De Lange Conference on Emerging Libraries Dates: March 5-7, 2007 Host: Rice University Web site: http://delange.rice.edu/conferenceVI.cfm
The traditional concept of a library has been rendered obsolescent by the unprecedented confluence of the Internet, changes in scholarly publication models, increasing alliances between the humanities and the sciences, and the rise of large-scale digital library projects. Such rapid and overwhelming changes to a millennia-old tradition pose significant challenges not only to university research libraries but also to every citizen. More information has been produced in the last several years than in the entire previous history of humanity, and most of this has been in digital format. Libraries are not storage places any more; they are less and less a place. If the traditional library is undergoing a profound metamorphosis, it is not clear what new model will take its place. The critical issues now include: How can information be efficiently accessed and used? How do we extract knowledge from such an abundance of often poorly organized information? How might enormous digital resources affect our concept of identity, our privacy, and the way we conduct business in the new century? Insight from many disciplines and perspectives is requisite to begin to understand this phenomenon and to identify ways to help chart a future course. The De Lange Conference on Emerging Libraries will examine the transformations that libraries are undergoing. The conference will feature presentations by and dialogue with leading thinkers, including: Noha Adly, Director, Information and Communication Technology Department and the International School of Information Science Bibliotheca Alexandrina Daniel E. Atkins, Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation James Boyle, Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law Lynne J. Brindley, Chief Executive, The British Library John Seely Brown, formerly Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC); author, Digital Age James Johnson Duderstadt, founder, Millennium Project; President emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering, University of Michigan. Paul Ginsparg, Professor, Physics, Cornell University and creator of arXiv.org Brewster Kahle, founder, director, digital librarian of the non-profit Internet Archive. Michael A. Keller, Director, Academic Information Resources, Stanford University Donald Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief, Science; President emeritus and Professor emeritus, Stanford University. Steve Kessel, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Digital Media, Amazon.com Neal Lane, Malcolm Gillis University Professor, Senior Fellow, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University David Leebron, president, Rice University Deanna B. Marcum, Associate Librarian, Library Services, The Library of Congress Michael S. Turner, Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago Harold E. Varmus, President, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Co-founder, PLoS William A. Wulf, President, National Academy of Engineering More information is available at http://delange.rice.edu/conferenceVI.cfm. This conference is supported by the De Lange Endowment at Rice University, given by C. M. Hudspeth and wife, Demaris, in memory of her parents, Albert and Demaris De Lange. Conference Co-Chairs (Rice University): Charles J. Henry, Vice Provost & University Librarian, Fondren Library Moshe Y. Vardi, George Professor, Computational Engineering, Director, Computer & Information Technology Institute
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