In the year ahead, Jeff will continue to lead the Library while furthering a number of ongoing strategic efforts: advancing the Library’s philanthropic fundraising, preparing a new five-year strategic vision, and promoting free and open access to scholarly articles. Additionally, in the coming year, the Library will begin a new construction phase toward completing the renovation of Moffitt Library.

Please join me in thanking Jeff for his adroit leadership of the UC Berkeley Library in often exceedingly challenging circumstances, as well as for his substantial service and contributions to the university more generally, including as a Builder of Berkeley with his wife, Janet S. Netz. We are also extremely grateful to Jeff for his efforts to reform academic publishing, which have succeeded in lowering the cost of accessing academic scholarship, thus making it more accessible, not only to students and scholars at the University of California, but around the globe. Jeff’s dedication, insights, and unique sense of style will be missed.

Information about the search for the next university librarian will be announced in the coming weeks.