Speakers

Ross Atkinson

Ross Atkinson began his career in the NEH/CLR-funded Scholar-Librarian program at Northwestern in 1977. He became Humanities Bibliographer there in 1980. In 1983 he moved to the University of Iowa as Assistant University Librarian for Collection Development. He remained at Iowa until 1988; he moved at that time to Cornell, where he is currently Associate University Librarian for Collections.

Mark Dimunation

Mark Dimunation was appointed Chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress in 1998. Dimunation is responsible for the development and management of the Rare Book Collection, the largest collection of rare books in North America. He acquires materials, develops programs of lectures and presentations, and oversees the operations of the Division. He came to the Library of Congress from Cornell University, where he had served since 1991 as Curator of Rare Books and Associate Director for Collections in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, and taught in the English Department.

Dimunation had his start with rare books when he was appointed the Assistant Chief of Acquisitions at The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. He served in this position from 1981 until 1983, when he was hired to be the Rare Book Librarian and Assistant Chief for Special Collections at Stanford University. Dimunation specializes in 18th and 19th century English and American printing and has considerable experience working with antiquarian materials as well as fine press and contemporary artists books. He is currently completing an extensive project to reconstruct Thomas Jefferson’s Library at the Library of Congress.

Hendrik Edelman

Hendrik Edelman teaches at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science of Long Island University. He was born in The Netherlands and first came to the US in 1961 as a travelling sales representative for Martinus Nijhoff of The Hague. After a stint with D. Reidel Publishing Co. in Dordrecht, he moved to Nashville TN in 1967 as University Bibliographer at Joint University Libraries. From 1969 to 1978 he served as Assistant University Librarian for Collection Development at Cornell, where he initiated and directed the Mellon Collection Management project. In 1979 he was appointed University Librarian at Rutgers and between 1985 and 2000 he taught in the Department of Library and Information Science there. He continues an active research and consulting program.

Jean-Claude Guédon

Jean-Claude Guédon received his PhD in History of Science. He is presently Professor of Comparative Literature at the Université de Montréal. He served as Programme Co-Chair for Inet’96, and was a member of the Programme Committe for Inet’97. Advisor to the Minister of Culture and Communication for the francophone meeting of the ministers in charge of infohighways (Montreal, May 1997), he was also Program Committee Chair for the AUPELF-UREF meeting on “Education and Internet” that took place in Hanoi at the end of October 1997.

Guédon has written many articles in French and English on scholarly electronic publishing. Author of La planète cyber: internet et cyberespace (Paris, Gallimard, 1996), he is presently writing a book on scholarly electronic publishing for the Presses Universitaires de France in Paris. Guédon founded Surfaces, the first Canadian electronic scholarly journal, in 1991. He was one of the three winners of the Grand Prix International de la francophonie Charles-Hélou in 1996 for his essay “La francophonie et les réseaux planétaires: penser la différence différemment”.

Mark Sandler

Mark Sandler is Collection Development Officer at the University of Michigan University Library with general oversight responsibilities for the collection budget, acquisition of new resources, and management of extant collections. In conjunction with his core role, Sandler has an interest in how libraries, publishers and users are managing the transition from print to electronic resources. He has been involved with developing the Text Creation Partnership at the University of Michigan, a working group that is partnering with commercial publishers to create accurately keyboarded and encoded editions of early texts. Most recently, he is tussling with the question of how mass digitization initiatives (e.g., Google, GPO, etc.) are affecting local collection development strategies.