[SOA] Digital Library Lecture at CWRU: Digital Libraries and Cyberinfrastructure

[Janet Carleton]

To: ohiolink at ohiolink.edu
From: Timothy Robson <timothy.robson at case.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:01:13 -0400
Subject: [Ohiolink] Digital Library Lecture at CWRU: Digital Libraries and 
Cyberinfrastructure

Dear Colleagues,

On Thursday, November 1, 2007, at 1:30 pm, Kelvin Smith Library at Case 
Western Reserve University will present the second in this year's series of 
Digital Library Lectures, with MARK KORNBLUH, Director of MATRIX, the 
Center for the Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences at Michigan State 
University.  I would like to invite you to attend the lecture.  The lecture 
will take place in the Dampeer Room at KSL.  The lecture is open to all, 
and seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Mark Kornbluh's lecture is entitled "Digital Libraries and 
Cyberinfrastructure."

Cyberinfrastructure," a word coined by the National Science Foundation, may 
be an awkward choice of language, but the underlying concept that it 
represents has profound implications for all aspects of academy. We are at 
a moment in time where two decades of dramatic changes in computing and 
information is enabling paradigmatic changes in research and teaching 
across all fields. Just as physical libraries were cornerstones of 
twentieth-century universities, digital libraries are essential to 
e-research and e-teaching. Th is talk will look at the challenges posed by 
this transformation and the opportunities that it presents for libraries.

Mark Kornbluh is Director of MATRIX, the Center for the Humane Arts, 
Letters, and Social Sciences, the largest digital humanities center in the 
United States at Michigan State University, where he is also Professor and 
Chairperson of the History Department and Professor of Computer Science. He 
has directed a wide range of digital library research projects including 
the National Gallery of the Spoken Word and the African Online Digital 
Library and served on the National Academy of Science's Advisory Committee 
on the National Archives electronic records project.

For questions, please call the Kelvin Smith Library Administration Office 
at 216-368-2992.

--
Timothy Robson
Deputy Director, Kelvin Smith Library
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH 44106
timothy.robson at case.edu


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   Janet M. Carleton - <carleton at ohio.edu> - 740/597-2527
Digital Initiatives Coordinator / Women's Studies Bibliographer
      Alden 235A, Ohio University Libraries, Athens, Ohio
              <http://www.library.ohiou.edu/> 
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