George Peter Lyman | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 13, 1940 |
| Died | July 2, 2007 (aged 66) |
| Occupation(s) | Librarian, Information science professor |
| Spouse | Barrie Thorne |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Stanford University (B.A. 1962, Ph.D. 1973) University of California, Berkeley (M.A. 1963) |
| Thesis | Marx's Use of Phenomenology in the Criticism of Politics, and as a Solution to the Problem of Ideology (1973) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Library and information science |
| Institutions | Michigan State University University of Southern California UC Berkeley School of Library and Information Studies |
George Peter Lyman (September 13, 1940 – July 2, 2007[1]) was an American professor of information science who taught at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information, and was well known in U.S. academia for his research on online information and his leadership in remaking university library systems for the digital era.