“A good Librarian of Congress would have gotten us to a national digitization strategy, and built consensus around it, years before Google came on the scene,” says University of Maryland law professor James Grimmelmann, who has studied the case extensively. “We could have had a much more constructive last decade.” With Isaacson out of contention, other names still circulating include those with technological bents: University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann, who has embraced “innovation” as one of the three pillars of the school’s future; John Palfrey, a former director of Harvard’s Berkman Center on Internet and Society now bringing digital learning to Phillips Academy as its head of school;

Source: Library of Congress: Can the LOC be saved? – POLITICO Magazine