Michael A. Keller

University Librarian,
Director of Academic Information Resources,
and Publisher of HighWire Press
Green Library
Stanford University, CA 94305-6004
650-723-5553 650-725-4902 (fax)
Michael.Keller@stanford.edu

Education - Employment - Honors and Awards
Professional Affiliations - Teaching Assignments
Academic Committee Assignments - Professional Committee Assignments
Other Activities - Consultant to - Citations in Biographical Dictionaries
Articles about M. Keller - Publications and Papers

Education

B.A.

Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 1967 (Cum Laude, Biology, Music)

M.A.

State University of New York at Buffalo 1970 (Music History)

M.L.S.

State University of New York at Geneseo 1972 (Academic Librarianship)

[Ph.D., a.b.d.

State University of New York at Buffalo; dissertation topic "Brescian origins of the late Renaissance canzona"; degree not completed]

Employment

1995-

Publisher, HighWire Press, the Internet imprint of the Stanford University Libraries.

1994-

University Librarian and Director, Academic Information Resources, Stanford Univ.

1993-1994

Director, Stanford University Libraries

1986-1993

Associate University Librarian & Director of Collection Development, Yale

1984

Visiting Lecturer, Music Department, Stanford University

1981-1986

Head of the Music Library, University of California at Berkeley [UCB]

1976

Acting Undergraduate Librarian, Cornell University [CU]

1973-1981

Music Librarian/Senior Lecturer in Musicology, CU

1970-1973

Assistant Librarian for Reference and Cataloging, Music Library, State University of New York at Buffalo

Honors and Awards

Professional Affiliations

1983-

American Library Association [ALA]

1971-

Music Library Association [MLA]

1971-

International Association of Music Libraries [IAML]

1970-

American Musicological Society [AMS]

Teaching Assignments

1984

Music 200: Music Bibliography, Stanford University

1981-1986

Lectures on music bibliography and research in Music 200 & other courses at UCB

1980

Music 381: Monteverdi to Mozart, CU

1975-1976

Music 441-442: Brass Ensemble, CU

1977

Music 444: Chamber Singers, CU

1973-1979

Music 681: Introduction to Music Research and Bibliography, CU

Recent Academic Committee Assignments

1994-

Commission on Technology in Teaching and Learning, Stanford University

1994-

President's Cabinet, Stanford University

1994-1995

University Fellow, Stanford University

1993-

Academic Senate, Stanford University ex-officio

1991-1993

Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Committee of Council Chairpersons

1991-1993

Committee on On-line Scholarly Information, Yale

1990

Yale College Committee on International Relations Major

1990-1993

Yale University International Development Committee 1990-93 Collection Development Council, Yale

1989-1993

Chair, Pierson College Library Committee, Yale

1986-1988

Chair, Retrospective Conversion Task Force, Yale

1986-1988

Task Force on Performance Expectations, Yale

Professional Committee Assignments

1994

Member, National Digital Library Federation

1992-1993

Member, Working Group on the Review of the NEH Preservation Program, ARL

1992-1993

Member, Mid-Decade Planning Group, RLG

1992-1995

Member, Journal Pricing Sub-committee of the American Physical Society

1992-1993

Member, Association for Research Libraries Task Force on Foreign Acquisitions

1991-1992

Member, RLG Programs Advisory Group

1989-1991

Chair, RLG, Collection Management and Development Committee

1989-1994

RENARC, Advisory Board (Database of Music Historical Information in Renaissance Archival Collections)

1988-1992

Member, Advisory Committee on Collection Development, Center for Research Libraries, Chicago

1988

Member, Review Panel, Research Resources Division, National Endowment for the Humanities

1988-1989

Chair, Serials Data Task Force of the Collection Management and Development Committee of the Research Libraries Group

1987-1988

Member, Task Force on Expensive Serials, Heads of Collection Development in Large Research Libraries Discussion Group, ALA

1986-1991

Member, Collection Management and Development Committee, RLG

1985-1988

Member, Council of the American Musicological Society

1983-1986

Chair, Associated Music Libraries Group (UC/Berkeley, Harvard, Yale, Eastman, University of Illinois/Champaign-Urban, Indiana University, Stanford); author of AMLG Retrospective Conversion Proposal to the U.S. Dept of Education - $235,000 grant awarded for FY 1985/86

1982-1983

Finance Committee, Music Library Association

1982-1983

Committee on Automated Bibliography, American Musicological Society

1981-1984

Bibliographical Commission, Rpertoire International de la Presse Musical de XIXme Sicle

1981-1985

Chairman, Music Program Committee, RLG

1981-1985

Editorial Committee, MLA Index and Bibliography Series

1978-1980

Fiftieth Anniversary Committee, MLA

1976-1978

Member-at-large and Development Officer, Board of Directors, MLA

1977-1981

Chairman, Nomination Committees, NY Chapters of AMS and MLA

1974-1976

Chairman, Audio-visual and Microforms Committee, MLA

1971-1974

Microforms Committee, MLA

1971-1972

Chair, Committee to Study the Feasibility of a New Music Press, NY Chapter, AMS

Other Activities

1990-1993

Connecticut Center for the Book, Board of Directors

1989-

American Psychological Association, Board of Directors' Standing Hearing Panel on Professional Ethics

1987-1988

Undergraduate Library Internship Program, Yale University Library, Mentor

1987

Center for the Book, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Conference on Libraries and Scholarship, Invited Participant

1987

American Council of Learned Societies Conference on Scholarly Communication, Washington, D.C., Discussion Leader

1987-1993

Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Board of Directors Other Activities, cont.

1986

Institute for Associate and Deputy University Librarians, Office of Management Studies, Association for Research Libraries

1985-1986

ODC/San Francisco (formerly Oberlin Dance Collective), Board of Directors

1985-

Project Director and Co-Principal Investigator, Italian Music and Lyric Poetry of the Renaissance

1985

Advanced Management Skills Institute, Office of Management Studies, Association of Research Libraries

1984-1986

Joint Committee to Establish a National Retrospective Conversion Plan for Music

1984

Council on Library Resources Conference [CLR] on National Strategies for Retrospective Conversion

1984

CLR Conference on Standards for the Retrospective Conversion of Music Materials, program chair

1984

Assessor, Management Skills Assessment Program (University of California)

1983

Pre-Conference on Automated Circulation Systems, LAMA, ALA

1981

Seminar Participant, Results Oriented Supervision, a 4 week management training program prepared by the Cornell University Personnel Office

1980

Staff Instructor on AACR2 and ALA Filing Rules, 3rd ed., CU 1980 Seminar Participant on AACR2, taught by Paul Winkler for FAUL Consortium

1979-1980

Special Assistant to Dean on Facilities Planning, College of Arts and Sciences, CU

1978

CU Representative to "What's In A Name," Canadian Library Association Programme on Automated Authority Systems, Vancouver, BC

1976-

Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities

1976-1981

Faculty Advisor to the Cornell Chimesmasters and McGraw Tower, CU

1973-1981

Faculty Advisor to freshmen and sophomores, CU

Consultant to:

       Advisory Board Research Library, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2005-

       National Digital Library Federation (1993-2005); Chair Executive Committee, 2002-

       Information Technology Advisory Group New Library of Alexandria, Egypt, 2001-

       Governence Committee Stanford Japan Center Research, 1998-2002

       Board Overseers Stanford University Press, 1997-2000

       Digital Library Federation, 1994-2005

       Association Music Librarians Group, Joint Committee Retrospective Conversion in Music, 1989-1993

       Collection Management Development Committee, Research Librarians Group, 1986-1993

       Music Program Committee Research Librarians Group, 1982-1986

       Berkeley Italian Renaissance Project, 1985-1995

       National Endowment for the Humanities, 1979-1995

       External advisor to the University of Melbourne

Principal Investigator and Leadership Role in Projects

 

       LOCKSS

       Matthew Parker Online Library

       GATT Digital Archive; Digitization of Arabic Books

       Open Knowledge Initiative

       Sakai

       Linking the Americas

       Frei Presidential Archive Digitization Project

       E-Journal User Study; Sunset Magazine Centennial Bibliography

       Preservation & Digitization of the R. Buckminster Fuller Archives

       Copyright Determinator Project.

 

Selected Boards

 

       Presidents Cabinet, Stanford University

       Charter Member, Digital Library Federation, 1994-present; Board of Trustees, 2005-  

       Board of Directors, Cisco Learning Institute, 2004- 

       Honorary Advisory Board, Global Education & Learning Committee (aka Curriki), 2004-

       Technical Advisory Board, Groxis, Inc., 2003- 

       Advisory Board, Ebrary Incorporated, 1999-  

       Board of Directors, The Long Now Foundation, 1999-  

       Board of Trustees, Hamilton College, 2001-2005

       Board of Directors, Alibris, Inc., 1999- 2004

Citations in Biographical Dictionaries

Articles about M. Keller

Profile in Stanford Magazine by Tia O'Brien, "You thought librarians were dull?"

Article by Andrew Leonard in Salon.com, "Can history survive Silicon Valley? Stanford University archivists struggle to preserve the past of a place that cares only for the future"

Speaking Engagements

De Lange Conference VI, Rice University: Panelist and presenter of paper Emerging Cybraries.  5-7 March 2007.

 

European Council Digital Library 2006, Alicante, Spain; invited keynote address: One good turn deserves another; how the Google Book Search project is benefiting everyone. September 2006.

 

Attended annual Kanazawa Institute of Technology Library Round Table; Panelist and Invited presentation: Google Book Search; indexing the contents of library books. July 2006.

 

Attended annual meeting of Society of College, National and University Librarians of the UK, Newcastle, UK; Invited keynote presentation: The future is here. 21 June 2006.

 

Participated in the National Academy of Sciences 2006 E-Journal Summit. 19-20 March 2006.

 

8th International Bielefeld Conference – Academic Library and Information Services: New Paradigms for the Digital Age. Invited keynote presentation: Whither Academic Information Services in the Perfect Storm of the Early 21st-century? 8 February 2006.

 

Chinese University of Hong Kong Conference: Keynote speaker at conference, presented paper on digital asset management.  Invited keynote presentation: Digital Avatars; why should we worry about digital asset management. 4 January 2006.

 

Singapore: Keynote address and panel discussion, A Knowledge-Based Web at the Celebrating Knowledge: The Power and Potential conference. 14 November 2005.

 

Orlando, Florida: Gartner/Chronicle of Higher Education Conference on Higher Education Leadership, panel discussion The Library of the Future: Pixels vs. Paper. 17 October 2005.

 

Logan, Utah: Advancing the Effectiveness and Sustainability of Open Education.  Invited presentation:  The Google Library Digitization Project: For the Good of the World or for Google? 28 September 2005.

Publications and Papers

Attended and presented paper at Fiesole Collection Development Retreat in Lund, Sweden. Invited presentation: Changing roles and expectations in the academy; a U.S. research university perspective. 2-5 August 2006.

 

Digitization Symposium, University of Michigan: Invited paper: Google Book Search; what Stanford intends. 9-11 March 2006.

 

Hong Kong: Presented paper to a small colloquium of Pacific Rim universities on knowledge management and enterprises.  Invited paper: Stanford Knowledge Management Enterprises in SULAIR. 4 January 2006.

 

Beijing, China: Presented paper at the National Library of China in Beijing on digital library programs.  Invited paper: Recent advances in digital librarianship. 3 January 2006.

 

Edinburgh, Scotland: Invited paper at the Library of University of Edinburgh: LOCKSS, the Stanford Digital Library, and other schemes addressing the digital archiving challenge. 17 November 2005.

 

Kyoto, Japan: Science and Technology in Society: Lights and Shadows – For a Sustainable Future.  Invited paper: Digital Archiving, a necessary aspect reflecting the influence and extent of use of information technology in advanced societies. 12 September 2005.

 

Georgetown University: Spoke at symposium on scholarly communication. Invited paper for the Digital Lecture Hall series: The Future of Books, Reading & Research. 18 June 2005.

 

China Education and Research Conference: Invited paper: Building, operating, and maintaining digital libraries. 7-8 April 2005.

 

National Academy of Social Sciences of the Peoples Republic of China: Invited paper: Mass digitization and its implications for libraries. April 2005.

"Cybrarians -- The Information Professionals of the 21st-Century" by Michael A. Keller

"Business models, not economic models for research libraries in the transition to more digitized information resources" by Michael A. Keller

"Capitalizing on the Library Investment" by Michael A. Keller

"Reconstruction, Preservation and Innovation: Rebuilding Green Library and Incorporating Advances Instigated by the Commission on Technology in Teaching and Learning." Stanford San Jose Luncheon Club, San Jose, CA, 23 March 1995.

"Value Added: What is It? How do You Get It? How do you Sell It?" part of a panel presented to the Society for Scholarly Publishing, 16th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 9, June 1994.

"Navigating the Global Information Sea: A View From the Farm," a talk presented to the Rocky Mountain Stanford Association in Englewood, Colorado, 5 June 1994.

"The Role of Subject Specialists in the Virtual Library," a paper presented to the University Library Staff of the University of Minnesota, 29 April 1994.

"Late awakenings; recruiting subject specialists to librarianship and collection development," a chapter to be published in Recruiting, Educating, and Training Librarians for Collection Development, edited by Margaret Johnson and Sheila Intner, by Greenwood Publishing Group in 1993 (submitted, editing underway).

"Frankfurt Book Fair Showcases Publishing's Latest," a brief report in ARL: a bimonthly newsletter of research library issues and actions, no. 165, 23 November 1992, p. 8-9.

"Collection building at the national level: new demands, new concepts," a paper presented to the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Scholarship session on "cooperative collection development in the Slavic field," Phoenix, 20 November 1992.

"Ownership and access," presentation to the Seminar of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, Boston, 16 September 1992.

Review of Scholarly communication and serial prices: proceedings of a conference... in College & Research Libraries, vol. 53, no. 4 (July 1992), p. 364-65.

"A report on the status of foreign acquisitions in North American research libraries," a keynote address to the annual meeting of the Council of the Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, Illinois, 24 April 1992. Published as an insert to September/October 1992 issue of FOCUS, the Center's newsletter.

"Moving toward concrete solutions based in fundamental values," response to Jasper G. Schad's article "The future of collection development in an era of fiscal stringency," in a symposium in the Journal of Academic Librarianship (March, 1992), p. 7-9.

"Publishers' and librarians' cooperation -- a new vision," a paper delivered to the XXIV Congress of the International Publishers Association in New Delhi, India, 28 January 1992.

"Digital preservation: some reflections upon its implications for collection development officers," a paper presented to the Advisory Council of the Commission on Preservation and Access, Washington, D.C., November, 1991.

"Collection development in the 1990s," a paper presented to the New England Chapter of the Music Library Association, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 18 October 1991.

"Goodbye to the written word," a paper written as a response to the art installation "Gray Matters: the Last Library" by Carla Rae Johnson, at ARTSPACE, in New Haven, Connecticut, 7 October 1991.

"Academic library collection development in a time of transition; the possibilities for electronic publishing," a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses, June 1991 in Naples, Florida.

Review of Harry B. Lincoln, "The Italian madrigal and related repertories" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988), in Fontes Artis Musicae, vol. 37 no. 3 (January 1991).

"Strategies for the future dissemination of scholarly and scientific articles," a paper presented at the Association of College and Research Libraries Journal Cost Discussion Group session at ALA Mid-winter, January 1991 in Chicago.

"The crisis in music bibliography," keynote address to the session on teaching music bibliography of the Annual Meeting of the College Music Society, November 1990, Washington, D.C. To be published in Symposium, the journal of the College Music Society.

"Strategic choices facing the Yale libraries," a lecture to the Fellowship of Pierson College, Yale University, October 1990.

"Contribution" to "Do serials vendor policies affect serials pricing?" in Serials Review, vol.16, no. 2 (Summer, 1990), p. 17-18.

"Anticipated demands on collection development budgets and the role of outside resources in funding acquisitions," keynote address of the ALCTS-RS and LAMA program "Funding Future Acquisitions: Financial Resources for the 1990s" at the American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago, June 1990.

"Criteria used by librarians in selecting titles," a paper presented at the Society for Scholarly Publishing 1990 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, June 1990.

"Selection and Acquisition [of serials for research libraries]," a paper presented at the sixth annual seminar of the Association of Learned Society and Professional Journal Publishers, London, England, April 1990.

"The RLG Conspectus as a methodology for national collection coordination," a paper presented to the Swedish National Committee for Library Planning, Stockholm, Sweden, February 1990.

"Role of the RLG Conspectus in collection development policy in the university," a paper presented at the Universitetsbibliotek, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, February 1990.

"The ARL Serials Report of 1989; its significance and implications," a paper presented at the Charleston Conference on Acquisitions, November 1989.

"Filantropia e sostegno per gli Enti Locali per la Cultura agli Stati Uniti," a paper presented at the Seconda Conferenza Nazionale degli Enti Locali per la Cultura, Ferrara, Italy June 1989.

"Development, promulgation, and support of scholarly data bases: a comparative study of selected U.S. and Italian experiences," a paper presented at the Conference of the Western European Specialists Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, Florence, Italy, April, 1988.

"Grantsmanship," a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Music Library Association, Eugene, Oregon, February 1987 (and subsequently at the 1988 Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Toronto, Ontario).

"New bibliographic, literary, and musical tools; the Italian Music and Lyric Poetry of the Renaissance Project," a paper presented to the Conference on Music Bibliography, Evanston, Illinois, 12 October 1986; this paper will be published in a conference proceeding as vol. 1, no. 2 of Music Reference Research Services (Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth, scheduled for 1993). Version of the same paper presented at the VIII International Congress of the International Musicological Society in Bologna, Italy in August 1987 (a summary of the paper was published in a conference proceeding), at the annual meeting of the Association for Computers & the Humanities in Columbia, South Carolina, April 1987, and at a meeting of the Computers and the Humanities Group at Brown University in May 1989.

Music Reference and Research Materials, 4th edition, co-author with Vincent Duckles New York: Schirmer Books of Macmillan Inc. 1988. 712 p. [Winner of 1988 Deems Taylor Award of ASCAP]. A revised 4th edition is scheduled for publication in June 1993 and a 5th edition is contracted.

"Issues in Retrospective Conversion," a paper presented to the Iowa Association of College and Research Libraries Spring Conference, 26 April 1985.

"Music and Dance," a chapter in The Reader's Adviser, 13th edition, vol. 3, pp 484-525. N.Y.: Bowker, 1986. A revision for the next edition has been contracted.

"Music, a chapter in Selection of Library Materials in the Humanities, Social, Sciences and Sciences (Chicago: American Library Association, 1985) edited by P. McClung et al. [Winner of 1986 Blackwell North America Scholarship Award of ALA].

"The Evolution of RPM, the National Retrospective Conversion Project for Music," a paper commissioned by and presented at a Cooperative Library Agency for Systems and Services Symposium on Retrospective Conversion, San Bruno, CA, January 1985.

"RLG's Developmental Efforts and Their Impact on Music Libraries," a paper presented to the Pre-conference on Computers and New Technology for the Music Library Association, Austin, Texas, 1984.

"An analysis of the L.C. Music Shelf-list on Microfiche" in Cum Notis Variorum, no. 78, December, 1983.

"The Berkeley Carillon" in Cum Notis Variorum, no. 76, October, 1983.

"Thinking About Music," in Critical Thinking, reading across the curriculum (New York and London: Cornell University Press, 1984; reprinted Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1987).

"Library Patrons and Library Networks," a paper presented at the 1982 Annual Meeting of the Music Library Association in Santa Monica, CA.

"The Effects of Library Networks on Scholarship in the 1980s," a paper presented at the 1981 Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society in Boston, MA.

"Collection Profile - Music Library," Appendix V (pp. 113-132) of J. Gormley Miller's Collection Development Management at Cornell (Ithaca: Cornell University Libraries, 1981).

"Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Music Therapy Index, Music Psychology Index and The Recording Industry Index, Three New Indexes to Musical Literature, and a new form of RILM, on-line," an extensive review article with Carol A. Lawrence in Notes, the Journal of the Music Library Association, vol. 36, no. 3, 1980.

"Senaillie;" "Guenin;" "Dauvergne" - articles on three 18th century French composers for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London: Macmillan, 1980). "Dauvergne" article reprinted in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (London: Macmillan, 1992).

Review of Johann Sebastian Bach: Life, Times and Influence, in Notes, journal of the Music Library Association, vol. 35, no. 4, 1979.

An Index to Composers Cited in Clarence Brenner's Bibliographical List of Plays in the French Language, 1700-1789, with Neal Zaslaw, published in the reprint edition (N.Y.: AMS Press, 1979).

"Music Manuscripts in Microform," a paper presented at the 1976 Annual Meeting of the International Association of Music Libraries in Bergen, Norway.

"Library Networks and Consortia," a paper presented at the 1975 Annual Meeting of the International Association of Music Libraries in Montreal, Canada.

"Present and future activity of the MLA in non-print media," a paper presented at the 1974 Summer Meeting of the Canadian Library Association in Winnipeg.

"Where does policy come from? a dialogue," an article in the Cornell University Libraries Bulletin, no. 187, Jan. -Feb. 1974.

"Music serials in microform and reprint editions," in Notes, the journal of the Music Library Association, vol. 29, 1973.

"Bibliography of Blake texts set to music," in the Blake Society Newsletter, Spring 1972.

Handlist: Music Manuscripts on Microfilm [in the] Music Library [at] SUNY/Buffalo. SUNY University Libraries, 1971.

Reports in Current Musicology: no. 12 (1971) on Masters Theses; no. 13 (1972) on Performance Practice and Musicology: no. 16 (1974) on Genesee Music Press.

Personal

       Extensive travel in Europe, Asia, South America, Australia

       Language competence in Italian, reading in other European languages

       Complete resume available at http://highwire.stanford.edu/~mkeller/resume.html