Interview date:  March 3, 2010 Denver, Colorado Summary: By background and training, Lynch is a computer scientist, although he has spent most of his working life dealing with issues around information retrieval, library automation, computer networking, and those kinds of things. Lynch has been involved with various phases of libraries since about the mid 70’s [...]

Interview date: February 8, 2010 Medford, Massachusetts and Centennial, Colorado Summary: Crane’s involvement with digitizing goes back to 1982, when he was a graduate student and had access to the first chunks of electronic texts and magnetic tape. Crane remembers something like 60 megabytes of classical Greek texts that were typed in and available for [...]

Interview Date: March 4, 2010 Summary: Besser is a Professor of Cinema Studies and Director of the Moving Image Archive and Preservation Masters Degree (MD) program at NYU. Besser has a zero percent time appointment as Senior Scientist for Digital Initiatives at NYU’s Libraries, working on projects with the Dean of Libraries. Besser has several [...]