Community Council

See FOLIO Community Updates for updates from the three councils and the FOLIO Governance Model for our governance principles.

Current co-chairs:

• Tom Cramer

• Paul Kloppenborg

July 2025 - June 2027 terms

• Tom Cramer - Stanford Libraries

• Vanessa French - Lehigh University

• Peter Murray - Index Data

• Karen Elena Jara Maricic - Bibliotecas Universidad de Concepción

• Paul Kloppenborg - BSZ - Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum (Konstanz)

• Kirstin Kemner-Heek* - GBV / VZG, Göttingen

• Petra Schneider - HeBIS (Frankfurt/Main)

July 2026 - June 2028 terms

• Donna Bacon - Mobius Consortium

• Jeremy Huff - Texas A&M

• Marion Kuchler - BVB - Bibliotheksverbund Bayern

• Meghan Tylec - EBSCO Information Services

• Simeon Warner - Cornell University Library

• Kristin Martin - University of Chicago

* Kirsten Kemner-Heek was appointed by CC to take Martina Schildt’s vacated seat on September 28, 2026.

The Community Council has two key roles. First, to ensure the community is strong and healthy, which can include recruiting, marketing and many external facing activities. Second, this council is responsible for the smooth operation of community activities, including coordinating with other councils, and ensuring the community is collaborative and inclusive.

The Community Council is one of three that govern FOLIO activities.  The other two are the Product Council the Technical Council.

• Slack: open #folio-community-council and also CC members only list

• Mailing List (folio-community-council@ole-lists.openlibraryfoundation.org, sign up here)

• Community Council folder on Google Drive (not publicly accessible)

• Wiki space (this page)

The Community Council meets via Zoom on the second and fourth Monday of every month at 10:00 am Eastern U.S. time (see time in your timezone).  For more details, see the Community Council Meetings page.

For more information about the Community Council, contact one of the co-chairs Tom Cramer & Paul Kloppenborg.