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
