C21st Curation: working with digital assets in the new Millennium;
challenges and opportunities
The future of an Information Society and the knowledge economy will be built
around electronic access to information. These developments will
increasingly impact on the lives of staff working in our institutions,
current students and private individuals and there is an urgent need to
ensure that we can adapt to benefit from new digital access and service
opportunities.
Following the highly successful inaugural series of public lectures in 2005,
UCL School of Library, Archive and information Studies is pleased to
announce details of a third series of C21st Curation public lectures for
2007 on the four Wednesdays, 25 April – 16 May. The lectures by seven
leading speakers will be open to students, professionals and the general
public. Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library, will open
the series on Wednesday, 25 April with a keynote paper on the impact of
digital materials in libraries. On 2 May we welcome our first international
speakers , Jens Redmer (Google)and Michael Buschmann (Microsoft), on the 9
May Paul Kellam (UCL Centre for Virology)and Fiona Reddington from the NCRI
Informatics Initiative (winner of the first Times Higher Research Project of
the Year award) and finally, on 16 May Lorraine Estelle (JISC) and Anthony
Watkinson (SLAIS), the first recipient of the Vicky Speck Memorial Award in
2006. The speakers will all be talking about different aspects of the need
to manage and preserve digital assets, the impact the digital information
revolution has had on their organisations and disciplines and the challenges
and opportunities presented.
The lecture series will be held in the Chadwick lecture theatre at UCL from
6.00 -7.15pm. Each lecture will be followed by a reception to which speakers
and the audience are invited.
Directions
Chadwick lecture theatre is on the right of the MAIN Entrance to UCL from
Gower Street. A map and directions are available at:
http://www.ucl.ac/about-ucl/location/.
Nearest Tube stations are:
Euston Square Metropolitan, Circle and Hammersmith and City Lines
Euston Victoria line and Northern line (Charing Cross and City
branches)
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