[Mitworld] New: Darnton on Books in the Digital Age, Dolin on Whales of the North Atlantic

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 8, Number 16 | December 18, 2008

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Books and Libraries in the Digital Age
October 16, 2008

In conversation with David Thorburn and audience members, Robert Darnton lays out why he finds more promise than peril in rapidly expanding digital collections.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/622

Speaker:
Robert Darnton
Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard University
Director, Harvard University Library

Event Host:
MIT Communications Forum

"It's important to preserve as much as you can because you don't know what will turn out to be significant. ... I don't think I should be an intellectual policeman saying preserve this, not that. I  leave it to future generations to explore in the vast world of the preserved what they deem most significant."
-Robert Darnton

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20-Ton Canaries: The Great Whales of the North Atlantic (Keynote)
October 15, 2008

This two-part lecture provides a brief illustrated journey through our whaling past, and the heart-breaking current story of the North Atlantic right whale.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/620

Speakers:
Eric Jay Dolin
Author, Leviathan: A History of Whaling in America

Michael Moore
Senior Research Specialist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Event Host:
MIT Sea Grant College Program

"My biggest sadness is there hasn't been more of an attempt to model in the lab and field what they're trying to do before we incur costs on industry. The frustration is, as those modifications in large part fail, then the fishing industry becomes more and more resistant to further changes."
-Michael Moore

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In The Pipeline:
The Inner History of Devices

Presented By:
The MIT Libraries and the MIT Press Bookstore
authors at MIT

Speakers:
Sherry Turkle
Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society

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