Presentations - Morning Session and Afternoon Session

Presentations - Morning Session and Afternoon Session

 

Next-Generation UC Libraries; Next-Generation UC Librarians
Welcome Address from Ginny Steel, University Librarian, UC Santa Cruz

• PowerPoint (300 Kb) | PDF (1.0 Mb)

Systemwide Library Planning – Joanne Miller, Systemwide Library Planning, UCOP (11:10)  Flash video

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Collaboration in the Cloud – Laine Farley, Executive Director, California Digital Library (17:15)  Flash video

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Digital Libraries and Copyright: Paths Forward for UC Libraries
David Hansen, Digital Library Fellow, UC Berkeley School of Law Library (41:29)  Flash video


Next-Generation Technical Services – Martha Hruska, UC San Diego, NGTS Steering Group Chair, and Emily Lin, UC Merced, NGTS Communications Manager (1:14:50)  Flash video

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A universal digital library is within reach - Los Angeles Times Op-Ed

A universal digital library is within reach 

Copyright law poses considerable challenges, but any barriers to mass digitization of the world's books can — and should be — overcome. 

 by Pamela Samuelson, May 1, 2012 Los Angeles Times Op-Ed

"Since 2002, at first in secret and later with great fanfare, Google has been working to create a digital collection of all the world's books, a library that it hopes will last forever and make knowledge far more universally accessible.

But from the beginning, there has been an obstacle even more daunting than the project's many technical challenges: copyright law..."


Pamela Samuelson is a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law and faculty director of the law school's Berkeley Center for Law and Technology.