People:  

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Rob Akscyn of Knowledge Systems Incorporated with its PetaPlex Project

Caroline Arms of Library of Congress

William Arms, at Cornell CS, formerly at CNRI

Dan Atkins  University of Michigan, DLI-1 Digital Library Project Director.

Howard Besser of School of Information Management and Systems at Berkeley

Bill Birmingham: University of Michigan, DLI-1 Digital Library Project Researcher.

Chris Borgman of Information Studies at UCLA

Hsinchun Chen Head of the AI Lab of U. Arizona and director of new DLI-2 project

Stephan Fischer - working on multimedia and metadata

Edward A. Fox  Director of the Digital Libraries Research Group at Virginia Tech.

Beverlee French, University Librarian and Executive Director, Interim California Digital Library.

Rick Furuta of CS at Texas A&M Univ.

Hector Garcia-Molina  in the Stanford DB Group

Henry Gladney retired from IBM Almaden Research Laboratory

Dan Greenstein, Director of the Digital Library Federation

Stephen Griffin, Program Director of the Digital Libraries Initiative, in NSF' IIS program

Robert Kahn of CNRI

Judith Klavans of Digital Libraries Projects at Columbia

Carl Lagoze of DL Research Group of CS at Cornell Univ.

John Leggett of CS at Texas A&M Univ.

Michael Lesk  Director of NSF' IIS program that runs the Digital Libraries Initiative

• Images: Quantity is not always Quality - U. KY talk
• digital libraries
• library preservation
• information retrieval
• networking, etc.
• Projections for Making Money on the Web

Richard Lucier, College Librarian, Dartmouth. See his D-Lib article on CDL

Clifford Lynch Director of CNI

Gary Marchionini 

• Previously at U. Md.
with its DL Home Page
• Now at U. NC Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science
• Encyclopedia article draft
• CACM April 1995 article

Michael Mauldin (home page, Lycos, CMU School of Computer Science)

Bruce Schatz  Principal Investigator of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, DLI Project

Robin Sewell, co-PI with Hsinchun Chen (see above) on U. of Arizona DLI-2 project

Marvin Sirbu of CMU Engineering and Public Policy 

• publications available online
  
  

Terry Smith from Geography, Director of Alexandria project at U. CA Santa Barbara

Howard D. Wactlar, Principal Investigator of the Informedia Digital Video Library, CMU School of CS

Donald Waters of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Stuart Weibel of OCLC Office of Research

Robert Wilensky  Principal Investigator of Berkeley DLI Project

Note: for an extensive list of people involved in digital libraries, see the Author Index of D-Lib Magazine.

Note: for a list of some of the key people in the digital libraries field, see the report on this from a Delphi Study at http://www.coe.missouri.edu/~is334/projects/Delphi_DL/StatementAnalysis.htm: "By consensus, those identified in the rounds of the Delphi as the top ten (10) include: William Arms, Christine Borgman, Hector Garcia-Molina, Edward A. Fox, Carl Lagoze, Michael Lesk, Richard Lucier, Clifford Lynch, Gary Marchionini, Bruce Schatz, and Terence R. Smith."