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PLEASE NOTE FOLLETT LECTURES ARE FREE
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The next Follett lecture is -
   "Building the Digital Research Library: preservation and access 
    at the heart of scholarship"
The speaker is -
    Peter Graham, Associate University Libraries, Rutgers University
    Libraries
The venue is -
    Lecture Theatre 1, New Building, Mayor's Walk, Leicester University
On -
    Wednesday 19 March 1997 at 18.30
The chairman is -
    Timothy Hobbs, University Librarian, Leicester University

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If you would like to attend this FREE lecture please register with me
(Hazel Gott) by 13 March.  My contact details are at the foot of this
message.  There is a booking form at URL:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/follett/next.html
Or, if you prefer to use email or phone, please let me have the following
details:  Name, job title, institution, address, telephone/fax, email
address.

A synopsis and biographical note about the speaker follow:-

"The distinctive role of research libraries is the long-term provision of
information.  Building the digital research library requires managing
several challenges that add to those we already have.  The PostModernist
intellectual culture is not as favourable to scholarship and the fixity of
texts as have been past intellectual environments, those that George
Steiner calls the 'bookish' cultures inaugurated by scholastic approaches
of the 13th century.

But the preservation role continues for the digital library, and because
of the technology must be managed from the earliest point possible in
digital library object selection.  The technological requirements to
preserve information, now that it is separable from the artefact, require
separate treatment of the medium, the technology and the content itself.
The challenge of intellectual preservation is to guarantee integrity of
malleable electronic information over periods of time longer than human
lives; some techniques are available.

The nature of shareable, reusable electronic information continues the
requirement for consortial activity; there are significant developments
in this area, but not yet effective enough.  Research libraries must both
initiate practical development and help their parent institutions change
to assure the continuity of scholarly capability.

Peter S Graham has been Associate University Librarian at Rutgers - The
State University of New Jersey - since 1987, in charge of acquisitions,
cataloguing, and networked information services.  For three years he was
also Associate Vice President for Information Services, with
responsibility for the University's academic and administrative computing
and networking.  He has held prior positions at Columbia University,
Indiana University and the Research Libraries Group.  Mr Graham is a
member of the governing bodies of the American Library Association, the
Bibliographical Society of America, and the Center for Electronic Texts in
the Humanities.  He has published widely on issues of scholarly
preservation, digital library requirements and the necessary changes
within research libraries."

We look forward to welcoming you.

Hazel

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