RLUK18 | Putting It All Together - Dan Cohen, Northeastern University
Channel: ResearchLibrariesUK
Date: 2018-03-20

Keynote presentation by Dan Cohen at the 2018 RLUK Conference (http://rlukconference.com/)

Putting It All Together

The elements of the future research library are here, including digital platforms and data as well as new services for learning and research. But too often they exist as separate, unconnected entities, rather than presenting a coherent story about a new kind of library. How can we take these new elements and integrate them together into a unified whole that students, researchers, and the public can understand? How can each library leverage what it does best, while also taking advantage of its existence in a network to connect resources and services, synthesizing and projecting a more expansive library than the one we had before?

Dan Cohen is the Vice Provost for Information Collaboration, Dean of the Libraries, and Professor of History at Northeastern University. His work has focused on the impact of digital media and technology on all aspects of knowledge and learning, from the nature of libraries and their evolving resources, to twenty-first century research techniques and software tools, to the changing landscape of communication and publication. He has directed major initiatives that have helped to shape that future. Read more: http://rlukconference.com/speaker/dan-cohen/