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Lisa German
lgerman_at_psu.edu
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LIVING DIGITAL: The Future of Information and the Role of the Library
Thursday, January 14, 2010 (8:30am-4:30pm)
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Rooms 252 A/B
Boston, Massachusetts
SPONSOR
ALCTS and the symposium planners wish to thank Sun Microsystems for its
generous support of Living Digital.
SCHEDULE
8:30-8:40 Welcome and introduction
8:40-9:20 Margaret Ashida
9:20-10:00 Kevin Guthrie
10:00-10:20 Break
10:20 -11:00 Panel presentations: Ann, John, Tom, Jenny
11:00-12:00 Brainstorming session
12:00-1:45 Lunch on your own
1:50-2:50 Breakout group lightening report-outs with panelist reactions
2:50-3:10 Break
3:10-3:50 John Palfrey
3:50-4:20 John Wilkin
4:20-4:30 Conclusion
PRESENTATION TITLES AND ABSTRACTS
Plenary speakers:
Margaret Ashida
Going Global in the Knowledge Economy
The 21st century's globalized economy is a knowledge economy,
powered by technologies that many of our kids take for granted but which
most of our parents never imagined. Generational differences have added
a new dimension to the "digital divide" and new challenges in attracting
and preparing talent to step into information-related professions. An
education well-grounded in STEM - a multidisciplinary approach to
science, technology, engineering and mathematics - creates informed and
literate citizens, let alone technically competent problem-solvers and
innovators in the workforce. Yet the pipeline is weak. This talk will
describe a growing movement among diverse stakeholders to address this
critical workforce issue through a collaborative, systemic focus on STEM
education. Recruitment approaches for addressing generational
differences in job and career expectations will be shared. An
underlying concept of "glocalization" will be discussed as fundamental
to transformations necessary to meet the challenges of the third
millennium.
Kevin M. Guthrie
When Books are Bytes, What Adds Value?
As content goes digital, the local infrastructure developed and
optimized over a century to store and provide access to books and
journals becomes less valuable. Putting aside preservation, when an
article becomes available electronically, one might argue that the
physical infrastructure to store the print version of that article has
no value at all. Perhaps that is less true today for books, because of
the current limitation of reading long-form content digitally, but that
too is changing rapidly and is nearing a tipping point. If one imagines
a future when nearly all content is in digital form, the role of the
library shifts from being one primarily managing physical infrastructure
and inventory efficiently and effectively, and one oriented toward
providing services. The speaker will explore a number of examples of
companies that have experienced this kind of shift and how they have
responded. He will also share some of the initial findings of a recent
faculty survey exploring changing attitudes about the library in this
digital age.
John Palfrey
Born Digital
Many young people -- especially those in schools, colleges, and
universities -- relate to information, one another, and institutions
very differently than their parents and grandparents. This session will
focus on topics such as changing norms in access to knowledge,
copyright, and the impact of the proposed Google Books Search
Settlement. This talk will consider the potentially transformative
implications of these changes for all libraries, schools, and the
publishing industry
John Wilkin
Thinking and Acting Globally to Better Serve Local Needs in the Michigan
Digital Library
Digital library activities continue to mature. The best of breed
are moving from being insular and narrowly local efforts that have
thrown up walls to cooperation to being broadly cooperative efforts that
take advantage of deeply shared resources, modularity, and openness.
Part of that maturation process is moving from seeing digital resource
issues as "common" problems to being "shared" problems. The
presentation will highlight University of Michigan digital library
efforts (and particularly HathiTrust) to discuss this move to shared
efforts, as well as the way this trend makes it possible for an
institution to build global systems and services that are cognizant of
local community needs. Working in a shared space and acting globally
ensures a more efficient use of scarce resources and better supports our
need to serve local needs.
Panelists:
Collection development in an all-digital age
Tom Corbett
Collection development for an all digital library shouldn't just
mimic the same processes and procedures we've used in the past to
develop our print resources. The value and even relevance of a local
"in-house" collection should be questioned. It's also important to look
beyond text and consider elevating the importance of providing access to
datasets and other non-text resources that best support our school
curriculum and/or community interests. In short, as librarians we need
to think about how our collection development policies and efforts
impact our inevitable shift from the role of gatekeeper to facilitator
in an all-digital future.
Leveling Up at the Library
Jenny Levine
Gaming at the library isn't new, but the impact it can now have on
patrons, staff, and the community is. Whether it's gaming services that
enhance social interactions, encourage intergenerational learning,
create opportunities for civic engagement, incorporate strategies into
instructional learning, or permeate the library with the "gamer ethos"
for success-driven failure, gaming offers incredibly rich and varied
possibilities for libraries. Learn how your library can "level up" with
gamers and harness the benefits of gaming for everyone.
Is there an app for that? Digital natives and the information commons
Ann Wolpert
New technology has brought with it new tools to enrich and expand
the core library services of learning, discovery and research. Reaching
out to "digital natives" through an information commons is a useful
approach to focusing library services on this generation of learners,
explorers, - and educators. The challenge for libraries is to provide
an environment in which digital natives, regardless of their individual
skills and experience, can gain access to the resources and services
that that will help them become full, ethical, informed participants in
the online communities in which they live.
John Yemma
Tailoring news to the Web: How the Christian Science Monitor embraces the
hyperlink
In March of 2009, the 100-year-old Christian Science Monitor shifted
to a Web-first strategy, discontinuing its daily print newspaper and
putting the bulk of its journalistic resources against its website,
CSMonitor.com. (The Monitor also launched a print weekly magazine, an
email Daily News Update, and other platforms.) Now that reporters,
editors, photographers, and graphics artists are working directly on the
Web, they are in a constant feedback loop with their audience and are
learning how to pursue an acquisition-retention-conversion strategy
using best practices with search engine optimization and hyperlinking to
deeper content. Whether the Monitor is a model for other news
organizations or not as a business, this Web-first type of journalism is
a profound cultural shift that most of the world of journalism will
sooner or later make. John Yemma, editor of the Monitor, will detail the
early lessons from this real-time laboratory for Web-first news located
in Boston's Back Bay.
BRAINSTORMING SESSION TOPICS
" Determining collections for a paperless library
" Designing an information commons for a generation of digital natives
" Incorporating gaming into library services
" Delivering information to consumers in a virtual environment
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Margaret Ashida joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in April,
2009 as the project director for the Empire State STEM Education
Initiative, supported by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation. Previously an executive at IBM, her experience includes
leadership in global diversity and workforce programs, global equal
opportunity, enterprise-wide performance management, workforce
management strategy and execution, university relations and recruiting,
collaborative innovation, e-business transformation, marketing
operations, customer support operations, financial planning and pricing,
and operational analysis. She began her career at the Xerox
Corporation, moving to ROLM coincident with its acquisition by IBM.
Margaret is the Chair of the Board of Directors of LEAP (Leadership
Education for Asian Pacifics Inc.) and a graduate of LEAP's Leadership
Development Program. She was recognized with a Corporate Leadership
Award at the OCA 2005 National Meeting for her career achievements and
work on behalf of the Asian community. Margaret also served as a
Trustee of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology from
2003-2009, is a past co-chair of the National Center for Women and IT
(NCWIT) Workforce Alliance, and is a past chair of the MentorNet
Advisory Board.
Margaret holds a B.A. from the University of Rochester. She is an
honorary member of the University's Trustees' Council, a charter member
of the George Eastman Circle, and currently serves on the Libraries
Advisory Council. She also holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate
School of Business.
Tom Corbett has been a professional librarian for over twenty years,
since graduating from the University of Missouri with a degree in
Library and Information Science in the mid-eighties. He has worn many
hats in the field, as a University Archivist, Director of Adult
Services, Head of Cataloging, Systems Administrator, Assistant Director
of a library network and last, but not least, as Executive Director of
the Fisher-Watkins Library at Cushing Academy. Tom's assignment at
Cushing Academy is to complete the transformation of the library from
one that relied primarily on printed resources to one that relies
primarily on digital resources. He believes this shift in focus and
priorities will help strengthen the library's role on campus without
sacrificing the library's ongoing commitment to promoting and nurturing
a love of reading.
Kevin M. Guthrie is the president of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit
organization focused on helping the academic community use digital
technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research
and teaching in sustainable ways. ITHAKA is the organizational home for
JSTOR and Portico. Ithaka S+R, the strategy and research arm of ITHAKA,
helps not-for-profit initiatives and organizations develop sustainable
business models and conducts research and analysis on the impact of
digital media on scholarly communications and the academic enterprise.
In addition to being the founding president of JSTOR, Kevin previously
started his own software development company and was a research
associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where he authored The
New-York Historical Society: Lessons from One Nonprofit's Long Struggle
for Survival (Jossey Bass). He holds a BSE in Civil Engineering from
Princeton University and a Masters in Business Administration from
Columbia University.
Jenny Levine is the Internet Development Specialist and Strategy
Guide at the American Library Association, where she works in the
Information Technology department. As part of her job, she blogs,
creates wikis, bugs her colleagues to instant message, tests podcasting
and vodcasting, teaches RSS, posts pictures on Flickr, responds to
members on Twitter, and does similar work with other emerging
technologies and tools in general. In 2007, she organized the first ALA
TechSource gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium, as well as the
successful follow-up in 2008. She also helps coordinate ALA's annual
National Gaming Day initiative. She led the development of a
professional online network for ALA members called ALA Connect that
launched in April 2009.
In addition, Levine is the author of The Shifted Librarian blog
(http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/), a site that helps librarians
understand the coming impact of ubiquitous, mobile, always-on internet
(and hence ubiquitous, always-on information) on our profession. She
wrote the September/October 2006 issue of "Library Technology Reports,"
titled Gaming and Libraries: Intersection of Services and is an avid
proponent of gaming services in libraries. LTR published her follow-up
issues, Gaming and Libraries Update: Broadening the Intersections, in
April 2008, and Gaming & Libraries: Learning Lessons from the
Intersections in July 2009.
John Palfrey is Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and Vice Dean for
Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School. He is the
co-author of "Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of
Digital Natives" (Basic Books, 2008) and "Access Denied: The Practice
and Politics of Internet Filtering" (MIT Press, 2008). His research and
teaching is focused on Internet law, intellectual property, and
international law. He practiced intellectual property and corporate law
at the law firm of Ropes & Gray. He is a faculty co-director of the
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Outside of
Harvard Law School, he is a Venture Executive at Highland Capital
Partners and serves on the board of several technology companies and
non-profits. John served as a special assistant at the US EPA during the
Clinton Administration. He is a graduate of Harvard College, the
University of Cambridge, and Harvard Law School. He writes a blog at
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/.
John P. Wilkin is the Associate University Librarian for Library
Information Technology (LIT) and is the Executive Director of
HathiTrust. The Library Information Technology (LIT) Division supports
the Library's online catalog and related technologies, provides the
infrastructure to both digitize and access digital library collections,
supports the Library's web presence, and provides frameworks and systems
to coordinate Library technology activities (e.g., authentication and
authorization). Reporting units include Core Services, Digital Library
Production Service, Library Systems, and Web Services.
John previously served as the Head of the Digital Library Production
Service at the University of Michigan, a position he held from its
inception in 1996. DLPS was originally conceived as a federated
organization, drawing on resources from the University of Michigan's
major information and technology organizations, including the University
of Michigan Library. Although this particular aspect of DLPS has
changed, now with all of the department's activities situated within the
University Library, and nearly all of its funding on the Library's base
budget, DLPS continues to have strong campus and national relations.
Among the units in the DLPS is the University of Michigan's Humanities
Text Initiative, an organization responsible for SGML document creation
and online systems that Wilkin founded in 1994.
John earned graduate degrees in English from the University of Virginia
('80) and Library Science from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville
('86). In 1988 he assumed responsibility for the University of
Michigan's English and American language and literature collection
development, as well as library research support for English faculty and
graduate students. Soon after, he implemented a campus-wide service for
the analysis of electronic text and encoding text in SGML. In 1992, he
began work at the University of Virginia as the Systems Librarian for
Information Services, where he shaped the Library's plan for
establishing a group of electronic centers, led and provided technical
support for those centers, and consulted for the University's Institute
for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) in textual issues.
As Director of Libraries, Ann J. Wolpert is responsible for the MIT
Libraries and MIT Press. The MIT Libraries consist of five major
collections, a number of smaller branch libraries in specialized subject
areas, a fee-for-services group, and the Institute Archives. The
Institute Archives and Special Collections preserve the historical
records of MIT and the personal papers of many faculty members. The MIT
Press publishes about 200 new books and more than 40 journals each year
in fields related to or reliant upon science and technology. The Press
is widely recognized for its innovative graphic design and electronic
publishing initiatives.
The Director's Institute responsibilities include membership on the
Committee on Copyright and Patents, the Council on Educational
Technology, the Deans' Committee, and the Academic Council. She chairs
the Management Board of the MIT Press and the Board of Directors of
Technology Review, Inc.
John Yemma is the editor of The Christian Science Monitor, a global,
multimedia news organization that specializes in thoughtful, humane
reporting that helps readers understand the world.
In the past year, under John's editorial direction, the 100-year-old
Monitor became the first major US-based newspaper to drop its daily
print publication and shift to a Web-first format that includes a
continuously updated website, CSMonitor.com, a weekly print magazine,
and a daily email news briefing. The aim of the strategy is to provide
news to readers in formats that accommodate their current tastes and
habits and to develop a sustainable new-media business that supports
Monitor journalism in its second century. In the first six months of
this shift, the Monitor has seen its Web traffic increase by 25 percent
and its weekly (formerly daily) print circulation grow by 57 percent. In
addition, the Monitor has introduced a subscription, email-delivered,
PDF news summary Monday-through-Friday, and is launching Kindle, Nook,
and other e-reader publications.
John rejoined the Monitor in the summer of 2008 after 20 years at the
Boston Globe, where most recently he was in charge of the Globe's
multimedia news operation. He also served as foreign editor, Sunday
editor, political editor, and had several stints writing about foreign
affairs, science, education, and ideas and culture. In an earlier
nine-year period at the Monitor, John worked as a reporter in the
Washington bureau, a correspondent in the Middle East, business editor,
and economics columnist.
John currently writes the "Editor's View" column for the Monitor's Daily
News Briefing, the "Open Source" column for the Monitor print weekly,
and needs to do more blogging, Tweeting, and experimentation with video
and other multimedia. In March 2009, Portfolio Magazine named him one of
the "25 tech influentials" in the United States. Besides the Globe and
the Monitor, John has worked for the Dallas Morning News, UPI, and the
San Antonio Express-News. He is a 1974 graduate of the University of
Texas, was a Reuter Fellow at Oxford University in 1994 and a Sulzberger
Fellow at Columbia University in 2008.
--
Lisa German
Assistant Dean for Technical and Collections Services
510 Paterno Library
Penn State University Libraries
University Park, PA 16802
lgerman_at_psu.edu
814/863-5448
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