RLUK’s Digital Shift Forum brings together colleagues from across the information, research, cultural and heritage communities, and third and commercial sectors, to discuss the future of the digital shift in collections, services, and audiences.
The series aims to promote cross-sector discussion and debate, to enable knowledge exchange, and inspire collaborative endeavour across sectors and communities, for the benefit of RLUK members and the wider research and information management communities.
The Digital Shift Forum is open to all, and you do not need to belong to an RLUK member institution to attend or participate.
Knowledge Stewardship
Wednesday 11 June, 14:00 – 15:00 (BST), 15:00 – 16:00 (CEST/SAST), 16:00 – 17:00 (EEST), 06:00 – 07:00 (PDT), 09:00 – 10:00 (EDT), 21:00 – 22:00 (AWST/CST)
The Sustainability theme for the RLUK Digital Shift Forum will explore how research libraries can lead and support more sustainable futures through interlinked areas: environmental responsibility, digital transformation, and knowledge stewardship.
This talk by Richard Ovenden will focus on the long-term sustainability of knowledge. It will consider strategies for ensuring continued access, preservation, and relevance of both digital and physical knowledge assets in a rapidly evolving world, and the challenges for libraries as stewards of knowledge in more uncertain times.
Richard recently co-authored a Guest Essay in the NY Times, Politicians Shouldn’t Get to Delete Inconvenient Facts.
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Richard Ovenden has been Bodley’s Librarian (the senior Executive position of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford) since 2014, and Head of Gardens, Libraries and Museums, since 2022. Prior to this he has held positions at Durham University Library, the House of Lords Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the University of Edinburgh. He was educated at the University of Durham and University College London, and holds a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford. He was awarded the OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2019.