Mark your calendars, Siva Vaidhyanathan will be visiting UNC in February to deliver the Henderson Lecture. From the SILS website:
Siva Vaidhyanathan will be the featured presenter at the 2008 Henderson Lecture on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hosted by the School of Information and Library Science, the lecture will take place on Feb. 6, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. in the auditorium of the Frank Porter Graham Student Union.
Vaidhyanathan’s talk is titled, “The Human Knowledge Project (Part 1): Four Conceptual Errors concerning Massive Digital Library Projects.”
What the talk is about: “The rush to digitize the stacks of major research libraries has proceeded in haphazard fashion and with a far greater emphasis on expediency and quantity than quality and utility. This talk will outline the grand mistakes that we are making in the rush to digitize everything and offer a vision of a better way to link the greater population of the world with the greatest sources of knowledge.”
I’ll post again as we get a little closer to the date of the talk, but this is one you surely don’t want to miss.
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Fred Stutzman is a doctoral student, researcher and teaching fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science. He studies how people use social media.
Keep up the good work. Merry Christmas!