Biographies of Plenary Speakers
Plenary Speaker Biographies
Lyn Elliot Sherwood
Director General, Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)
Sherwood is the Director General, Canadian Heritage Information
Network (CHIN) which has collaborated with Canadian museums for
almost 30 years to develop electronic content for professional and
public access and which has recently launched the Virtual Museum
of Canada. She has extensive experience in the creation of electronic
information networks and the management of policies and programs
in the area of cultural heritage. Within the Canadian federal
government she has held positions with the National Museums of
Canada, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications
Commission, the Privy Council Office, the Ministry of State for Social
Development, the Department of Communications and the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Clifford A. Lynch
Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Clifford Lynch has been Executive Director of CNI since July 1997.
CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and
Educause, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with
the use of information technology and networked information to
enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Prior to joining
CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of
the President., Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from
the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at
Berkeleyâs School of Information Management and Systems. He is a
past president of the American Society for Information Science and
a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Lynch currently serves on the Internet2 Applications Council
and the National Research Council Committee on Intellectual Property
in the Emerging Information Infrastructure.
Stanley N. Katz
Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University Katz is president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, the leading organization in humanistic scholarship and education in the United States. The author and editor of numerous books and articles, he is a noted authority on American legal and constitutional history and has served as president of the Organization of American Historians and the American Society for Legal History, and as vice president of the American Historical Association. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Newberry Library, the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (past-president), and the Copyright Clearance Center.
**The transcript for this presentation - "What Do We Want from the Cybermuseum?" - is now available at: www.ninch.org/forum/museums.html