Times are certainly tough for libraries in this economic climate. It has never been more important for us to think about how we can strategically position our institutions to emerge from this crisis as continued cornerstones of the communities we serve. More than simply a discussion about digital information resources, the Digital Dilemmas Symposium will give librarians and administrators an opportunity to join leading scholars in thinking strategically about changing community expectations and how our libraries might adapt and flourish under these conditions.
When: April 16, 2009
9:30 a.m. to 4:30p.m. (Check-in and light breakfast begin at 8:30 a.m.)
Where: William and Anita Newman Conference Center at Baruch College. (directions)
Registration Information: Early registration is strongly recommended. Register online here.
Cost: $125 (lunch will be provided)
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Sessions:
Scholarship in the Digital Environment and the Implications for Library Strategies
Clifford Lynch
Director
Coalition for Networked Information
This
introductory keynote will survey changes in the practices of
scholarship across the disciplines, ranging from developments in
digital humanities to the growing national and international
investments in e-science and cyberinfrastructure. After exploring some
of the implications of these changes for scholarly communication, Lynch
will conclude with a discussion of the potential implications for
library strategic planning.
Creation, Management, and Preservation of Digital Content:
New Challenges, Opportunities, and Solutions
Evan Owens
Chief Technology Officer
Portico
The
move from print-based to electronic modes of scholarly communication
has led libraries and publishers to redefine their traditional roles
and take on new responsibilities in the creation, management, and
preservation of digital content. These tasks present not insignificant
technical, operational, and financial burdens. This talk will look at
some fundamental issues in digital content creation, management, and
preservation. Out of these new challenges has come a need for clear
organizational priorities and careful - often difficult - budget
choices as well as new opportunities for collaboration and cooperation
to secure maximum benefit from severely limited resources
The Strategic Implications of Faculty Attitudes on the Shift to an Electronic Environment
Roger Schonfeld
Research Manager
Ithaka
As
scientists and certain social scientists find themselves accessing
information resources without the intermediation of the library, how
does this affect their perceptions of the library and future prospects
for the library’s campus role? Ithaka’s 2006 surveys of US faculty
members and librarians indicate that faculty members’ views of the
library, and the value they place in library services, has changed
significantly in recent years. This talk will examine the strategic
implications to libraries and universities more broadly that emerge
from faculty attitudes and perspectives on libraries and their value,
including specific library functions, and how these perceptions are
changing.
Copyright and Fair Use Policies for a Remix Culture:
Learning from the Best Practices Model
Patricia Aufderheide
Director
Center for Social Media, American University
Fair
use is a rapidly-expanding feature of copyright law, but still murkily
understood. Essential to prevent copyright from devolving into private
censorship, it has also been denigrated as "just a defense" and "too
vague to be reliable." In some practice communities, though, fair use
has become routinely used, because of the adoption of best practices
codes. Features of these codes--particularly those developed by
documentary filmmakers and by media literacy educators--have direct
application to library work. Their example also provides a powerful
model as librarians grapple with ever more common problems such as
archiving of electronic dissertations, posting of digital records, open
courseware and distance education.
Scholars and the Everywhere Library
Dan Cohen
Director
Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
How
can libraries best help researchers when the very conception of the
"library" for most scholars has changed from a physical location to a
wide variety of online resources? And does this transition to the
digital realm open up new avenues of research and new services that
libraries can provide to meet those research needs? This talk will
discuss new possibilities for search, discovery, recommendations, and
analysis that a modern library might be able to provide to the next
generation of scholars.
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