Public Lecture: Dan Cohen, "Scholars and the Everywhere Library"

Dear Friends and Patrons of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries,

Please join us for this special event as part of our 2009 Lecture Series!

Dan Cohen

Scholars and the Everywhere Library

How can libraries best help researchers when the very concept of

the "library" for most scholars has changed from a physical location

to a wide variety of online resources? And does this transition to the

digital realm open up new avenues of research and new services that

libraries can provide to meet those research needs? This talk will

discuss new possibilities for search, discovery, recommendations, and

analysis that a modern library might be able to provide to the next

generation of scholars.

September 24, 2009
10:30am-12:00pm
Ripley Center, Quad, Lecture Hall, Room 3027
1100 Jefferson Drive, SW
Washington, DC 20560

Dan Cohen is the second speaker in the Libraries’ 2009 Lecture Series. Cohen holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton, a master’s from Harvard , and a doctorate from Yale. Cohen is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and the Director of the Center for History and New Media. His own research is in European and American intellectual history, the history of science (particularly mathematics), and the intersection of history and computing.

Cohen is co-author of Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), author of Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), and has published articles and book chapters on the history of mathematics and religion, the teaching of history, and the future of history in a digital age in journals such as the Journal of American History, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Rethinking History. He is an inaugural recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies’ Digital Innovation Fellowship.