12:00 – 12:45: Annual Business Meeting (Non Voting session and open to all)

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Under Dr. Turpin's presidency, the University of Victoria has adopted both a strategic plan and a campus plan to guide the physical development of the campus. A renewed strategic plan, A Vision for the Future - Building on Strength, was adopted in February 2007.

David Turpin's research in plant biochemistry and physiology is well-recognized internationally, with Thomson ISI listing him as a highly cited researcher. He has received numerous academic honours and distinctions for his many contributions to research and teaching, including election to the Royal Society of Canada. He serves on numerous boards and commissions, including as Chair of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada's International Relations Committee and as Chair of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network.

Michael Ridley holds degrees from the University of Guelph (BA), the University of New Brunswick (MA) and the University of Toronto (MLS). Previously he held positions at the University of Waterloo and McMaster University.

Dr. Ridley has served as President of the Canadian Association for Information Science, President of the Ontario Library Association, member of the Board of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries and Chair of the Ontario Council of University Libraries.

Deb is responsible for planning, coordinating and implementing strategy as established by the CRKN Board of Directors; identifying opportunities for site licenses and negotiating, executing and administering the site licenses; ensuring appropriate financial and contract management of CRKN site licenses; promoting CRKN among potential partners and within the academic community; and providing recommendations on policy issues. The Executive Director is also responsible for supervising CRKN staff including overseeing contract, remuneration, performance appraisal and related personnel matters.

Martha Whitehead is an Associate University Librarian at Queen’s University Library, where she has overall responsibility for the ongoing development of the Library’s information technology services and digital library services, the systems unit and designated public service units, including the Queen’s Learning Commons. She shares with the senior administrative team a leadership role in establishing long-term directions for Queen’s Library and allocating budgets and staffing resources. Within Queen’s University, Martha has forged relationships with IT Services and others to involve the Library in university-wide information and learning technology initiatives, she is a member of the Senate Committee on Academic Development, and was recently a member of the University’s Collective Bargaining Team for the faculty association agreement. Martha is a member of the Ontario Council of University Library’s Scholars Portal Operations and Development Committee and Chair of the Scholars Portal Public Services Advisory Group. Before joining Queen’s in 2004, Martha worked at the University of British Columbia Library, where she held positions in information services, systems, circulation and distance education.

Ronald Bond holds a PhD in Renaissance English Literature from the University of Toronto (1972), and has an Associateship in Piano (Solo Performer) from the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto (ARCT) and in Organ from the Royal Canadian College of Organists (ARCCO).

From 1997 to 2006, Dr. Bond was the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) at the University of Calgary. He was first appointed to the University of Calgary in 1973, and promoted to Full Professor in 1988. He has served as Head of the English Department (1985-89), Assistant Dean of Humanities (1977-79), Associate Dean of Humanities (1979-81), and as Dean of Humanities (1989-1997).

His national service includes terms as President of the Canadian Association of Chairs of English; Vice-President of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies; President of the Canadian Conference of Deans of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Vice-President (Research Dissemination) for the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada.

He is currently a consultant on post-secondary educational matters, and he chairs the Campus Alberta Quality Council, an expert panel that makes recommendations to the Minister of Advanced Education and Technology on all new degree proposals from the universities, colleges and technical institutes that deliver programs in Alberta.

Dr. Jonathan Blay is Professor of Pharmacology, Pathology and Biology at Dalhousie University and the inaugural Scientific Director of the Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute. He is an active cancer researcher who also has contributed at a senior administrative level in many aspects of research leadership, peer review and training initiatives. His own research encompasses studies of the role of the tumour microenvironment, aspects of cancer cell behaviour, and potential novel therapeutics for use against cancer. He teaches pharmacology in a variety of disciplines and is a recipient of the Dalhousie Community of Scholars Award of Excellence in Medical Education.

Dr. Blay is Past President of the Nova Scotian Institute for Science and a Fellow of the Institutes of Biomedical Science and Biology. He has been an enthusiastic participant in the activities of CRKN since its inception as CNSLP, and is a strong proponent of investment in knowledge systems as a means of enhancing the effectiveness of research and the training of future Canadian researchers.

Dr. Kealey has lived in Atlantic Canada for more than half his life. He has a strong sense of the region's history and is extremely committed to the region and the role of Atlantic universities in promoting economic and social development. He joined Memorial's history department in 1981, became a University Research Professor in 1992 – a designation recognizing the university's most successful researchers – and was appointed Dean of the School of Graduate Studies in 1997. Earlier he taught at Dalhousie University for eight years. Dr. Kealey holds a BA in modern history from the University of Toronto (1970) and master's (1971) and doctoral (1977) degrees from the University of Rochester.

The Vice-President's areas of specialization are Canadian social and labour history. His contributions to scholarship include serving as founding editor of Labour/Le Travail for 21 years and as general editor of the Canadian Social History Series with over 30 volumes published to date. He has published four books, edited 26 others, written 22 chapters for books, published 32 articles in refereed journals with 20 articles reprinted, and delivered over 200 papers and commentaries. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Kealey has received numerous grants, fellowships, prizes and appointments, including visiting professorships and being named Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1983 and fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1999.

Among the Board positions he has held are President of the Canadian Historical Association and of the Social Sciences Federation of Canada and acting co-president of the Humanities and Social Science Federation of Canada. In March 2005 he was appointed to the governing body of the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada. He served as a member of SSHRC's Executive Committee and as Chair of its Standing Committee on Research Support. He is also a member of the Industry Canada University Advisory Committee and of the National Research Council's Institute of Information Technology Advisory Board.

In his role as VP Research at UNB he chairs the Board of Enterprise UNB, the university's incubator facility. He also chairs the Advisory Boards of the Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy, the Canadian Rivers Institute, the Chronic Illness Research Institute, and the Institute for Biomedical Engineering. Outside UNB, he is President of Knowledge Park Inc., a Fredericton Science Park, and serves on the boards of BioAtlantech, King's Landing, Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research, Potato Research Cluster, Research Productivity Council, and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.

Bill Maes is the University Librarian at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia and is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Information Management. He is the current Chair of Novanet, a Nova Scotia academic library consortium, a member of the AlouetteCanada Steering Committee and a member of the Theses Canada Steering Committee. As the last Chair of CIDL, he worked towards the successful integration of that organization with AlouetteCanada. He served as President of CARL from 2001 to 2003 and is currently Chair of its Government Policy and Legislation Committee.

From 1993 to 1998 he was the Director of Library and Information Services at the University of Regina. There, he had overall responsibility for the libraries, computing and network services, audio-visual services and RegLIN, the Regina Library Information Network. As Chair of the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries from 1994 to 1997 he was a strong proponent for creating the virtual Western Canadian scholarly information resource.

While at Regina, he was appointed the University's representative on the Board of SR*Net, Saskatchewan's regional high-speed test network and was Chair of Sask*Net from 1993 to 1994, Saskatchewan's regional Internet provider. He also served on the Boards of CA*Net and C.A.N.A.R.I.E, the latter as the representative for CARL.

Mr. Maes holds a B.A. degree in philosophy from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Calgary, and an M.L.S. degree from the University of British Columbia.

Mr. Maes is the recipient of the CACUL / Miles Blackwell Outstanding Academic Librarian Award for 2007.

Mrs. Sylvia Teasdale is the Advisor, Government Relations and Planning at Bishop's University. From 2001 to 2004, she was the Director General of the B.C. Courthouse Library Society where she undertook a reorganization of the library network. She has also worked in the public library sector in Newfoundland and in Ontario, where she held several administrative positions.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in the History of Art and a Master degree in Library Science from McGill University. She is a member of the board of the Centre d'accès à l'information juridique, member of the board of the Fondation Communautaire de l'Estrie (Eastern Townships Community Foundation) and member of the board of Centraide Sherbrooke since 2006.