[TriLUG] TUESDAY Clifford Lynch: Networked Information Revolution?

[Paul Jones]

 -- please attend, announce and repost as appropriate -- thx p.

What: Where are we with the networked information revolution?
      a public talk
When: Tuesday November 12 @ 3:30
Where: Pleasants Family Room, Wilson Library, UNC
Who: Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information
     http://www.cni.org/staff/clifford_index.html
Sponsor: ibiblio.org

Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked 
Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the 
Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, includes about 200 member 
organizations concerned with the use of information technology and 
networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual 
productivity.

Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California 
Office of the President, the last ten as Director of Library Automation. 
Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of 
California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of 
Information Management and Systems. He is a past president of the American 
Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards 
Organization.

Lynch currently serves on the Internet 2 Applications Council and the 
National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of 
Congress; he was a member of the National Research Council committees that 
published The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information 
Infrastructure and Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits, and now serves on 
the NRC's committee on digital archiving and the National Archives and 
Records Administration. 

Sponsored by ibiblio.org, the Public's Library

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