Amy Friedlander, director of programmes at the American Council on Library and Information Resources, will give a free lecture entitled “Digits and Dreams: Scholarship and Computing in the Age of Abundance” on Tuesday, September 23rd at 4 pm at the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin.
The talk gives an account of recent changes in technology and scholarship,
considering broad patterns in both sciences and humanities, but focusing on
the future challenges and opportunities for the humanities. The Council on
Library and Information Resources (CLIR) supports a broad agenda that
addresses relationships among information, scholarship, technology, and
higher education.
Amy Friedlander is primarily engaged in projects involving cyberinfrastructure, preservation, and digital scholarship. She is the founding editor of D-Lib Magazine and also participated in the
organisational phases of the Library of Congress’s National Digital
Information Infrastructure and Preservation Programme.
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