Revolution in the Archives:
The Future of Scholarly Publishing
Event Date: March 14, 2005
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress presents a series of evening
lectures on "Managing Knowledge and Creativity in a Digital Context" featuring
some of the best known experts in digitally networked communications. The series
examines how the digital age is changing the most basic ways information
is organized and classified.
On March 14, 2005, the seventh speaker in the series, Edward L. Ayers, Dean
of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia,
presented a talk titled "Revolution in the Archives: The Future of Scholarly
Publishing." Among the questions Ayers addresses are the effects of digitization on
understanding the human record and the impact of the digital revolution on scholarly
writing.
The moderators and coordinators for these events are Deanna Marcum, Associate
Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress and Derrick de Kerckhove,
holder of the Harissios Papamarkou Chair in Education and Technology at the John W.
Kluge Center.
Webcasts of earlier presentations in the series are found at CyberLC
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/
and through
C-SPAN.org at: http://www.c-span.org/
