Network Zone Leads
Community of Practice
Community Charge
Responsibilities
- Lead the Network Zone project’s exploration and decision-making on how best to take advantage of the Network Zone to accomplish both the project’s and participating libraries’ goals.
- In collaboration with central Boston Library Consortium staff, steward the ongoing relationship with Clarivate/Ex Libris, ensuring consortium participation in meetings and communities related to the Network Zone (e.g. the Consortial Community of Practice).
- Engage regularly with the Network Zone Communities of Practice and working groups around groups’ ongoing work, progress towards annual goals, and broader Network Zone project topics requiring input and discussion.
- Lead an annual goals-setting process for the Network Zone project, incorporating input from the Communities of Practice and working groups, and providing a recommended set of goals and directions to the campus directors.
Conveners
Fred Folmer
Chair
Director, Library Collections, Access, and Discovery
Connecticut College
ffolmer@conncoll.edu
Membership
Membership in the Network Zone Leads CoP is limited to one representative from each member institution, one of whom serves as chair.
Membership is reviewed and renewed each June beginning June 2026.
Meetings
The Campus Leads Community of Practice meets on a monthly basis.
FY26 Leads Community Roster
Fred Folmer
Chair
Director, Library Collections, Access, and Discovery
Connecticut College
ffolmer@conncoll.edu
Amy Harrell
Head of Collections, Research, and Instruction
Trinity College
Amy.Harrell@trincoll.edu
Nathan Mealey
Associate University Librarian for Discovery and Access
Wesleyan University
nmealey@wesleyan.edu
Susan Swogger
Head of Collection Development, Analysis, and Strategy & Library Associate Professor
University of Vermont
sswogger@uvm.edu
Terry Simpkins
Director, Discovery & Access Services
Middlebury College
tsimpkin@middlebury.edu