Interviews (1998-2001)

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). The original 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 positive information 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 language portal
Michael Behrens (Bielefeld, Germany) / In charge of the digital library of Bielfeld University Library
Guy Bertrand & Cynthia Delisle (Montreal) / Respectively scientific director and consultant at the CEVEIL (Centre d'expertise et de veille inforoutes et langues - Centre for Assessment and Monitoring of Information Highways and Languages)
Alain Bron (Paris) / Information systems consultant and writer. The Internet is one of the characters of his novel Sanguine sur toile (Sanguine on the Web)
Tyler Chambers (Boston) / Creator of The Human-Languages Page (who became iLoveLanguages in 2001) and The Internet Dictionary Project