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H. Thomas
Hickerson
Director
Thomas
Hickerson is Associate University Librarian for Information Technologies
and Special Collections in the Cornell University Library. His special
collections responsibilities include oversight of
the Library's principal rare book and manuscript programs, and he directed
the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections from 1992 through 1998.
His information technologies role includes direction of the Division of
Digital Library and Information Technologies, with general responsibility
for library systems operation, digital library development, and electronic
publishing. He was founding director of the Cornell Institute for Digital
Collections (CIDC) and continues to oversee its activities. The Institute
was formally established with private funding in September 1997, and
succeeds the Digital Access Coalition, which he organized in 1992. CIDC is
an interdisciplinary unit with a campus-wide mandate to explore and
promote the use of emerging
technologies to expand access to cultural and scientific collections and
to support the development and use of such resources through academic,
corporate, and institutional partnerships.
Tom is presently Vice President/President Elect of the Society of
American Archivists and was honored for his professional contributions by
being named a Fellow of the Society in 1987. He has also served on the
Executive Committee of the ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section. In
1993, he was the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship,
"Digital Access to Research Collections on College and University
Campuses," and he has written and spoken extensively on archival and
library automation and digital library development. |
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