Gloriana St. Clair (born 1939) is a pioneer in the field of academic

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, as well as a scholar of Norse Mythology and its relationship to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. She is currently the Principal Investigator of th
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as well as the official University Liaison to the Pittsburgh chapter of the

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at Carnegie Mellon University. She is Dean Emerita of Carnegie Mellon University Libraries (1998-2013). Before coming to Carnegie Mellon, St. Clair held leadership positions at several other universities. St. Clair attended the

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, receiving a bachelor's degree in English in 1962 and a master's degree in library science in 1963. St. Clair has had a significant impact on academic librarianship, publishing articles and studies which helped reshape the field. She has served as the editor of three major journals: '' portal: Libraries and the Academy (2000-2003)'', ''

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(1996-2000)'', and ''

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(1990-1996)''. In 2009, she was recognized by the

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as the Academic/Research Librarian of the Year.Selected works by St. Clair
are archived online in Carnegie Mellon University's Research Showcase (institutional repository). Throughout her career, St. Clair has established herself as a staunch critic of academic publishers, supporting Open Access information distribution through digital publication. Her work in digitization also served as an inspiration for the

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project. In 2012, St. Clair was retained by Google, Inc. to “provide eropinions regarding the challenges libraries and others face in identifying and finding copyright owners, and regarding the practices of libraries with respect to the digitization of books at the time Google began its Google Books project” in The Authors Guild, et al. v. Google, Inc., Civil Action No. 05 CV 8136 (DC), (S.D. NY 2012)

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