FREE ACRL member WEBCAST featuring Clifford Lynch

If you are a member of the ACRL you can avail yourself of this FREE webcast on June 3rd. which is going to be exceptional- after all it involves Clifford Lynch

Here is the announcement from ACRL.

"Don’t miss the second annual ACRL Springboard Event, a FREE interactive webcast for ACRL members on June 3. ACRL knows that professional development is important to our members, and in these tough economic times we are pleased to offer this annual program to “thank you” for your participation.

Join us on Wednesday, June 3, from 12:00 - 1:15 p.m. CDT (10:00 - 11:15 a.m. PDT; 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. MDT; 1:00 - 2:15 p.m. EDT) for a lively discussion with Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information.

During this free webcast, Lynch will share "some things that keep me awake at night," including cultural memory in the age of economic instability and the implications of the migration of vast amounts of personal history and activity to the digital environment.

Both of these issues have massive implications for today's academic and research libraries.

There will be ample time for audience Q&A to discuss these issues and foster ongoing dialogue.

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 approximately 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. 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 National Digital Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress, Microsoft's Technical Computing Science Advisory Board, board of the New Media Consortium, and the Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access; he was a member of the National Research Council committees that published The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age and Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits.

REGISTER NOW
There is no registration fee for this member event, but please visit www.acrl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/springboard.cfm to RSVP online by May 29 and confirm your space in the webcast. Login details will be sent to you a few days before the webcast.

Questions should be directed to Margot Conahan at mconahan@ala.org or call 312-280-2522.