Professor, School of Information Management and Systems
University of California, Berkeley
303A South Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-4600
ph: 510-642-1087
fax: 510-642-5814
plyman@sims.berkeley.edu
Buddhist Stupa at Bodhnath,
near Kathmandu, Nepal
| Peter Lyman Professor, School of Information Management and Systems University of California, Berkeley 303A South Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 ph: 510-642-1087 fax: 510-642-5814 plyman@sims.berkeley.edu
Buddhist Stupa at Bodhnath, | |
Peter Lyman is Professor at the School of Information Management & Systems (SIMS) at the University of California, Berkeley.
Brief Bio.
Peter Lyman received his BA from Stanford University in Philosophy, MA from Berkeley in Political Science, and PhD in Political Science from Stanford. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the American Behavioral Scientist, the Journal of Electronic Publishing, and Information Technology, Education and Society. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Sage Publishing, Inc., and has previously served on the Board of Directors of EDUCOM, the Research Libraries Group (RLG), The Babbage Institute, the Technical Advisory Board of the Commission on Preservation and Access, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and the Internet Archive. His most recent project is a study of how much new information was produced in 2002; see How Much Information 2003?
Research and teaching interests.
(1) E-government and e-governance;
(2) The ethnographic study of online social relationships and communities.
(3) An ethnography of technology transfer from research communities to businesses.
Selected publications and papers.
"Liberal Education in Cyberia." Education and Democracy: Re-imagining Liberal Learning in America. New York: The College Board, 1997. pp. 299-319. A paper on the impact of information technology on pragmatic liberal education, commissioned by The College Board.
"Is Using a Computer Like Driving a Car, Reading a Book, or solving a Problem? The Computer as Machine, Text and Culture." in Work and Technology in Higher Education, edited by Mark Shields (New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 1995). A paper on the links between computer work and the American tradition of invention and "tinkering."
"Digital Documents and the Future of the Academic Community." Proceedings from the Conference on Scholarly Communication and Technology, forthcoming from the University of California Press. Draft paper is at: http://arl.cni.org/scomm/scat/lyman.html. A paper commissioned by the Mellon Foundation for a conference on Scholarly Publishing, concerning the implications of digital publishing for the academic sense of community.
"How is the Medium the Message? Notes on the Design of Network Communication." Computer Networking and Scholarship in the 21st Century University. Edited by T. Harrison and T. Stephen. SUNY Press, .
"What is a Digital Library? Technology, Intellectual Property and the Public Interest." Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Book, Bricks, and Bytes. Fall 1996, Vol. 125, No. 4, pgs. 1-33.
"Archiving Digital Cultural Artifacts: Organizing an Agenda for Action" by Peter Lyman and Brewster Kahle, Alexa Internet, for D-Lib Magazine, located at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july98/07contents.html.
"Time and Bits: Background Paper," by Peter Lyman and Howard Besser, for the Getty Conservation Institute Conference on Time and Bits, located at http://www.ahip.getty.edu/timeandbits/tbpaper.html.
"The UCC 2-B Debate and the Sociology of the Information Age." Berkeley Technology Law Journal (forthcoming Fall 1998).
"Risk, tribe and lore: New Paths to Post-Baccalaureate Learning in Digital Libraries ." (Aspen Institute Conference on Post-Baccalaureate Learning, November 7, 1998, co-sponsored by the University Continuing Education Association and the Council of Graduate Schools).
"The Poetics of the Future: Information Highways, Virtual Communities and Digital Libraries." The Lazerow Lecture, School of Library and Information Sciences, UCLA. (November 18, 1998)
"The Responsibilities of Universities in the New Information Environment," and "The Future of Scholarly Communication" by Peter Lyman and Stanley Chodorow, in The Mirage of Continuity: Reconfiguring Academic Information Resources for the 21st Century. CLIR and AAU: Washington D.C., 1998.
"Designing Libraries to be Learning Communities: Toward an Ecology of Places for Learning." For the June 1998 meeting of UKOLN.
Course Syllabi.
SIMS 296A (Fall, 1996) Copyright and Community: The Future of the Information Society, with Professor Pamela Samuelson.
SIMS 296A(2) (Spring 1999) Copyright and the Information Society, with Professor Pamela Samuelson.
SIMS 296A(4) (Spring 1999) Information Policy.
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Last update: 11/24/98