Summer Seminar Agenda
CLIR’s two-week immersion seminar introduced all 2012 CLIR and CLIR/DLF postdoctoral fellows to issues facing 21st-century libraries and provides fellows with a cohort of colleagues who can share experiences and information. Below is the full two-week agenda for 2012.
Pre-Seminar
Read Matthew Battles, Library: An Unquiet History and CLIR, The Idea of Order.
Post responses to questions on CLIR Connect Postdoctoral Fellows’ group page.
Week One
Sunday, July 22 | Welcome
12-5pm: Check-in and register at Haffner, Bryn Mawr College
7pm: introductory dinner at Haffner Dining Hall in the Dorothy Vernon Room
Monday, July 23 | Libraries: History & Organization
9am-4pm: seminar in Dalton 300
evening: optional pub night
Tuesday, July 24 | Libraries & Librarianship: Professional Culture
9am-4pm: seminar in Dalton 300
Wednesday, July 25 | CLIR, Academic Libraries, & Higher Education
Guests: Donald J. Waters, Mary Pat McPherson, Josh Greenberg, Chuck Henry, Supervisors, Continuing Fellows
2:45-6pm: panel discussion in Dalton 300
6-8pm: cocktails & dinner @ Wyndham Alumnae House
Thursday, July 26 | What CLIR Postdocs [Will] Do
Guests: Supervisors (in the morning), invited continuing fellows
9am-3:30pm: seminar in Dalton 300
4pm (optional): Team USA v. Team Canada
Friday, July 27 | What CLIR Postdocs [Will] Do
Guests: invited continuing fellows
9am-4pm: seminar in Guild 203 and Guild 102
7pm: dinner at Elliott Shore’s house
Saturday, July 28 & Sunday, July 29
Free time. Fellows not staying for Week 2 depart.
Week Two
Monday, July 30 | Production of Data
Guests: Andrew Asher, Chuck Humphrey
Reading: “The Problem of Data: Data Management and Curation Practices among University Researchers”
9am-4pm: seminar in Dalton 300
Tuesday, July 31 | Curation of Data
Guest: Chuck Humphrey
Reading: TBD
9am-4pm: seminar in Dalton 300
Wednesday, August 1 | Major Issues and Directions in Data Curation
Guest speakers: Sayeed Choudhury, Clifford Lynch
Readings: TBD
1-4:30pm: seminar in Dalton 300
Thursday, August 2 | Data Management & Open Science
Guest speakers: Sarah Shreeves, Victoria Stodden
9am-12pm and 4:30-7:30pm: seminar in Dalton 300
Friday, August 3 | Teaching/Learning @ Data, Next Steps
9am-3pm: seminar in Dalton 300