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# Research Advisory Committee

The Research Advisory Committee guides and evaluates the activities of OCLC Research. Twice each year committee members come to Dublin, Ohio, to engage in extended dialogues with staff, to learn about current projects, and sometimes to suggest entirely new avenues of inquiry. They frequently affirm the value of what we are doing and often suggest improvements and changes in direction. This open interaction with leaders in the fields of library and computer science directly supports the OCLC mission of service to libraries. Committee members are appointed to a three-year term.

## Current RAC members

Name / Affiliation
Shirley K. Baker Vice Chancellor for Information Technology Dean of Libraries Washington University St. Louis, Missouri Ex-officio OCLC Members Council Digital Libraries Research Interest Group (July '04 - June '06) |
Wendy Pradt Lougee University Librarian / McKnight Presidential Professor University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota (August '03 - August '05) |
Andy Powell Assistant Director / Distributed Systems and Services UKOLN University of Bath Bath UK (August '04 -August '06) |