The Information Services Division (ISD) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is proud to present Digital Librarian and Internet Archive co-founder, Brewster Kahle, as guest speaker of the ISD Information and History Speaker Series.   

Mr. Kahle will be speaking at NIST on May 8, from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in Lecture Room A of the Administration Building.  Due to limited seating and security restrictions, we ask that you RSVP to Sandy Kelly--301-975-2784 or -- [log in to unmask] by Monday, May 5.

The Internet Archive is the largest publicly accessible, privately funded digital archive in the world.  Mr. Kahle is also well-known for being the inventor of the Internet’s first publishing system: the Wide Area Information Server (WAIS).

As one writer put it, “Brewster Kahle…has been working to provide universal access to all human knowledge for more than fifteen years.”