ISI Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture

Photo of Richard Geiger Richard Geiger will present Phoenix Revisited: Musings from a News Librarian at the 2009 CLA Conference immediately preceding the SLIS Alumni Reception. Admission is free and the event is open to the public. The lecture is sponsored by Thomson Scientific.

Watch Richard Geiger's 2009 Lazerow Lecture presentation

Lazerow 2009 Lecture: Richard Geiger [PDF]

Saturday, October 31, 2009
Time: 4:30 pm – 5:30pm
Location: Justines Ballroom, Sheraton Plaza Hotel
303 Cordova St., Pasadena, CA 91101
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Phoenix Revisited: Musing from a News Librarian

Richard Geiger, retired Library and Research Director at The San Francisco Chronicle, SLA Fellow, and winner of the SLA John Cotton Dana Award, will regale you with tales of his three decades as a newspaper librarian at The San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury–News. And yes, many of the old–time journalists did keep a fifth of booze in their bottom drawer.

Geiger has seen newsroom technology move from typewriters and Linotype machines to personal computers, websites, blogs, databases and video. He supervised the transition of newspaper libraries from clipping files, print photographs and negatives to online text and digital image archives. Geiger will discuss the current state of the news media and its impact on news libraries.