The Relevance of Libraries

in a Digital Age

Library Challenges & Opportunities

Friday, May 11, 2007

The digital age has been with us long enough to make some practical predictions of how traditional roles of libraries will change in information selection, acquisition, synthesis, navigation, dissemination, interpretation and archiving. New responsibilities in information aggregation, publishing education, research and development and policy advocacy will be explored. It promises to be a lively and provocative session. This teleconference is 90 minutes in length--Noon-1:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

James G. Neal, the Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University, has assembled a panel to discuss the future relevance of libraries as we know them: