Professor of Cinema Studies
NYU
Howard Besser has been an LIS educator for 30 years with a focus on the intersection of technology and policy. He has taught hundreds of professional development workshops. And he designed the “Policy” course for SAA’s Digital Archives Specialist Certificate Program.
Howard has a long-term interest in privacy issues that goes well beyond his work on digital and policy for SAA. Howard began teaching about technology and privacy in the mid-1990s. He is a long-term member of ALA’s Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibilities RoundTables. And he was on the Privacy Working Group established by the Research Data Alliance and NISO.
Dr. Besser has been a pioneer in finding new ways of using technology to teach. He began using the web for distance education in the mid-1990s, and edited a special issue of the Journal of the American Society of Information Science on distance education in 1995.
Professor Besser has been instrumental in establishing, assessing, and revising the National Digital Stewardship Residency Program, a 9-month training program for early career librarians.
Howard is Professor of Cinema Studies at NYU where he was Founding Director of its Moving Image Archiving and Preservation MA program. He is Professor Emeritus of Information Studies at UCLA.
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Sunday, June 26, 2022
4:00pm – 5:00pm