinated decision-making among libraries for acquisition; facilitated communications with libraries, collection development and electronic resource officers and vendors; represented the CIC at national and international meetings; and planned conferences for CIC librarians and for the International Coalition of Library Consortia. She authored the Standardized Agreement Language used in all CIC agreements that received international attention and is used as a model by other consortia. In addition she streamlined the licensing process, creating an electronic commitment system that eliminated the need for libraries to sign license participation documents. She served in that role from 1996 to 2005.
In 2005, Clennon was elevated to Assistant Director, Center for Library Initiatives. In this additional role, Clennon planned annual conferences for the CIC libraries, analyzed statistical information related to CIC libraries and license agreements; managed grants awarded to the Center for Library Initiatives and worked with libraries on their implementation. She worked extensively with other CIC library groups as well, including the interlibrary loan officers to implement and administer a courier service agreement, and with the preservations officers to manage an NEH preservation microfilming grant. Clennon served as Interim Director of the Center for Library Initiatives from December 2005 to May 2006.
Clennon earned a Bachelor of Science in Social Work and a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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