Roger Schonfeld named managing director, JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services
ITHAKA announced today that Roger Schonfeld will lead JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services as its managing director.
Launched in April 2025, JSTOR Digital Stewardship is a new digital collection stewardship solution designed to help libraries and archives describe, preserve, manage, and share their unique collections at scale. This service integrates next generation digital asset management with AI-powered collection processing using JSTOR Seeklight, long-term preservation powered by Portico, and paths for increased discovery through the JSTOR platform.
“JSTOR Digital Stewardship is the result of deep collaboration with librarians and archivists to understand and solve the challenges they face to process, preserve, and make accessible mounting digital collections,” said Kevin Guthrie, president, ITHAKA. “Roger is uniquely well-positioned to support librarians and archivists in their stewardship work. He has worked in this space since he first joined us in 1998 and has been leading our internal work on this service for more than a year. We’re absolutely thrilled that he will devote his considerable knowledge, expertise, and energy to leading this important initiative at this critical time.”
Roger has dedicated his career over two decades to informing and guiding the work of libraries, museums, and publishers through periods of digital transformation. For the past three years, he has served as both vice-president for Ithaka S+R’s program in libraries, museums, and scholarly communications and vice-president of organizational strategy for ITHAKA overall. A globally recognized expert, Roger has authored numerous books and reports and served on community-wide task forces to address issues of digital preservation, collections management, collection diversity, and shared infrastructure. He contributes regularly to the Scholarly Kitchen and is serving his second term as board member and treasurer for the Center for Research Libraries.
“My entire career has focused on the ways in which libraries and cultural organizations steward our collective knowledge and heritage with the goal of helping them to do so thoughtfully, affordably, and with meaningful impact,” said Schonfeld. “It has been a tremendously gratifying experience to bring together this work with the exceptionally talented JSTOR team working with our community to develop this new service. I believe so strongly in the potential of JSTOR Digital Stewardship to help the library, archives, and museum professionals caring for collections to do their work more effectively and to take on some of the most persistent, difficult challenges they face. I’m glad to be in it with them.”