Diane M. Zorich
Cultural Heritage Consultant
113 Gallup Road
Princeton NJ
08540 USA

Diane M. Zorich is an information management consultant for cultural heritage organizations. Prior to establishing her consultancy, Ms. Zorich was Data Manager at the Association of Systematics Collections in Washington, D.C., and Documentation Manager at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. She served as past President and Board Member of the Museum Computer Network, and currently serves as Chair of this organization's Intellectual Property SIG. Ms. Zorich has published and lectured extensively on issues related to network access to cultural information. She is the author of Introduction to Managing Digital Assets: Options for Cultural and Educational Organizations (1999, The J. Paul Getty Trust), and was project manager for the publication A Museum Guide to Copyright and Trademark (1999, American Association of Museums). Her publication, Developing Intellectual Property Policies: A "How To" Guide for Museums (Canadian Heritage Information Network/National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage) will be published in the Winter of 2003. Ms. Zorich holds graduate degrees in anthropology and museum studies from New York University, and is based in Princeton, NJ.

Diane M. will teach Developing Intellectual Property Policies for Museums.