From: Janet Roseen <Janet.M.Roseen-1_at_tc.umn.edu>
An Open Invitation
The University of Minnesota Libraries and MINITEX invite you to attend the-
10th Annual Collection Development Symposium: Libraries as Digital Crossroads.
“The digital library extends the breadth and scale of scholarly and cultural
evidence and supports innovative research and life-long
learning. To do this, it mediates between diverse and distributed
information resources on the one hand and a changing range of user
communities on the other. In this capacity, it establishes a digital
library service environment - that is, a networked, online information
space in which users can discover, locate, acquire access to and, increasingly,
use information.”
Digital Library Federation http://www.diglib.org/about/strategic.htm
Libraries and librarians are serving an increasingly central role in
connecting our user community and digital resources. Words such as
intersection, hub, junction, and link are used to describe the path libraries
are taking to identify, locate, organize, preserve, and make
available intellectual resources in digital format. Speakers at the
10th annual symposium will explore this goal from various perspectives.
This symposium is directed toward academic librarians and is intended
to be thought- and discussion-provoking. We hope you will have
both new insights and new information at the close of the day.
Speakers
Carol Fleishauer, Associate Director for Collection Services,
MIT Libraries, will discuss the integration of MIT’s DSpace into library
operations. DSpace (http://www.dspace.org/) is MIT’s open source
institutional repository for digital research materials created by MIT
faculty and research.
Dr. Karla Hahn, Collection Management Team Leader, University of Maryland
Libraries, has published both quantitative and qualitative research on
faculty perceptions of electronic publications and their relation to print
collections. She will discuss several recent studies of faculty attitudes
and behavior with regard to electronic collections.
Dr. Robert Kieft, Librarian of the College, Haverford College (PA), is the
editor of the next edition of ALA’s Guide to Reference Books (12th edition).
He will speak about developing the first edition of GRB with a significant
focus on digital resources, using technology in the creation of this important
tool, and plans for digital delivery of its content.
The symposium will take place on May 19th, 2003, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
at the Earle Brown Continuing Education Center on the St. Paul Campus of the
University of Minnesota. The cost is $55 and will include lunch and breaks.
Registration information is found at
the CD Symposium web site at: http://sdt.lib.umn.edu/cdm/
Received on Thu Apr 03 2003 - 11:53:38 EST