Charles J. Henry

Charles J. Henry (born June 17, 1950) is President of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), located in Washington, D. C. Prior to that he served as Vice Provost and University Librarian at Rice University, where he also served as Vice President and Chief Information Officer for several years.

Henry was born in Washington, D.C., and moved around the United States continually during childhood and as a young adult, the son of a federal agent. He received a B.A. in philosophy and humanities from Northwest Missouri State University, and earned graduate degrees (M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D) from Columbia University. Henry studied for three years at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. He was a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to Vienna, Austria, and received Fulbright Senior Scholar grants more recently to New Zealand and China, and has received numerous scholarships and awards during his career.

Henry began his professional career at Columbia University, serving as Assistant Director for the Humanities and History Division of the university libraries. Much of the focus during those years (1985–91) was on the integration of digital technology into library services and procedures, as well as the rise of computers in teaching, learning, and research in the humanities. He was then appointed as library director for the Vassar College Libraries (1991–96), working with the faculty and staff on the introduction of new services and the requisite skills of the new generation of professional information service provider. Redesigning and expanding the library, and the shifting concept of a library in an information era, were key areas of his responsibilities. He was appointed university librarian to Rice University (1996–2007) for a decade, and CIO for several years during his tenure. At Rice, Henry inaugurated the digital library project; developed new media services; fundraised extensively for the capital campaign; restarted the Rice University Press as an all-digital publisher; and directed major renovation projects and off-site storage facility planning and construction. He was also responsible for network security, telecommunications, web services, and research computing. He held a faculty appointment in the School of Engineering and taught in the School of Humanities.

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