Webcast: Live Event (October 30th): The 2009 Jeremiah Kaplan Institute on Libraries, the Information Society, and Social Policy
This is the first Kaplan institute will take place at Penn State University and be available live on the Internet between 9am-3pm EDT on Friday, October 30th, 2009.
The title of the 2009 institute is "The Right to Information Access".
The United States Constitution codifies the right to free expression. But what rights have we to access the results of free expression?
“Libraries,” states the American Library Association, “help ensure that Americans can access the information they need – regardless of age, education, ethnicity, language, income, physical limitations or geographic barriers – as the digital world continues to evolve.” But two decades of rapid developments in information technologies have revealed a contradiction: it is easier than ever to disseminate information and to receive it, but it is also easier to control and monitor access to that information.
You can learn more and find links to view the webcast on this web page.
This event wil feature the following people:
+ John Willinsky, (keynote speaker) Professor of Education, Stanford University, Founder of the Public Knowledge Project and author of The Access Principle: the Case for Open Access. (MIT, 2005).
+ Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyright, US Copyright Office. Author of The General Guide to the Copyright Act of 1976.
+ John Palfrey, Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School . Co-author of Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives (Basic Books, 2008) and Access Denied: The Practice and Politics of Global Internet Filtering (MIT Press, 2008).
+ Clifford Lynch, Director, Coalition of Networked Information, and member of the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress , Microsoft's Technical Computing Science Advisory Board , the board of the New Media Consortium , and the Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access.
If you can't view the event live it will remain available on the web page once it concludes.
Source: Penn State University Libraries
Hat Tip: CNI
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