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Digitech Newsletter :: December 2009

METRO "Planning Our Digital Future" Conference Identifies Top Priorities for Digital Library Initiatives On November 2-3, 2009, the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) held the Planning Our Digital Future conference at the organization’s offices in New York. Fifty attendees representing all types and sizes of METRO member institutions participated in the day and half event. Representatives from all types of METRO’s member organizations participated, including hospital, public, academic, archives, museum library and archives. Deans and directors of large and small libraries and archives participated as well as digital librarians, technologists, and faculty in graduate programs in information studies. The conference focused on one question: "What is the future direction of digital programs in the METRO region?" METRO will be reviewing the recommendations to develop a plan within the context of METRO’s strategic priorities and funding. Read the Executive Summary of the meeting here:(pdf) http://bit.ly/7YiWlu Digital Preservation Workshop Series Continues Through December and January Over 35 people attended the first workshop in the Digital Preservation Workshop series here at METRO on November 4. Couldn't make it to the first workshop? Not a problem. Participants who sign up for the second or third workshop will receive access to an online portal of digital preservation resources to get up-to-speed. Remaining workshops include: December 16, 2009 Risk Assessment for Digital Collections Instructors: Tom Clareson (Lyrasis) and Liz Bishoff (BCR) Complete workshop details and registration: http://bit.ly/vyB07. January 28, 2010 Digital Preservation Tools, Systems, and Services Instructor: Tyler Walters (Georgia Institute of Technology) Complete workshop details and registration: http://bit.ly/3TyDqm. Digital Collection Spotlight: The Juilliard School's Digital Resources Each month we take a moment to share digital collections created by METRO members. Recommend a collection for the spotlight by emailing jkucsma@metro.org. This month we take a look at a few digital collections from The Juilliard School. First, we have the full text access to a periodical from early in The Juilliard School's history. The Baton (1922-1932) documented activities of the Institute of Musical Art, Juilliard's predecessor institution, which was founded by Frank Damrosch in 1905. Second, we have The Juilliard Review, which was published from 1954-1962 and edited by Sheila Keats. The Juilliard Review included many articles of scholarly interest as well as selected information on School activities. Finally, we have the Ruth Dana Collection of First and Early Editions of Liszt's Piano Works. Donated to Juilliard in 1914, the Ruth Dana Collection includes almost 200 first and early editions of Franz Liszt’s original piano works, transcriptions, and arrangements. Images of the scores (in PDF format) are linked to bibliographic records in Juilliard's library catalog, under Ruth Dana Collection of Liszt Editions Nnju. The Juilliard School Library's digital resources page also includes a slick Interactive Timeline of Juilliard History. View more digital collections at digitalMETRO, an online directory of digital collections created and maintained by METRO libraries. "Uncovering Stories" at Columbia University Libraries' Assessment Forum Michael Lascarides, User Analyst in the Digital Experience Group at New York Public Library, spoke last week at the Columbia University Libraries Assessment Forum -- "an opportunity for staff at the Libraries and our colleagues in the community to learn about successful assessment projects at nearby college and university libraries." The forums are organized by the Columbia University Libraries Assessment Working Group. Download slides from Lascarides's presentation or listen to the recording here:http://bit.ly/6HpwzA. "D is for Digitize" Conference Tackles Google Books Settlement The Institute for Information Law & Policy at New York Law School hosted a two-day conference on October 8 and 9, 2009 to help make sense of the Google Books Settlement. The conference was intended to demystify the settlement and did so with a diverse group of academics and practitioners that "examined the settlement through the lenses of copyright, civil procedure, antitrust, information policy, literary culture, and the publishing industry." Streaming videos from the presentations are available here, and Peter Hirtle has assembled a useful digest of highlights from the conference here. Internet Librarian Conference Resources Getting time off and funding for professional development travel has become increasingly difficult for librarians. While many of us would have loved to travel to Monterey for the Internet Librarian 2009 (IL2009) Conference, it just wasn't in the cards (or the budget) for a lot of us. In an attempt to bring a small slice of the good work that the Information Today people do back to NYC, METRO hosted a panel featuring short presentations from presenters and attendees from IL2009. Our guest presenters included Joe Murphy (Yale University), Karen Schneiderman (Brooklyn Law School), Margaret Smith (NYU), and Lisa Carlucci Thomas (Southern Connecticut State University). In addition to the panel, we've also compiled links to Internet Librarian Conference resources, including links to presentations and videos here: http://bit.ly/12t4YC. Digitization and Emerging Tech Workshops and Events December: 07 - Information and Communication Technology Literacy in the Library. Details: http://bit.ly/VHXUy 08 - Digitization Site Visit: Jewish Theological Seminary. Details:http://bit.ly/2WBEY 10 - Smart Phone and Mobile Computing Special Interest Group. 3:00-4:30 at METRO. RSVP to nancy.glassman@einstein.yu.edu. 15 - Grant Writing for Digitization and Preservation Projects. Details:http://bit.ly/4wNl3c 16 - Risk Assessment for Digital Collections. Details:http://bit.ly/vyB07 January: 28 - Digital Preservation Tools, Systems, and Services. Details:http://bit.ly/3TyDqm Add these and other related events around NY and the world to your Google Calendar by subscribing to the METRO Calendar: http://bit.ly/metrocalendar. The complete Fall METRO schedule is now available online here: http://bit.ly/METRO_Fall2009 Newsfeed  The best of November's Tweets from the tweetMETRO feed (http://twitter.com/tweetMETRO): Follow-up to our Twitter for Libraries workshop: list of libraries using Twitter (updated 10.13.09) http://bit.ly/y75OB RT @dupuisj: Librarians and social media engagement: http://bit.ly/3GiA3Q Video posted from “D Is For Digitize” Google Book Settlement Conference at NYLS http://bit.ly/9TWxS #metrolibs "Twitter for Libraries" workshop and now a Shelf2Life (http://bit.ly/2At7QD) info session. Busy day for library tech at METRO #metrolibs RT @duraspace: Shining a light on cloud computing for higher ed #EDUCAUSE09 http://bit.ly/4dy4Ad We're putting the finishing touches on "Essential Twitter for Libraries" Workshop (10-1 on Wednesday). Still time... http://bit.ly/4gkTKd NYC lib/arch hivemind: anyone know if there's an archive for the Loughlin Lyceum (c. 1900-1920ish)? NYPL's Library Lions Video highlights the human side of library and information services. Does your library have similar videos? http://bit.ly/1VoqJo A METRO hat-tip to our presenters and attendees from last night's #IL2009 recap. Let's all go to Monterey next year! Just posted an accompanying resource page for tonight's NYC Internet Librarian Recap Reception http://bit.ly/IL_NYC #IL2009 Evolution of the new lion logo at NYPL (via @tadawes and @LibraryJournal) http://ow.ly/ArSX New "Smart Phone & Mobile Computing" Special Interest Group to Meet in December http://bit.ly/mC43m RT @amandafrench: Pleased to announce launch of new website for NYU Archives and Public History program: http://aphdigital.org Cornell U. Lib. Publishes Digitization Manual for Libraries, Archives and Museums (via @clancco) http://bit.ly/2LU4zU Don't forget to tag your tweets with #metrolibs to aggregate news of interest to other METRO libraries. Have other news you think we should be sharing with subscribers to this list? Tweet us at http://twitter.com/tweetmetro.

Bringing the Internet Librarian Conference to NYC

Getting time off and funding for professional development travel has become increasingly difficult for librarians. While many of us would have loved to travel to Monterey for the Internet Librarian 2009 (IL2009) Conference, it just wasn't in the cards (or the budget) for a lot of us.

In an attempt to bring a small slice of the good work that the Information Today people do back to NYC, the Metropolitan New York Library Council is hosting a panel featuring short presentations from presenters and attendees from IL2009. Our guest presenters include Joe Murphy (Yale University), Karen Schneiderman (Brooklyn Law School), Margaret Smith (NYU), and Lisa Carlucci Thomas (Southern Connecticut State University).  

This post is intended to aggregate some additional resources from IL2009 that might be of interest to attendees at the METRO session as well as other librarians interested in staying on top of proceedings from conferences they're unable to attend. Please feel free to add additional resources and comments from your experience at IL2009 with our community. 

LINKS

• IL2009 Conference Program
• IL2009 Speaker List
  
• IL2009 Wiki
• Slideshare presentations tagged #IL2009
• Photos tagged #IL2009 on Flickr
  
• Tweets tagged #IL2009
• IL2009 Conference Blog
• Delicious bookmarks tagged #IL2009
  

VIDEOS

Paul Holdengräber interview IL2009 from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo.

"Find Out at I L 2009" from Kaygraphic on Vimeo.

Internet Librarian Conference 2009 from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo.

More Videos tagged #IL2009

Library Day in the Life

I've had the opportunity to speak with a handful of library school classes in the last year, and one of the questions that always comes up is, "What does a typical day look like for you?" Maybe it's because I'm a librarian not actually working in a library. Maybe it's because my job title is so opaque. Or it's just the general mystique of librarianship. Whatever the reason, I'm glad there's a second-annual Library Day in the Life -- if for no other reason than to help me document where it is that my time and energy go every day. Sometimes it's impossible for me to even tell at the end of the day what's been keeping me occupied all day.

HI! I'm Jason Kucsma, and I'm the Emerging Technologies Manager for the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)! METRO is a non-profit member services organization serving libraries and librarians in New York City and Westchester County. Our membership includes over 250 academic, public, special, and hospital libraries which represent over 1300 branches throughout the metropolitan region. What follows is my attempt to wrangle some sense of order out of a workday that usually finds me flitting between email, web browsers, and the phone like a schizophrenic hummingbird.

5:30
Up for coffee. Read the NYTimes online and check personal email (Inbox Zero at 5:40). Scan Twitter posts from the last 12 hours and check Facebook for anything remotely interesting. Do not find. Check work email to see what's in store for the day. Not much because I answered emails over the weekend. Good.

7:00
Shower and wake up Mega (my amazing wife, whose name is actually Megan, but I call her "Mega" because she's that great) by accidentally letting one of the cats into the bedroom. She's also a librarian working in a non-library job. She's the Digital Assets Manager at The Granger Collection, a small, independently-owned image agency. Throw together lunch, shut down home computer (so my visiting teenage sister-in-law can't spend all day on Facebook and/or downloading garbage that shouldn't be downloaded), and head out for work. 

7:45 - 8:15
Take the R from Park Slope to the Atlantic/Pacific stop. Express N is waiting, so I score a quicker ride to Union Square than if I were to ride the R the whole way.

8:20
Second person in the office this morning. Check work email (Inbox Zero at 8:30).

8:20 - 8:50
Type up first portion of this day's log, and realize that I'm not going to be able to sustain this level of specificity throughout the day. Shrug.

9:00
Follow a handful of librarians from last Friday's #followalibrarian Twitter lovefest.

9:20
Listen to a story on The Takeaway about streaming music "on the net."

9:30-10:30
Troubleshoot a problem with the digitalMETRO digital collection directory. The directory is built on the Omeka collection management system, and we've been testing the batch upload plug-in to add multiple collections at a time. For some reason, images weren't showing up when a recent batch was added, so I manually uploaded them. I'm excited about this little project. We started building it last Fall, and it now has detailed records for over 160 unique digital collections created and, well, I'll tell you more about it later. 

10:30 - 10:45
Quick check-in on email, tweets, and Facebook Scrabble (playing two evenly matched games with @tadawes and my wife). Write a mildly scathing Yelp review of a sushi restaurant I went to yesterday in Williamsburg. Never again.

10:45 - 11:00
Actually notice background music on Pandora when Superchunk, Calexico, Portastatic, Aqueduct, and Apples In Stereo all play consecutively. See also: Stuff White People Like.

11:00 - 2:00
Work on pulling together details for our Fall workshop and professional development schedule. As the Emerging Technologies Manager, one of my responsibilities is to program workshops for our member librarians on skills that we've identified as must-have skills for those interested in keeping their skills current. I work to both identify emerging tech areas and find expert librarian instructors to teach the courses, either face-to-face or online via our web conferencing software.

Some of the workshops/events I'm coordinating for the Fall include: A three-day series on digital preservation, Twitter basics for libraries, Zotero basics for research management (for librarians to use and to teach others to use), two webinars on open source software, Library Mash-Ups (with Nicole Engard, LibLime), Text Messaging Reference (with Joe Murphy, Yale), a site visit to the Jewish Theological Seminary's digitization lab, Managing Copyright for Digital Collections (with Linda Tadic, NYU Tisch School of the Arts), and about a half-dozen more. These workshops get scattered around our calendar among other workshops and events we host on more general library professional development topics.

12:53
Interrupt what I was doing when I remember that I need to send out a follow-up email to people who attended our free "Introduction to Zotero Webinar" last week. We've done two of these introduction webinars for about 20-25 people each session. The webinar is intended to be a primer for those libraries interested in bringing a "trained Zotero user/instructor" (hey, that's me!) to their library to teach staff how to use the tool.

1:45
Take a five-minute break to enter the Google Books contest. Eat slice of leftover spinach and cheese frittata at my desk that I made yesterday for brunch.

2:00-3:15
Meet with a a fellow working on transitioning from publishing to libraries. Meet to discuss what "emerging technologies" means to libraries and how librarians can position themselves in job interviews. I felt like I wasn't as helpful as I wanted to be in the conversation, primarily because job opportunities are so competitive right now -- everywhere, not just in libraries.

3:15-3:45
Check in with work and personal email (Inbox Zero for both at 3:45)

3:45
Continue working on wrangling details for Fall courses. Spend a few minutes stressing out about a webinar that I have to do NEXT WEEK about keeping up with technology trends when it's not your job to necessarily keep up with technology. Take solace in that fact that I got some really great advice by fellow librarians on FriendFeed.

4:00
Shift from course planning to answer some questions for a member library interested in having their digital collection included in WorldCat via OCLC's new Digital Collection Gateway. A little background is in order. METRO provides modest grants for libraries to launch or maintain digitization projects, and part of that includes free hosting of digital collections on an OCLC-hosted CONTENTdm instance. It's a great solution for smaller libraries that can't host their own digital collections, and an added benefit is that they have the opportunity to have their collections harvested into WorldCat and the New York Heritage project portal. The particularly library in question had some concerns about how their items would be represented in WorldCat and how some of their metadata would map to the WorldCat MARC fields. Do my best to answer their questions and invite more questions for clarification.

4:15
Turn off Pandora to listen to a mix CD sent to me by fellow librarian and good friend Stephen Francoeur. Great mix of tracks (from Green Day to Okkervil River to Matt Pond PA to The Faint to The Pigeon Detectives and more).  Cliche as it sounds, music really gets me through the day most of the time. On days when I listen to only podcasts, I can totally feel the effect that the lack of music has on my psyche. Weird, but it's true. I also spend an inordinate amount of time looking for and listening to new music, so it's nice to have friends recommend stuff that really moves them.

4:20
Back to course planning. Finish description and objectives for Zotero course and email reminders to instructors that I still need descriptions and objectives from. Wonder why I decide to end that sentence in a preposition and shrug it off.

4:50
Wonder how it became almost time to go home when I have so many windows open and things in-process. Begin prioritization of which things NEED to get done now and which ones I will do tomorrow -- also resigning myself to the fact that I will likely not leave at 5pm sharp.

5:10
Review notes for my weekly update on a capstone project I'm doing for my summer class in the University of Arizona's Digital Information Management Certificate Program (DigIn). DigIn is run by the School of Information Resources and Library Science as a six-course virtual program geared toward giving some technological skills and concepts to librarians, archivists, and museum curators. The project I'm working on involves using Omeka to deliver digital collections. We started out creating a directory of digital collections in New York City, and the second phase of the project involves documenting the viability of using Omeka to deliver digital collections created on the CONTENTdm collection management system.

5:14
Leave work in hopes of making it to the train before an impending monsoon strikes. Succeed. Read fantastic article on the train about Obama's right-hand lady in NY Times Sunday Magazine.

6:00
Make it back to Brooklyn in time to head to my favorite Mexican restaurant.

8:25
Edit this post a bit and call it an evening.

Nominate Your Library for Best Library Practices Using Cutting Edge Technology

From the official ALA release:

The American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) is soliciting nominations for best library practices using cutting-edge technology. 

“We want to showcase libraries that are serving their communities with novel and innovative methods and provide the library community with some successful models for delivering quality library service in new ways,” said Vivian Pisano, Chair of OITP’s America’s Libraries for the 21st Century Subcommittee. 

If you wish to submit a nomination, please complete this form and send it to the American Library Association, Office for Information Technology Policy, 1615 New Hampshire Avenue NW, 1st Floor, Washington, D.C. 20009 or by e-mail to ainouye@alawash.org by September 1, 2009.  Further details about the nomination process may be found here.

The America’s Libraries for the 21st Century Subcommittee will review all nominations and conduct selected interviews or site visits to identify those libraries that are truly offering a best practice or most innovative service.  Libraries or library service areas selected will be publicized via the OITP Web site, highlighted through ALA publications, and featured in a program at the ALA Annual Conference in 2010. 

E-mail submissions to ainouye@alawash.org.

For questions, contact:

Vivian Pisano, Chief of Information Technology
San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA  94102
415/557-4340
vpisano@sfpl.org

OCLC and NISO Release White Paper on Book Metadata Workflow

From the abstract:

The white paper was commissioned by NISO and OCLC as a follow-up to the Symposium for Publishers and Librarians held by OCLC on March 18-19, 2009 to discuss book metadata. This paper analyzes the current state of metadata creation, exchange, and use throughout the book supply chain. With the number of book formats multiplying and the amount of digital content growing rapidly, the metadata required to support the discovery, sale, and use of content by a global audience is increasing exponentially. At the same time economic pressures on all stakeholders in the supply chain from publishers, wholesalers, booksellers, metadata vendors, and librarians present greater challenges to providing quality and comprehensive metadata at every point in the cycle. Through interviews with over 30 industry representatives, Luther has created a book metadata exchange map illustrating the process and has identified opportunities for eliminating redundancies and making the entire process more efficient.

From the press release:

"The white paper illustrates how effectively both publishers and libraries have implemented their respective standards of ONIX for Books and MARC, but also shows how silos have grown up around the two standards," stated Todd Carpenter, NISO Managing Director. "There are definite opportunities for breaking down these silos and both communities are eager to find better methods for interoperability and streamlining their operations."

Read/Download here.

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The METRO Portal: A Netvibes Universe-In-Progress

I'm in a fortunate position here at METRO in that I get the chance to talk with a lot of librarians working in very different institutions. We serve libraries and librarians in academic, public, and special libraries in New York City -- about 250 members representing over 1000 branches. And even though each library has its own challenges, there are common issues that might be well-served by a tool that helps librarians keep tabs on what other libraries are working on.

Until the technology ramps up to make it possible to dump our collective experiences and areas of expertise into a searchable database, we're left rely on conversations with each other and reading published news and information about the work we do. 

Enter the METRO portal. Using the popular RSS feed reader, Netvibes, I created a universe as an at-a-glance resource for keeping track of what libraries and librarians in New York City are thinking about, doing, and thinking about doing. The universe aggregates feeds from various new sources, blogs, and websites to provide a convenient way to keep track of hundreds of conversational threads. The portal features tabs with feeds from libraries, librarians, library organizations and groups, and related blogs.

As a universe-in-progress, the METRO portal will continue to evolve as we get feedback from users and add more content. Please comment here or email me to have additional sources added. 

Summer Webinars on Emerging Tech at METRO

One of the hats I wear here at METRO is programming continuing education in digitization and emerging technologies opportunities for librarians in New York City. I'm really excited about the following webinars we're offering this summer:

Creating Open Source Sandboxes with BitNami

When:  Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 1:00 pm to 2:15pm
Presenter: Mark Beatty
Register here: http://bit.ly/XPhfE

Are you interested in experimenting with an open source system like Drupal or WordPress, but don't know where to start? BitNami Stacks can give you the opportunity to "test-drive" open source software solutions without the need for IT support (and approval in many cases). BitNami makes installing wikis, blogs, or Client Relationship Management systems a simple and enjoyable process. Popular stacks include: Drupal, Joomla, MediaWiki, WordPress, Coppermine, and Moodle as well as many others.  This webinar will teach you to create software "sandboxes" with little or no previous knowledge about Linux, PHP, or MySQL.

Information Use and Reuse in the Library:
The Creative Commons Solution

When:  Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm
Presenter: Michael Sauers
Register here: http://bit.ly/3kDpQ

With the debate over copyright raging, some are calling for the end of the “all rights reserved” regime, and libraries feeling like they’re caught in the middle. What are the alternatives? Creative Commons (CC) is the most respected alternative available today with its idea of “some rights reserved” as set by the content creators themselves. This presentation will talk about the principles of Creative Commons, show how you can easily apply it to your intellectual property today, and how you and your patrons can use CC to find material that can be legally reused in the creation of new content.  

Simple Strategies and Tools for Keeping Up with Tech Trends

When:  Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm
Presenter:  Jason Kucsma, Emerging Technologies Manager, METRO
Register here: http://bit.ly/1bteV9

As the World Wide Web matures, the amount of information we have access to is increasingly overwhelming. And the rapid speed at which technologies change make it even harder to keep up with what’s new, what’s important, and what’s not worth your time and attention. Still, it’s important for librarians to be familiar with changes in technology, because they will inevitably influence our users’ expectations and may have implications on how we adapt to meet those expectations. This webinar will provide you a few simple strategies for keeping up with shifts in technology without having to devote valuable work time that could be used effectively. This webinar will also detail some of the freely available tools to help you implement these strategies. 

Other Webinars Include:

• Free Zotero Webinar
• Introduction to Digital Collection Management Systems

For questions or assistance with registration, please call 212-228-2320 x10 or write to training@metro.org

Chronicle of Higher Ed's TechTherapy Comes to NYC!

Join METRO February 10 as we welcome the hosts of The Chronicle of Higher Education podcast TechTherapy to lead a discussion about the libraries and IT departments. On the surface, it would seem that libraries and IT departments should have a lot in common. Librarians are increasingly interested in leveraging new tools to better serve the needs of their communities, and IT staff members possess the knowledge and skills needed to leverage these resources effectively. So why is it that these two professional cultures often find themselves on opposite sides of the aisle? Our hosts will moderate a discussion with attendees to identify common problem areas and creative solutions. This forum will be a perfect opportunity for administrators, librarians, IT staff, and students to share and learn from each others' experiences. Refreshments will be provided and there will be time to network with colleagues.
 
Issues Forum
Libraries and IT: Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Where: Metropolitan New York Library Council; 57 E 11th Street; NY, NY 10003
When: February 10, 2009 (2pm-4pm)
Fee: $25 for METRO members, myMETRO members, and LIS students; $50 non-members
Register here: http://tinyurl.com/a4yejw

Three Noteworthy Events at METRO this Spring

We've been hard at work putting together what we hope will be three really useful events this Spring for librarians in NYC and the surrounding regions. Take a look at what's going on, and please help us out by spreading the word!

MARCH 24-25
Stewardship of Digital Assets
A Two-Day Workshop on Sustaining Digital Collections

Where: Metropolitan New York Library Council; 57 E 11th Street; NY, NY 10003
When: March 24-25, 2009 (10am-4pm)
Fee: $300 institutional members; $250 myMETRO members; $400 non-members

Register here: http://tinyurl.com/METRO-SoDA
(registration will close at 5pm on February 27, 2009)

Workshop topics to include:
Through a combination of lecture and interactive sessions you will learn from a faculty of four digital experts about the long-term needs of the digital assets that exist in your institution, and how to plan for their preservation. The workshop provides examples from model digital preservation plans and includes case studies from established digital preservation programs. Faculty members work directly with attendees to assist in developing their plans.

Workshop Faculty:
Liz Bishoff, Director of Digital and Preservation Services for BCR in Aurora, Colorado
Tom Clareson, Program Director for New Initiatives at PALINET
Katherine Skinner, Digital Projects Librarian at the Emory University Libraries
Tyler O. Walters, Associate Director, Technology and Resource Services at Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center.


APRIL 16
Digital Dilemmas Symposium
Challenges + Opportunities + Solutions

Where: William and Anita Newman Library at Baruch College
When: April 16, 2009 (9am-5pm)
Fee: $125

Register here: http://tinyurl.com/D2Symposium

About the Symposium:
Digital Dilemmas is an academic symposium organized by the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO). The Symposium will feature recognized experts from the Mid-Atlantic region who will: outline the primary challenges facing academic libraries in a digital world; provide an understanding of the digital information economy and its effect on scholarship; and suggest future opportunities for academic libraries. The symposium will also feature presentations on the economic impact of digital scholarship on libraries and negotiating copyright in digital information environments.

Confirmed Speakers:
Clifford Lynch (CNI), Daniel Cohen (Center for History and New Media, George Mason University), Eileen Fenton (Portico), and Roger Schonfeld (Ithaka).


JUNE 3
LibCamp NYC
A NYC Library Camp hosted by METRO and Brooklyn College Library

Where: Brooklyn College Library
When: April 16, 2009 (9am-4pm)
Fee: $25

Register here: http://tinyurl.com/9yv3tv

About LibCamp NYC:
LibCamp NYC is a participatory user-generated “unconference” focusing on libraries and library technology. It inherits a rich tradition from other unconferences and BarCamps, in which the content of the sessions is determined and managed by attendees. Sessions may include (but are not limited to): software demonstrations, how-to workshops, spirited debates, paper presentations, or problem-solving sessions. Participants will determine the day's offerings in the opening session, and all sessions will be summarized in the closing session. This collaborative environment presents unique opportunities for learning, sharing, and relationship-building that can be elusive at more formal conferences. LibCamp NYC is organized by METRO and the Brooklyn College Library and follows on the success of Library Camp NYC, which convened in August 2007 at Baruch College Library.

For questions or help with registration please contact Aleksi Merilainen at 212-228-2320 x19 or amerilainen@metro.org

CLIR Papers from Symposium on Digital Scholarship

Papers have been published from the CLIR/NEH symposium "Promoting Digital Scholarship: Formulating Research Challenges in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Computation" Visit here for the symposium page and links to the papers.

Here is the list of papers:

Tools for thinking: ePhilology and Cyberinfrastructure by Gregory Crane, Alison Babeu, David Bamman, Lisa Cerrato, and Rashmi Singhal

Social Attention in the Age of the Web by Bernardo A. Huberman

The Changing Landscape of American Studies in a Global Era by Caroline Levander

Art History and the New Media; Representation and the Production of Humanistic Knowledge by Stephen Murray

A Whirlwind Tour of Automated Language Processing for the Humanities and Social Sciences by Douglas W. Oard

Information Visualization: Challenge for the Humanities by Maureen Stone

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