Letter to the Editor
At one of the events in the relentless path 
of my move from dean to dean emerita, 
Mark Kamlet, provost and executive vice 
president of Carnegie Mellon University, 
called the library ‘the most changed place 
on campus.’ Kamlet himself is a prophet 
of the changing university in Ry Rivard’s 
article “The MOOC-Averse Technology 
U.,” Inside Higher Education, http://www.
insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/28/
carnegie-mellons-online-efforts-include-
spinoffs-and-subsidiaries-not-moocs 
(February 28, 2013).

Scott Walter ’s editorial “The ‘Mul-
tihued Palette’ of Academic Librarian-
ship,” calls for more research on the 
topic of faculty status. Carnegie Mel-
lon, CMU Libraries, and I all think that 
decisions made on research and data 
are superior to those made from an 
administrative gut. I’ve written about 
the value of data in decision making in 

many articles and editorials 
and about faculty status in 
“Elysian Thoughts on Li-
brarians as Faculty,” College 
& Research Libraries, v. 54 
(January 1993): p. 7.

Another part of my path 
to the emerita title is a pre-
sentation to the Education Committee of 
the CMU Board of Trustees. Explaining 
in 10 minutes why and how the library 
has changed over fifteen years is a so-
phisticated task. I’ve been iterating the 
presentation with colleagues for several 
months now. The result is available in 
Carnegie Mellon’s Research Showcase, 
http://repository.cmu.edu/, along with a 
lot of other work I’ve done. 

Academic libraries, their home the 
university, and I are all facing dramatic 
change. For each of us, research and data 
can foster a better outcome. 

Gloriana St. Clair
Carnegie Mellon University

C&RL Editor, 1990–1996

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