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Harvard library conference - today & tomorrow

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell N Charity)
Fri Nov 5 14:18:55 1993

Date: Fri, 5 Nov 93 14:16:12 EST
From: mcharity@hq.lcs.mit.edu (Mitchell N Charity)
To: library2000-talk@hq.lcs.mit.edu, elibdev@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: mcharity@lcs.mit.edu

A quick note:

Harvard College Library has a conference today and tomorrow (Sat):

Gateways to Knowledge - the changing role of academic libraries
in learning, teaching and research

As I understand it, "Gateway" is part of Harvard's strategic vision
for its libraries.
The conference was just pointed out to me by Don Saklad.
Here is a fast&sloppy transcription of the schedule.
Original & other material is in my office.

Panels in Lonfellow Hall, Room 100.
Today, 2:30-? .
Sat:  9:30-11:00, 11:30-1:00 and 2:30-? .

Today, 230:  Panel II: Teaching in the Gateway Environment
Sat,   930:       III: Ways of Learning
Sat,  1130:  Panel IV: The Gateway in Research and Scholarly Communication
Sat,   230:  Panel  V: Plenary Session

Today:
  Moderator: Engell, Eng, Harvard
  Lanham, Eng, UCLA
   "A computer based harvard red book: General ed. in the digital age"
  Manning, Hist and AfricAm, NEastern
   "Hist in the era of theory, methodology, and mulitcult."
  Lowry, Library, UIowa
   "Gateways to the classroom"

Sat 930:
  Mod: Wilkinson, director mumble center for teaching&learning, Harvard
  Price, Ed, Harvard
   "Info processing and the processing of info"
  Freeman, architect
   "designing the gateway: issues and ideas"
  Brier, director media&learning, Hunter/CUNY
   "Who built america?" putting a history book on cdrom

Sat 1130:
  Moderator - Thomas, Gr&Lat, Harvard
  Ginsparg, physics, LosAlamos
   "First steps towards formal electronic research communication"
  Rockwell, polisci, UMichigan
   "From desktop to desktop in 50 years: the revolution in social science
    desktop laboratories"
  Unsworth, hum, UVirginia
   "networked scholarship: the effects of advanced tech on research in
    the humanities"

Sat 230 Plenary:
  Kirby, Hist, Harvard
  Engell, Eng, Harvard
  Wilkinson, something, Harv
  Thomas, Greek&Lat, Harv

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