[Asis-l] April 5th: 2007 Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture | Brewster Kahle

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2007 Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture Program

Brewster Kahle
Director & Co-Founder of the Internet Archive

Thursday, April 5, 2007 | 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies | Room 111
Parking $8 | For parking reservation in Lot 3, please e-mail
doplemore at gseis.ucla.edu

"Universal Access to Human Knowledge"
The goal of universal access to our cultural heritage is within our
grasp. 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.

Bio.
Brewster Kahle is an internet entrepreneur, activist, and digital
librarian. He is the director and co-founder of the non-profit
Internet Archive, one of the largest digital archives in the world. He
is currently a visiting scholar at the School of Information and
Library Science at the University of North Carolina. After graduating
from MIT in 1982, he became a member of Thinking Machines, where he
invented the Internet's first publishing and distributed search
system, WAIS (Wide Area Information Server). Later, he co-founded
Alexa Internet, which provides search, discovery, and traffic services
for web browsers. He is a board member of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, a key supporter of the Open Content Alliance and a member
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Lecture poster at http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/news/lazerow/kahle.pdf

Post-lecture Reception Courtesy of
- The Center for Information as Evidence |
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/cie/index.htm
- LACASIS | http://public.csusm.edu/lacasis/



The distinguished Samuel Lazerow Lecture is an annual event at the
UCLA Department of Information Studies.  It is sponsored by Thomson
ISI's Corporate Awards Program. The Lecture Series was established in
1983 by ISI, publisher of the Citation Index for the Sciences, Social
Sciences, and Arts and Humanities, to honor the memory of Samuel
Lazerow, who was an outstanding librarian, administrator, and pioneer
in library automation.



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