About me
Reich has held professional roles at the University of Michigan, the Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and Stanford University. As an executive committee member of the Stanford Digital Library Project, a multi-institutional research project that was the genesis of Google’s founding, she shared how researchers use libraries, including the importance of linked citation tools. She also played a pivotal role in the transition of journals from paper to electronic distribution, notably contributing to HighWire Press’s success in providing widespread access to critical journal information. She now serves as Executive Director Emerita of the LOCKSS Program after leading it for almost two decades and contributing to the founding and development of the CLOCKSS Archive.
In 1998, Reich and Rosenthal co-founded the LOCKSS (“Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe”) Program at Stanford University Libraries; LOCKSS aimed to ensure the long-term, low-cost preservation of digital materials and empower organizations, particularly libraries, to steward and preserve their own digital collections. The LOCKSS software has since been adopted as an economical, easy-to-use, and robust basis for the massive, global, publisher-supported CLOCKSS network and networks preserving, among others, e-journals and government documents. Through research, development, and maintenance, the proven technologies mitigate technological, economic, and legal threats to data persistence.
