Choices and Context: Thinking About Technology and Media

Presenter: Walt Crawford, Research Libraries Group, Inc.

With the all-digital library increasingly recognized as a dystopian nightmare, it's time to work on what libraries do best: offering choices and establishing context. Choices, because people have different needs and different ways of learning and understanding. Context, because information without context is just data. This talk will discuss the ways that technology can help us define, use, organize, and preserve the media (both analog and digital) that make libraries possible--and ways that we can increase choices and assure our futures.