John Palfrey
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New York City October 10-16, 2011 www.mobilityshifts.org A Future For Libraries Friday, October 14, 1:00 p.m. Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building 65 West 11th Street, 5 th floor In an era of Google and Amazon and ubiquitous mobile devices, there are doubts about whether we need libraries anymore. The physical spaces that hold books and other materials in analog formats seem quaint and, worse, perhaps a waste of money. Never before have we had greater need for libraries and librarians than in the digital-plus age, a hybrid era in which the big challenges include navigating the enormous amounts of information, of varying quality, in which we can get swamped. This talk will argue that we need to build a digital public library in America that will join together with other such national digital libraries around the world, and which will support public and private libraries alike as we remake them for a new age of information, creativity, and access to knowledge. John Palfrey: A Henry N. Ess Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School. He is the co-author of Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives (Basic Books, 2008), Access Denied: The Practice and Politics of Internet Filtering (MIT Press, 2008), and Access Contested: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2010), among others. His research and teaching is focused on Internet law, intellectual property, and international law. He practiced intellectual property and corporate law at the law firm of Ropes & Gray. He is a faculty co- director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and was formerly its executive director. Outside of Harvard Law School, he is a Venture Executive at Highland Capital Partners and serves on the board of several technology companies and non-profits. John served as a special assistant at the US EPA during the Clinton Administration. He is a graduate of Harvard College, the University of Cambridge, and Harvard Law School. please visit www.mobilityshifts.org/register1 to register
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John Palfrey as part of MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit http://mobilityshifts.org October 10-16, The New School, NYC Register now at: http://mobilityshifts.org/register1/
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New York City October 10-16, 2011 www.mobilityshifts.org
A Future For Libraries Friday, October 14, 1:00 p.m. Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor
In an era of Google and Amazon and ubiquitous mobile devices, there are doubts about whether we need libraries anymore. The physical spaces that hold books and other materials in analog formats seem quaint and, worse, perhaps a waste of money. Never before have we had greater need for libraries and librarians than in the digital-plus age, a hybrid era in which the big challenges include navigating the enormous amounts of information, of varying quality, in which we can get swamped. This talk will argue that we need to build a digital public library in America that will join together with other such national digital libraries around the world, and which will support public and private libraries alike as we remake them for a new age of information, creativity, and access to knowledge.
John Palfrey: A Henry N. Ess Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School. He is the co-author of Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives (Basic Books, 2008), Access Denied: The Practice and Politics of Internet Filtering (MIT Press, 2008), and Access Contested: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2010), among others. His research and teaching is focused on Internet law, intellectual property, and international law. He practiced intellectual property and corporate law at the law firm of Ropes & Gray. He is a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and was formerly its executive director. Outside of Harvard Law School, he is a Venture Executive at Highland Capital Partners and serves on the board of several technology companies and non-profits. John served as a special assistant at the US EPA during the Clinton Administration. He is a graduate of Harvard College, the University of Cambridge, and Harvard Law School.
please visit www.mobilityshifts.org/register1 to register
