If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. On November 17, 2005, The Provost's Task Force on the Library and The University of Chicago Library hosted a one-day conference remembering the past and planning for the future of the Library. Speakers presented historical and current library perspectives and addressed issues of architectural and information-technology trends in research libraries. Neil Harris is the Preston and Sterling Morton Professor in the Departments of History, Art History, the Committee of Geographical Studies, and the College at the University of Chicago.