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Bernie Reilly

President

Bernard F. Reilly is president of the Center for Research Libraries, an international partnership of more than 200 university, college and independent research libraries.  Reilly directs CRL’s efforts to ensure the long-term integrity and accessibility of documentation and evidence -- tangible and digital -- critical to original research in the humanities, sciences and social sciences. Prior to his time at CRL, Reilly was Director of Research and Access at the Chicago History Museum (1997-2001), where he directed the administration, digitization and dissemination of the CHM library, archives, and architecture, audio, television, and pictorial collections.  Between 1987 and 1997 Reilly was Head of the Curatorial Section in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress, which provided curatorial and policy support for the early development of the National Digital Library.