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It is a joy to come to work each day in my role as Chief Librarian at the University of Toronto Libraries. I am privileged to work with extraordinarily smart and dedicated people. I see my role as trying to make it easier for them to do their jobs to enable and support research and learning across the institution and in the community at large. We are dedicated, as the largest academic research library in Canada, to collect for current and future scholars and to also preserve for future generations the historical, cultural, and research record whether in print or electronic form. We work hard to enable new forms of digital scholarship and to create tools to preserve the digital record including research data. We are committed to providing inviting spaces for students to work together or alone or them to thrive and for research to flourish. I am privileged in my own daily work to go from conversations on acquiring the oldest printed book in English in Canada (Caxton’s 1481 Cicero) to building tools to enable the preservation of research data for reuse and replication.