Digital Pioneers

Interview date: December 3, 2009 Summary: Bishoff, a librarian by trade, is now in her 40th year of experience. Bishoff worked for 10 years at the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) where she was involved in some early digitization projects. In the late 1980s, Bishoff worked with the Library of Congress where she started experimenting [...]

Interview date: February 11, 2010 Summary: Kaye Howe became the Core Integration Director of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) upon its creation in 2001. The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) where Howe was then working received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to start the National Science and Digital Library (NSDL). [...]

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Jim Kroll is currently a Manager at the Denver Public Library-Central. He oversees the department of Western History and Genealogy and the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library. Jim tells the story of the origins of the DPL’s photo digitization project, one of the early large-scale digitization projects and an inspiration for the Colorado Digitization Project. [...]

In 2005, Clifford Lynch wrote an article in DLib magazine called “Where Do We Go From Here? The Next Decade for Digital Libraries.” Prior to looking ahead, he did a brief bit of looking back, quickly summarizing the history of the rather vague term “digital libraries.”  He admitted that there was as yet a “poorly [...]

The original six Digital Pioneers interviews were part of a class project at the University of Denver Library and Information Science Program