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Good afternoon, This announcement is being sent to a number of lists. Please accept our apologies for any duplicate postings. Luminary Lectures @ Your Library present Brewster Kahle 11/20/02 at the Library of Congress Brewster Kahle, the Director and Co-founder of the Internet Archive, the largest publicly accessible, privately funded digital archive in the world will present a lecture entitled, "Public Access to Digital Materials" at the Library of Congress on Wednesday, November 20, from 10:30am-12:00pm in the Pickford Theater of the Library of Congress' James Madison Building, located at First Street and Independence Avenue S.E., Washington, D.C. Seating at this event will be limited to 65, so please allow time to arrive early. During the lecture Kahle will discuss how the goal of universal access to our cultural heritage is within our grasp. He notes that with current digital technology we can build comprehensive collections, and with digital networks we can make these available to students and scholars all over the world. The current challenge is establishing the roles, rights, and responsibilities of our libraries and archives in providing public access to this information. With these roles defined, our institutions will help fulfill this epic opportunity of our digital age. Brewster Kahle has been working to provide universal access to all human knowledge for more than fifteen years. Since the mid-1980s, Kahle has focused on developing transformational technologies for information discovery and digital libraries. In 1989 Kahle invented the Internet's first publishing system, WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) system and in 1989, founded WAIS Inc., a pioneering electronic publishing company that was sold to America Online in 1995. In 1996, Kahle founded the Internet Archive, the largest publicly accessible, privately funded digital archive in the world. At the same time, he co-founded Alexa Internet in April 1996, which was sold to Amazon.com in 1999. Alexa's services are bundled into more than 80% of Web browsers. This event is part of the Luminary Lectures @ Your Library sponsored by the Public Service Collections Directorate of the Library of Congress. Please check the Luminary Lectures @ Your Library web site <http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/> for more information about Brewster Kahle and about this lecture series. This lecture will be made available on this site via cybercast. No reservations are necessary. All lectures are free and open to the public Other events coming in the Luminary Lectures @ Your Library series this fall/winter include: "'No Guts, No Glory': Information Professionals March Into the 22nd Century" Barbara Quint, Editor-in-Chief of "Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals," a tele-conference on Wednesday, December 4th, @ the NDL Learning Center, 10:30am-12:00noon. "Information Ethics: Challenges for Librarians and Information Scientists" Dr. Toni Carbo, Madison Council Fellow in Library and Information Science, Kluge Center/Library of Congress; and Professor, University of Pittsburgh on Monday, December 9th, @ the Pickford Theater from 10:30-12:00noon. "Avenues to Library Services: User Preferences" Dr. Neal Kaske, Manager of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Library at the University of Maryland Libraries in College Park, adjunct faculty member in the College of Information Studies on Wednesday, January 15, 2003, @ Dining Room A from 10:30-12:00noon Dr. Joseph Janes, Founding Director of the Internet Public Library (http://www.ipl.org), and Assistant Professor at the Information School of the University of Washington on Monday, February 10, 2003, @ Dining Room A from 10:30am-12:00noon For more information, please see <http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/>. For special assistance, please contact: Alison Foster, Library of Congress, Phone: (202) 707-1183, Email: afos@loc.gov. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST, etc.) send email to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archives: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.shtml See also EL-Announce for announcements from library media vendors: http://www.mindspring.com/~el-announce/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=