Friday, 11 November 2005

10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
“Scholarship in a Digital Age”
Panelists: James Boyle, Matt Cohen, Cathy N. Davidson,
Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes, and Timothy Lenoir
Moderator: Deborah Jakubs
Carpenter Reading Room, 320 Bostock Library

11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Luncheon
Karl and Mary Ellen von der Heyden Pavilion

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
“Learning Places – The Library in the Academic Community”
Panelists: David Carr, Geoffrey Freeman, Diana G. Oblinger,
Abhijit Prabhu, and Robert J. Thompson, Jr.
Moderator: John Simon
Carpenter Reading Room, 320 Bostock Library

3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Dedication and Keynote Address
Welcome: Deborah Jakubs
Remarks: Merilee Huser Bostock, Peter Lange, and Richard H. Brodhead
Keynote Address: Robert Darnton, “Old Books and E-Books”
Closing Remarks: Deborah Jakubs
Carpenter Reading Room, 320 Bostock Library

4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Reception
Nicholas Family International Reading Room, 220 Bostock Library
Periodicals Reading Room, 120 Bostock Library
Guided tours will be provided during the reception,
leaving from the first floor lobby of the Bostock Library

Program Participants

Robert Darnton is Shelby Cullom Davis ’30 Professor of History at Princeton University. A graduate of Harvard College and Oxford University, Professor Darnton has received numerous prizes and awards. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, past president of the American Historical Association, and a key figure in the AHA’s Gutenberg-e Program and the American Council of Learned Societies’ History E-Book Project. His print publications include Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France (1968), The Literary Underground of the Old Regime (1983), The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (1984), The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-revolutionary France (1995), and George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century (2003).

Merilee Huser Bostock is a graduate of Duke University (WC’63) and a member of the Library Advisory Board.

James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke University.

Richard H. Brodhead is President of Duke University. He became the university’s ninth president on July 1, 2004, and is also a professor of English at Duke.

David Carr is an associate professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Matt Cohen is Andrew Mellon Assistant Professor of English at Duke University and Fellow, Newberry Library.

Cathy N. Davidson is Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies and Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English at Duke University.

Geoffrey Freeman is a principal in the Boston architectural firm Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott and lead architect for the Perkins Project.

Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Duke University.

Deborah Jakubs is the Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University Librarian and Vice Provost for Library Affairs at Duke University and an adjunct associate professor of history.

Peter Lange is the Provost of Duke University and a professor in the Department of Political Science.

Timothy Lenoir is Kimberly Jenkins Chair for New Technologies and Society at Duke University.

Diana G. Oblinger is Vice President of EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

Abhijit Prabhu is a graduate of Duke University (T’02) and an associate at IDG Ventures in Boston.

John Simon is Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and George B. Geller Professor of Chemistry at Duke University.

Robert J. Thompson, Jr. is Dean of Trinity College, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, and a professor of psychology at Duke University.