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Please excuse cross-postings: 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/>. 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