Conference: The Emerging Research Environment & the Digital Public Library of America

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Speaker: Dan Cohen

A new environment for scholarly research is emerging out of the steady accumulation of digitized sources over the last two decades, contemporary models for accessing those sources, and novel methods for searching, sorting, and mining them in ways that forge new connections and enhance serendipity. With a look at the Digital Public Library of America’s approach to research and discovery, Cohen surveyed today’s and tomorrow’s electronic landscape.