news of a change

[John Unsworth]

Folks,

You may have heard that I will be joining the University of Illinois as 
dean of  the graduate school of library and information science, starting 
in August.  I'll also have a courtesy appointment in the English department 
there.  I will have something to say about this at greater length on 
Humanist, but (following, in different ways, in Allen Renear's and Susan 
Hockey's footsteps) I think this will provide an interesting opportunity to 
continue working on humanities computing, in new ways. I would like to 
continue to be involved in the TEI, in whatever way you would like me 
to--but as I helped to write the rules for the organization, I must note 
that my position as chair of the Consortium depends on my being a host 
representative, and when I move to Illinois, I will no longer represent a 
host.  I am also appointed to chair the Council as a representative of the 
board, but again, my position on the board derives from my representing UVa 
as a host.

I am already working on putting together a bid for Illinois to be a fifth 
host, but I will also need to scale back some of my other activities as I 
begin this new job.  I think the sensible thing to do would be to ask Mike 
Furlough to serve as host representative to the Board, since the Board's 
main duty at the moment is recruiting, and since Mike can do that very 
effectively as a member of the library community, and to ask Daniel Pitti 
to chair the TEI Council, as the co-representative of Virginia, since he 
has excellent experience in guiding community-based standards 
development.  I think the bylaws would probably allow me to continue to 
serve out my term as Chair of the Consortium, though I'm open to 
disagreement on this point, and in any case, I would hope that Illinois 
would become a host before too long.

John

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