Digitizing the Culture of Print: The Digital Public Library of America and Other Urgent Projects
Thursday, Nov. 1 5-7 pm E14-633 <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E14> (MIT Media Lab) 75 Amherst St. The role of the library in the digital age is one of the compelling questions of our era. How are libraries coping with the promise and perils of our impending digital future? What urgent initiatives are underway to assure universal access to our print inheritance and to the digital communication forms of the future? How is the very idea of the library changing? These and related questions will engage our distinguished panelists, who represent both research and public libraries and one of whom serves on the steering committee for the Digital Public Library of America <http://dp.la/> . Speakers Robert Darnton <http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/darnton.php> is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard, director of the Harvard University Library and one of America's most distinguished historians. He serves on the steering committee of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and has been a trustees of the New York Public Library (NYPL) since 1995. Darnton is the author of many influential books including The Case for Books, Past, Present, and Future and The Great Cat Massacre. Susan Flannery <http://www.cctvcambridge.org/susan_flannery_bio> is director of libraries for the City of Cambridge and past president of the Massachusetts Library Association. Ann Wolpert <http://orgchart.mit.edu/director-libraries> is director of libraries at MIT and oversees the MIT Press. Moderator: David Thorburn <http://lit.mit.edu/people/dthorburn.php> is professor of literature at MIT and director of the Communications Forum. All forums are free and open to the public. More information: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum
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