Roger C. Schonfeld

Roger C. Schonfeld is director of Ithaka S+R’s Library and Scholarly Communication program. He leads a team of methodological experts and analysts that conducts research and provides advisory services for academic libraries, scholarly publishers, museums, and learned societies. Throughout his career of nearly 20 years, Roger’s leadership has helped libraries and publishers to bring collections and publications to the digital environment and to grapple with resulting strategic and organizational opportunities and dilemmas.

Roger and his team have led a number of research studies examining diversity, equity, inclusion, and community engagement in art museums, research libraries, and other cultural organizations. By linking demographic representativeness with leadership attitudes and perceptions, these projects have helped to spotlight some key barriers to change. And, through a series of case studies, their work is beginning to uncover opportunities for organizational transformation.

Previously, Roger was a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He received degrees in library and information science from Syracuse University and in English Literature from Yale University. Roger’s writings can be found at Ithaka S+R and the Scholarly Kitchen, and he tweets at @rschon.