Hello, All,
My name is Stephen Kharfen. I live in Boston, MA. I have been a librarian and archivist for over twenty years. I have held positions in several different types of institutions, including academic, public, and federal libraries, and in several areas of librarianship and archival practice, such as cataloging and reference services. I have lived in Chicago, Washington, DC, and Boston. I have worked with archival film and television collections and have had additional related experiences, such as programing film series at a public library and co-producing a DVD of early films of Boston and Massachusetts.
Recently I completed a contract project in which I evaluated a television/radio station’s archive of media assets and production resources for use by college and university students, professors, and researchers. The ultimate goal of the project is to make these materials accessible in a digital library.
I am taking this course because the Read/Write Web is the wave of the present and is one of the driving forces transforming libraries. I need to know more about these tools and learn how they are changing what I do as a librarian. I find the opportunities to be incredibly exciting and challenging.
2 responses so far ↓
Michele // January 10, 2008 at 12:34 am
The work you done with film and tv sounds really interesting. Are you familiar with The Prelinger Archive?
http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger
skharfen // January 10, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Rick Prelinger has been a great leader in many fields. His guides to moving image collections and sources are classic reference sources. He has achieved amazing feats in open content on the web. I have used his sites many times. They are terrific. He has provided access to a great deal of cool materials. The Library of Congress acquired his huge film collection shortly after I left.