Bruce Heterick

Biography

Bruce has almost forty years in the higher education and library communities and currently leads the JSTOR Stewardship team. He works with libraries around the world to incorporate our digital stewardship services as an increasingly important component of their infrastructure, supporting teaching and research with their digital collections and archives. Prior to this role, Bruce oversaw library outreach and access services globally for JSTOR and Portico. Under his leadership, JSTOR participation grew to more than 12,000 academic libraries, secondary schools, research organizations and NGOs, and public libraries in 170 countries, including almost 70 where JSTOR access is free. He has led outreach for Portico since its inception, and more than 1,000 libraries now support our critical work to preserve digital content at scale. Bruce was an application developer at Virginia Tech before joining VTLS in 1988. He held senior management positions at the resellers Faxon Company and Blackwells, and before joining JSTOR in 1999 he was executive director of SunGard SCT’s higher education consulting practice. Bruce has written and presented extensively on information management issues, and is active in the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). He previously served on the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) board, serving as chair; the Board of Trustees for the Barrington (RI) Public Library; and the UKSG Editorial Committee. He currently serves as the chair of the Dean’s Advisory Committee for the libraries at Virginia Tech and a vice president of the Rhode Island Golf Association. He holds a bachelor’s in management from Virginia Tech, and a master of business administration from the Pamplin School at Virginia Tech.