- Lorcan Dempsey
Lorcan Dempsey oversees the work of OCLC Research and participates in OCLC's Strategic Leadership Team. Before this he worked in the UK as, at times, Director of the UK Office for Library and Information Networking, founding Director of the Resource Discovery Network, and Director of the Joint Information Systems Committee's Distributed National Electronic Resource. Lorcan Dempsey writes and talks about libraries and networked information.
- Michael Gorman
Michael Gorman (b. 1941), grew up in London, England and gained an interest in libraries in part through his experiences at the Hendon library run by Eileen Colwell. He attended Ealing Technical College (now Thames Valley University) in London from 1964-1966.
- David Brin
Glen David Brin, Ph.D. (October 6, 1950) is a well-known American author of science fiction. He is the winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He lives in southern California.
- John Mills
John Mills (1806 - 1889), entrepreneur and amateur astronomer, was a manufacturer of Linen and twine in the city of Dundee. As a young man and a member of the Original session Kirk, he had been greatly influenced by the Reverend Thomas Dick, philosopher and author of a number of books on Astronomy and Christian Philosophy. Rev. Dick attempted to harmonize science and religion, and believed that the greatness of God could best be appreciated by the study of astronomy, …
- Miles Harvey
Miles Harvey is an American journalist and author. He is best known for his 2000 book, "The Island of Lost Maps", which recounted the strange story of a Floridian named Gilbert Bland, who stole many old and precious maps from various libraries across America. Harvey graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984 with a B.S. degree in journalism and earned an M.F.A. degree in English from the University of Michigan in 1991.
- Stef Penney
Stef Penney (born 1969 in Edinburgh) is a film-maker and writer. She grew up in the Scottish capital and turned to film-making after a degree in Philosophy and Theology from Bristol University. She made three short films before studying Film and TV at Bournemouth College of Art, and on graduation was selected for the Carlton Television New Writers Scheme. She has also written and directed two short films, …
- Henri-Jean Martin
Henri-Jean Martin was a leading authority on the history of the book in Europe, and an expert on the history of writing and printing. He was a leader in efforts to promote libraries in France, and the history of libraries and printing. Born in Paris, Henri-Jean Martin's initial professional position was that of "conservateur" in the "réserve des imprimés" of the Bibliothèque nationale, a position he held from 1947 to 1958.
- Alex Mandossian
Alex Mandossian (born March 9, 1964) is an American motivational speaker, author and trainer (business). He owns one of the largest personal marketing libraries ever assembled, with over 1800 rare books and volumes dating back to the 1800s. Mandossian is considered one of the top ten freelance direct marketers in America today and has generated over $203 million in sales via direct response marketing such as TV infomercials on QVC and Home Shopping Network, …
- Jesse Shera
Jesse Hauk Shera (1903 - 1982) was an American librarian and information scientist who pioneered the use of information technology in libraries and played a role in the expansion of its use in other areas throughout the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. He was born in Oxford, Ohio, and lived there through his undergraduate college years, …
- Henriette Avram
Henriette Davidson Avram (1919 - 2006) was a computer programmer and systems analyst who developed the MARC format (Machine Readable Cataloging), which is the national and international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in libraries. Avram's development of the MARC format in the late 1960s and early 1970s at the Library of Congress had a revolutionizing effect on the practice of librarianship, …
- Linda O. Johnston
Linda O. Johnston is an American author of mystery and romance novels. Johnston’s first published fiction appeared in "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" and won the Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for Best First Mystery Short Story of the Year. Since then, she has had several more short stories published as well as numerous romance novels. Johnston is a practicing attorney who splits her time between legal work and writing fiction.
- Jacques Doucet
Jacques Doucet (1853 - 1929) was a French fashion designer, known for his elegant dresses, made with flimy translucent materials in superimposing pastel colors. He was born in Paris in 1853 to a prosperous family whose lingerie and fine linens business, Doucet Lingerie, had flourushed in the Rue de la Paix since 1816. In 1871, Doucet opened a salon selling ladies apparel. An enthusiastic collector of eighteenth-century furniture, objets d'art, paintings and sculptures, …
- Stephen Blumberg
Stephen Carrie Blumberg (born St. Paul, Minnesota) was an eccentric bibliomane who lived in Ottumwa, Iowa. He became known as the "Book Bandit", and was the most successful book thief of the 20th century.
- Lee Killough
Lee Killough is an American programmer who has contributed to the development of source ports for the computer game "Doom". He was part of the Boom team and is the author of Marine's Best Friend. Lee Killough notably added many performance optimizations to the Doom engine. The single most important efficiency improvement was replacing the linear search used for looking up game data resources with a hash table algorithm.
- James Follett
James Follett "(not "Follet")" is an author and screenwriter, born in 1939 in Tolworth, England. Follett became a full-time fiction writer in 1976, after resigning from contract work as a technical writer for the British Ministry of Defence. He has since written over 20 novels, several television plays, and many radio dramas. He is one of the 400 most popular British authors, measured by the numbers of books borrowed from public libraries in the UK.
- Lucien Polastron
Lucien X. Polastron (born 1944) is a French writer and historian, specialized in paper history and library history. See: "Livres en feu, histoire de la destruction sans fin des bibliotheques", Paris, Denoel, 2004.
- Henry George Bohn
Henry George Bohn (January 4, 1796 - August 22, 1884) was a British publisher. Bohn was born in London as the son of a German bookbinder who had settled in England. In 1831 he started as a dealer in rare books and "remainders." In 1841 he issued his "Guinea" Catalogue" of books, a monumental work containing 23,208 items. Bohn was noted for his book auction sales: one held in 1848 lasted four days, the catalogue comprising twenty folio pages.
- Ted Hines
Theodore Christian Hines born in Washington D.C., was a pioneer in the use of microcomputers and microcomputer programs in libraries. He attended undergraduate school at George Washington University and received his Masters of Library Science (MLS) in 1958 and a PhD in 1960 both from Rutgers University. He began his career as a children’s librarian, and later became a professor of Library Science at Rutgers University, followed by Columbia University, …
- Sophie Adlersparre
Sophie Adlersparre, née Leijonhufvud, (1823-1895), was a Swedish feminist. Adlersparre began her career as a feminist by founding the paper "Tidskrift för hemmet" "("A paper for the home")" together with Rosalie Roos in 1859. This was a cultural paper in which she argued for women's rights to higher education and profession, and she did what she could to raise the level of female education by establishing libraries and evening schools for adult women.
- Ludovico Baille
Ludovico Baille Having graduated in law from the Reale Università di Cagliari he was appointed in 1786 to the Ministry of the Spanish government at Turin, but his chief interest was in tracking down in archives and libraries the materials that would serve him for a planned history of his native Sardinia, which remains in manuscript. In 1800 he returned to Sardinia and continued his research.
- Aaron The Librarian
I'm the Systems Librarian at Shippensburg Univeristy. If you're having trouble with one of the Ship Library databases or have a question about finding resources for a class, let me know via this profile or AIM ShipLibrary for suggestions on ways to get to what you want.
- Andrea Mercado
I was a hard-core geek for 8 years. Then I got a Masters in Library Science, so I could be a librarian. Now I use my technology powers for good, fighting the stagnant evils of librarianship and promoting techtonic shifts wherever possible. Check out my blog.
- Columbia University Libraries
Columbia University Libraries is seeking applications for the position of Middle East & Jewish Studies Librarian. For more information please see our Web site: http://www.columbia.edu/cu /lweb/services/jobs/ars /70107021.ars.html
- Carrie E. Regenstein
Carrie E. Regenstein Carrie E. Regenstein became the Executive Director of Computing Services at Carnegie Mellon University in September 2005. Prior to that she served as Associate CIO and Associate Director of DoIT (Division of Information Technology) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Clovis Libraries
- Holly Eggleston
Current goal: Think less, do more.
- Michael Porter
Librarian, electronic community builder, practical emerging technology advocate, presenter, blogger, author, PEZ collector, flickrer
- Rory Litwin
Rory : I chose librarianship sort of by a heuristic process of elimination. I considered other careers, but none of them was such a good fit. When it occurred to me to become a librarian, all of the switches clicked into place. It has all the things I really wanted when I was in my twenties and unsatisfied with the paths that I tried.
- Yannis Ioannidis
Yannis Ioannidis Yannis Ioannidis is a Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens. Before that he was with the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Wisconsin - Madison. His research interests include database and information systems, digital libraries, and personalization, and has been funded through numerous projects, including DELOS, BRICKS, DILIGENT, and DRIVER from the European Commission.
- Seamus Ross
Seamus Ross Seamus Ross , Director of Humanities Computing and Information Management at the University of Glasgow, runs HATII (Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute) ( http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk ) of which he is the founding director.
- Terry Winograd
Terry Winograd , Prof. Professor für Informatik an der Universität Stanford Terry Winograd ist der Leiter des Ausbildungsprogramms sowie der Forschung der Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group. Unter anderem ist Winograd Mitglied des Editorial Board der Zeitschriften "Human Computer Interaction" und "ACM Transaction on Computer Human Interaction".
- Lisa Grimm
Your average archaeologist turned dot-commer turned archivist/librarian -- plus music geek, horse racing fan and homebrewer
- Jessamyn West
Librarian and technology instructor in rural Vermont.
- Christopher Harris
Christopher Harris is the Coordinator of the School Library System for a BOCES in Western NY. He blogs at Infomancy and for School Library Journal at Digital Reshift.
- Claire Germain
Claire Germain received a Licence-es-Lettres (German), cum laude, University of Paris III, 1971; Licence-en-Droit (LL.B.) , University of Paris XII, 1974; M.C.L., Louisiana State University School of Law, 1975; and M.L.L., University of Denver, 1977. She joined the Cornell Law School faculty in 1993, after years of service at Duke Law School as a law librarian and senior lecturer. She teaches a seminar in French Law in Ithaca and in the Cornell Paris program.
- Jeffrey Trzeciak
University Librarian at McMaster University; have 4 dogs; working on my PhD.
- Jami Schwarzwalder
- Connie Crosby
Wide-ranging law firm library experience. Oversees library planning, staff, budgeting, purchasing, and legal research license agreements. Firm webmaster. Co-project managing firm-wide web projects. - Blogger; - Speaks and writes on professional subjects, including blogging, knowledge management and change management. - Regular columnist on LLRX.com, "The Tao of Law Librarianship" http://www.llrx.com/cgi-bin/llrx.cgi?function=browsecol2&;id=28 . - Law library association . . .
- Kat Hagedorn
Kat Hagedorn Kat Hagedorn is Metadata Harvesting Librarian at the University of Michigan Libraries. She is responsible for the OAIster project, a union catalog of digital objects built from OAI harvested records from around the world. This project was initially Mellon-funded in 2001-2002.
- Skip Allums
"... the poster boy for local nerds." - News & Review, Best Of Sacramento 2003... I talk very. Fast. And often. I have way too many shoes. At night, I quietly rock out in ESTEREO, along with Shane, April, Rosie, Julie, Kat, Nyssa, Heather, Veronica, Sonny and whoever else we drag into the ESTEREO family. I work a quiet desk job during the day. I lived in Louisiana up until 2002. I love Northern California.