AISTI Board of Directors
Margaret Alexander organized the Santa Fe Institute's first library in 1992 and has continued to provide library services to its diverse scientists. The Santa Fe Institute is devoted to creating a new kind of scientific research community that emphasizes multi-disciplinary collaboration in pursuit of understanding the common themes that arise in natural, artificial, and social systems. The Library works to foster scholarly communication within the Institute and among the global community of scientists who participate in its programs.
Miriam Blake is Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library. She has a background in the Library automation industry and has been active in developing digital library technology at the Research Library for over ten years. She was involved in the development and deployment of several major projects, including LANL Library's XML-based, large-scale, biblographic search engine, the full-text search and browse application, and, more recently, implementation of the aDORe repository architecture. Interests include digital library standards, repository interoperability initiatives and linked data efforts.
Holly Shipp Buchanan, MLn, MBA, EDD, is Associate Vice President for Knowledge Management and Information Technology, Director of the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center, UNM Deputy Chief Information Officer, and a professor in the UNM School of Medicine. She has over thirty years' experience in library and information science leadership in the fields of healthcare management and higher education. Before joining UNM's Health Sciences Center in 1997, Buchanan served as Director of Libraries and Association Professor at the Medical College of Georgia. Buchanan holds a BA in Biology from Georgetown College, an MLn from Emory University, an MBA in Management Systems, and an EdD in Education Administration from the University of Louisville. She is past president of the Medical Library Association and past chair of the Board of Regents for the NIH's National Library of Medicine.
Johann van Reenen is the Associate Dean for Research, Science and International Initiatives at the University Libraries. He is a Professor of Library Science and Adjunct Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico. Recent research and grant topics include enhancing communication and knowledge discovery among KARST scientists; library support of e-science and data curation; the future of science and technology collection development; the benefits of systems providing open access and connectedness; Web-based enabling of education and research; and consortial support for digital library initiatives and information technology manpower development in Latin America (see Latin American Knowledge Harvester project at http://laii.unm.edu/lakh/en/index.html).
Dr. Elizabeth A. Titus has been Dean of New Mexico State University Library since July 2000. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Northern Illinois University, a Masters in Urban Planning from Wayne State University, and a Masters in Library Science from the University of Michigan. Dr. Titus has worked in academic research libraries in Michigan, Illinois, and, most recently, New Mexico. She has published and presented papers at national conferences on a variety of administrative topics including library statistics, facilities and space planning, library security, and pay equity.
