Transforming Libraries: The Impact of Digital Information Resources

COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES

FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY

SPONSORS' SYMPOSIUM

April 7, 2006

Jurys Hotel

1500 New Hampshire Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C.

Program

8:30           Check-in and continental breakfast

9:00           Welcoming remarks

                  Nancy Davenport, President

                  Council on Library and Information Resources

9:15           Tribute to Jim Haas

9:25           A Public Trust at Risk: Findings of The Heritage Health Index

Lawrence L. Reger, President, Heritage Preservation

Kristin Laise, Director, Heritage Health Index

10:10                  Discussion

10:45         Break

11:00                  Tribute to Patricia Battin

11:10         Toward New Access? Update on the Orphan Works Report and Section 108 Study Group Discussions

                  Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights

11:55         Discussion

12:30                  Tribute to David Penniman

12:40                  Lunch

1:40           Tribute to Deanna Marcum

1:50           "But it Used to be Right on this Corner…": Telling the Philadelphia Story through Special Collections and City Records

Robert Kieft, Librarian of the College, Haverford College

Joan Decker, Philadelphia Commissioner of Records

Robert Cheetham, President and CEO, Avencia, Inc.

2:35           Discussion

3:00           Wrap-up and Concluding Remarks, Nancy Davenport