Transforming Libraries: The Impact of Digital Information Resources

Council on Library and Information Resources

2005 SPONSORS' SYMPOSIUM

Transforming Libraries

April 18, 2005

The Brookings Institution

1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C.

Tentative Program

8:45                 Check-in and continental breakfast

9:30                 Welcoming remarks

                        Nancy Davenport, President

                        Council on Library and Information Resources

9:40                 Developments: New Forms of Digital Content

                        Moderator: David Seaman, Director, Digital Library Federation

Paul Courant, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs,

                        University of Michigan

Stephen Rhind-Tutt, Chief Executive Officer, Alexander Street Press

10:40               Break

10:55               Demands: Faculty and Students

How are provosts and academic administrators preparing to meet the demands?

                        Moderator: Nancy Davenport, President, CLIR

David Shulenburger, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, University of Kansas

Susanne Woods, Provost and Professor of English, Wheaton College

12:30               Lunch

1:55                 Workforce: Emerging Staffing Needs

Moderator: Susan Perry, Senior Advisor, Mellon Foundation, and Program Officer, CLIR

José-Marie Griffiths, Dean, School of Library and Information Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Principal Investigator, National Study on the Future of Librarians in the Workforce

Elliott Shore, Chief Information Officer, Bryn Mawr College, and Principal Faculty, Postdoctoral Fellowship in Scholarly Information Resources

2:45                 Break

3:00                 Discussion: Content and Access Services: What's Needed in the Digital Environment

3:45                 Wrap-up and Concluding Remarks, Nancy Davenport