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Luminary Lectures @ Your Library present Dr. Richard Cox 3/7/03
Dr. Richard Cox will be presenting his lecture entitled, "Records,
Documents, and Stuff in the Digital Era" at the Library of Congress on
Friday, March 7, from 10:30am-12:00pm in the Pickford Theater on the 3rd
floor of the Library of Congress's 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.
No reservations are necessary. All lectures are free and open to the
public. This lecture will also be broadcast live via the Internet at
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/cox.html on the morning of the
lecture, EST.

Dr. Cox is a Professor at the Department of Library and Information
Sciences, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh.

About the lecture: Archivists, records managers, librarians,
information scientists, and others have tried to grapple with the
broadening scope of information - especially in the last decade - with a
variety of research, scientific, technical, historical, and mathematical
approaches, with most approaches far from the understanding (or
interest) of the general public that is merrily exploring the tunnels,
caverns, and wilderness of the World Wide Web. It may be that the
distinguishing characteristics of our modern era may not be that it is
the Information or Digital Era because of more information but that the
hallmark is a combination of the pervasiveness of information and our
recognition of its pervasiveness.

This lecture will focus on Dr. Cox's teaching on "understanding"
information and his other work on electronic records management and
archival appraisal. He will talk about the great variety of information
"documents," broadly and loosely defined, and what he sees as the
implications of this for the education and work of librarians and other
information professionals (like archivists). Dr. Cox will contrast (and
critique) his own sense of the broadening definition of document with
that of his own efforts to define more narrowly a record for work with
electronic information systems.

More about Dr. Richard Cox: Richard Cox is Professor in Library and
Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh, School of
Information Sciences where he is responsible for the archives
concentration in the Master's in Library Science degree and the Ph.D.
degree. Prior to his current position he worked at the New York State
Archives and Records Administration, Alabama Department of Archives and
History, the City of Baltimore, and the Maryland Historical Society.
Dr. Cox served as Editor of the American Archivist from 1991 through
1995, and he is presently editor of the Records & Information Management
Report as well as serving as the Society of American Archivists
Publications Editor. He has written extensively on archival and records
management topics and has published eight books in this area. He is
currently working on additional books on the concept of information
documents, the impact of electrostatic copying on the modern office, and
principled records management (ethical and legal issues).

This event is part of the Luminary Lectures @ Your Library series,
which began last spring. The Public Service Collections Directorate of
the Library of Congress sponsors this speaker series. Please check the
Luminary Lectures @ Your Library web site for more information about Dr.
Richard Cox and about this lecture series:
<http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/>. This lecture will be
broadcasted a live via this website, and the recorded webcast will be
made available after the event.

Other events coming in the Luminary Lectures @ Your Library series
coming up this year include:

"The National Digital Preservation Program: Challenges and Solutions"
by Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives,
Library of Congress, on Friday, March 21, 2003, @ Mumford Room, from
1:00-2:30pm

"Transforming the Urban Public Library" by Molly Raphael, Director of
the District of Columbia Public Library, on Friday, April 18, 2003, @
Pickford Theater, from 10:30-12:00noon

"The Anarchist in the Library: The Moral Panics over Copyright and Free
Speech" by Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan, Assistant Professor of Culture and
Communication at New York University, on Friday May 9, 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.

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