Around the World 2016 – Opening Remarks
Opening remarks from the convenors of the Around the World 2016: Libraries, Archives, and Public Life live-streamed conference (Patricia Demers, Toni Samek, Tami Oliphant, and Ali Shiri).
Opening remarks from the convenors of the Around the World 2016: Libraries, Archives, and Public Life live-streamed conference (Patricia Demers, Toni Samek, Tami Oliphant, and Ali Shiri).
Konstantina Martzoukou (Senior Lecturer & Postgraduate Programme Leader, iSchool – Aberdeen Business School, Robert Gordon University) and Marc Kosciejew (Head of Department and Lecturer of Library Information and Archive Science, University of Malta, Msida, Malta) discuss the implications of the digital age for libraries, archives, and public life.
Alice Crawford (Digital Humanities Research Librarian, University of St. Andrews Library, Scotland) and Mario Hibert (Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature and Librarianship, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo) discuss the implications of the digital age for libraries, archives, and public life.
Brendan Edwards (Head, Library & Archives, Royal Ontario Museum) and Nigel A Raab (Associate Professor of History Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, Loyola Marymount University, LA) discuss the implications of the digital age for libraries, archives, and public life.
Guylaine Beaudry (University Librarian, Concordia University, Montreal) and Seamus Ross (Professor, Faculty of Information, Interim Director, Coach House Institute, University of Toronto) discuss the implications of the digital age for libraries, archives, and public life.
Richard Cox (Professor, School of Library and Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh) and Frank Tough (Associate Dean Academic and Professor, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta) discuss the implications of the digital age for libraries, archives, and public life.
Michael Carroll (Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Washington College of Law, American University) and Carolyn Guertin (Professor of Digital Technologies and Adult Education, Faculty of Education, University of Ontario Institute of Technology) discuss the implications of the digital age for libraries, archives, and public life.
The conference convenors are reflecting on the paper ‘Digital Publics: Transformation and Translation’ by Paul Arthur (Professor, Digital Humanities, School of Humanities & Comm Arts, Western Sydney University) and Ingrid Mason (eResearch Analyst at Intersect Australia Pty Ltd, and Communications Manager for the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities, Sydney, Australia).