Martin HalbertMartin Halbert is a recognized figure in library innovation, and serves as Dean of Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is also President of the Educopia Institute, an educational nonprofit that advances the well-being of lbraries by fostering the advancement of shared information systems and infrastructures, and was one of the founding partners of the US National Digital Preservation Program. Halbert has a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary liberal arts from Emory University; his research examines the future of digital scholarship and research library services. He has served as principal investigator for grants and contracts totaling more than $7 M, funding more than a dozen large scale collaborative projects among many educational institutions. Halbert has previously worked for the University of North Texas, Emory University, Rice University, UT Austin, and the IBM Corporation. Read More Read Less