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(there is also a very brief bio.)
Peter S. Graham was appointed University Librarian of the Library at Syracuse University, in New York State, effective September 1, 1998. He was invited to join the Department of English and Textual Studies faculty as Professor in 2000. At SU he has served on committees on the campus space plan, Remembrance Scholar selection, and on Academic Plan development. While at SU he was elected to the Board of the Research Libraries Group (1999-2003) and appointed to the Steering Committee of the Coalition for Networked Information (2002-). He was a member of the Middle States Association accreditation teams for Catholic University (2001) and Georgetown University (2002).
From 1987 to 1998 he was Associate University Librarian for Technical and Networked Information Services at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. For three years he was also Associate Vice President for Information Services, responsible for the University's central and system-wide academic and administrative computing facilities. He began work in librarianship at the Research Libraries Group in its early days, and has been a librarian at Columbia and Indiana Universities.
He studied English at Columbia while working as a systems manager, and earned graduate degrees in English Renaissance literature there and at Oxford University in England. He earned a graduate library degree at Indiana University.
Graham was elected in 1993 to the Council of the American Library Association for a four-year term (re-elected in 1997 for another four years). He chaired the Governing Board of the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (Rutgers/Princeton) from 1992. In 1990 he founded the electronic bulletin board ExLibris , a listserv for rare books and special collections librarians of over 1600 subscribers, and was moderator until 1995. In 1995 he was elected to a three-year term as a member of the Council of the Bibliographical Society of America (re-elected 1998); he was also a member of its Publication Committee and of its Web advisory committee.
For two years until 1994 he was Co-Leader of the Working Group on Legislation, Codes, Policies and Practice of the Coalition for Networked Information, and has made several presentations at its Project Briefings, most recently in Oct., 1997 on the NEH digital workshop proposal (see below). In 1992-3 he was a member of the Mid-Decade Planning Group of the Research Libraries Group, and from 1994 has served on the RLG Digital Collections Project Task Force. He is a member of the Renaissance Society of America and was also a member of its Preservation Committee (in association with the Commission on Preservation and Access).
Recent publications include "New Roles for Special Collections on the Network" (College & Research Libraries, May, 1998, 232-239), and "Requirements for the Digital Research Library," which was noted by the ALA/K.G. Saur award as the outstanding 1995 article in the same journal. He has also written "Intellectual Preservation: Electronic Preservation of the Third Kind" (see web page of publications); and "Electronic Information and Research Library Technical Services," College & Research Libraries (51:3, p. 241-250), May, 1990. He has also written several reviews for Renaissance Quarterly.
Other presentations include 1994 seminars at the National Library and at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand; a panel presentation on digital authentication at the Nov. 1994 CNI meeting in Florida; a presentation on information integrity at the June, 1995 meeting of the Library of Congress Network Advisory Committee; and at the Rare Book School of the University of Virginia, where in 1997 he spoke on "Postmodernism and Barriers to Library Preservation"). In October, 1997 he spoke on "Building Research and Action Agendas for Digital Archiving" on the program that opened the 131st meeting of the Association of Research Libraries on this topic.
In late 1995 he spoke on electronic archiving issues at a workshop sponsored by the British Library and UKOLN at the University of Coventry in Warwick, and lectured shortly after at the Queen's University in Belfast, and at the University of Southampton. He gave the final of the eleven Follett Lectures.
He was married in 1969 to the former Lewraine Buckingham, a professional artist (oils, drawings and constructions; represented by the Jan Weiss Gallery, New York City). Recent shows include the Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, and entries in the last two Finger Lakes Exhibitions at the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester. Their son Andrew graduated from Earlham College in 1996 and is working and writing in Boston. Their daughter Rae graduated in 1998 from Rutgers University; in her final year she was President of her student body, the Douglass College Governing Association. In 2003 she graduated from the graduate MPA program at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University, and was married to Bill Buckley on July 5, 2003; they now live in Philadelphia.