Martha Whitehead

Martha Whitehead is Vice President for the Harvard Library and University Librarian and Roy E. Larsen Librarian for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In this role, Martha leads a library network of more than 25 libraries employing more than 800 staff. Martha joined Harvard in 2019 from Queen’s University, Canada, where she was Vice-Provost (Digital Planning) and University Librarian. Prior to Queen’s University, she held roles in information services and library systems at the University of British Columbia Library. Martha is a member of the board of the Center for Research Libraries, and has served as chair of the board of numerous organizations, including the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories, the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), Canada’s National Heritage Digitization Strategy Steering Committee, the Ontario Council of University Libraries, and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network. She has served on many Association of Research Libraries (ARL) committees, and chaired the ARL/CARL Task Force on Research Data Services. She was a member of the Executive Committee of Canada’s Leadership Council on Digital Research Infrastructure, and the Programs and Quality Committee of the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Martha played a lead role in the development of Portage, a research data management network launched by CARL in collaboration with other research stakeholders. In 2019, Martha was awarded the CARL Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship Award.