Cliff Lynch resignation (fwd)

[Roy Tennant]

Forwarded from M. Stuart Lynn, University of California Office of the 
President:

>It is with mixed feelings that I must announce that Clifford Lynch,
>Director of the Division of Library Automation (DLA) will be leaving the
>University of California in July to accept the position of Executive
>Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) - mixed feelings
>because although I and his many colleagues and friends are sorry to see him
>leave the University after so many years of extraordinary service, we are
>delighted for him as he takes on this new challenge in an important
>national policy position.
>
>Cliff has been with UC for 17 years, all of them within DLA. He joined the
>then embryonic  DLA in 1979 as Manager of Computing Resources, and was
>promoted through a series of positions becoming Director of DLA in 1987. He
>has provided much of the technical direction behind Melvyl, the
>University's on-line union catalog that has over the years been expanded to
>provide full content access to many journals and other publications. Most
>recently he has guided the design and implementation of the new Melvyl Web
>interface that was just widely announced two weeks ago. He has also been
>instrumental in the establishment of UC's wide area network infrastructure,
>UCNet.
>
>Cliff is well-recognized nationally for his significant contributions to
>the emerging milieu of on-line access to information, and of digital
>libraries, contributions that span the full range from technical to policy
>issues. His broad grasp of these issues makes him ideally qualified for his
>new position. There is no doubt that he will bring as much distinction to
>the Executive Directorship of CNI as he has brought over the years to the
>University of California.
>
>CNI is an organization for institutions concerned with realizing the
>promise of high performance networks and computers for the advancement of
>scholarly communication and publishing and the enrichment of intellectual
>productivity. The Coalition was formed in 1990 by the Association of
>Research Libraries (ARL), CAUSE, and Educom. The Coalition pursues its
>mission with the guidance of a nine member steering committee and the aid
>of a 200 member task force made up of higher education institutions,
>publishers, network service providers, computer hardware, software, and
>systems companies, library networks and organizations, and public and state
>libraries. The University of California has been a member of CNI since its
>inception.
>
>I - and I am sure all of those who have worked closely with Cliff over the
>years - wish him all the very best in his new position.
>
>Stuart
>
>M. Stuart Lynn
>Associate Vice President
>Information Resources & Communications
>
>
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>M. Stuart Lynn
>Associate Vice President for Information Resources and Communications
>University of California Office of the President
>300 Lakeside Drive, 8th Floor
>Oakland, CA 94612-3550
>Tel: 510-987-0405
>Fax: 510-451-4340
>E-Mail: mslynn at ucop.edu
>
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