Information is power, but where does it come from? What happens when we don’t have it? How should we use it when we do? On Wednesday September 26, 2007, the Beatley Library at Simmons College convened a special panel addressing these issues in the context of international development and cooperation. The panelists were Fulbright Visiting…
On September 24th, 2008 Brewster Kahle spoke at Simmons College as part of the Lazerow Memorial Lecture Series, sponsored by The Scientific Business of Thomson Reuters. Brewster is both the founder and the current Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive, one of the world’s largest digital libraries. His work includes building technologies, companies, and institutions…
Karen Brothers and Elizabeth Eddison co-founded Inmagic, Inc. in 1984, to carry forward the library automation software business initially developed by Warner-Eddison Associates, the consulting company Eddison and Alice Warner formed after receiving Library Science degrees from Simmons College. Brothers, who has a Mathematics degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was the chief architect…
Gary Marchionini is Cary C. Boshamer Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina where he teaches courses in human-information interaction, interface design and testing, and digital libraries. He heads the Interaction Design Laboratory at their School of Information and Library Science. On September 15, 2008 he presented…
