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John Van Oudenaren, senior advisor for the World Digital Library Initiative of the Library of Congress.
From American Memory to the World Digital Library Initiative through Global Gateway
Lecture by John Van Oudenaren, Library of Congress
June 21, 2006
On June 21, the Senior Advisor of the World Digital Library Initiative at the Library of Congress gave a lecture for Paris librarians and information specialists on the project and U.S. support for its goal to digitize unique or rare historical and cultural materials from countries around the world.
John Van Oudenaren was appointed senior advisor for the World Digital Library initiative of the Library of Congress in December 2005. Previously he served as chief of the European Division at the Library and the director of the Library's Global Gateway digital library projects.
Prior to joining the Library in 1996, he was a senior researcher at the RAND Corporation and director of RAND's European office in Delft, the Netherlands. He has served on the Policy Planning Staff of the U. S. Department of State and has been a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his A.B. in Germanic Languages and Literature from Princeton University. Dr. Van Oudenaren has published several books and numerous articles on European politics and international relations. He is an adjunct professor at the BMW Center for German and European Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.