ICPSR 2018 - 2019 Annual Report

From ICPSR Director Margaret Levenstein

There is so much to be thankful for as I look back at ICPSR’s Fiscal Year 2018-2019. Among the highlights of this eventful period in the Consortium’s history, our membership has continued to grow, and as of this writing stands at almost 800 member institutions. We have celebrated each milestone as ICPSR has upgraded the data systems—from ingest to curation to dissemination—behind our data resources. We have welcomed new leaders to the staff, including A.J. Million (National Archive of Criminal Justice Data), Allyson Flaster (College & Beyond II), Trisha Kunst Martinez (Computing and Network Services), and John Lemmer (Administration), to help move our consortium forward. With your support, we have continued to make advances in the field of data stewardship, with themes including new data types (social media, imaging, streaming, biomedical, web, transactional), confidentiality protection, research transparency and reproducibility, and providing data users “more access with less burden.” And, as you might have heard, in June 2019, we raised a glass to the ICPSR community as we celebrated being awarded the National Medal for Museum and Library Service! Given by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, this is the nation’s highest honor for libraries and museums. DataJeff, former ICPSR Intern John Leverso, then-Council Chair Michael Jones-Correa, and I headed to the award ceremony in Washington, D.C., to celebrate this special honor for the ICPSR community. None of this would have been possible without our Consortium members, our data depositors, our partners and collaborators around the world. Thank you so much for your continued support and engagement in ICPSR’s data stewardship efforts. 

From ICPSR Council Chair Michael Jones-Correa

It’s been an honor to serve as ICPSR’s Council chair during such a pivotal time in the organization’s history. I’m excited to see the impact of new projects including ResearchDataGov and LinkageLibrary. I was thrilled to be part of ICPSR’s contingent in Washington to celebrate ICPSR’s National Medal for Library and Museum Services. I can’t wait to see the things to come in the years ahead for this organization. In Council news, I’d like to say a warm thank-you to those who are completing their terms and cycling off of the ICPSR Council in February 2020: Past Chair Chandra Muller (University of Texas at Austin), Christine L. Borgman (University of California, Los Angeles), Jane Fry (Carleton University), Verna Keith (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Robert Stine (University of Pennsylvania), Elizabeth Groff (Temple University), and Keith Whitfield (Wayne State University). The consortium is better for your Council contributions. I am honored to pass the gavel to the new Council Chair, Lisa Cook (Michigan State University), and incoming Council members elected at the 2019 ICPSR Biennial Meeting: Dave Armstrong (Western University), James Doiron (University of Alberta), Kristin R. Eschenfelder (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Mark Hansen (Columbia University), Trevon Logan (Ohio State University), and Ken Smith (University of Utah). Thanks, ICPSR Community!