Peter Lyman

G. Peter Lyman (* September 13 1940 in San Francisco, California, † July 2, 2007 in Berkeley, California ) was an American information scientist.

Life

Lyman made ​​in 1962 at Stanford University with a bachelor's degree (BA ) in Philosophy and in 1963 a master's degree (MA) in Political Science at Berkeley. He was at Stanford in political science doctorate ( Ph.D.) in 1972.

He was co-founder of " James Madison College ", a boarding high school with a focus on "public order" at Michigan State University. There he was on the faculty from 1967 until his move to the University of Southern California (USC ) in 1987 at USC, he founded the " Center for Scholarly Technology" and was its director.; he built the institution into one of the world's leading libraries with a unique library information system. In 1991 he was also director of the University Library at USC.

In 1994 he moved to the University of Berkeley in the Department of Information Management and Systems at the today's " UC Berkeley School of Information ." He also served from 1994 to 1998 at UC Berkeley director of the university library. In 2006 he became Professor Emeritus.

Lyman was co-editor of the "American Behavioral Scientist", the "Journal of Electronic Publishing " and " Information Technology, Education and Society ". He was a member of the Supervisory Board of Sage Publishing, Inc., also a former Supervisory Board at 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.

Peter Lyman died of a brain tumor. He was married to the professor Barrie Thorne and had two children.