Daniel Greenstein

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Daniel Greenstein has been known as a librarian, library administrator, and a prominent figure in American and international library associations.[1] Greenstein is currently Vice Provost for Academic Information and Strategic Services at the University of California, responsible for digital library, publishing, and broadcast services and for academic planning.[2] Before becoming Vice Provost, Greenstein was University Librarian for the California Digital Library (CDL) and systemwide library planning (there are about 100 libraries spread across the 10 campuses in the UC library system).[3]

Before joining the CDL in May 2002, Greenstein was director of the Digital Library Federation, founding director of the Arts and Humanities Data Service in the United Kingdom (AHDS), and founding co-director of the Resource Discovery Network, a distributed service whose mission is to enrich learning, research, and cultural engagement by facilitating new levels of access to high-quality Internet resources.[4] Greenstein holds degrees from the Universities of Oxford (DPhil) and Pennsylvania (MA, BA) and began his career as a member of the history faculty at the University of Glasgow.

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[edit] Cataloging

Greenstein is the University's Partner Representative[5] in OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), which is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat—the OCLC Online Union Catalog.[6]

[edit] UC-Google digitization partnership

Greenstein was ultimately responsible for the University of California's's participation in the Google Books Library Project, which involves a series of agreements between Google and major international libraries through which a collection of its public domain books will be scanned in their entirety and made available for free to the public online.[2] The negotiations between the two partners called for each to project guesses about ways that libraries are likely to expand in the future.[7] According to the terms of the agreement, the data cannot be crawled or harvested by any other search engine; no downloading or redistribution is allowed. The partners and a wider community of research libraries can share the content.[8]

[edit] Personal touch

As a policy maker or policy consultant, Greenstein's straight-forward strategy addresses fundamentals first, e.g., "In the absence of policy we need to put one forward, e.g. non-duplication of digital archiving efforts to simplify multiple requirements. Then develop standards that support the policy."[9] Then secondary questions become relevant, e.g, "If you can establish a policy, then the practices should flow from applying the policy. Question: what needs to be archived?"[9]

[edit] Published works

  • Greenstein, Daniel and Suzanne E. Thorin. (2002). The Digital Library: A Biography. Washington, D.C.: Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources.
  • __________. (2001) "On Digital Library Standards: From Yours and Mine to Ours," CLIR Vol. 24. Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources.
  • __________. (2000). "Digital Libraries and Their Challenges." Library Trends. 49:2.
  • __________ and N. Beagrie. (1998) A Strategic Framework for Creating and Preserving Digital Collections. London: The British Library.
  • __________, and Lou Bernard. (1995). "Speaking With One Voice: Encoding Standards and the Prospects for an Integrated Approach to Computing in History." The Text Encoding Initiative: Background and Contents. New York: Springer. 10-ISBN 0-792-33689-5; 13-ISBN 978-0-792-33689-1
  • __________. (1991). Modelling Historical Data: Towards a Standard for Encoding and Exchanging Machine-Readable Texts. Göttingen: Max-Planck-Institut für Geschiche. 10-ISBN 3-928-13445-0.
  • __________. (1991). "Standard, Meta-Standard: A Framework for Coding Occupational Data." Historical Social Research. 16:1, 3-22.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Dan Greenstein: University of California; Ca Digital Library; Orchestrating Digital Worlds" Library Journal, March 15, 2002; UC Berkeley iSchool faculty profile + snapshot photo
  2. ^ a b Google Books Library Project partnerships web page
  3. ^ Rice, Motoko and Lawrence Van Gelder. "Arts, Briefly; Google Snags Another Library." New York Times, August 9, 2006.
  4. ^ Greenstein, Daniel et al. (2002). The Digital Library: A Biography, p. ii.
  5. ^ Partner Representatives, OCLC web site
  6. ^ OCLC described, OCLS web site
  7. ^ Maitre, Michelle. "UC considering huge library project with Google," Oakland Tribune, August 7, 2006.
  8. ^ Library and Information Technology Association, "Contracting for Content in a Digital World"
  9. ^ a b Permanent Public Access. Conference hosted by the Government Printing Office (June 19, 2000).

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