Jack Bernard
Assistant General Counsel,
University of Michigan

Jack Bernard has been with the General Counsel’s Office since 1999. His primary areas of responsibility include intellectual property, academic freedom and speech, privacy, security, computing and cyberlaw, media rights, student rights, affiliation agreements, and disability law. 

During the 11 years prior to this work, he had been an academic administrator and/or instructor at Macalester College, Saga Daigaku, and the University of Michigan. He teaches at University of Michigan’s Schools of Law, Education, and Information, as well as at the Ford School of Public Policy. He is currently chair of the University of Michigan’s Council for Disability Concerns. 

In 2009, he received the American Library Association’s “L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award” as well as the First Decade Award from the National Association of College and University Attorneys. He has also been a Spence Fellow and a researcher at the National Center for Postsecondary Improvement. He received his J. D. from the University of Michigan Law School and Master’s in Higher Education from the University’s Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education. Jack studied neuroscience at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN.

Debora Cheney
Head, The News and Microforms Library,
The Pennsylvania State University Library

Debora Cheney serves as The Larry and Ellen Foster Communications Librarian and Head, The News and Microforms Libraries at The Pennsylvania State University Libraries. As the Larry and Ellen Foster Librarian, she works closely with the faculty and students in Penn State’s communiations majors, including journalism and media studies. As head, of the News and Microforms Library her work has focused on the challenges large academic libraries face in providing access to news content for teaching and research and the role of libraries in providing access to content that is increasingly electronic and delivered via the Internet.  She has co-authored articles on teaching students how to use libraries and information in Portal and Journal of Academic Libraianship and on how libraries can provide access to converging news forms in College and Research Libraries and presented papers related to news content use, marketing and promotion at Newspaper Section meetings of the International Federation of Library Association) IFLA conferences in New Delhi and Kuala Lumpur, at the ALA EBSS program in  Washington D.C., and at the Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Forum on Electronic Media and the Preservation of News. 

Paul N. Courant
University Librarian and Dean of Libraies,
University of Michigan

Paul N. Courant is University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, Harold T. Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Professor of Economics and Professor of Information at the University of Michigan.  From 2002-2005 he served as Provost and Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs, the chief academic officer and the chief budget officer of the University. He has also served as the Associate Provost for Academic and Budgetary Affairs, Chair of the Department of Economics and Director of the Institute of Public Policy Studies (which is now the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy). In 1979 and 1980 he was a Senior Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers.

Courant has authored half a dozen books, and over seventy papers covering a broad range of topics in economics and public policy, including tax policy, state and local economic development, gender differences in pay, housing, radon and public health, relationships between economic growth and environmental policy, and university budgeting systems. More recently, his academic work has considered the economics of universities, the economics of libraries and archives, and the effects of new information technologies and other disruptions on scholarship, scholarly publication, and academic libraries.

Paul Courant holds a BA in History from Swarthmore College (1968); an MA in Economics from Princeton University (1973); and a PhD in Economics from Princeton University (1974).

Chris Cowan
Vice President, Publishing
ProQuest, LLC

Chris Cowan is Vice President, Publishing for ProQuest, LLC.  Over the past 11 years, he has been responsible for overseeing the creation and development of ProQuest’s Historical Newspaper product line and managing ProQuest Genealogy businesses, Microfilm publishing, Student Research publishing, and Archival E-commerce services for major newspaper publishers.  He is engaged with acquisitions and is responsible for business development and licensing with content partners and institutions.

Before joining ProQuest in 2000, Mr. Cowan spent over 16 years in the information and publishing industry with Thomson and Cox Newspapers, business publications, and city regional magazines primarily in sales, publishing and new product development roles. 

Robert Darnton
Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor,
Director of the Harvard University Library

Robert Darnton was educated at Harvard University (A.B., 1960) and Oxford University (B.Phil., 1962; D. Phil., 1964), where he was a Rhodes scholar.  After a brief stint as a reporter for The New York Times, he became a junior fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard.  He taught at Princeton from 1968 until 2007, when he became Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard.  He has been a visiting professor or fellow at many universities and institutes for advanced study, and his outside activities include service as a trustee of the New York Public Library and the Oxford University Press (USA) and terms as president of the American Historical Association and the International Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies.  Among his honors are a MacArthur Prize Fellowship, a National Book Critics Circle Award and election to the French Legion of Honor.  He has written and edited many books, including The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie (1979, an early attempt to develop the history of books as a field of study), The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (1984, probably his most popular work, which has been translated into 16 languages), Berlin Journal, 1989-1990, (1991, an account of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of East Germany), and The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Prerevolutionary France (1995, a study of the underground book trade).  His latest books are The Case for Books (2009), The Devil in the Holy Water, or The Art of Slander in France from Louis XIV to Napoleon (2010), and Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris (2010).

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Kimberly Douglas
University Librarian
California Institute of Technology

A staff member in the Caltech Library System since 1988, Ms. Douglas first served as Head, Reader Services and most recently both as Director of the Sherman Fairchild Library for Engineering and Applied Science and Manager, Technical Information Services.

Ms. Douglas has long been involved in designing and implementing automated library services. She introduced desktop publishing to the libraries, initiating their online presence in the early 1990’s and provided leadership in the design and implementation of Caltech’s groundbreaking document delivery service, TOC/DOC, and in migrating to a fully integrated automated library system. She has also taken a leadership role in implementing digital collections at Caltech, beginning in 1999 with the campus discussion regarding Copyright in Scholarly Communication. Ms. Douglas was instrumental in the planning and execution of the Sherman Fairchild Library for Engineering and Applied Science that opened in 1997. She has published on a variety of topics, most recently on aspects of digital collections.

Ms. Douglas has served on the IEEE Library Advisory Committee and is currently a member of the Visiting Committee for the Goddard Space Flight Center Library. She has been active in Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Interest Groups by helping to found, chair and develop programs for the Interest Group on Electronic Publishing. After receiving her MS in library science from the Long Island University in 1978, Ms. Douglas held positions in scientific research libraries at the Bigelow Laboratory of Ocean Sciences in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and at USC, where she headed the Hancock Library of Biology and Oceanography from 1982 to 1985 and the Science and Engineering Libraries from 1985 to 1988.

H. Frederick Dylla
Executive Director and CEO, American Institute of Physics

Fred Dylla is the Executive Director and CEO of the American Institute of Physics, an umbrella organization of 10 scientific societies, publisher of scientific journals, and provider of physics outreach resources. Prior to this, Dylla served as Chief Technology Officer and an Associate Director at DOE’s Jefferson Lab. He received his Ph.D. in physics from MIT, is a Past President and Fellow and of the AVS and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association of the Advancement of Science. The author of over 190 publications, Dylla is a strong advocate of scientific journals and for improved access to scientific information through various business models. In 2009 Dylla helped organize and participated in the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable under the aegis of the US House Science and Technology Committee. The Roundtable developed consensus recommendations for the development of public access policies for scholarly data and publications. Dylla currently serves on the STM Board of Directors and on the Executive Committee of the Professional and Scholarly Publication of the American Association of Publishers.

Brad Eden
Dean of Library Services
Valparaiso University

Bradford Lee Eden is Dean of Library Services at Valparaiso University.  Previous positions include Associate University Librarian for Technical Services and Scholarly Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Head, Web and Digitization Services, and Head, Bibliographic and Metadata Services for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries.   He is editor of OCLC Systems & Services:  Digital Library Perspectives International and The Bottom Line:  Managing Library Finances, and is on the editorial boards of Library Hi Tech and The Journal of Film Music. He has a masters and Ph.D. degrees in musicology, as well as an MS in library science. He publishes in the areas of metadata, librarianship, medieval music and liturgy, and J.R.R. Tolkien.  His two books Innovative Redesign and Reorganization of Library Technical Services: Paths for the Future and Case Studies (Libraries Unlimited, 2004) and More Innovative Redesign and Reorganization of Library Technical Services (Libraries Unlimited, 2009) are used and cited extensively in the field.  He is the author of Metadata and Its Applications (ALA TechSource, 2002), 3D Visualization Techniques (ALA TechSource, 2005), Innovative Digital Projects in the Humanities (ALA TechSource, 2005), Metadata and Its Applications:  New Directions and Updates (ALA TechSource, 2005), FRBR:  Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (ALA TechSource, 2006), and Information Organization Future for Libraries (ALA TechSource, 2007).  His new book Middle-earth Minstrel:  Essays on Music in Tolkien was published by McFarland Publishing in 2010..

Rachel Frick
Director
Digital Library Federation

Rachel Frick is the senior program officer for the Council on Library and Information Resources' Digital Library Federation (DLF). Frick comes to CLIR from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), where she was senior program officer for the National Leadership Grants Program for Libraries. She will assume her new position on May 21.

Prior to joining IMLS, Frick was head of bibliographic access and digital services at the University of Richmond. During her tenure she was selected to participate in the Frye Leadership Institute. Frick has also served as assistant acquisitions head and serials librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University, and as a sales manager for the Faxon Company. She holds an MSLS degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BA in English literature from Guilford College.

Kevin Guthrie
President
Ithaka

Kevin M. Guthrie is an executive and entrepreneur with expertise in high technology and not-for-profit management.  Kevin was the founding president of JSTOR (1995) and Ithaka (2004).  JSTOR and Ithaka merged in January 2010 to form a new organization (ITHAKA) with a mission to help the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. ITHAKA provides three externally facing services:  JSTOR, the research, teaching and learning platform, Portico, the digital preservation service, and Ithaka S+R, the strategy and research enterprise focused on helping the scholarly community make a successful and sustainable transition to digital and network technologies.  ITHAKA has offices in New York, NY, Princeton, NJ, and Ann Arbor, MI. 

Previously Kevin started his own software development company serving the needs of college and professional football teams, and later served as a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where he authored The New-York Historical Society:  Lessons from One Nonprofit's Long Struggle for Survival(Jossey Bass).  His diverse background also includes experience as a professional football player, a sports broadcaster and producer, and a consultant for an Oscar-winning motion picture.  

Kevin holds a BSE in Civil Engineering from Princeton University and a Masters in Business Administration from Columbia University.  He lives in New York City with his wife, Sari Chang, and their three children.

William Hannay
Partner, Schiff Hardin LLP

William M. Hannay leads the firm's Antitrust and Trade Regulation Practice Group. He regularly represents corporations and individuals in civil and criminal matters, involving federal and state antitrust law, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), foreign direct investments (including Exon-Florio), antiboycott laws, and export control regulations.

Mr. Hannay is the past Chairman of the American Bar Association's (ABA) 14,000-member Section of International Law, was a founding member of the ABA's Asia Law Initiative Council, and was the first chairman of the ABA's Africa Law Initiative Council. He has led delegations of American Bar Association lawyers on international legal exchanges to South Africa, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Ghana, the Ivory Coast and Morocco.

He is a former Assistant District Attorney in the New York District Attorney's Office. On behalf of Schiff Hardin clients, he has conducted non-public internal investigations, and represented clients in external investigations by U.S. and foreign enforcement agencies.

Michael Keller
University Librarian
Stanford University

Michael A. Keller is Stanford’s University Librarian, Director of Academic Information Resources, Founder/Publisher of HighWire Press, & Publisher of the Stanford University Press.  He has been in his current post at Stanford since 1993. Educated at Hamilton College (biology & music), SUNY/Buffalo (musicology), & SUNY/Geneseo (librarianship), he has led libraries at Cornell, UC/Berkeley, Yale, & Stanford.  He has been a principal investigator in dozens of grant funded research projects with funding from the National Science Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and numerous others. Keller’s board service includes Hamilton College, Long Now Foundation, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Japan’s National Institute for Informatics, & National Library of China. Keller is a guest professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was a Senior Presidential Fellow of the Council on Library and Information Resources, was elected a lifetime Fellow in 2008 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was elected a lifetime fellow of Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. He is also on the board of Mondobiotech Holding AG, a Swiss biotech firm devoted to discovering new therapies through dry research for rare diseases based on human peptides and small molecules. He has served as advisor and consultant to numerous scientific & scholarly societies as well as for the city of Ferrara, Italy, Newsweek magazine, Uppsala, Yale, Princeton, Yale, and Indiana Universities, the University of Melbourne, the University of Edinburgh,  as well as the National Library of China, the National Institute for Informatics of Japan, the Library at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, the General Information Authority of Libya, the Kingdom of Bahrain, and the British Library. During his watch at Stanford numerous innovative exploitations based on the cascade of information technology innovations & the Internet arose and are still flourishing,  among them: HighWire Press (http://highwire.stanford.edu); LOCKSS/CLOCKSS (http://lockss.stanford.edu and http:// www.clockss.org); CourseWork (Sakai) (http://coursework.stanford.edu) ; the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Digital Archive (http://gatt.stanford.edu); the Stanford Digital Repository (http://lib.stanford.edu/sdr) , and the Matthew Parker Online Library project at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University (http://parker.stanford.edu).  He was a founder of the Digital Library Federation, and was its president and chairman as well. Keller is Stanford’s principal on the Google Book Search project.  He delivered a Siemens Stiftung Lecture in March of 2008 entitled “The Future of Books, Libraries, and Publishing”, and is an invited keynote presenter frequently each year.  He is the co-founder and was co-chair of the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group, an international community of technologists, librarians, and corporations focused strictly upon the on-going development of technologies and workflows inherent to digital preservation and archiving.

Keller has recently become a grandfather for the first time, tends a small flock of backyard chickens, and has become a hunter of large mammals recently.

Anne Kenney
Carl A. Kroch University Librarian
Cornell University

As the chief academic and administrative officer of the university's extensive library system, Anne Kenney leads one of the world's largest research libraries, with a total budget of over $53 million, a staff of nearly 400 and more than 8 million volumes. Cornell has 20 constituent libraries located in Ithaca, Geneva (N.Y.), New York City and Doha (Qatar), and it also actively serves scholars around the globe.

Kenney came to Cornell Library in 1987 and served as associate director for the Department of Preservation and Conservation until 2001. During that time, and from 2002 to 2006 as associate university librarian for instruction, research and information services, she helped spearhead a period of change and growth that has made Cornell Library a pioneer in digitization, network access and scholarly publishing. Active in the archival and preservation communities, Kenney is a fellow and past president of the Society of American Archivists. She currently serves on the Social Science Research Council's Committee on Libraries and Archives of Cuba and is a member of the Advisory Committee of Portico, a nonprofit digital preservation service. She has served as a commissioner of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (National Archives), the National Science Foundation/European Union Working Group on a Digital Preservation Research Agenda, and was a member of the Clinton/Gore presidential transition team.

Kenney is known internationally for her pioneering work in developing standards for digitizing library materials that have been adopted by organizations around the world, including such important archives as JSTOR, the Scholarly Journal Archive. She is the co-author of three award-winning monographs and more than 50 articles and reports. She has been the recipient of several awards, including: Yahoo en español's 2002 award in the category "Internet y computadoras"; the Society of American Archivists' Best Book Award (Leland Prize) in 1997 and 2000 for books on digital imaging for libraries and archives; the SAA Preservation Publication Award in 1995 and 2004; and the 2001 LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology from the American Library Association. More recently, her research in organizational aspects of digital preservation has resulted in publication of reports of e-journal archiving and a training program that has had an international impact.

In 2010 Kenney also became a member of the Board of Directors for ARL (Association of Research Libraries). When not working, Anne and her dog, Hummer, are avid hikers and gardeners.

Derek Law
Emeritus Professor, University of Strathclyde
MA, DUniv, FCLIP, FIInfSc, FKC, FLA, FRSE

He is chair of the JISC Advance Board and has worked in several British universities and has published and spoken at conferences extensively. He is a regular project evaluator for the EU and has undertaken almost fifty institutional reviews. Most of his work has been to do with the development of networked resources in higher education and with the creation of national information policy. Recently he has worked on the future of academic information services. This has been combined with an active professional life in professional organisations related to librarianship and computing. A committed internationalist he has been involved in projects and research in over forty countries. He was awarded the Barnard prize for contributions to Medical Informatics in 1993, Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1999, an honorary degree by the Sorbonne in 2000, the IFLA medal in 2003, Honorary Fellowship of CILIP in 2004 and was an OCLC Distinguished Scholar in 2006. He is also a naval historian and bibliographer – making Charleston doubly worthwhile!

Ann Okerson
Associate University Librarian
Yale University

Ann Okerson has been at Yale since 1996, following experience in academic library management, the commercial sector, and as senior/ founding program officer for Scholarly Communications at the Association of Research Libraries in Washington, DC.   In her Associate Director position, her chief responsibilities are to Collection Development and International Programs. During her tenure at Yale, and with her leadership, the University Library has made significant strides in electronic collections and has engaged the Library in the Yale's global programs, strategies, and aspirations through a series of varied and innovative programs. Yale University Library is one of the largest and most complex systems in the world, comprising some 20 libraries, nearly 600 FTE staff, and significant budgets, fund-raising initiatives, and high international visibility.  Its collections and staff capabilities are second to none in the world.

In 1996, after taking up her Yale position, Okerson organized the Northeast Research Libraries consortium (NERL), a group of 27 large and over 70 smaller libraries negotiating for electronic information and engaging occasionally in other cooperative activities.  NERL is based at the Yale Library. She has been one of the active, founding spirits of the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC).   

In her travels and spare time, Ann Okerson specializes in fine dark chocolate (worldwide), French macaroons, cupcakes, and murder mysteries.

Chuck Palsho
President, Media Services Division
NewsBank, Inc.

NewsBank is a premier news information provider, serving the academic and library markets for more than 35 years. Chuck is the President of NewsBank Media Services which handles licensing, content acquisition and publisher services for NewsBank.  Chuck’s team has driven NewsBank’s explosive growth of news content to over 6,000 sources.  Unique to NewsBank is their position as both a leading news aggregator and a leading service provider to its news partners which keeps NewsBank on the cutting edge of the news industry.

T. Scott Plutchak
Director, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham

T. Scott Plutchak has been Associate Professor and Director of the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) since 1995.  Prior to that he was Associate Director and then Director of the Health Sciences Center Library at St. Louis University.  He received his Masters Degree in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin in 1983, and was a post-graduate Library Associate at the US National Library of Medicine.  From 1999 through 2005 he was the editor of the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA), and presently serves on the editorial board of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice.  In 2001 he received the MLA Estelle Brodman Academic Librarian of the Year award, and in 2009, the Outstanding Alumni Award from the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley.  He is a founding member of the Chicago Collaborative, a group dedicated to finding common ground among the librarian, publisher and editorial communities.  In 2009 he was a member of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, which submitted a report to the US Congress in January 2010 with recommendations on providing public access to federally funded research results.   In May 2011 he delivered the Medical Library Association’s annual Janet Doe Lecture on the history and/or philosophy of librarianship.  He is a frequent speaker to publisher and library groups on topics ranging from intellectual property to scholarly communication to the future of librarianship.  He leads the international librarian rock band, The Bearded Pigs.

Lauren K. Schoenthaler
Senior University Counsel
Stanford University

Ms. Schoenthaler joined Stanford in 2001 and practices general university law, concentrating on student matters, copyright, privacy and dispute resolution.  Prior to joining Stanford, Ms. Schoenthaler clerked for the Honorable A. Wallace Tashima, at both the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Central District of California. Ms. Schoenthaler has also served as a Deputy District Attorney for Santa Clara County. In the private sector, Ms. Schoenthaler was an associate of (now) Pillsbury Winthrop practicing primarily in the areas of antitrust, intellectual property and general litigation.

Ms. Schoenthaler received her B.A. degree from Northwestern University and her J.D. from Hastings College of the Law, magna cum laude. At Hastings, Ms. Schoenthaler was an editor of the Hastings Law Journal and a member of Order of the Coif.

Mackenzie Smith
Research Director
MIT Libraries

MacKenzie Smith is a Research Director with the MIT Libraries, a Senior Fellow at the Creative Commons, and Special Consultant to the ARL E-Science Initiative. She was formerly the Associate Director for Technology Strategy at the MIT Libraries and oversaw their use of technology and digital library research program. At MIT she was the project director for DSpace, MIT's collaboration with Hewlett-Packard to develop an open source digital research repository platform, and led research projects on Semantic Web data publishing and the long-term curation and preservation of digital research data. She has also held technology positions at the Harvard University Library and the University of Chicago Library, and has a MA degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Chicago.

Greg Tananbaum
Founder and CEO, Anianet
Owner and Operator, ScholarNext

Greg is the Founder and CEO of Anianet (www.anianet.com), a professional network connecting Chinese scholars to their western peers. In addition to these responsibilities, Greg serves as a consultant to publishers, libraries, universities, and information providers as owner of ScholarNext (www.scholarnext.com). ScholarNext clients include Microsoft, SPARC, and Annual Reviews.  He has been President of The Berkeley Electronic Press, as well as Director of Product Marketing for EndNote. Greg writes a regular column in Against the Grain covering emerging developments in the field of scholarly communication. He has been as an invited speaker at dozens of conferences, including the American Library Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, the Association of Professional and Learned Society Publishers, and Online Information UK. He holds a Master's Degree from the London School of Economics and a B.A. from Yale University. 

Sanford Thatcher
Director, Emeritus
The Pennsylvania State University Press

Sanford G. Thatcher retired at the end of June 2009 after twenty years as Director of Penn State University Press. His most significant administrative achievement, besides stabilizing the finances of the Press, was to forge an excellent working relationship with the Penn State Libraries, which resulted in  the joint launching of the Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing in Spring 2005 followed by the administrative merger of the Press into the Libraries in December of that year. Always working as an acquiring editor at the same time, he sponsored over 600 books for publication in humanities and social sciences. His twenty-two year career earlier at Princeton University Press, culminating in his appointment as Editor-in-Chief in 1985, resulted in the acquisition of over 800 titles. Along the way he gained expertise in copyright law and served as a member of the Copyright Committee of both the Association of American University Presses (which he chaired for twenty-one years) since 1972 and the Association of American Publishers since 1974, as a member of the Association for Copyright Enforcement from 1986 to 1995 (overseeing the landmark suit against Texaco), and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Copyright Clearance Center since 1992, the same year he joined the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Scholarly Publishing where many of his writings on copyright and the publishing industry have appeared. In 2007 he became a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the British journal Learned Publishing as well. In February 2007 the AAUP released its Statement on Open Access, which he drafted, and Learned Publishing included a lengthier version of it in its July 2007 issue. In retirement, now based in Frisco, Texas, he  continues to work part-time as an acquiring editor for both Lynne Rienner Publishers and the University of Rochester Press.

Frederick Zarndt
Digital Divide Data / DL Consulting

Frederick Zarndt has worked with historic and contemporary newspaper, journal, magazine, and book digitization since computer speeds, software, technology, storage, and costs first made it practical.  He has worked with the Library of Congress on its pilot implementation of the NDNP National Digital Newspaper Program (2003), with the University of Utah since the beginning of its newspaper digitization program (2002), with the New Zealand National Library for its Papers Past and Parliamentary Papers digitization projects (2006), with Singapore National Library Board for its historic and born digital newspapers conversion projects (2006), with the National Library of Australia and with the State Library of Victoria on the Australian Newspapers Digitization Program (2008), and with many other institutions both small and large.  Frederick has experience in every aspect of digitization projects including project requirements development, project management, conversion operations (both in-house and outsourced), acceptance testing, and software development for production and delivery of digital data.
 
Frederick is current chair of the IFLA Newspapers Section (the first non-librarian to serve as chair).  He presently works as technical, business development, and sales consultant for Digital Divide Data (since 2008), Content Conversion Specialists (since 2005), and DL Consulting (since 2001).  Previously he was President of Planman Consulting North America, a subsidiary company to Planman Technologies and Chief Technology Officer and one of the co-founders of iArchives / Footnote.  Frederick has 25+ years experience in software development and is a member of ACM and IEEE and a Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP).  ).  He is also a member of ALA, IFLA, and SLA.  Frederick has Master's Degrees in Computer Science and Physics.