SPARC is grateful to all the individuals and groups that have participated in shaping the strategic vision for U.S. repositories and the U.S. Repository Network Action Plan 2022-2023.

Steering Group

An inaugural steering group has been formed to guide action planning for the U.S. Repository Network (USRN). The inaugural USRN Steering Group is chaired by Vicki Coleman and Martha Whitehead.  Coleman is the Dean of Library Services at North Carolina A&T State University and serves on the SPARC Steering Committee.  Whitehead is Vice President for the Harvard Library and University Librarian, Roy E. Larsen Librarian for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the current chair of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Executive Board.

Members of the Steering Group include:

• Vicki Coleman, North Carolina A&T State University (co-chair)
• Dan Coughlin, Penn State University
• Greg Eow, Center for Research Libraries
• Harriett Green, University of Arizona
• Kristi Holmes, Northwestern University
• Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Association of Research Libraries
• Amanda Hurford, Private Academic Library Network of Indiana
• Heather Joseph, SPARC (ex-officio)
• David Minor, University of California San Diego
• Kristi Park, Texas Digital Library
• Anali Maughan Perry, Arizona State University
• Torsten Reimer, University of Chicago
• Kathleen Shearer, COAR (ex-officio)
• Sarah Shreeves, University of Arizona
• John Unsworth, University of Virginia
• Meg Wacha, City University of New York
• Martha Whitehead, Harvard University (co-chair)

Shaping the Strategic Vision

The following individuals took part in the Expert Group to shape the strategic vision for U.S. repositories.

• Kristin Antelman, University of California Santa Barbara
• Kenning Arlitsch, Montana State University
• Jennifer Beamer, The Claremont Colleges
• Elizabeth Bedford, University of Washington
• H. Austin Booth, New York University
• Chris Bourg, MIT
• Rob Cartolano, Columbia University
• Joe Cera, Berkeley Law
• Lauren Collister, University of Pittsburgh
• Dan Coughlin, Penn State University
• Christopher Cox, Clemson University
• Colleen Cressman, Harvard University
• Steven Escar Smith, University of Tennessee Knoxville
• Karen Estlund, Colorado State University
• Rachel Evans, University of Georgia Law School
• Scarlet Galvan, Grand Valley State University
• Christine Anne George, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
• Carrie Gits, Austin Community College
• Jennifer Grayburn, Union College
• Gretchen Gueguen, PALCI
• Lorraine Harricombe, University of Texas Austin
• Kristi Holmes, Northwestern University
• Cynthia Hudson-Vitale, Association of Research Libraries
• Amanda Hurford, PALNI
• Harrison Inefuku, Iowa State University
• Martin Klein, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Sherry Lake, University of Virginia
• Kirsten Leonard, PALNI
• Liz Lorang, University of Nebraska
• Colin Lukens, Harvard University
• Colleen Lyon, University of Texas Austin
• Paige Mann, University of Redlands
• Brianna Marshall, Northern Kentucky University
• Beth McNeil, Purdue University
• David Minor, University of California San Diego
• Catherine Mitchell, California Digital Library
• Jill Morris, PALCI
• Amy Nurnberg, MIT
• Yumi Ohira, University of Texas at Arlington
• Anne Osterman, VIVA
• Kristi Park, Texas Digital Library
• Shilpa Rele, Rowan University
• Aaron Retteen, Texas A&M University (Law)
• Charlotte Roh, California State University, San Marcos
• Sadie Roosa, MIT
• Karen Shephard, Pitt Law
• Elisabeth Shook, Boise State University
• Sarah Shreeves, University of Arizona
• Robin N Sinn, Iowa State University
• Roger Smith, University of California San Diego
• Ginny Steel, UCLA
• Gail Steinhart, Cornell University
• Leila Sterman, Montana State University
• Elaine Thornton, University of Arkansas
• Meg Wacha, CUNY
• Justin Wadland, University of Washington Tacoma
• Tyler Walters, Virginia Tech
• Evviva Weinraub Lajoie, University at Buffalo
• Elaine Westbrooks, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• Martha Whitehead, Harvard University
• Sarah Wipperman
• Michael Witt, Purdue University
• Philip Young, Virginia Tech

The strategic vision was also enhanced by input from the OpenCon Librarians Community and the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI).