The library of the future: spreading the word: capturing and delivering libraries of information in 21st century

We were very fortunate to have two world experts on the storage and retrieval of information to speak to our first Information Futures forum for 2006. Speakers Daniel Clancy and Sandy Payette were both in Australia as keynote speakers at the 2006 VALA Conference.

Daniel and Sandy addressed the topic: "The library of the future: spreading the word: capturing and delivering libraries of information in 21st century."

Sandy Payette leads digital library research and development projects at Cornell University's Information Science program. She is founder and co-director of the internationally-recognised Fedora Project that deploys sophisticated open-source software that forms the basis of digital libraries, institutional repositories, digital archives, and educational software.

Sandy is currently collaborating with colleagues from Cornell and Los Alamos National Laboratory in the NSF-funded Pathways project to design new information architectures for integrating heterogeneous digital repositories and services, and to demonstrate a next-generation scholarly communication system.

Sandy's other research areas include digital preservation, information networks, and automated policy enforcement.

• Download an MP3 recording of Sandy's lecture from iLecture
• View the presentation slides in Adobe Acrobat PDF (1.4 Mb)
• Further reading: Carl Lagoze, Dean B Krafft, Sandy Payette, Susan Jerusoga: "What is a Digital Library Anyway? Beyond search and access in the NSDL", published in D-Lib magazine, November 2005.

Dr Daniel Clancy is Engineering Director for Google Book Search, USA. The Google Book Search project is focused on indexing offline printed content to make it full text searchable via the web.

Prior to coming to Google, Daniel worked at NASA Ames Research Center for seven years. He was Director of the Information Sciences and Technology Directorate at NASA Ames Research Center. Daniel Clancy received his PhD in artificial intelligence from the University of Texas at Austin.

• Download an MP3 recording of Daniel Clancy's presentation from iLecture
• Listen to the ABC Radio National Book Show 10 February 2006: a panel discussion with Warwick Cathro (National Library of Australia), Peter Mews (author and owner of Brunswick Street Bookstore), Lynne Spender (writer, publisher and editor) and Dr Dan Clancy (Google Book Search).

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