About me
Michael Levine-Clark is Dean of the Libraries at the University of Denver, where he has worked in various positions since 1999. The University Libraries, centered by the Anderson Academic Commons – a vibrant, innovative, student-focused space that combines the library with other academic support services – has consistently been ranked at or near the top of the “best college library” list by Princeton Review.
Michael has served in a variety of leadership roles in library organizations and is currently chair of the board of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, a member of the OCLC Leaders Council, and past chair of the OCLC Americas Regional Council. Active in coordinating the long-term management of print collections (“shared print”), he chaired the Rosemont Shared Print Alliance executive committee and served in many roles in the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), including chair of the WEST executive committee. As co-chair of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries Shared Collection Development Committee, he guides decisions about collaborative collection building within the consortium. He serves on the CHORUS and University Press of Colorado Boards. As an active member of many national and international publisher and vendor library advisory boards, he provides guidance about key library and higher education trends.
As co-chair of the NISO Recommended Practices for Demand-Driven Acquisition of Monographs Working Group, he was a lead author of the recommended practices document. For his work on e-books and demand-driven acquisition models, he received the 2015 Harrassowitz Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award.
Deeply committed to library collaboration, he helped found the open access journal Collaborative Librarianship, served as co-editor, and continues to serve on its editorial board. He co-edited the 4th edition of The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences and co-authored the 4th edition of the ALA Glossary of Library and Information Sciences. He has published widely and has been invited to speak to library and publisher audiences on six continents about academic library collections and scholarly communication issues.
