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Hi Kate and all: you also asked about other academic university campuses & library developments / computing technologies over the years... Back in January 2010, a similar thread was posted on LITA listserv you and others may find interest in concerning Columbia University computing and libraries I had posted this message back in January and share the link to the post here for those interested. http://lists.ala.org/wws/arc/lita-l/2010-01/msg00100.html <http://lists.ala.org/wws/arc/lita-l/2010-01/msg00100.html>cheers, Karen Weaver On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Kate Williams <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > From PLATO (1960), Project Gutenberg (1971), up through Wolfram Alpha > (2009), there have been 11+ public computing projects invented in > Champaign-Urbana, many with leadership from libraries and library schools. > Thursday and Friday we will be hearing from founders and others. We're > aiming to help the next 50 years be at least as innovative. Public > computing is as basic as public education, mass literacy ... and public > libraries... have been for a democratic and sustainable society. > > http://go.illinois.edu/50years -- will be webcast > > Interested to hear about similar history on other campuses. We need to > draw these lines for all to see. > > all best, > > kate > > --- > http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~katewill > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karen Weaver, MLS , Adjunct Faculty, Cataloging & Classification, The iSchool at Drexel University, Philadelphia PA email: [log in to unmask] / Electronic Resources Statistician, Duquesne University, Gumberg Library, Pittsburgh PA email: [log in to unmask] *"All of the men on my staff can type."--Bella Abzug, (1920-1998), * *First Jewish Congresswoman, Hunter College alumna 1942*