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Updated · MIT News · Oct 6

MIT Names Chris Bourg Vice Provost, Endows Libraries Director Role With Ostrom Gift

Updated

Updated · MIT News · Oct 6

MIT Names Chris Bourg Vice Provost, Endows Libraries Director Role With Ostrom Gift

1 articles · Updated · MIT News · Oct 6

Chris Bourg, MIT Libraries director since 2015, was elevated to vice provost and named Barbara K. Ostrom Director of the Libraries in a newly endowed post.
MIT said the vice provost title reflects the libraries’ strategic role in the digital age, while Barbara K. Ostrom’s gift will fund the director position in perpetuity.
Since 2015, Bourg has pushed digital access, open scholarship and support for data-intensive research, while helping MIT address legal and ethical issues around generative AI.
Her earlier work helped launch MIT’s open-access framework, which underpinned the institute’s 2020 cancellation of an Elsevier journals contract and saved MIT millions of dollars.

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