This year for the Fredric M. Miller Memorial Lecture in Public History, we are pleased to provide a forum for discussion of libraries and technology, focusing especially on the project to create a Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). Our speaker will be John Palfrey, Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources, Harvard Law School, and Chair of the Steering Committee, Digital Public Library of America. His lecture, “Building the Digital Public Library of America,” will be followed by a commentary, “The Digital Library in Physical Space,” by Amanda French of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 8, at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, and a reception will follow the program. Please register in advance by visiting: http://miller2012.eventbrite.com/.
