May 19, 2025
Today’s episode features guest host, Michael Upshall, Consultant, ConsultMU Ltd., who talks with Torsten Reimer, Dean, University Library, University of Chicago.
Torsten currently oversees one of the world’s largest academic library collections. In this conversation, Torsten shares his diverse academic journey which began as a historian with a focus on British maritime history, before leading various digital and research initiatives at King’s College in London, JISC, the Imperial College in London and the British Library, and then to the University of Chicago where he leads the UChicago Node initiative, which is an integrated digital collections platform. Torsten says libraries play a very important role in the global research and knowledge ecosystem, in facilitating collaboration, and that they have an evolving role in the digital age ensuring digital content is preserved for future use.
The video of this interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/mSb_jwiDY7Y
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