The Author
Kenneth A Megill specializes in transforming organizations – and enabling them to manage their information in order to improve the way they do their business. He combines a life of theory and practice with a broad sweep of knowledge and experience. He began his professional career as a philosopher, receiving his doctorate in philosophy at Yale University at the age of 26 after studying two years in Europe. He was a successful teacher and published more than a dozen articles in professional journals of philosophy. In his first book, The New Democratic Theory, published in 1970, he brought his philosophical skills and training to the practical
pursuits in which he was involved as a political activist. He went on to be a trade union leader organizing and representing 8,000 faculty and professional employees in the State University System of Florida and moved to Washington, D.C. in 1982 where he continues to live and work. He is a certified records manager, a certified archivist and holds a masters degree in library and information science. He taught in a graduate school in library and information science, but has focused in helping organizations manage the information of value for re-use. He was on the faculty
of the School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC where he directed its Information Resources Management program. Prior to joining the faculty he was records manager at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a federal agency that serves as the administrator of national banks. He recently led a three year project to create an integrated digital environment for the United States Air Force. He is now working with Scan-Optics, a thirty-five year old manufacturing company that builds highend scanning equipment, to build a new business line of Knowledge Application Services.