Eric Harbeson

Eric is the music special collections librarian at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He holds master's degrees in music from Cleveland State University, and in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a vocal advocate for the interests of libraries and archives information policy interests, and is a frequent speaker on the subject. For his research on copyright and institutionally-produced sound recordings, he was the inaugural winner of the American Library Association's Robert L. Oakley Memorial Scholarship, which honors early-to-mid-career librarians researching intellectual property and public policy issues for libraries.