CDL: Symposium: Finding our digital future.

FUNDING OUR DIGITAL FUTURE:
BUDGETING FOR LIBRARIES & SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

<http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/webdocs/symp.html>

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 syposium 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.