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The Gray Chair for Innovative Library Services
The Gray Family Chair for Innovative Library Services was established by a family of alumni with a long history of generous giving to Oregon State University. The family’s deep commitment to education and scholarship at OSU began in the 1940s and continues to this day. Their gift allows OSU Libraries to expand innovative means of accessing and delivering information to students, faculty, staff, and other constituents of the university, with the end goal of further strengthening OSU’s distinction as an information provider.
The Gray Chair was designed to be flexible. Specifically, the chair supports strategies within the library for making print and digitized information more readily accessible, and for developing effective methods to adapt advances in information technology to meet the needs of researchers, students, and the citizens of Oregon. On a broader level, OSU Libraries leadership and the chair holder have the freedom to adapt the position’s focus as the focus of the Libraries changes. As the chair holder anticipates trends relevant to library services, he or she will align the direction of Gray Chair work to reflect the most current developments in information sciences.
Terry Reese, Jr.
In November 2008 Terry Reese, Jr., became the second holder of the Gray Family Chair for Innovative Library Services. He is known nationally and internationally for his leadership in the investigation and application of new metadata and digitization standards to digital library collections.
Reese has been with OSU Libraries since 2003 and has had his MarcEdit program adopted by libraries in the United States, Australia, France, and Pakistan. More recently, Reese, along with former Gray Chair holder Jeremy Frumkin, developed LibraryFind, an open source resource discovery tool used by libraries in the United States and Europe.
An adjunct professor with the Emporia University School of Information, Reese is the author of numerous articles and is co-author of the book Building Digital Libraries: A How-to-do-it Manual.
