Laura E. Campbell was a keynote speaker at the Jackson Hole Symposium for Applied Media Professionals
October 21, 2008 -- Laura E. Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives and Chief Information Officer at the Library of Congress, was a keynote speaker at the Jackson Hole Symposium for Applied Media Professionals (external link), held in Jackson Hole, WY, during September 23-25, 2008.
The conference, co-sponsored by the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival (external link) and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (external link), united content creators and curators from cultural heritage institutions, zoos, parks and other public institutions with interactive media professionals in a wide-ranging discussion on cultural institutions and their engagement with new media storytelling.
Campbell participated in two sessions. In the opening plenary session, she outlined the dynamic and expanding role of media within cultural heritage institutions and touched on some of the issues that would be explored throughout the rest of the conference. Campbell’s presentation described how the Library has embraced dynamic media over the years, from the earliest days of sound and film archiving to current efforts to establish a World Digital Library.
In a second presentation later in the conference, Campbell discussed the role of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program in leveraging distributed networks of content creators and curators. She stated that such networks are essential to ensure that digital cultural heritage remains as accessible as the books, manuscripts, maps and other traditional materials the Library has collected over the last 200 years.
