Have just learned that the dynamic Kate Wittenberg has joined Ithaka's Strategic Services group as Project Director, Client and Partnership Development. Ithaka's Strategic Services group specializes in helping promising digital projects to develop sustainable organizational and business models, and working with established institutions to rethink the ways they serve their core \ constituencies. In her new role, Wittenberg will focus on building partnerships among scholars, academic centers, publishers, libraries, technology providers, societies, and foundations with an interest in promoting the development of digital scholarship and learning. From proposal creation to market research, business development, and product planning, she will draw on her years of work with scholars and experience building online academic resources to help digital publishing stakeholders identify, build, and sustain innovative initiatives. As we all know, Wittenberg spent most of her career at Columbia, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of Columbia University Press until 1999, and went on to found and direct EPIC (the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia)for the university. EPIC was a pioneering initiative in digital publishing, and a model publishing partnership for libraries, presses, and academic IT departments. Some of the ventures produced by EPIC include CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online), Gutenberg-E (a reinvention of the monograph as an electronic work) (see Sandy Thatcher's article on Gutenberg-E in the Dec/Jan ATG which will be mounted online shortly) and Jazz Studies Online. Ithaka (is an independent not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping the academic community use digital technologies to advance scholarship and teaching and to reducing system-wide costs through collective action. It pursues this mission by managing innovative services that benefit higher education, including JSTOR, Portico, and NITLE, and by providing research and advice to the scholarly community through its research and strategic services
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