Stuart Snydman

Stuart Snydman is the Manager of Digital Production Services at the Stanford University Libraries. He received a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Virginia and a Master of Arts in Education Policy from Stanford University. Mr. Snydman began work in the field of digital libraries in 1999, managing a five-year effort to digitize and preserve the publications and documents of the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade, a 2 million page archive held at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He has since managed several large-scale projects to preserve and provide online access to unique library collections. He implemented the first digitization lab in the world to use a fully automated robotic page-turning scanner for the mass digitization of books. He currently oversees digitization operations and projects at the Stanford University Libraries. Mr. Snydman has published writings on the organization of higher education in the United States, and the history of technology in education.