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Save the date! Mark your calendars for the 2017 ACRL/NY Annual Symposium!
*When: Friday, December 1, 2017*
*The Mission: Exploring the Mission of Academic and Research Libraries in
the 21st Century Information Environment*
*The 2017 ACRL/NY Symposium will be a day to take stock of the history of
our profession and its contemporary challenges and opportunities, and to
revisit the academic and research library core mission of mediator between
student, faculty and researcher populations and the wider information
world.*
*Our traditional mission—stewardship and guidance in the exploration of
corpora of recorded knowledge and experience valuable for higher
learning—must be adapted for the twenty-first century research, teaching,
publishing and mass communication environments.*
*What are our responsibilities vis-à-vis our user populations and
contemporary spheres of information and mass communication? How do we
reconcile the interests of profit-driven commercial entities with the
academic mission of college and research libraries? How have academic
libraries worked to ensure the preservation, accessibility and
discoverability of endangered research-valuable content?*
*At the Symposium, participants will be invited to critically reflect on
these questions and more, to engage in discussion and work toward the
construction a flexible but distinct identity for the institution of the
academic library and for academic librarianship in the 21st century.*
*For further information about the symposium, visit: *https://
acrlny2017symposium.wordpress.com
*Where:*
The William and Anita Newman Vertical Campus Conference Center,
Baruch College, CUNY
55 Lexington Avenue (at 24th Street) Room 14-220 (14th floor)
New York, NY
Stay tuned for upcoming details and registration information!
*For further information, contact:*
Thomas Keenan, 2017 Symposium Chair
acrlnysymposiumchair_at_gmail.com
Received on Tue Jun 27 2017 - 18:23:07 EDT