 | Course director: Rick Luce |
Richard Luce is the Research Library Director at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  Known as both an information technology pioneer and organisational innovator, his organisation was the co-recipient of the 1999 Federal Library and Information Center of the Year award from the Library of Congress, and a 1997 and 2000 Quality New Mexico "Roadrunner" recipient for organisational performance excellence.
Los Alamos appointed Rick as the Project Leader of the Library Without Walls digital library programme in 1994. The Library Without Walls was the first digital library programme to deliver large-scale science databases via the web (1994), interactive personal alerts (1995), and content linking (1996). In 1996, Rick received a Distinguished Performance Award from Los Alamos for his contributions supporting science and technology. Rick has held numerous advisory and consultative positions supporting digital library development and digital publishing, and is a well-known international speaker. In 1999, he co-founded the Open Archives Initiative to develop interoperable standards for author self-archiving systems. Currently, he is a Senior Advisor to the Max Planck Society, a member of the Executive Boards of the National Information Standards Organization, and the University of California's Digital Media Innovations Program. He was a founding board member of the New Mexico Library Alliance, the Alliance for Innovation in Science and Technology Information, and former chair of the New Mexico State Library Advisory Council. Prior to his appointment at Los Alamos in 1991, Rick held positions as Executive Director of the Southeast Florida Library Information Network (SEFLIN), Director of Colorado's Irving Library Network, and Assistant Director of the Boulder Public Library. He is an expert in the areas of Digital Libraries, Quality and Change Management, Strategic Planning and Electronic Publishing.
Rick was also the course director of a comparable Ticer course in 2002, the International Spring School on the Digital Library and e-Publishing for Science and Technology.
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