David M. Levy
"Reading: From the Fixed Page to Movable Electrons"


Event Date: February 14, 2005

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The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress presented the fifth in a series of lectures on "Managing Knowledge and Creativity in a Digital Context" on Monday, Feb.14. This evening lecture series features some of the best known names in digitally networked communications. The hour and a half programs run from November through March 2005, and are aired live on C-SPAN. C-SPAN will promote an e-mail address which viewers may use to ask participants questions during the event.

The fifth lecture of this series featured David M. Levy, professor at the Information School of the University of Washington who is the author of "Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age,". His lecture was titled "Reading: From the Fixed Page to Movable Electrons".

The moderators and coordinators for these events are Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services, and Derrick de Kerckhove, holder of the Harissios Papamarkou Chair in Education and Technology at the Library's John W. Kluge Center. Webcasts of earlier presentations in the series are found at CyberLC

and through C-SPAN.org at:

http://www.c-span.org/