Invited Talk: Digital Lending, Pixels, Products and Platforms - Making our books more usable
Mr Miller will introduce the Internet Archive to the audience. Share some of the issues that the face the library community and the perceived needs of the user community and how the Internet Archive and others are attempting to address them.
The Internet Archive ranks in the top 200 web sites in the world. It hosts a digital library collection of over 2.5 million books and has over 1.5 million downloads per day.
Invited Speaker:
Robert Miller, Director of Books
Robert Miller leads the Internet Archive's global book digitization project. In this capacity, he has three main roles; establishing and maintaining the relationships between the libraries and the funding partners, building and managing the teams that do the digitization and evangelizing within the library community to move more items from non-digital to digital.
At present, he manages a team of over 250 people, located in 24 scanning centers in 5 countries. His team has digitized over 1,000,000 books, ufilm and LPs.
Prior to the Archive, Robert co-founded 5 consumer product start up companies bringing over 85 products to market in the US, Europe and Australia. In addition he was CEO of FocusEngine, a VC funded search engine company. He has been featured in various publications such as the New York Times, WSJ, Inc and CNN.
Robert has two Fortune 500 company experiences; rising to sr. management roles in both Mattel Toys (consumer products) and AMP/Tyco (electronics).
Robert holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University in Pa.
He sat on the board of the Marin based non-profit; Youth in Arts. Robert also is a key member of the AFS Global Innovation Team. AFS is the worlds largest student exchange program.
Robert brings multi-cultural experience to the Internet Archive; having lived in Afghanistan and Germany; and worked extensively in Asia.
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