Selected Professional Activities

American Bar Association

Committee on the Status and Future of Federal e-Rulemaking (2007 - )

American Law Institute

Adviser, Principles of the Law of Software Contracts (2004 - )

ERIC Steering Committee

Member (2004 - 2006)

eCornell

Director (2000 - 2005)

Library of Congress

Consultant (1995 - 1998, 2000 -2001)

National Research Council

Issues for Science and Engineering Researchers in the Digital Age (2000 - 2001)
Public - Private Partnerships in the Provision of Weather and Climate Services (2001 - 2003)

Association for Computing Machinery

Publications Board (1993 - 2001)
Vice Chairman (1997 - 1998)
Chairman (1998 - 2000)

National Science Foundation

Chair of workshop on a National Digital Library for Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education (1998)
Co-chair of workshop on the future of scholarly communication: building the infrastructure for cyberscholarship (2007)

MIT Press

Series editor for Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing (1998 -)
Management Board (1999 - 2004)

D-Lib Magazine

Publisher (1995 - 1999)
Editor-in-chief (1999 - 2001)

Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)

Strategic Advisory Board (1993 - 1998)

Coalition for Networked Information

Steering Committee (1990 - 1994)

IBM

University Advisory Board (1989 - 1992)
Higher Education Customer Advisory Board (1994)

Inter-university Consortium on Educational Computing

Chairman of Governing Board 1987 - 1989)

Harvard University

Committee to Visit the University Library (1987 - 1993)
Committee to Visit the Office for Information Technology (1987 - 1990)
Committee to Visit Information Technology (1999 - 2005)

NeXT Computer

Advisory Board (1985 - 1992)

EDUCOM

Trustee (1983 - 1989)
Chairman of Board 1984 - 1989)

Research Libraries Group

Committee on Strategic Planning for Information Technology (Chairman 1982 - 1985)

J. Paul Getty Trust

Consultant to the Art History Information Program (1982 - 1984)

Stanford University

President's Advisory Committee on Computer Science and Computing (1980 - 1982)

Department of Education and Science, UK

National Libraries ADP Study, research fellow (1970 - 1971)