The Future of the Book: Timeless or Time Challenged?
Thursday 24th September
2pm BST / 3 pm CET / 9 am EST
The book is the keystone of recorded history. For centuries before the journal, it was the chief means of exploring and storing knowledge. Books arouse strong emotions, are revered, respected or repudiated. Today they can be delivered virtually, interactively or in segments. Some act as compendia for multimedia research outputs. Others are AI compilations of human authors’ works or even “written” by machines. Has the book lost its integrity or is it still authoritative? Does it sit on the brink of yet more exciting new departures? What might its future look like? Two distinguished librarians explore.
Join Jeremy Upton, Director of Library and University Collections at the University of Edinburgh and Charles Watkinson, Associate University Librarian for Publishing at the University of Michigan and Director of the University of Michigan Press, as they explore the changing role of books in the digital age, the impact of AI and what the future of publishing and knowledge might look like.
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The webinar is part of the series "Challenging the Status Quo: Taking Libraries into the future.”
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Taking Libraries into the Future - YouTube