The Information Futures Institute (IFI) was (is?) an informal, recurring group, workshop, or collaborative initiative focused on the future of libraries, information science, and technology. I was introduced to the group by Cathy Norton (MBLWHOI Library) and Cathy invited me to a meeting of the group held at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
Berkman Center
I got to meet a bunch of very interesting people at the session, including a number of Berkman people. Those attending included David Lankes (library thinker), Lewis Hyde (author of The Gift) and the brilliant, funny and always entertaining David Weinberger. David and I would go on to move in similar circles around projects like the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
Never heard about the group after my attending this meeting and not sure what became of it.
- Kalfatovic, M. (2008, April 12). "Oh Time, Thy Pyramids!" The Biodiversity Heritage Library and the Unchaining of the Universal Library(?). Information Futures Institute Meeting (IFI), Cambridge, MA (Berkman Center, Harvard University). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19539675