Come and join us for a discussion about the ways in which the roles and relationships of academic libraries are changing to meet the University’s academic mission in the 21st century. “The Evolving Roles of Libraries in Teaching, Learning, and Research” will focus on a highly productive and successful relationship between the Brown University Library and the teaching and research of Computer Science Professor, Andries van Dam. University Librarian Harriette Hemmasi and Professor van Dam will provide compelling examples that demonstrate the evolving nature of teaching, learning, and research at Brown.

Professor van Dam is the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education and Professor of Computer Science. He has been on Brown’s faculty since 1965 and was one of the Computer Science Department’s co-founders and its first Chairman, from 1979 to 1985. He was a Principal Investigator and was the Director from 1996-1998 in the NSF Science and Technology Center for Graphics and Visualization, a research consortium including Brown, Caltech, Cornell, North Carolina (Chapel Hill), and the University of Utah. He served as Brown’s first Vice President for Research from 2002-2006. His research has concerned computer graphics, hypermedia systems, post-WIMP user interfaces, including pen-centric computing, and educational software. He has been working for over four decades on systems for creating and reading electronic books with interactive illustrations for use in teaching and research.

Harriette Hemmasi is the Joukowsky Family University Librarian at Brown University, where she has oversight for the library system and provides leadership in the delivery and integration of information resources and new technologies into the campus’s teaching, learning, and research environment. Since coming to Brown in the fall of 2005, Hemmasi’s primary objectives have been to translate the University’s goals and directions into actions for the Library; to build bridges between digital library initiatives and the broader set of campus technologies; and to establish the Library and its staff as active partners in the University’s academic mission.

Date: Saturday, October 25
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: Smith-Buonanno 106