About Paula Kaufman

The University Librarian

Paula Kaufman

In Brief

Paula Kaufman has been University Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since September 7, 1999. Prior to taking this position, she was dean of the libraries at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville for 11 years. Prior to which she served at the Columbia University Libraries as Acting Vice President, Director of Academic Information Services, Director of Library Services, Acting Head of the East Asian Libraries, and Business and Economics Librarian. Ms. Kaufman also has considerable experience in the private sector at McKinsey and Company and as partner and co-founder of Information for Business.

Ms. Kaufman has written and spoken widely on a number of issues pertaining to scholarly information, privacy, and leadership.

Her recent publications include

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Ms. Kaufman has served the profession as chair of the Association of Research Libraries Board of Directors, board membership in the Center for Research Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries, the Research Libraries Group, and Solinet.

She also served on numerous committees at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she chaired several search committees and a Task Force on Distance Education and Outreach. The University honored her by inviting her to deliver the May 1996 Commencement Address.
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Present Position

University Librarian and Professor of Library Administration
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 230 Main Library,
MC-522 1408 West Gregory Drive Urbana, Illinois 61801
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Education

MBA - Management - University of New Haven - 1979
MS - Library Science - Columbia University - 1969
AB - Economics - Smith College - 1968
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Professional Experience

1970-1979 |  1979-1988 |  1988-1999 |  1999-present University Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9/1999-present
Responsible for the leadership of the University Library, the third largest academic library in North America with a budget in excess of $26 million and a staff of more than 400.
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Dean of Libraries, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

8/1988-8/1999
Responsible for the leadership of the University Libraries, a $10.5 million, 185 person organization. Accomplishments include two successful capital fund-raising campaigns, acquisition of significant special collections, staff salary improvements, development of a sustained planning process, initiation of a preservation program, development of a staff training program, introduction of significant new technologies, formation of new alliances and partnerships on and off campus, and development of a team-centered staff environment.
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Acting Vice President and University Librarian, Columbia University

7/1987-8/1988
For a period of more than a year directed the $22 million, 515 person University Libraries and the activities of the more than 100 staff members of Academic Computing in an organization, the Scholarly Information Center, designed to provide integrated information support services to the academic community.

Director, Academic Information Services Group, Columbia University

2/1986-7/1987
Responsible for activities and operations of the Academic Information Services Group, the creation of which was the first step in the reorganization of Columbia's information services into the Scholarly Information Center. The group combined the operations and staff of the 21 libraries in the Libraries' Services Group with the staff and activities of the User Services Group of the Center for Computing Activities.

Director, Library Services Group, Columbia University

8/1982-2/1986
Responsible for the staff and operations of 21 libraries organized in three discipline-centered divisions -- Humanities and History, Science and Engineering, and Social Sciences-- and for coordinating the Libraries' public services activities on a system-wide basis with Columbia's five Distinctive Collections (Avery Art and Architecture, East Asian Library, Health Sciences Library, Law Library, and Rare Books and Manuscripts) and three affiliated institutions (Barnard College, Teachers College, and Union Theological Seminary).

Acting Head, East Asian Library, Columbia University

1/1982-7/1982
A six-month managerial assignment to effect change in the organization and direction of this Distinctive Collection, Achievements include reorganizing staff from language-orientation to function, implementing automated cataloging and acquisitions services (using RLIN's CJK system), and coordinating the move of 30,000 volumes to three on-campus storage facilities.

Business and Economics Librarian, Columbia University

4/1979-1/1982
Directed the operations and activities of the country's second largest academic business library, including the development of new services and the development and management of its collections.
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Principal Reference Librarian, Social Science Library, Yale University

6/1976-4/1979
Responsible for providing reference services and building a collection to support the then-new School of Organization and Management.

Partner and Founder, Information for Business, New York, NY

10/1973-6/1976
Cofounded and ran information industry service firm that provided secondary business research information, market research services, and consulting services to an international clientele. Investment capital was provided by limited partner Mitsubishi.

Reference Coordinator, McKinsey & Company, Inc., New York, NY

1/1971-10/1973
Directed the reference activities of this top management consulting firm in its New York headquarters office and coordinated similar services with its twelve global offices.

Assistant Reference Librarian, Business Library, Columbia University

9/1969-12/1970
Provided basic business and economics reference services.
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Publications


“Whose Good Old Days Are These? A Dozen Predictions for the Digital Age.” Journal of Library Administration, 35.3(Dec. 30, 2001):5(15).

“Biblioteka I Bibliotechnoye: Kuda ohn idyut?” (“Libraries and Librarianship: Where are They Heading?”) Peterburgskaya Bibliotechnaya Shkola, No. 2, 2001, p. 64-70.

“The Tennessee Imperative: Case Study of a Library Fundraising Campaign.” In Butler, Meredith, editor. Successful Fundraising: Case Studies of Academic Libraries. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2001, pp. 28-37.

"Panel on the Future of Scholarly Publishing." Educause Review, January/February 2000.

"Recommended Reading: Innovative Use of Information Technology by Colleges." CAUSE/EFFECT, vol. 22, no. 4,1999.

"Looking Over Electronic Shoulders: Privacy in 21st Century Libraries." The Ethics Electronic Information in the 21st Century. Pourciau, Lester J., editor. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1999.

"Readin', Writin', Arithmetic, and Information Competency: Adding a Basic Skills Component to a University's Curriculum." With Lori A. Goetsch. Campus-Wide Information Systems, volume 15, number 5, 1998.

"Structure and Crisis: Markets and Market Segmentation in Scholarly Publishing." Chapter in Hawkins, Brian and Battin, Patricia. The Mirage of Continuity: Reconfiguring Academic Information Resources for the 21st Century. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources and the Association of American Universities, 1998.

Checklist for Drafting Electronic Information Policies. With Gerald R. Lowell. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 1998.

"I Never Harmed an Onion, So Why Should it Make Me Cry? Publisher's and Librarians in the Information Technology Age." Tennessee Librarian, Fall 1995.

"Professional Diversity in Libraries." Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Volume 55, Supplement 18, 1995.

Review of Improving Organizational Effectiveness Through Transformational-Leadership, by Bass, Bernard M. & Avolio, Bruce J. Journal of Academic Librarianship, May 1995.

2001: A Space Reality. Strategies for Obtaining Funding for New Library Space. With Mitchell, Aubrey. (SPEC Kit 200) Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, 1994.

"Library Leadership: Does Gender Make a Difference?" Journal of Library Administration, Vol. 18, No. 3/4, 1993.

"New Realities, Old Values: A Print Seminar," with Miller, Tamara. Library Hi-Tech Fall, 1992.

"Professionally Diverse Library Organizations." Library Trends, Fall 1992.

"Information Incompetence." Library Journal, November 15, 1992.

"Archiving Electronic Journals: Who's Responsible for What?" with LeClercq, Anne W. Library Issues, July 1991, p. 1-4.

"ARL Directors: Two Decades of Change," with Myers, Marcia. College and Research Libraries, May 1991.

Review of The ACLS Survey of Scholars: The Final Report, by Herbert Morton and Anne J. Price. Book Research Quarterly, Summer 1990, p. 85-86.

"Serving the University Family: Truths Among the Myths." In Trezza, Alphonse, editor, Commitment to Service: The Library's Mission. G. K. Hall, 1990.

"Columbia University." In Arms, Caroline, editor, Campus Strategies for Libraries and Electronic Information. Digital Press, 1989.

"Patterns of Use and Service of Information," with LeClercq, Anne W. Survey of Business Vol. 24, #3, Winter 1989.

"Changes in the Environment: Threat or Opportunity?" Book Research Quarterly , Vol. 4, #4, Winter 1988-89.

The Best in General Reference Literature, the Social Sciences, History and the Arts, Editor. Volume 3 of The Readers Adviser, 13th edition. NY: Bowker, 1986.

"Scholarly Communication: The Uses of Scholarly Publications." Society for Scholarly Publication Letter, vol. 7, #4, 1985.

"Library Connection." Society for Scholarly Publication Letter, vol. 6, #4, 1984.

"The Multiple Uses of the Information and Analyses Generated by a Self-Study." ACRL Proceedings, 1984.

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Papers Presented (selected)

“Copyright in the United States and Japan: Storming the Barriers to Access.” 2001 Kanazawa Institute of Technology Roundtable for Library and Information science, Kanazawa, Japan, July 12, 2001.

“Whose Good Old Days Are These? A Dozen Predictions for the Digital Age.” Oklahoma City, OK. Digital Age: Impact on Library Collections and Cooperation, March 1, 2001.

“Libraries and Librarianship: Where Are They Heading?” Tver, Russia and St. Petersburg, Russia, January 25 and 26, 2001.

“These are the Good Old Days.” Urbana, IL. Alpha Chapter of Beta Phi Mu Annual Meeting, October 28, 2000.

"The Future of Academic Librarianship," Urbana, IL. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library Colloquium, April 26, 2000.

"The Web is Not a Library." Urbana, IL. Phi Kappa Phi Initiation, April 24, 2000.

"What Keeps Me Up at Night: The Future of Academic Librarianship." Matteson, IL, Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries Millennium Conference, April 14, 2000.

"A Librarian's Perspective on Distance Education." New Challenges for Scholarly Communication in the Digital Era: Changing Roles and Expectations." Association of Research Libraries, et al. Washington, DC, March 26, 1999.

"There Are No Easy Answers and I'm Not Superwoman: A Director's Perspectives on 'More For Less."' Charleston Conference, November 6, 1998.

"Values-Based Organizations." Engineering the Future: A New Look at Organizational Thinking and Hyper-Learning. Association of College and Research Libraries, Washington, DC, June 27,1998.

"Invading Like Kudzu: Will There Be Privacy of Reading in Twenty-First Century Libraries?" Phi Kappa Phi Lecture, Knoxville, Tennessee, April 13, 1998.

"Readin', Writin', Arithmetic, and Information Competency: Adding a Basic Skills Component to a University's Curriculum." With Lori Goetsch. CAUSE97, Orlando, FL, December 3, 1997.

"Looking Over Electronic Shoulders: Privacy in 21st Century Libraries." Conference on The Ethics of Electronic Information in the 21st Century, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, September 27, 1997.

"Moving Nimbly Through the Transformation." Keynote address, Solinet Annual Meeting, May 1,1997.

Commencement address, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, May 10, 1996.

"TNII: Tennessee Information Infrastructure." East Tennessee Tri-Regional Annual Meeting, April 18,1995.

"How Research Libraries Can Help Their Changing Universities." Association of College and Research Libraries Biennial Conference, March 30, 1995.

"Content Issues." Library of Congress Network Advisory Committee, December 13, 1993.

"Byting the Dust: Do Alex Haley's Papers Mark the End of an Era?" Rothrock Lecture, East Tennessee Library Association, November 9, 1993.

"Copyright and Fair Use." Association of Research Libraries Membership Meeting, Washington, DC, October 22, 1992.

"New Connections Between Deans of Liberal Arts and Deans of Libraries." Council of Deans of Arts and Sciences, November 19, 1991.

"What Does the Future Hold: Hope or Despair?" 15th Annual John Lain Lecture. Kappa Tau Alpha, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, April 25,1991.

"Leadership: A Different View." Women in Leadership Conference, Knoxville, March 6, 1990.

"Information Technology in Universities: Hereditary Entitlement vs. Financial Realities." Phi Kappa Phi, University of Tennessee, November 30, 1989.

"Looking Over Shoulders and Under Rocks." University of Tennessee, Centripetals Series, September 1989.

"The FBI's Library Awareness Program." Tennessee Library Association Annual Conference, April 20, 1989.

"The Library of the Future? Budgetary and Administrative Challenges." Association of Southeastern Research Libraries, March 19, 1989.

"Scholarly Publishing: An Endangered Species?" Top Management Roundtable, Society for Scholarly Publishing, September 29, 1988.

"Academic Libraries and Computing Centers." Texas Library Association Annual Conference, April 8, 1987.

"Libraries in Transition." EDUCOM Seminar on Managing Converging Academic Technologies: Computer Centers, Libraries, and Classrooms, March 18, 1987.

"The Value Added by Libraries to Scholarly Publications." Fifth Annual Top Management Roundtable, Society for Scholarly Publishing, September 26, 1986.

"Marketing to Research Libraries." Society for Scholarly Publishing Marketing Seminar, July 12,1986.

"Changes in Academic Libraries." Resources and Technical Services Division, American Library Association. ALA Annual Conference, June 29, 1986.

"Technical Changes in the World of the Scholar: Will They Make a Difference?" Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting, May 29, 1986.

"Organizing for Public Services In a Distributed Environment." Research Library Group Seminar on the Age of Telescience, November 29, 1985.

"Impact of OPAC Implementation." Greater New York Association of College and Research Libraries, November 15, 1985.

"Scholarly Information Center Description of Experiences to Date (Or: A Report from the Front Lines)." IBM Advanced Education Project Conference, June 25, 1985.

"No Risks, No Gains: Exciting Service Opportunities for Research Libraries." Virginia ACRL, April 26, 1985.

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Teaching

University Honors Seminar 348 Intellectual Property Issues.

Co-taught with Tamara Miller, Spring 1999
University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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Editorial Boards

Journal of Library Administration, 1995-2001.

Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1987-1992.

Directory of Industry Data Source, HARFAX, 1980-1982.

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Professional Activities

Association of Research Libraries
Board of Directors, Chair, 2002-
President, Oct 2001 – Oct 2002
Vice President/President Elect, 2000/2001
Board of Directors, 1997-2003
Information Policies Committee, 1989-92, 1996-1999, Chair, 1999-2001
Copyright Working Group, 1993- Chair 1999-2000
Scholarly Communications Committee, 1993-1996
Ad Hoc Working Group on Future of Online Systems, Chair, 1991-93
Ad Hoc Working Group on Copyright Issues, 1993-
Membership Review Panel, 1994
Task Force on Preservation of Copyrighted Materials, Chair, 1995

CAUSE
Board Member (appointed), 1996-1998

Center for Research Libraries
Board Member, 1994-2000 Vice chair, 1995-1996 Chair, 1996 Chair, Membership Committee, 1997-2000 Recruitment Committee, 2000

Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
Board Member, 2000-

Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC)
Library Directors Group Chair, 2000-

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Honors

Office of Intellectual Freedom, Anniversary Roll of Honor, January 1999
Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award, January 1989
Greater Knoxville YWCA Tribute to Women Finalist, 1993
Beta Phi Mu
Phi Kappa Phi (Honorary Member)
Golden Key (Honorary Member)

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