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Hello, This is a reminder that this event will be available via a live stream on Friday October 30 from 9am - 3pm EDT. To view the stream and obtain the exact schedule visit: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/kaplan.html The 2009 Jeremiah Kaplan Institute on Libraries, the Information Society, and Social Policy “The Right to Information Access” Friday October 30 -- 9am-3pm EDT Featuring: * John Willinsky, (keynote speaker) Professor of Education, Stanford University, Founder of the Public Knowledge Project and author of The Access Principle: the Case for Open Access. (MIT, 2005). Title of talk: "The Intellectual Properties of Learning and the Right to Know" * Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyright, US Copyright Office. Author of The General Guide to the Copyright Act of 1976. Title of talk: "The Copyright Law and Access" * John Palfrey, Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School . Co-author of Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives (Basic Books, 2008) and Access Denied: The Practice and Politics of Global Internet Filtering (MIT Press, 2008). Title of talk: "Born Digital" * Clifford Lynch, Director, Coalition of Networked Information, and member of the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress , Microsoft's Technical Computing Science Advisory Board , the board of the New Media Consortium , and the Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. Title of talk: "Rights to Knowledge and Remembering" ABOUT THE PROGRAM The United States Constitution codifies the right to free expression. But what rights have we to access the results of free expression? “Libraries,” states the American Library Association, “help ensure that Americans can access the information they need – regardless of age, education, ethnicity, language, income, physical limitations or geographic barriers – as the digital world continues to evolve.” But two decades of rapid developments in information technologies have revealed a contradiction: it is easier than ever to disseminate information and to receive it, but it is also easier to control and monitor access to that information. The first Jeremiah Kaplan Institute on Libraries, the Information Society, and Social Policy will address the "right" to knowledge and access to information, as well as the changing role that libraries and publishers play in supporting access in a networked environment. How must the missions of libraries and publishing adapt after the Internet? Who should have access to information and knowledge and how can it best be enabled? What economic, political, and regulatory factors impede that access, and how might they be overcome? Four experts, representing the fields of education, libraries, information technology, and law and public policy, will explore these issues in a day-long symposium held at Penn State University's University Park campus on October 30, 2009. About the Institute The Jeremiah Kaplan Institute is sponsored by the Penn State University Libraries and the Penn State Rock Ethics Institute with financial support from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy. The Institute addresses the topic of information technologies and their impact on libraries and associated professional ethics and social policies. The Institute will hold one day conferences at Penn State University Park in 2009, 2010, and 2011 that will bring together recognized experts to explore these topics. The Institute is held in honor of Jeremiah Kaplan (1926-1993), a co-founder of The Free Press (1947), an important publishing house devoted to sociology and religion titles. Mr. Kaplan was later president of Macmillan Publishing Company and Simon & Schuster Inc. About the Co-Sponsors The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy was established in 1997 as a not-for-profit organization to support the advancement of research and understanding in the major fields of the social sciences. Specifically the fields of psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, urban affairs, area studies, political science, and other disciplines. The Foundation was created by Irving L. Horowitz, the founder of Transaction Publishers. The Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State promotes ethical awareness and inquiry across the University, and in the public and professional sectors, through a three-fold emphasis on teaching, research, and outreach. -- Mike Furlough Assistant Dean for Scholarly Communications and Co-Director, Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing Penn State University Libraries University Park, PA 16802 814-863-5447