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Register now for the ACRL / NY 2017 Symposium “The Mission,” being held Friday,
December 1, 2017, at the Baruch Vertical Campus.
The 2017 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
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-worthy 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 21st century identity for the
institution of the academic library and academic librarianship.
Come join the conversation. Space is limited, so register now! Registration
will close November 20th.
http://acrlny2017symposium.wordpress.com/registration/
For more information about the event, please visit on the ACRL/NY 2017
Symposium website <http://acrlny2017symposium.wordpress.com/>.
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