John Leggett

Dr. John J. Leggett is Professor of Computer Science and Library Science at Texas A&M University, Associate Dean for Digital Initiatives at the University Libraries and holder of the Ford Endowed Professorship.  His research efforts over the last 20 years have been focused on information technologies for scholarly work.  He has published extensively in a variety of journals and presented numerous invited talks internationally.  He was a founding editor of the open access Journal of Digital Information and previously served as Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Information Systems.  He has been instrumental in forming the Hypertext, Digital Libraries and Open Repositories conference series.