For more information and to register, please visit:
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/kaplan.html
The 2009 Jeremiah Kaplan Institute on Libraries, the Information
Society, and Social Policy
“The Right to Information Access”
October 30, 2009
Penn State University, University Park Campus
State College, PA
The Hub Auditorium
Featuring:
* John Willinsky, (keynote speaker) Professor of Education,
Stanford University, Founder of the Public Knowledge Project and author
of The Access Principle: the Case for Open Access. (MIT, 2005).
* Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyright, US Copyright Office.
Author of The General Guide to the Copyright Act of 1976.
* John Palfrey, Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and Vice Dean for
Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School . Co-author of
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
(Basic Books, 2008) and Access Denied: The Practice and Politics of
Global Internet Filtering (MIT Press, 2008).
* Clifford Lynch, Director, Coalition of Networked Information, and
member of the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of
Congress , Microsoft’s Technical Computing Science Advisory Board , the
board of the New Media Consortium , and the Task Force on Sustainable
Digital Preservation and Access.
