Brewster Kahle spoke yesterday at the Davies Forum run by David Silver, Media Studies professor. He is the founder and digital librarian at the non-profit Internet Archive; he also helps direct the Open Content Alliance. “Public or perish, universal access to all knowledge,” are his battle cries.
Visit the Internet Archive and you can spend many hours reading, watching and enjoying yourself. In the Moving Images database you will find all sorts of wonderful films. One of my faves, naturally, is The Librarian (1947). Watching this vocational film definitely has the feel of a “wayback” moment — I find it intriguing to see what a librarian career choice meant 60 years ago (yes . . . 60 years!) and how, in a funny/odd sort of way, the more things change, the more things stay the same. Watch and see what you think.
