British Library: Guest speaker at "Whatever is to become of books?"

Guest speaker Aquiles Alencar Brayner is a Digital Curator at the British Library, managing digitisation projects, implementation of digital resources and development of e-research tools. He is a member of the peer review committee for the ESRC (Economic and Social Sciences Research Council) and the author of Literature of the Senses (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009). His research interests include digital humanities, contemporary Latin American literature and music.

The British Library has taken the lead, nationally and internationally, in aiming to overcome the challenges of collecting, preserving and providing contemporary and long term access to the world’s digital knowledge. The Library’s strategic vision is to ‘provide both physical and digital access to world-class information where and when people need it’. During the last years Library has developed a number of partnerships and business models to drive forward mass digitisation and create a valuable and enduring resource for researchers and the public alike. www.bl.uk. Twitter @britishlibrary.

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