Meet the University Librarian
Michael A. Keller is Stanford University’s Vice Provost and University Librarian and was also Vice Provost for Teaching & Learning from 2018 - 2020.
In 1995, Keller founded HighWire Press, an Internet publishing service for mainly not-for-profit scientific journals (Science, PNAS, Neuroscience, JBC, and about 150 others.) HighWire was also the first platform for several years of the OED online edition.
In 2002, Stanford University Libraries collaborated with Cambridge University to digitize ancient, medieval, and early modern manuscripts in the Matthew Parker Library of Corpus Christi College. That project led the Stanford University Libraries to develop requirements for a digital environment that allowed the streaming of images of manuscripts and other objects for scholarship and teaching, resulting in the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and the Mirador “viewer”. He was inaugural chairman of the IIIF Consortium from 2015 to 2021. During those years and since, he has been an advisor to the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.
Keller is a co-founder of the consortium and community known as AI4LAM, Artificial Intelligence for Libraries and Museums, now involving 36 institutional members and hundreds of professionals participating in the community associated with it.
Keller was educated at Hamilton College and studied musicology at State University of New York at Buffalo. He has taught at Cornell University and Stanford University, was guest-professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and was a Siemens Stiftung Lecturer.
He has been a Member of the Boards of Hamilton College, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, CLIR, & Japan’s National Institute for Informatics. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Boards on: Research Data Integrity; Research on Copyright; and the Responsible Conduct of Science.
Keller served on the boards of Alibris, Mondobiotech, and Therametrics and as an advisor to Ebrary and Yewno. He is a trustee of the Kistler-Ritso Foundation and member of the Supervisory Council of Vabamu, an Estonian museum devoted to helping Estonians and others born since the collapse of the Soviet Union remember the terrible privations of the Soviet occupations 1939-1992 and to celebrating the benefits of freedom to all citizens and residents of Estonia.
Keller is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Sarum Canon of Salisbury (UK) Cathedral, a recipient of Stanford’s highest honor -- the Cuthbertson Award, and a member of Estonia’s Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana. He is an Honorary Fellow for Life at Harris Manchester College in Oxford, England.
For further information, please see: https://profiles.stanford.edu/michael-keller