John Mark Ockerbloom

John Mark Ockerbloom (born 1966)[1] is a pioneer in library science. He was the first person to make a substantial effort to catalog online books in a rigorous and comprehensive manner. Formerly at Carnegie Mellon University,[2] from which he earned a PhD in computer science,[3] he is now a "digital library architect and planner at the University of Pennsylvania".[1][2] He is the editor of The Online Books Page, which lists over 35,000 books,[4] all of which are freely available for reading online or by download.

References

  1. ^ a b "John Mark Ockerbloom - Everybody's Libraries". http://everybodyslibraries.com/john-mark-ockerbloom/. Retrieved 22 March 2010. 
  2. ^ a b "John Mark Ockerbloom's old CMU Home Page". http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/. Retrieved 22 March 2010. 
  3. ^ "John Mark Ockerbloom". http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/whois-spok.html. Retrieved 22 March 2010. 
  4. ^ "The Online Books Page". http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/. Retrieved 22 March 2010. 

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