Information Access Workshop

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 n etworked 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 in the HUB auditorium at Penn State University’s University Park campus on October 30, 2009