---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jefferon Bailey <j.bailey@brooklynpubliclibrary.org> Date: Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:56 AM Subject: Reminder: Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist at Library of Congress, lecture at Brooklyn Public Library, Thursday May 19th, 3pm To: hines@pratt.edu, pamela.rollo@bstamerica.com, martind1@stjohns.edu, mhandis@gc.cuny.edu, "Tobar, Cynthia" <CTobar@gc.cuny.edu>, rabell@pratt.edu, thomas.surprenant@qc.cuny.edu, fdbrown@rutgers.edu, alice.flynn@liu.edu, doug_reside@nypl.org, Lauren_Lampasone@nypl.org, acocciol@pratt.edu, dwalczyk@pratt.edu, mpattuel@pratt.edu Reminder: Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist with the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) at the Library of Congress, will give a lecture titled “*From Records to Data: Seeing and Sharing Digital Cultural Heritage Collections Differently with Recollection*” at Brooklyn Public Library’s Dr. S. Stevan Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture on Thursday, May 19th from 3-4:30pm. Owens will introduce and demonstrate the utility of Recollection, a free open source platform for generating and customizing views (interactive maps, timelines, facets, tag clouds) that allow scholars, librarians and curators to explore digital collections in novel and intuitive ways. Please pass this announcement on to any relevant listservs or professional groups at your institution. We especially invite students and professionals interested in cultural heritage, digital curation and preservation, information visualization and other similar fields to attend. Please see also the attached flyer – feel free to include with forwarded emails or print and post at your office. -- chirp elt Dr. Thomas T. Surprenant Professor & Acting Chair/Director Queens College Graduate School of Library & Information Studies