{"630851":{"#nid":"630851","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Democratization of knowledge through digitization in libraries, museums, and archives","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDigitization of the world\u0026rsquo;s great works provides an unprecedented opportunity to democratize knowledge for generations to come, and a name familiar to Georgia Tech is one of the frontrunners.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJoin President Emeritus and former Secretary of the Smithsonian G. Wayne Clough Thursday, Jan. 30 from 11 to 12:30 in the Georgia Tech Library\u0026rsquo;s Seventh Floor Reading Room for his talk, \u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Democratization of knowledge through digitization in libraries, museums, and archives.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EClough will discuss his 2013 book,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EBest of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in the Digital Age\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;with a focus on the intellectual process and power of digitization. He\u0026rsquo;ll also discuss how the process connects streams of knowledge and allows disparate people to bring their intellectual bases together. Additionally, Clough will connect these topics to his latest work, 2019\u0026rsquo;s\u003Cem\u003EThings New and Strange: A Southerner\u0026rsquo;s Journey through the Smithsonian Collections\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Digital access can provide limitless opportunities for engagement and lifelong learning,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore his appointment to the Smithsonian, Clough was president of Georgia Tech for 14 years. He received his bachelor\u0026rsquo;s and master\u0026rsquo;s degrees in civil engineering from Georgia Tech in 1964 and 1965 and a doctorate in 1969 in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDigitization of the world\u0026rsquo;s great works provides an unprecedented opportunity to democratize knowledge for generations to come, and a name familiar to Georgia Tech is one of the frontrunners.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Digitization of the world\u2019s great works provides an unprecedented opportunity to democratize knowledge for generations to come, and a name familiar to Georgia Tech is one of the frontrunners. "}],"uid":"28817","created_gmt":"2020-01-09 19:56:46","changed_gmt":"2020-01-13 14:34:46","author":"Jason Wright","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2020-01-30T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2020-01-30T12:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2020-01-30T12:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2020-01-30 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2020-01-30 17:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2020-01-30 17:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"630852":{"id":"630852","type":"image","title":"Clough talk","body":null,"created":"1578599848","gmt_created":"2020-01-09 19:57:28","changed":"1578599848","gmt_changed":"2020-01-09 19:57:28","alt":"Clough talk","file":{"fid":"240141","name":"Screen Shot 2020-01-08 at 12.25.49 PM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-08%20at%2012.25.49%20PM.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-08%20at%2012.25.49%20PM.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1886195,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-08%20at%2012.25.49%20PM.png?itok=z0eA-gH9"}}},"media_ids":["630852"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/democratization-of-knowledge-with-gt-president-emeritus-g-wayne-clough-tickets-89266684055","title":"Register Now!"}],"groups":[{"id":"47240","name":"Georgia Tech Library"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"3824","name":"event"},{"id":"69901","name":"Postdocs"},{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}