CIO Judith Conklin has a tall task: migrating the world’s largest library to the cloud.
Conklin, who was promoted from deputy CIO in September after former CIO Bernard Barton retired, is leading the Library of Congress’ five-year digital transformation, which will see the institution migrating millions of books, historical collections, and congressional materials to a complex hybrid cloud environment. The move is part of a strategic IT plan launched in 2019 to digitize and make available much of the LOC’s more than 170 million physical assets to the public from any device.
“As the publishing world and library world in general goes more digital, the Library of Congress is going more digital,” says Conklin, who oversees roughly 400 employees in the Office of the CIO, including around 200 contractors.
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