Charles J. Henry

Last updated

Charles J. Henry (born June 17, 1950) is President of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), located in Washington, D. C. Prior to that he served as Vice Provost and University Librarian at Rice University, where he also served as Vice President and Chief Information Officer for several years.

Contents

Early life and education

Henry was born in Washington, D.C., and moved around the United States continually during childhood and as a young adult, the son of a federal agent. He received a B.A. in philosophy and humanities from Northwest Missouri State University, and earned graduate degrees (M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D) from Columbia University. Henry studied for three years at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. He was a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to Vienna, Austria, and received Fulbright Senior Scholar grants more recently to New Zealand and China, and has received numerous scholarships and awards during his career.

Career

Henry began his professional career at Columbia University, serving as Assistant Director for the Humanities and History Division of the university libraries. Much of the focus during those years (1985–91) was on the integration of digital technology into library services and procedures, as well as the rise of computers in teaching, learning, and research in the humanities. He was then appointed as library director for the Vassar College Libraries (1991–96), working with the faculty and staff on the introduction of new services and the requisite skills of the new generation of professional information service provider. Redesigning and expanding the library, and the shifting concept of a library in an information era, were key areas of his responsibilities. He was appointed university librarian to Rice University (1996–2007) for a decade, and CIO for several years during his tenure. At Rice, Henry inaugurated the digital library project; developed new media services; fundraised extensively for the capital campaign; restarted the Rice University Press as an all-digital publisher; and directed major renovation projects and off-site storage facility planning and construction. He was also responsible for network security, telecommunications, web services, and research computing. He held a faculty appointment in the School of Engineering and taught in the School of Humanities.

Henry joined CLIR in 2007, and was responsible for fundraising, program development, strategic planning, and the Council’s array of projects including: those devoted to leadership in higher education, cyberinfrastructure, emerging disciplines, and the Digital Library Federation.

For over two decades, Henry has published and given talks focused on a variety of topics in higher education: the evolution of the humanities in a digital era, the organization of information and its support of teaching and research, the concept of a library, and the emerging digital environment for higher education in the United States. His work ranges from early exploration of cognitive aspects of reading ancient literature, [1] to explorations in the changing organization of disciplines, [2] and emerging methodologies in the conduct of research. [3] Henry is an author of Our Cultural Commonwealth, a study of cyberinfrastructure in the humanities. [4] Recent scholarship has focused on new models of scholarly communication and publishing. [5]

Henry serves on several boards, including the Advisory Board for the new Tan Tao University in Vietnam; the Center for Research Libraries; the Center for Jewish History; and the National Institute for Technology in the Liberal Education. He was also a member of the advisory board for Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany (information resources and technology). Henry also serves as a Dean of the Frye Leadership Institute. There are a number of extant web interviews that express his ideas and opinions on a variety of topics. [6]

Personal life

Henry is married to Nancy C. Todd[ citation needed ]. The family home is in Northern Vermont.

Related Research Articles

United States federal research funders use the term cyberinfrastructure to describe research environments that support advanced data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration, data mining, data visualization and other computing and information processing services distributed over the Internet beyond the scope of a single institution. In scientific usage, cyberinfrastructure is a technological and sociological solution to the problem of efficiently connecting laboratories, data, computers, and people with the goal of enabling derivation of novel scientific theories and knowledge.

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a private, nonprofit federation of 75 scholarly organizations in the humanities and related social sciences founded in 1919. It is best known for its fellowship competitions which provide a range of opportunities for scholars in the humanities and related social sciences at all career stages, from graduate students to distinguished professors to independent scholars, working with a number of disciplines and methodologies in the U.S. and abroad.

George Paul Landow was Professor of English and Art History Emeritus at Brown University. He was a leading authority on Victorian literature, art, and culture, as well as a pioneer in criticism and theory of Electronic literature, hypertext and hypermedia. He also pioneered the use of hypertext and the web in higher education.

Educause is a nonprofit association in the United States whose mission is "to advance higher education through the use of information technology". Membership is open to institutions of higher education, corporations serving the higher education information technology market, and other related associations and organizations.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Digital humanities</span> Area of scholarly activity

Digital humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanities, as well as the analysis of their application. DH can be defined as new ways of doing scholarship that involve collaborative, transdisciplinary, and computationally engaged research, teaching, and publishing. It brings digital tools and methods to the study of the humanities with the recognition that the printed word is no longer the main medium for knowledge production and distribution.

Christine L. Borgman is Distinguished Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA. She is the author of more than 200 publications in the fields of information studies, computer science, and communication. Two of her sole-authored monographs, Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet and From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked World, have won the Best Information Science Book of the Year award from the American Society for Information Science and Technology. She is a lead investigator for the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center, where she conducts data practices research. She chaired the Task Force on Cyberlearning for the NSF, whose report, Fostering Learning in the Networked World, was released in July 2008. Prof. Borgman is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Legacy Laureate of the University of Pittsburgh, and is the 2011 recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Award from the Coalition for Networked Information, Association for Research Libraries, and EDUCAUSE. The award recognizes notable, lasting achievements in the creation and innovative use of information resources and services that advance scholarship and intellectual productivity through communication networks. She is also the 2011 recipient of the Research in Information Science Award from the American Association of Information Science and Technology. In 2013, she became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Clifford Lynch</span> Director of the Coalition for Networked Information; professor

Clifford Lynch is the director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), where he has been since 1997. He is also an adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of Information.

The term e-Research refers to the use of information technology to support existing and new forms of research. This extends cyber-infrastructure practices established in STEM fields such as e-Science to cover other all research areas, including HASS fields such as digital humanities.

Patricia Meyer Battin was one of the first librarians in the United States to combine the responsibilities of library administrator and technology director. Her focus shifted toward preservation when she became the first president of the Commission on Preservation and Access. She later became a pioneer in the digital library movement and began to work in the area of digital preservation.

George Peter Lyman was an American professor of information science who taught at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information, and was well known in U.S. academia for his research on online information and his leadership in remaking university library systems for the digital era.

Henry L. Snyder was professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Riverside, and the former director of the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research. He served as a co-director and the leader of the American English Short Title Catalogue team for more than 32 years.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Digital Library Federation</span>

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is a program of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) that brings together a consortium of college and university libraries, public libraries, museums, and related institutions with the stated mission of "advanc[ing] research, learning, social justice, and the public good through digital library technologies." It was formed in 1995.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ira Fuchs</span> American computer scientist

Ira H. Fuchs is an internationally known authority on technology innovation in higher education and is a co-founder of BITNET, an important precursor of the Internet. He was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2017. Since 2012 he has been President of BITNET, LLC a consulting firm specializing in online learning and other applications of technology in higher education.

The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is an international research center that works with humanities in the 21st century. A collaboration among the University of Maryland College of Arts and Humanities, Libraries, and Office of Information Technology, MITH cultivates research agendas clustered around digital tools, text mining and visualization, and the creation and preservation of electronic literature, digital games and virtual worlds.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Francine Berman</span> American computer scientist

Francine Berman is an American computer scientist, and a leader in digital data preservation and cyber-infrastructure. In 2009, she was the inaugural recipient of the IEEE/ACM-CS Ken Kennedy Award "for her influential leadership in the design, development and deployment of national-scale cyberinfrastructure, her inspiring work as a teacher and mentor, and her exemplary service to the high performance community". In 2004, Business Week called her the "reigning teraflop queen".

Daniel E. Atkins III is the W. K. Kellogg Professor of Community Informatics at University of Michigan.

John Unsworth is the university librarian and dean of libraries at the University of Virginia, a position he has held since June 25, 2016.

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is an American independent, nonprofit organization. It works with libraries, cultural institutions, and higher learning communities on developing strategies to improve research, teaching, and learning environments. It is based in Alexandria, VA, United States. CLIR is supported primarily by annual dues from its over 180 sponsoring institutions and 190 DLF members, and by foundation grants and individual donations.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Douglas Van Houweling</span>

Doug Van Houweling is a professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. He is best known for his contributions to the development and deployment of the Internet. For these accomplishments, he was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2014. He is also the recipient of the EDUCAUSE 2002 Excellence in Leadership Award, the Iowa State University John V. Atanasoff Discovery Award, the Indiana University Thomas Hart Benton Mural Medallion, and an honorary Doctor of Science from Indiana University in May, 2017. Van Houweling was the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation from 2010 to 2014. Prior to that, he was the Dean for Academic Outreach and Vice Provost for Information technology at the University of Michigan.

References

  1. ↑ “The Image of a Word. Computer Generated Programs for the Transformation of Descriptive Language into Pictorial Representations for an Analysis of Axiomatic Thought Processes.” in Humanities and the Computer. New Directions. Ed. Miall. London: Oxford University Press, 1990.
  2. ↑ “Humanities and the Organisation.” Networking in the Humanities. Proceedings of the Second Conference on Scholarship and Technology in the Humanities Held at Elvetham Hall. London: Bowker-Sauer, 1995. 223-234.
  3. ↑ Henry, C., Ross, S., and Pavlisack, P. Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges. ACLS Occasional Paper No. 37. 1997.
  4. ↑ Unsworth, John, Charles Henry, Roy Rosensweig, et al. Our Cultural Commonwealth. The Report of the American Council of learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure in the Humanities and Social Sciences. New York: American Council of Learned Societies, 2006.
  5. ↑ “Rice University Press: Fons et Origo.” Journal of Electronic Publishing (University of Michigan) vol. 10, no. 2. Spring 2007.
  6. ↑ “Can Universities Dream of Electric Sheepskin? Systemic Transformations in Higher Education Organizational Models.” Journal of Electronic Publishing (University of Michigan). Vol. 11 no.1. Winter 2008; “Removable Type.” In Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come. Rice University Press, 2010; The Library Café (Vassar College) http://artlibrary.vassar.edu/wvkr/audio/henry.mp3; EDUCAUSE Connect "An Interview with Rice's Charles Henry | EDUCAUSE CONNECT". Archived from the original on 2008-10-22. Retrieved 2011-11-10. http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/CanUniversitiesDreamofEle/46191 Archived 2008-03-01 at the Wayback Machine ; http://educause.adobeconnect.com/p74542168
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.