LYRASIS is Searching for a New Executive Director

January 23, 2015By LyrasisLeadership

Are you a visionary, an early adopter, a natural collaborator and a leader? Do you have a mind for business with the long-term view and integrity to steer an organization through a transitional environment and into the future? Are you ready to act as a motivator and thought leader for a community of forward-thinking, innovative … Read More

Tom Clareson Leads Disaster Preparedness Training Project in New Jersey

January 15, 2015By LyrasisClasses, Leadership

In times of natural disasters, many people look toward the Red Cross to assist them with devastation to their homes while libraries look toward LYRASIS Disaster Resources to provide them disaster assistance information, prevention and planning resources, and response and recovery resources. Read more about how Tom Clareson, Senior Digital & Preservation Services Consultant at LYRASIS, led … Read More

Digital Video Resources from LYRASIS

January 9, 2015By LyrasisProducts & Partnerships

We know that your users need a wealth of content and that students want that information in quick, high-quality video. Give your users the digital video resources they need, streaming and at their fingertips with these great offers from LYRASIS partners. Alexander Street Press Top-notch academic content, delivered through high-quality streaming video. Collections include a … Read More

Congratulations to Siobhan Reardon, LYRASIS Board of Trustees member and former Board Chair

January 6, 2015By LyrasisLeadership

Siobhan A. Reardon: LJ’s 2015 Librarian of the Year President and Director, Free Library of Philadelphia She engineered the creation of an ambitious, five-year strategic plan, underpinned by a powerful mission to advance literacy, guide learning, and inspire curiosity through the Free Library of Philadelphia (FLP). Siobhan A. Reardon had been in the director’s chair for less … Read More

Open Access Initiatives for Scholarly Monographs

December 9, 2014By Celeste FeatherCommunities

LYRASIS is actively engaged in the growing movement to support open access for scholarly monographs in the humanities and social sciences. Earlier this year we provided North American administrative support for the Knowledge Unlatched pilot project that gathered 297 libraries across the globe and made 28 scholarly monographs accessible to the world. Other initiatives and … Read More

Kate Nevins, LYRASIS Executive Director, Announces Her Retirement

December 9, 2014By LyrasisLeadership

Join us in congratulating Kate Nevins, LYRASIS Executive Director, on her upcoming retirement after 20 years with the organization. In recent years, Nevins and the LYRASIS Board of Trustees have steered the organization into the digital realm and introduced LYRASIS Digital, an initiative designed to expand digital capacities in member institutions and make content and collections … Read More