Bill Comstock

Bill Comstock is Discovery and Access's Head of Imaging Services, a Harvard Library collections digitization service based in Widener Library. He directs the technical development and delivery of an integrated suite of services that include: project development and management, descriptive and technical metadata production, digital imaging, and on-demand, fee-based imaging. Imaging Services delivers a broad range of services designed to protect endangered library materials and to extend scholarly access to Harvard's collections beyond the University.

Bill is an advocate for the preservation of cultural resources, equitable and open access to information, and for the proposition that research libraries are ideally situated to foster new modes of inquiry and the emergence of computational scholarship.

Bill joined Harvard in 1999, as manager of the Library's first digital imaging services-provider, the Digital Imaging Group. He has been Head of Imaging Services since 2005. Before coming to Harvard, Bill served as Production Manager for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries' Document Services department.