Clifford Lynch is the director of the

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(CNI), where he has been since 1997. He is also an adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of Information.

Career and awards

Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent eighteen years at the

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Office of the President, the last ten as Director of Library Automation. He is both a past president and recipient of the 2008 Award of Merit of the American Society for Information Science and Technology ( ASIS&T), and a fellow of the

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and the

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. Lynch lectures extensively on issues pertaining to

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, information policy, and emerging interoperability standards. In 2011 he was appointed co-chair of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI); His work has been recognized by the

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's Lippincott Award, the

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Leadership Award in Public Policy and Practice, and the

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's Homer Bernhardt Award. He was elected as an

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in 2017.

Education

Lynch holds a B.A in Mathematics and Computer Science from Columbia College, a M.S. in Computer Science from the

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, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (1987) from the

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Selected publications

*Clifford Lynch
Stewardship in the "Age of Algorithms"
''

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,'' Volume 22, Number 12 (4 December 2017). *Clifford A. Lynch, "Big data: How do your data grow?" ''

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'', vol. 455, no. 7209 (September 3, 2008). *Clifford A. Lynch, "Digital Libraries, Learning Communities, and Open Education," ''Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge'', Toru Iiyoshi, M. S. Vijay Kumar (Eds.), (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008). *Clifford A. Lynch, "Imagining a University Press System to Support Scholarship in the Digital Age." ''Journal of Electronic Publishing.'' November 2012. *Clifford A. Lynch and Joan K. Lippincott, "Institutional Repository Deployment in the United States as of Early 2005," ''

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'', 11:9 (September 2005). *Clifford A. Lynch, "The Impact of Digital Scholarship on Research Libraries," The ''

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'' 49:3 (April 2009), pp. 227–244. *Clifford A. Lynch, "Open Computation: Beyond Human-Reader-Centric Views of Scholarly Literatures," ''Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects'', Neil Jacobs (Ed.), (Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2006), 185–193. *Clifford A. Lynch, "Searching the Internet," ''

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'' 276:3 (March 1997), pp. 52–56.

References

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