Preserving The Intellectual Heritage

Appendix

Participants

Birgit Antonsson took up her present post as Director of the Royal Library, National Library of Sweden in 1988. She received a Ph.D. in literary history from Uppsala University in 1972, and subsequently graduated from the Swedish Library College in 1974. After working at Linkoping and Uppsala University Libraries, she became Library Director at the Stockholm School of Economics in 1985, and Deputy Librarian at the Royal Library in 1987. She was President of the Swedish Association of University and Research Libraries from 1984-1986. She is currently Chair of the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Her most recent publications are The Mission Statement of the Royal Library-National Library of Sweden; Till det okatalogiserade tryckets lov eller De dödas encyklopedi i Kungliga biblioteket (Festskrift till Bendik Rugaas); and "Introduction" to Bang, H. Släkten utan bopp.

Patricia Battin is the first President of the Commission on Preservation and Access. Before establishing the Commission in 1987, she was Vice-President for Information Services/University Librarian at Columbia University, where she came after serving in various capacities at the library of the State University of New York at Binghamton. A graduate of Swarthmore College in English literature, she also has a library science degree from Syracuse and honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from Lehigh University, where she is also a trustee, and from Emory University. She has been on the board of directors of the Research Libraries Group, the Association of Research Libraries and the Council on Library Resources. She has served on library advisory committees for Harvard, Yale, Lehigh and Syracuse. Her most recent publications are "Redefining Preservation and Reconceptualizing Information Services" in Library Issues; "Bibliographic Control and Access to Microforms" in European Research Libraries Cooperation: The LIBER Quarterly; "The Preservation of Knowledge: Strategies for a Global Society" in Strengthening the U.S.-Japan Library Partnership.

Richard Brilliant is Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, where he also holds a named chair in the humanities. Before coming to Columbia, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh, Princeton University, the University of Rome, and the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. At present he is also Editor-in-Chief of The Art Bulletin. Trained as a classical art historian, he has always been interested in theoretical questions, beginning with his first book, Gesture and Rank in Roman Art, an analysis of political imagery and the semiotics of representation. His two most recent books, Visual Narrative and Portraiture, examine the particularities of narrative in visual art, and the nature of portraiture in relation to changing concepts of identity.

Paul Canart is Director of the Manuscripts Department of the Vatican Apostolic Library, and a teacher in its Library School as well as its School of Paleography. His early education in classical philology, Thomistic philosophy and theology was followed by a Docteur ès Lettres awarded by Paris-Sorbonne in 1979. His Vatican career began as a manuscript conservator in 1957 and he has held several other posts in the Library in the interim. President of the Committee for Byzantine Studies of the Holy See, and member of its Committee on Historical Sciences, he is also active in international groups concerned with Byzantine Studies and Greek Paleography. His publications include Les Vaticani Graeci 1487-1962: Notes et Documents pour l'Histoire d 'un Fonds de Manuscrits de la Bibliothèteque Vaticane; Paleografia e Codicologia Greca: Una Rassegna Bibliografica; and Codices Vaticani Graeci: Codices 1745-1962.

Pieter J.D. Drenth is Professor of Psychometrics and Organizational Psychology at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, where he has also served as Rector Magnificus. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from Vrije Universiteit in 1960 and studied at New York University on a Fulbright Scholarship in 196-61. He was awarded an honorary doctor degree by Ghent University in 1980. He is also currently President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. His principal fields of interest are intelligence theory, personality assessment, leadership and decision making, and cross cultural psychology. His publications include Advances in Organizational Psychology, which he edited in 1988.

George F. Farr, Jr. is Director of the Division of Preservation and Access at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), an independent grant-making agency of the United States government. Awards from this division encompass a broad range of preservation and access activities at non-federal institutions, including a national program to preserve on microfilm the intellectual content of approximately 3,000,000 brittle books in 20 years. He holds a Ph.D. in English literature from Yale University and is a member of the Senior Executive Service. Before coming to NEH, he held appointments in the English departments of the University of California, Berkeley, and Vassar College, where he taught courses in Victorian Literature and British fiction. At NEH, he has established grant programs that fund the creation of research tools and reference works, databases in the humanities, scholarly editions and translations, and the coordinated preservation of United States newspapers on a state-by-state basis. He has written and spoken on a variety of issues pertaining to preservation and the Endowment's work; his most recent article, on the history of NEH's brittle books program, appeared in Advances in Preservation and Access, Volume 1, 1992.

Colette Flesch is Director-General of Directorate X of the Commission of the European Communities. This Directorate has responsibility for Audiovisual, Information, Communication, and Culture. Born in Luxembourg, she was educated in the United States at Wellesley College and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where she received the M.A. and M.A.L.D. Before assuming her current position, she was a European civil servant, then entered Luxembourg political life. Between 1969 and 1990 she was successively: Mayor of Luxembourg, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of the Economy, and Minister of Justice, as well as a member of the European Parliament. Her publications include La Diplomatie Luxembourgeoise and The Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies.

Christoph Graf is Director of the Swiss Federal Archives and a professor at the Universities of Basel and Berne. His Dr. Phil. is from the University of Berne in 1983 in political history. He is currently a member of the Swiss Federal Committee for Scientific Information. He has been a scholarly collaborator in research projects of the Swiss National Fund and an active member of the General Society of Historical Research of Switzerland, the Society of Swiss Archivists and the International Council on Archives. His publications include Der Reichstagsbrand and Politische Polizei zvJischen Demokratie und Diktatur, as well as contributions to historical and archivist specialty periodicals.

John Heilbron is Vice-Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley, where he is also professor of history and Director of the Office for History of Science and Technology. His Ph.D. in history was granted by Berkeley. Earlier he taught at Cornell University and at the University of Pennsylvania. His principal scholarly interest is the history of physics. He has written on the theory of atomic structure, on electricity in the 17th and 18th centuries, and on early modern physics. The life and work of H.G.J. Mosely, an English physicist, is the subject of one of his books, and he has also written The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck as Spokesman for German Science. He has studied Nobel awardees and the productivity of academic establishments. He is a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. His most recent publications are The Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory from Its Origins to World War and Benjamin Franklin's Briefe uon der Electrizität.

Mark D. Jordan is Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, where he is Secretary of the Joint Program in Medieval Philosophy at the Medieval Institute. His Ph.D. in philosophy was awarded by the University of Texas, Austin. He has also taught at the University of Dallas and at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies at Toronto, and spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar at the Universidad de Granada. He is currently a member of the Committee on Library Preservation of the Medieval Academy of America. He has published many articles on Thomistic philosophy, as well as two monographs: Ordering Wisdom: The Hierarchy of Philosophical Discourses in Aquinas; and The Care of Souls and the Rhetoric of Moral Theology in Bonaventure and Aquinas. He is currently participating as an editor in the project to convert Migne's Patrologia Latina to a machine-readable database.

Michel Roger Jouve is Professor of English and Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature at the University of Bordeaux III, as well as its Vice-President and Director of its Center for British Studies and Research. His Doctorat è'ettres (in English Literature) was awarded by Paris-Sorbonne in 1979. He has taught in London and Le Havre as well as at the Universities of Rouen and Tunis, and participated in instruction by radio and television. His principal research interests are the interpretation of visual art, especially caricature, and aesthetic theories of the arts in Great Britain and Europe from the 18th to the 20th century. His publications include L'Age d 'Or de la Caricature Anglaise, and "Nation et Nations dans la caricature politique anglaise au 18ème siecle" in History of European Ideas

Stanley Katz is President of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), New York. Born in Chicago, he was educated at Harvard University where he took a Ph.D. in American history as well as a year of legal training. His principal scholarly interest has been in American legal history, especially colonial law and constitutionalism. Before assuming the presidency of ACLS he was Professor of the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University. He has also been a member of the faculties of Harvard and the Universities of Chicago, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. He has served on many advisory and governing boards for universities, foundations and governments. He is a Fellow of the American Antiquarian Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Recent publications include "Bernard Bailyn, Historian and Teacher" in The Transformation of Early American History; "I rapporti culturali fra Europa e Stati Uniti dopo la Seconda guerra mondiale" in il ulino; and "The Strange Birth and Unlikely History of Constitutional Equality" in The Journal of American History.

Knut Kleve is Professor of Classics at the University of Oslo. He received his Dr. Phil. from the University of Oslo in 1963. He was Professor of Classics at the University of Bergen from 1963 to 1973 when he joined the faculty at Oslo. A papyrologist who has published extensively on the papyri of Herculaneum, he served as a board member of the Centro Internazionale per lo Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi as well as head of the research laboratory in the Officina dei Papiri Ercolanesi of the Biblioteca Nazionale, Naples. He is head of the restoration work in the papyrus collection of the University Library in Oslo. His most recent publications are An Approach to the Latin Papyri from Herculaneum; "Three technical guides to the papyri of Herculaneum: how to unroll, how to remove sovrapposti, how to take pictures" in Cronache Ercolanesi; and "Phoenix from the Ashes: Lucretius and Ennius in Herculaneum" in The Norwegian Institute at Athens.

M. Stuart Lynn is Vice-President for Information Technologies at Cornell University. He has an M.A. in mathematics from Oxford University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in mathematics from UCLA. He has held a variety of academic, government, and industrial positions, including Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Institute for Computer Services and Applications at Rice University; Director of Computing Affairs and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley; and President and Chairman of Capital Technologies Corporation (USA). He is currently a member of the Technology Assessment Advisory Committee of the Commission on Preservation and Access and the Committee on Electronic Publishing of the Coalition for Networked Information. His publications include, through the Commission: Joint Study in Digital Preservation, Phase 1 (contributing author); Computerization Project of the Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain (with Hans Rutimann); and Preservation and Access Technology: The Relationship Between Digital and Other Media Conversion Processes: A Structured Glossary of Technical Terms.

Vittorio Marchis is Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at the Politecnico di Turino and also Professor of History of Technology at the University's Architecture Faculty. He is a member of the Engineering and Architecture Committee of the National Research Council (CNR), the Scientific Culture and Historical Scientific Culture Committee of the University and Research Ministry (MURST), and several scientific associations in the fields of mechanics and the history of technology. He is Director of the Politecnico Bulletin of Information and Culture (Linee). His publications include two books on computer modelling of mechanical and engineering systems, Modelli di Sistemi Termodinamici and Modelli, and several books on the history of engineering and technical culture, among them, Bibliotheca Technologica.

Geofrey Martin is Research Professor at the University of Essex and Senior Research Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. His Dr. Phil. is from Oxford, and he has taught history at the Universities of Leicester and Toronto. He has held the post of Keeper of Public Records for the U.K. and has been a member of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments and Chairman of the British Records Association. Awarded the CBE in 1986, he has also been honored by a medal of the Library Association and an honorary degree from the University of Essex. His current research interests include medieval guilds and the history of Merton College. Among his recent publications are Dublin Merchant Guild Rolls, 1190-1265; Ipswich Recognizance Rolls, 1294-1327, and contributions to various learned journals.

J. Hillis Miller is UCI Distinguished Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine. Formerly a professor of English at Yale University and the Johns Hopkins University, he has held teaching positions at Harvard University, Williams College, and the University of Notre Dame, as well as several visiting professorships. He has an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard and an M.A. Privatim from Yale. He received three Honorary Doctor degrees and several fellowships, including Fulbright Fellow, Autonomous University of Barcelona; Carnegie Fellow, University of Edinburgh; National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellow; and two Guggenheim Fellowships. He has served as President of the Modern Language Association and Chairman of the Commission's Scholarly Advisory Committee on Modern Language and Literature, through which he published Preserving the Literary Heritage. He has written numerous articles and books, whose recent titles include Versions of Pygmalion, Ariadne's Thread, and Illustration.

Alison de Puymège is Assistant Secretary General of the Standing Conference of Rectors, Presidents and Vice-Chancellors of the European Universities (CRE). She received an M.A. in modern languages from Oxford University. In Geneva she was awarded a Diplôme d'études superéures in political science and also pursued doctoral studies at the Graduate Institute of International Studies. She is a member of the Governing Board of the European Institute of Education and Social Policy in Paris and the Advisory Board of the Central European University Press, and is secretary to the Editorial Board publishing a History of the University in Europe. Her publications include L'Europe et les Intellectuels, a series of interviews published for the European Cultural Centre; and "Identité culturelle et relations internationales" in Relations Internationales.

Heimo Reinitzer is Professor of Early German Literature at the University of Hamburg, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Literature from 1989 to 1993. He received a Dr. Phil. in German literature from Graz University and was an assistant lecturer at the Universities of Cologne and Hamburg. His field of expertise initially covered exemplary stories, the medieval role of nature and relations between text and illustrations. Since 1979 he has been in charge of the German Bible Archives at the University of Hamburg and has concentrated on questions concerning the editorial development of medieval texts and the history of books and libraries.

Henry W, Riecken is Senior Program Adviser to the Commission on Preservation and Access. His Ph.D. in psychology is from Harvard University. Formerly a professor of behavioral science and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, he has also been a member of the faculties of the University of Minnesota and Harvard. Between these posts, he served as President of the Social Science Research Council, New York and in two U.S. government positions: Associate Director (for Scientific Education) of the National Science Foundation; and as Associate Director (Planning) of the National Library of Medicine. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. His publications include When Prophecy Fails, the study of a millennial group, and articles in psychological journals.

Hans Rütimann is a consultant to the Commission on Preservation and Access, responsible for coordinating the Commission's international project. He graduated from the University of Zurich in German. He was formerly Deputy Executive Director of the Modern Language Association (MLA), New York, where he oversaw the conversion of the Association's International Bibliography to an online database and compact disk format. He served as General Editor of the MLA series "Technology and the Humanities," and taught a graduate course at Columbia University on the impact of electronic technology on scholarly communication. He has written on computer-aided instruction and has published, through the Commission: The International Project: 1992 Update; Computerization Project of the Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain (with Stuart Lynn); and Preservation and Access in China: Possibilities for Cooperation.

Miquel Siguan is Professor Emeritus of Psychology of the University of Barcelona, and Honorary Director of its Institute of Education. He is also Chairman of UNESCO's project LINGUAPAX2. A native of Catalonia, he joined Barcelona's faculty in 1962 and has devoted himself to problems of psycholinguistics, especially children's language, second language acquisition, and problems of bilingualism and bilingual education. His book Education and Bilingualism has been published in five languages, and his more recent España Plurilingue will shortly appear in an English version.

David Vaisey is Bodley's Librarian at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Born in Gloucestershire, he took a B.A. and M.A. in Modern History at Exeter College, then trained as an archivist in the Department of Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian, subsequently serving there as Assistant Librarian until he became Deputy Keeper of the Oxford University Archives. From that post he retumed to Keeper of Western Manuscripts until he assumed his current position in 1986. A member of the Modern History Faculty at Oxford, his research has been concerned with local historical records. He has served on numerous national committees concerned with archives and historical records and has published extensively on these subjects Recent publications include The Diary of Thomas Turner, 1754-1765; "The Image of the Archivist" in Archives and Europe Without Boundaries; and The Foundations of Scholarship: Libraries and Collecting.

The Commission on Preservation and Access was established in 1986 to foster and support collaboration among libraries and allied organizations in order to ensure the preservation of the published and documentary record in all formats and to provide enhanced access to scholarly information.

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