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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=style3><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Digitizing the Culture of Print: The Digital Public <br>Library of America and Other Urgent Projects <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=style3><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thursday, Nov. 1<br>5-7 pm<br><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E14">E14-633</a> (MIT Media Lab)<br>75 Amherst St.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=style3><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The role of the library in the digital age is one of the compelling questions of our era. <br>How are libraries coping with the promise and perils of our impending digital future? <br>What urgent initiatives are underway to assure universal access to our print inheritance <br>and to the digital communication forms of the future? How is the very idea of the <br>library changing? These and related questions will engage our distinguished panelists, <br>who represent both research and public libraries and one of whom serves on the <br>steering committee for the <a href="http://dp.la/" target="_blank">Digital Public Library of America</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=style31><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Speakers</span></b></span><a name=speakers></a><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><br><span class=style31><a href="http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/darnton.php" target="_blank">Robert Darnton</a></span></span></b><span class=style31><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard, director of <br>the Harvard University Library and one of America's most distinguished historians. <br></span></span><span class=style4><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>He serves on the steering committee of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) <br>and has been a trustees of the New York Public Library (NYPL) since 1995. </span></span><span class=arial-body><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Da</span></span><span class=style4><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>rnton <br>is the author of many influential books including </span></span><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Case for Books, Past, Present, </span></em><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>and Future</span></em></span></i><span class=style4><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> and </span></span><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Great Cat Massacre</span></em><span class=style4><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.cctvcambridge.org/susan_flannery_bio" target="_blank">Susan Flannery</a></span></strong><span class=style31><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> is director of libraries for the City of Cambridge and past president <br>of the Massachusetts Library Association. </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://orgchart.mit.edu/director-libraries" target="_blank">Ann Wolpert</a></span></strong><span class=style31><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> is director of libraries at MIT and oversees the MIT Press.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=style31><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=style31><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Moderator:</span></i></span><span class=style31><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <b><a href="http://lit.mit.edu/people/dthorburn.php">David Thorburn</a></b> is professor of literature at MIT and director of the <br>Communications Forum. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=style31><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=style31><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>All forums are free and open to the public.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>More information: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum">http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>