Thursday, April 20, 2000
Bartos Theater
Clifford Lynch will address the following questions: What is a digital library and what do such institutions have to do with "traditional" or "brick-and-mortar" libraries? How do the changes in libraries relate to developments in scholarly communication as this moves into the digital environment, and how do issues involved in archiving digital information fit in?
Deanna Marcum will describe how three years ago, a small group of research libraries (then 17, now numbering 24) decided to invest their own resources in a loose federation to work on the "big problems" of digital library development and asked the Council on Library and Information Resources to host the activity. The Digital Library Federation is now working in five areas: digital library architectures, metadata, digital collections development, users and user services, and digital preservation. She will describe how this group of institutions came to a definition of "digital libraries" and explain how that definition shapes the work of the Federation. She will also speak about CLIR's role in disseminating the results of DLF activities to the broader library and scholarly communities.
Speakers:
Respondent: Ann Wolpert, Director of Libraries, MIT
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