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Archive Opening and Lecture with John Palfrey

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Thursday, April 07, 2016
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
John Palfrey, N. Katherine Hayles

Join the Duke University Libraries as we celebrate the opening of the Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Archive with a special lecture featuring educator and technology expert John Palfrey, distinguished authority on education and technology and author of "BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google" (Basic Books, 2015). Palfrey is the Head of School at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He is also a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Previously, Palfrey served as Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School and as the founding chairman of the Digital Public Library of America. He has written extensively on internet law, intellectual property, and the potential of new technologies to strengthen democracies locally and around the world. Palfrey's talk will be followed by a brief response by N. Katherine Hayles, James B. Duke Professor of Literature at Duke and author of numerous books, including "How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis" (University of Chicago, 2012).

Contact: Aaron Welborn