Charles Eckman is Dean of Libraries at the University of Miami. He previously served as Dean of Library Services at Simon Fraser University, Associate University Librarian and Director of Collections at the University of California, Berkeley, and Principal Government Documents Librarian/Head of the Social Sciences Resource Group with the Stanford University Libraries. His research interests include information policy, open access, digital scholarship, history of scholarly communication and cultural organization administration. He has managed and consulted on a variety of digital library initiatives. He holds a master’s degree in library and information studies from UC Berkeley, doctoral and master’s degrees in politics from Princeton University, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Indiana University.