JIM HUNTER

Jim Hunter, Chief Librarian of the Columbus Dispatch.

Link to Jim's presentation, "Archive Bracket Creep"

Bio Brief

Jim Hunter is the Chief Librarian, Columbus Dispatch. Since 1974 Jim manages the editorial library of the Columbus Dispatch with the help from a staff of seven.

Keenly interested in archiving issues and projects of all kinds, Jim focuses on how that content becomes useful through the Internet. He describes the evolution of the Dispatch electronic library systems: "We began text archiving in 1985; digital image archiving in 1992 and now several systems later and much wiser we operate two image archives and two text archives loaded on a commercial Web site. We can't wait to archive more stuff."

"We also provide extensive support for Computer Assisted Research & Reporting projects (CARR), including identifying and acquiring public record data sets, importing data and teaching reporters how to analyze data, and I also manage the Dispatch political polling operation."

Jim has a BA Political Science Kent State University (1969) and a M.L.S. Library Science Kent State University (1973).

Recently he has been a part-time faculty member in the Communications Department of Otterbein College teaching a course in the Winter quarter of 1999 about Online Research & Web Design. Jim has also been on the Faculty Image Archiving team on the Electronic Photo Workshop for the National Press Photographers Association in 1997. Declining to go in to detail about his other achievements, he says there is "other stuff going back for years, too dull to mention."

Jim can be contacted at:

Columbus Dispatch
34 South Third Street
Columbus, Ohio 43215
Tel: (614) 461-5039
E-mail jhunter@dispatch.com

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