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Thursday, September 28, 2000
4 pm Eastern Time
Where Is the Digital Library?
with guest expert Clifford Lynch
What is a digital library? How do they connect with libraries as we know them? Should anyone be physically expanding libraries or building new libraries? What will we be able to do with a digital library? When do we get rid of paper versions of books and journals? Who preserves digital material, and how? What about e-books? Why did the government decide to fund the DLI initiative? What are its goals? What has been accomplished? What is the next generation of digital libraries? What kind of research is going on? Do we have enough bandwidth, storage, processing power, etc. to move ahead with all the DLI 2 initiatives? How can a university or an individual take advantage of what's already been done with digital libraries? How can a university participate in the various initiatives? What kinds of planning should you be doing? Listen now to our archived audio of Howard and Judith on Thursday, September 28 at 4:00 pm Eastern time as they explored, with guest expert Clifford Lynch of CNI, just where the digital library is.

Our Technology Anchor, Howard Strauss, refered to Vannevar Bush's pioneering article on the Memex, from the Atlantic Monthly in 1945, in his introduction to this topic. It's well worth a read!

Guest Expert

Clifford Lynch has been the Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July, 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and EDUCAUSE, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an Adjunct Professor at Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems. He is a Past President of the American Society for Information Science and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. Lynch currently serves on the Internet 2 Applications Council; he was a member of the National Research Council committee that recently published The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Infrastructure, and now serves on the NRC's Committee on Broadband Last-Mile Technology. You can read about this latest interest of Cliff's in Why Broadband Really Matters: Applications and Architectural Changes from the latest issue of EDUCAUSE Quarterly.

Co-Hosts

Howard Strauss, Manager of Academic Applications at Princeton University, is TechTalk's Technology Anchor.

Co-Host Judith Boettcher is CREN's Executive Director. Together, Howard and Judith will ask the really tough questions—and relay the questions you email to them at expert@cren.net.

Background & Resources

Cliff suggests that two major resources are the D-Lib Forum and its D-lib Magazine.

This must be a topic close to his heart, er, brain, because Howard has provided a substantial list of Internet resources about digital libraries for you. They include:

Here are some others:
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