Meeting Announcement: FUNDING OUR DIGITAL FUTURE

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006
From: Kathryn Kowalczik (Binghamton Univ.) <kkowalcz_at_binghamton.edu>
Subject: Meeting Announcement

FUNDING OUR DIGITAL FUTURE:
BUDGETING FOR LIBRARIES & SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

http://tinyurl.com/bkbju

Binghamton University Libraries
March 20 & 21, 2006

Symposium Organizer
Ed Shephard, Head of Collection Development
Binghamton University Libraries

The academic library community has undergone rapid change with the move 
to digital in the last two decades. The discussion of the management of 
this change is still very much in a self-defining mode. As libraries 
struggle to identify both challenges and strategies internally, an 
equally important issue is the interaction between faculty, students 
(especially graduate students), campus administration and the libraries 
in identifying and developing common goals for collection resource 
development and budgetary methods to reach those goals. 

The Binghamton University Libraries will hold a symposium on March 20 & 
21, 2006 bringing librarians, faculty and students together with invited

outside presenters to explore the best ways to improve this dialogue on 
our campus. This symposium is open to other SUNY institutions as well as

other interested participants. There is no fee.

The purpose of this symposium will be: 

To explore the challenges of information resource identification, 
prioritization and budgetary allocation in the digital age; 

To address the increasing interdisciplinary nature of teaching and 
research, and to involve the university community in an ongoing dialogue

with the University Libraries in this process; 

To address the broad issues of the changing nature of scholarship in the

digital age, both the production of scholarly information and the 
communication of scholarship within the academic community (e.g. the 
open-access initiative and its funding model implications for libraries 
and universities) and how these impact the challenges facing libraries
in 
collection resource management and the strategies used to address these 
challenges; 

To take an important next step in the creation a flexible resource 
allocation process at Binghamton University to enable the Libraries to 
respond to changing research and curricular needs of faculty and
students. 

This symposium is being funded by a generous grant from the Binghamton 
University Provost's Office, as well as additional support from the 
Binghamton University Libraries and Haworth Press.

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