Chris Petersen has worked in the OSU Libraries since 1996. Much of his career has been devoted to exploring the life and work of Linus Pauling. He is also the director of the Oregon State University Sesquicentennial Oral History Project, the largest oral history initiative ever conducted at OSU, and administers OSU's Voices Initiative, which has released nearly 200 hours worth of interviews online using the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer.