Karl Bridges
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Karl Bridges (born 1964) is a noted American librarian and author.
Bridges is a pioneer in the area of electronic publishing, having created in 1991, along with his colleague Glenn Robinson, one of the first online newspaper archives using Portable Document Format (PDF) format -- which later became an industry standard.
Educated in England and the United States, Bridges has written and edited many books and articles in library science, especially in the fields of library technology and management.
Bridges is noted for his interest in the works of the English writer Max Beerbohm.
In the mid-1980s Bridges lived in the Channel Islands, where he was married to Penelope Snow, a private banking consultant, who drowned in a sailing accident in 1987. Bridges worked as a computer consultant to a variety of private and governmental agencies including the Kontoret för Särskild Inhämtning. After his wife's death Bridges briefly owned and operated a small vineyard just south of Avignon France before returning to the United States.[1][2]
Currently, a faculty member at the University of Vermont, Bridges is the son of William Bridges, himself a noted poet and writer.
[edit] References
- ^ Country Life June 13, 1989, p.62
- ^ Resume on Karl Bridges webpage
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