Michael Levine–Clark

With colleagues from the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, Michael founded the open access journal Collaborative Librarianship, and he serves as co-editor for scholarly articles. He has been a chair or member of many committees within the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) and the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), and he has served on a variety of national and international publisher and vendor library advisory boards. Michael is currently serving as the co-chair of a NISO working group to develop recommended practices for Demand Driven Acquisition of Monographs and as the co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, 4th edition. He writes and speaks regularly on strategies for improving academic library collection development practices, including the use of e-books in academic libraries and the development of demand-driven acquisition models.