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David Seaman, Executive Director
Digital Library Federation
The DLF is a consortium of major academic libraries -- with member institutions currently from the United States and Great Britain -- who identify standards and "best practices" for digital collections and network access; who coordinate leading-edge research and development in libraries' use of electronic-information technology; and who incubate projects and services that libraries need but cannot develop individually see (DIGITAL LIBRARY FEDERATION).
Mr. Seaman joined the DLF in 2002 from the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library, where he was the founding Director (1992-2002). In this role, he oversaw the creation and development of an online archive of XML and SGML texts, of which many are available in multiple e-book formats. Mr. Seaman has lectured and published extensively in the fields of humanities computing and digital libraries, and since 1993 has taught e-text and internet courses at the annual summer Book Arts Press Rare Book School at Virginia.
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Virginia
Steel, Director of Libraries
Washington State University
Ginny Steel has more than 20 years experience in research libraries. She began her career at Arizona State University as a business librarian. Soon after she became the Assistant to the Director of Libraries at ASU and then took on management responsibilities for several library functions including interlibrary loan and ASU's fee-based service. After spending six years in Arizona, Ginny moved to southern California to work at the University of California, San Diego, where she spent ten years. Her initial position at UCSD was as Head of Access Services, and she subsequently was appointed Head of the Social Sciences and Humanities Library. Between these appointments she served as Interim Assistant University Librarian for Public Services for 18 months. Also during her tenure at UCSD Ginny was honored to be selected as a Council on Library Resources Academic Library Management Intern and to spend a year at Brown University learning more about how universities work. Eventually the Massachusetts Institute of Technology enticed her to return to New England to be the MIT Libraries' Associate Director for Public Services. After 4 years in the northeast, in 2001 she decided to head back west to the Palouse to become the Director of Libraries at Washington State University where she remains today.
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Peter R. Young, Director
National Agricultural Library
Beltsville, MD
Appointed Director of the National Agricultural Library (NAL) in June 2002, Peter R. Young leads and directs NAL’s programs in the agricultural, natural, life, and related sciences serving the US Department of Agriculture and the nation.. From 1997 to 2002, Young served at the Library of Congress (LC) as Chief of the Cataloging Distribution Service (CDS) and Acting Chief of the Asian Division. From 1990 to 1997 he served as Executive Director of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), an independent executive branch agency advising the President and Congress on library and information service policies.
Mr. Young’s career includes positions in national, academic, and research libraries. He directed Faxon’s Academic Information Services and founded the Faxon Institute for Advanced Studies in Scholarlyand Scientific Communications (1988-1990). At LC additional managerial positions include Chief of the Copyright Cataloging Division (1985-1988); Assistant Chief of the MARC Editorial Division (1984-1985); and CDS Customer Services Officer (1980-1984). At CL Systems, Inc., Young was Library
Systems Analyst and Sales Support Librarian (1976-1980). Mr. Young was Assistant Librarian for Public Services at the Rice University Libraries (1974-1976), Reference Librarian and Head Cataloger at the Franklin and Marshall College Library (1970-1974), Administrative Librarian at the American University Library (1970), and Assistant Director of the Grand Rapids (MI) Public Library (1978).
Mr. Young is a member of the American Library Association (ALA) and has served on committees of LITA, LAMA, RTSD, PLA, and Council. He was President of the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) and Co-Chair of the Library Statistics Standard Revision Committee (Z39.7) of the National Standards Information Organization (NISO). He headed the US Delegation to the FAO Consultation on Agricultural Information Management at FAO in Rome September 2002.
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