Registration is now open for the 2019 Fall Forum, to be hosted by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) on September 26 in Washington, DC. The theme of this year’s ARL-CNI Fall Forum is ‘Research Libraries as Catalytic Leaders in a Society in Constant Flux.’ The 2019 forum’s goal is to help authors understand what research libraries are doing as catalytic leaders now and to discuss and recommend what more needs to be done to contribute to the institutions, the research and learning ecosystem, and society.
The Fall Forum features the Julia C. Blixrud Memorial Lecture and the Julia C. Blixrud Scholarship, which supports the attendance of one master of library and information science (MLIS) student or recent graduate at the forum each year. This year’s Blixrud Scholarship awardee is Madelynn Dickerson, research librarian for digital humanities and history at the University of California, Irvine. As part of the scholarship, Dickerson will tweet from the forum and write an overview of the event.
The fifth annual Blixrud Memorial Lecture, entitled “The Fourth Industrial Revolution,” will be delivered by Jaron Lanier. A computer scientist, composer, musician, artist, and award-winning author, Lanier writes on numerous topics, including high-technology business, the social impact of technology, the philosophy of consciousness and information, internet politics, and the future of humanism. His latest book, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, synthesises what they know about the new technology of tricking people with algorithms.
Registration for the 2019 Fall Forum opened July 31. The deadline to register is September 3, 2019.
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