John Ober
Program/Service
Infrastructure and Applications Support
Title
Manager
Responsibilities
John is responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and operations of the common enterprise technology - the distributed Computing and Storage Resource Center - that supports all CDL program and service areas.
Education
MS, University of Houston
MLIS, UC Berkeley
PhD, UC Berkeley
Professional Development
American Library Association Bookfellow assigned to Benin, West Africa
Background
John has been with the CDL since 1998, most recently serving as Director of its Office of Scholarly Communication. He served as CDL's Interim Director of Digital Library Technologies for a year and draws upon that and related previous experience at UC Berkeley and CSU Monterey Bay in fulfilling his current responsibilities. John began his career as an assistant professor focusing on information systems development and management at UC Berkeley's School of Library and Information Studies.
Professional Interests
- Digital Library Technologies
- Scholarly Communication
Committees/ Affiliations
- ALA
- LITA
- ACRL
- UC Libraries Technology Advisory Group
- UC Libraries Shibboleth Task Force
