NMC Campus Observer

Live Video From De Lange Library Conference Coming to NMC Campus

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Mar 4, 2007 10:32pm

We are happy to host the Second Life experience of Rice University’s 2007 De Lange Conference. On March 5-7, you will be able to catch live video from this conference at the Gonick Amphitheater (SLURL). There will be representatives from the conference in Second Life to facilitate questions to/from the virtual audience. Check out the full agenda of speakers and sessions

The theme of this year’s De Lange Conference is on Emerging Libraries:

The traditional concept of a library has been rendered obsolescent by the unprecedented confluence of the Internet, changes in scholarly publication models, increasing alliances between the humanities and the sciences, and the rise of large-scale digital library projects. The old ways of organizing and preserving knowledge to transmit our cultural and intellectual heritage have converged with the most advanced technologies of science and engineering and research methodologies. Such rapid and overwhelming changes to a millennia-old tradition pose significant challenges not only to university research libraries but to every citizen. If the traditional library is undergoing a profound metamorphosis, it is not clear what new model will take its place. More information has been produced in the last several years than in the entire previous history of humanity, and most of this has been in digital format. Libraries are not storage places any more; they are less and less a place. The critical issues now include: How can that information be efficiently accessed and used? How do we extract knowledge from such an abundance of often poorly organized information? How might these enormous digital resources affect our concept of identity, our privacy, and the way we conduct business in the new century? Insight from many disciplines and perspectives is requisite to begin to understand this phenomenon to identify ways to help chart a future course.

Testing the video stream from Rice University

If you have any questions, please try and IM in world to Philip Plante (aka Philip Montgomery, Archivist / Special Collections Librarian, Rice University). Otherwise, be sure to drop in an attend a session or two.

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