The NERL Steering Committee (SC) is responsible for providing strategic direction and oversight for the NERL program. The NERL Steering Committee supports the overall negotiation process at an executive level, and periodically assists NERL negotiations directly on the advice/request of NERL negotiation teams.
NERL Steering Committee Charge
| Erin Dax Chair University of Delaware July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027 | Lauren Soito, Vice-Chair University of Massachusetts Amherst July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027 | Anne Rauh Syracuse University July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027 |
| Jacob Nadal, ex officio President Center for Research Libraries | Lanette Garza, ex officio Director, Licensing & Acquisitions Center for Research Libraries |
The NERL Program Council (PC) is a representative forum foundational to the work of NERL, with PC members advising on and directly serving on negotiation teams. Working collaboratively, PC works with the NERL Steering Committee and staff to sustain NERL’s core shared purchasing decisions to develop new and innovative priorities to further support and advance NERL’s pursuit of transforming the scholarly landscape.
Program Council Members
| Anne Rauh, Chair Syracuse University Term: July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027 | Jane Strudwick, Vice Chair University of Connecticut Term: July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027 |
| Lynette Vargas Boston College | Michael Fernandez Boston University |
| Daniel O'Mahony Brown University | Leah Dunn Columbia University |
| Peter McCracken Cornell University | Jennifer Matthews Dartmouth College |
| Bethany Blankemeyer Duke University | Cathy Zeljak George Washington University |
| Joe Williams Georgetown University | Ardys Kozbial Harvard University |
| Shelby Evans Howard University | Elizabeth Mengel Johns Hopkins University |
| Kim Maxwell Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Bill Maltarich New York University |
| Matthew Kopel Princeton University | Jeff Carroll Rutgers University |
| Erik Limpitlaw Stanford University | Scott Warren Syracuse University |
| J. Brian Schoolar Temple University | Erin Daix University of Delaware |
| Maggie Saponaro University of Maryland | Laura Soito University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Lisa Fish University of Miami | Mark Robison University of Notre Dame |
| Holly Zerbe University of Pennsylvania | Tracey Olanyk University of Pittsburgh |
| Kristin Moo University of Rochester | Julie Glascock Vanderbilt University |
| Amauri Serrano Yale University |
The Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) identifies, acquires, catalogs, digitizes and provides unrestricted access to U.S. government agency technical reports. TRAIL currently consists of over fifty member organizations whose annual membership fees and volunteered staff time further the efforts of the project.
TRAIL was formed to meet the challenges of access to technical report literature. These reports are rapidly disappearing from library shelves and documents collections. TRAIL selects, digitizes, and deposits technical reports into trusted repositories: the HathiTrust and the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library. Content in the HathiTrust and UNT repositories is full-text searchable, and is openly accessible to all users. Both HathiTrust and UNT follow strict preservation standards (see http://www.hathitrust.org/preservation and https://www.library.unt.edu/digital-projects-unit/standards/ for more information). TRAIL provides a search interface as well, www.technicalreports.org, that searches only on metadata, but not the full text.