Scott Bennett

Dr. Scott Bennett is currently Yale University Librarian Emeritus and a consultant to institutions and organizations related to the library and information science fields. He has also published numerous articles on topics such as information access, digital preservation, library funding, bibliography, publishing and intellectual property, copyright, publishing history, textual editing, utilization of library space, and library education and training programs. He received an A.B. degree from Oberlin College in 1960 and his Ph.D. in English from Indiana University in 1967. A specialist in 19th Century British literature and history, he started his career as an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois. Completing his M.S. in Library Science at the University of Illinois in 1976, he went on to serve as associate professor of library administration there. After this, he became assistant university librarian for collection management at Northwestern University. From Northwestern he moved on to Johns Hopkins University, where he was Director of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, the university’s main library. While there, he served as a delegate to the Maryland Governor’s Conference on Libraries and Information Service helping to initiate a statewide preservation planning effort and advocating increased use of mass de-acidification to preserve library materials. He assumed the position of Yale University Librarian in 1994 and served until 2001, when he retired and took on the Emeritus title.

External links

* http://www.libraryspaceplanning.com
* http://www.learningcommons.ca/ProgramAndSpeakers.html
* http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-01/bennett.html
* http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-01/bios.html
* http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/bennett.html
* http://www.yale.edu/opa/v27.n26/story5.html