Produced by Al Haines
NEF, University of Toronto, 2001
Copyright © 2001 Marie Lebert
What do they do on the Web? What do they think of the Internet, copyright,multilingualism, the future of paper, the e-book, the information society, etc.?A series of interviews between 1998 and 2001 with writers, journalists,publishers, booksellers, librarians, professors, researchers, linguists, etc.There is also a French version (with more interviews): Entretiens (1998-2001),and a Spanish version (with a few interviews): Entrevistas (1998-2001). Theoriginal versions are available on the NEF, University of Toronto:http://www.etudes-francaises.net/entretiens/index.htm
(*) Interviews translated by Marie Lebert (with Greg Chamberlain).
Guy Antoine (New Jersey) / Founder of Windows on Haiti, a source of positiveinformation about Haitian culture
Arlette Attali * (Paris) / Head of Research and Internet Projects at the INaLF
(Institut national de la langue française - National Institute of the French
Language)
Robert Beard (Pennsylvania) / Co-Founder of yourDictionary.com, a major languageportal
Michael Behrens (Bielefeld, Germany) / In charge of the digital library of
Bielfeld University Library
Guy Bertrand & Cynthia Delisle * (Montreal) / Respectively scientific directorand consultant at the CEVEIL (Centre d'expertise et de veille inforoutes etlangues - Centre for Assessment and Monitoring of Information Highways andLanguages)
Alain Bron * (Paris) / Information systems consultant and writer. The Internetis one of the "characters" of his novel Sanguine sur toile (Sanguine on the Web)
Tyler Chambers (Boston) / Creator of The Human-Languages Page (who becameiLoveLanguages in 2001) and The Internet Dictionary Project
Alain Clavet * (Ottawa) / Policy analyst with the Office of the Commissioner ofthe Official Languages in Canada
Jean-Pierre Cloutier * (Montreal) / Editor of Chroniques de Cybérie, a weeklyreport of Internet news
Kushal Dave * (Yale) / Student at Yale University
Bruno Didier * (Paris) / Webmaster of the Institute Pasteur Library
Catherine Domain * (Paris) / Founder of the Ulysses Bookstore (Librairie
Ulysse), the oldest travel bookstore in the world
Helen Dry (Michigan) / Moderator of The Linguist List
Bill Dunlap (Paris & San Francisco) / Founder of Global Reach, a methodology forcompanies to expand their Internet presence through a multilingual website
Jacques Gauchey * (San Francisco) / Specialist in the information technologyindustry, "facilitator" between the United States and Europe, and journalist
Marcel Grangier * (Bern) / Head of the French Section of the Swiss Federal
Government's Central Linguistic Services
Barbara F. Grimes (Hawaii) / Editor of Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Michael Hart (Illinois) / Founder of Project Gutenberg, the oldest digitallibrary on the Internet
Roberto Hernández Montoya * (Caracas) / Head of the digital library of theelectronic magazine Venezuela Analítica
Randy Hobler (Dobbs Ferry, New York) / Internet Marketing Consultant. Worked at
Globalink, a company specialized in language translation so