CU Library hosts Information Technology Forum on Monday

The first Cornell Library Information Technology Forum will be held Monday, Oct. 19, from 8:30 to 10 a.m. in 105 ILR Conference Center.

Featured speaker will be Richard E. Lucier, founding university librarian and executive director of the University of California Digital Library, who will make a presentation titled "The California Digital Library: An Integrated System for the Management of Scholarly Communication."

Lucier is responsible for the creation and administration of the California Digital Library. He manages strategic planning for the University of California's systemwide library and scholarly communication issues, as well as the investigation and support of new approaches to the electronic dissemination of university scholarship and research.

From 1991 until his recent appointment, Lucier served as university librarian at U.C. San Francisco, assistant vice chancellor for academic information management and director of U.C. San Francisco's Center for Knowledge. In these positions, he managed the University Library and academic information resources and coordinated campus-wide policy and planning for information technology in support of education, research and clinical care.

Earlier, he was the co-founder and director of the Laboratory for Applied Research in Academic Information at Johns Hopkins University, from 1986-1991, and he spearheaded the development of the Genome Data Base and the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, both in support of the international Human Genome Initiative.

Cornell Library is planning several other information technology forums for the 1998-99 school year. The next scheduled seminar will feature Clifford A. Lynch, executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information. His presentation Feb. 18, 1999, will be co-sponsored by the Cornell Department of Computer Science.

Contact Edward Weissman at 255-5754 or esw3@cornell.edu for information.