Peter Lyman

University Librarian
University of California at Berkeley

Peter Lyman is University Librarian, and Professor in the School of Information Management & Systems at the University of California, Berkeley.

He received his BA in philosophy from Stanford University, a Masters degree from Berkeley in political science, and a Ph.D. from Stanford in political science in 1972. He taught political theory at Michigan State University, and was a visiting professor at Stanford University and the University of California at Santa Cruz. Previously he was Assistant Director of Academic Computing at Michigan State University, Executive Director of the Center for Scholarly Technology, and University Librarian at the University of Southern California. His research interests include the political sociology of emotions; ethnographic research on computer-mediated communication; the impact of information technologies upon the sociology of scholarly communication and publication, especially upon the management of the Library and Computer Center; and the future of the Library in an information society. He has served on the boards of EDUCOM, the Research Libraries Group (RLG), The Babbage Foundation, and the Technical Advisory Board of the Commission on Preservation and Access. He currently serves on the board of the Getty Information Institute; the board of the Council on Library Resources/Commission on Preservation and Access; the Association of American Universities (AAU) Committee on Digital Networks and Intellectual Property; the board of Sage Publications, Inc.; and the board of the Internet Archive.