Interesting Upcoming Webinars from IA

Brewster Kahle and Tony Marx: The Internet Archive at 25
The founder of the Internet Archive speaks with the President of The New York Public Library about the changing roles of libraries in the digital age.

In 1996 a young computer scientist named Brewster Kahle dreamed of building a “Library of Everything” for the digital age. A library containing all the published works of humankind, free to the public, built to last the ages. He created the Internet Archive and its mission: to provide everyone with universal access to all knowledge. “The goal of the Internet Archive,” Kahle has written, “is to create a permanent memory for the Web that can be leveraged to make a new Global Mind.” In the intervening years, libraries have evolved, expanded, and adapted to thrive in the digital age.

Where do these two stories intersect? And how have our understandings about the meaning and value of archives, libraries, and access have undergone seismic shifts in the past 25 years. Tony Marx, the President of The New York Public Library, and Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle discuss.

April 27 @ 11am PT / 2pm ET - Register now for the hybrid event.

Analyzing Biodiversity Literature at Scale
Imagine the great library of life—a comprehensive library that Charles Darwin said was necessary for the “cultivation of natural science"—but in digital form. Explore how historic scientific literature in the Biodiversity Heritage Library becomes data for the larger biodiversity community in this talk from Smithsonian Library's Martin R. Kalfatovic and JJ Dearborn.

This is the fifth session of our six-part Library as Laboratory series.

April 27 @ 11am PT / 2pm ET - Register now for the virtual event.