2007 Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture
Brewster Kahle, Director & Co-Founder of the Internet Archive on "Universal Access to Human Knowledge"
Flyer for Brewster Kahle's Lecture (pdf)
Thursday, April 5, 2007, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m., UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies Building, Room 111 - Parking $8. For parking reservation in Lot 3, please e-mail Lydia Doplemore at doplemore@gseis.ucla.edu
The goal of universal access to our cultural heritage is within our grasp. With current digital technology, we can build comprehensive collections, and with digital networks we can make these available to students and scholars all over the world. The current challenge is establishing the roles, rights, and responsibilities of our libraries and archives in providing public access to this information. With these roles defined, our institutions will help fulfill this epic opportunity of our digital age.
Brewster Kahle is an internet entrepreneur, activist, and digital librarian. He is the director and co-founder of the non-profit Internet Archive, one of the largest digital archives in the world. He is currently a visiting scholar at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina. After graduating from MIT in 1982, he became a member of Thinking Machines, where he invented the Internet's first publishing and distributed search system, WAIS (Wide Area Information Server). Later, he co-founded Alexa Internet, which provides search, discovery, and traffic services for web browsers. He is a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a key supporter of the Open Content Alliance and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Post-lecture Reception Courtesy of
The Center for Information as Evidence |
Los Angeles Chapter of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (LACASIS) |
More information on the Lazerow Lecture series and previous lectures.
The Lazerow Lecture series is sponsored by Thomson Scientific.
