This site is Copyright (c) 2005-2009 by Daniel Chudnov. All rights reserved.
All opinions stated here are my own, and do not reflect those of my employer.
Daniel Chudnov is a librarian and programmer in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress. Previously, he worked as a software developer at the Yale Center for Medical Informatics, and contributed to several free software projects for libraries while working at the MIT Libraries and the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is a frequent speaker and author on technology and the importance of free software in libraries, and he writes a monthly column for Computers in Libraries magazine. He started the oss4lib [1] weblog and listserv in 1999 to promote the use of free software in our community.
Daniel earned an MS at the School of Information in 1997 and studied Economics and Japanese as an undergraduate, both at the University of Michigan. In 2005, he received the LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award [2] from the Library & Information Technology Association of the American Library Association.
He has been cancer-free since 1993.
Links:
[1] http://oss4lib.org/
[2] http://www.ala.org/ala/lita/litaresources/litascholarships/05butler.htm