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20-minute papers on the topic, “Maintaining Access, Digital Resilience”
Part of the Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene:
A Colloquium, 2017
Presenter Info
Sarah Demb
Sarah R. Demb is Senior Records Manager and Information Governance Archivist for Harvard University. Bruce Schneier is a cryptographer, computer security and privacy specialist, and writer, and is currently a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
Presentation title: “When the Lights Go Out: Digital Information and Existential Risk”
Heather Christenson
Heather Christenson (@heatherannc) is Program Officer for Federal Documents and Collections at HathiTrust. She is responsible for overseeing the expansion of HathiTrust’s federal documents collection and services that support their discovery, access, and preservation. In her previous role at the California Digital Library she provided collaborative leadership for large scale digital content initiatives and oversaw mass digitization of the University of California’s physical collections including projects across the UC libraries in partnership with the Internet Archive, Google, and Microsoft.
Presentation title: “The Large-scale Digital Library and Response to the Anthropocene”
Sarah Lamdan
Sarah Lamdan is an Associate Professor and Law Librarian at CUNY School of Law. She specializes in environmental law and environmental information access issues.
Presentation title: “Improving Access to Environmental Information and Records”
Robert Montoya
Robert Montoya is a doctoral candidate in Information Studies at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. His research broadly examines how communities organize, classify, and share information, and how the knowledge organizing infrastructures that support this exchange are affected by underlying values about knowledge.
Presentation title: “Documenting Biodiversity: Information, Libraries and Professional Ethics”