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John Seely Brown Symposium on Technology and Society
2008 JSB Symposium Keynote: Brewster Kahle
- Featured Speaker: Brewster Kahle
- Topic: "The Closing of Library Services... The Opening of Library Services"
2008 JSB Symposium Webcast Recordings
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Keynote: Brewster Kahle
Panel Discussion
Here's a related brief video on the future of libraries → featuring interviews with Paul Courant, dean of libraries at U-M, and a library science student in the School of Information.
A leading proponent of open access to all knowledge considered the consequences of the consolidation of information into the hands of a few private organizations when he delivered the keynote lecture at the fourth John Seely Brown Symposium on Technology and Society, October 22, 2008, in Ann Arbor.
Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and director of the Open Content Alliance (OCA), has been a vocal critic of proprietary services like the massive Google Books project, which recently scanned its one-millionth volume from the University of Michigan libraries.
"We think they [Google] are doing great stuff," Kahle said in a 2006 interview with CNET. "If the materials would be made available for broad public search and educational use we'd be all for it."
Following the presentation, a panel of experts commented on Kahle's ideas and discussed the possibilities of "Library 2.0" -- the next generation of libraries, which will capitalize on all that the digital age has to offer to benefit patrons, including social networking, 24-hour services, and user-created content.
Kahle's talk, titled "The Closing of Library Services ... The Opening of Library Services," explored the implications for libraries of the "closing" of content, and considered "open" alternatives. Learn more about Kahle's talk.
JSB Symposium 2008 Panel Discussion
Following the talk there was a panel discussion with:
- John Seely Brown →, visiting scholar at the University of Southern California, and independent co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation
- Brewster Kahle, digital librarian and founder, Internet Archive
- Paul Courant →, university librarian, dean of the U-M Library, and professor of information, public policy, and economics, U-M
- Jessica D. Litman, professor of law and information, U-M
Panelist John Seely Brown is an information visionary who is co-author (with Paul Duguid) of the seminal Social Life of Information. For many years he was the chief scientist with Xerox Corporation and directed its renowned Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
Panelist Paul Courant has been one of the most ardent defenders of U-M's book-digitization deal with Google, voicing much of that support through his blog, Au Courant.
Panelist Jessica Litman is one of the world's foremost authorities on intellectual property law and has, quite literally, written the book on Digital Copyright (Prometheus Books 2001).
The panel was moderated by Jeff MacKie-Mason, Arthur W. Burks Collegiate Professor of Information and Computer Science and associate dean for academic affairs at the School of Information.
A reception was held after the panel discussion at which the audience could meet the speaker and panelists.
About the Symposium
The fourth John Seely Brown Symposium was sponsored by the University of Michigan School of Information. The centerpiece of the symposium is the John Seely Brown Lecture, which is supported by a gift from John Seely Brown → (a.k.a. "JSB"). Brown is an alumnus of U-M, having earned an MS in mathematics in 1964 and a Ph.D. in computer and communication sciences in 1972 from the University. He has been a strong supporter of SI for a number of years.
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Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive → and champion of open, universal access to knowledge, is featured speaker at the 2008 John Seely Brown Symposium on Technology and Society.
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