Gary Price

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Gary Price

Gary Price (born 1965) is an American librarian, best known for founding ResourceShelf.com and originating Price's List of Lists, "a database of ranked listings of companies, people and resources freely available on the Internet", which is now maintained by others. Currently employed by the search engine Ask.com as Director of Online Information Resources. Price also started DocuTicker a daily updated of new full text reports and documents from government, non-government organizations, think tanks, and other organizations. He lives near Washington, DC and grew up in the Chicago suburbs where he attended New Trier High School

[edit] Life and work

Price received a Bachelors of Arts degree from the University of Kansas, and a Masters of library and information science from Wayne State University. He was for a time a reference librarian at George Washington University. Price co-authored the book The Invisible Web (see Deep Web) with Chris Sherman. He won the Special Libraries Association's "Innovations in Technology Award" in 2002, and their News Division's "Agnes Henebry Roll of Honor Award" in 2004. He was also awarded the Alumni of the Year Award from Wayne State's Library and Information Program.

[edit] References

Gary Price & Chris Sherman (July 2001). The Invisible Web : Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See. CyberAge Books, ISBN 0-910965-51-X.