UC Berkeley

abstract: Clifford Lynch is known for his long tenure as executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). Here, two other achievements are summarized. From 1979 until he moved to CNI in 1997, Clifford was responsible for developing and implementing library infrastructure for the multicampus University of California system, including MELVYL, a highly innovative, user-oriented online replacement for card catalogs and its extension to provide access to medical and other bibliographical resources. To support it and other applications, he and others built an intercampus network that evolved into the university's Internet node. In addition, for more than three decades he also team-taught the Friday Afternoon Seminar, a weekly Berkeley campus colloquium series featuring a wide range of research reports.