NAPCU

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Optional no-host dinner for early arrivals
[Time to be determined]
Location: Trellis Restaurant (The Heathman Hotel)
[Indicate your interest in this event via email as noted above and we will coordinate via email.]

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Noon – 1:30pm
Buffet Luncheon and Business Meeting
The Marsh Room

Thursday Program
“The Academic Library Collection in the 21st Century”
What is it today?  What is it becoming?  What forces are shaping its future?  What control do libraries have?  How do we plan for this future?”

1:30 – 5:00pm 
(3:00-3:20) – Break
Background and context:
            What are some of the major players in the marketplace thinking about and doing, or preparing to do – i.e., those who influence the digitization of existing resources, the preparation and distribution of born-digital content, traditional and emerging models of publishing and secondary distribution, editorial oversight, and intellectual property matters?
            How will those actions, individually and collectively, change the way academic libraries interact with their suppliers and their clients to support teaching, learning, and scholarly communication on our individual campuses?
            With increasing amounts of the scholarly record being digitized by a wide variety of agencies and with multiple models for making that content available to the public, how do academic libraries re-conceptualize their own collections and position themselves to support their primary clientele?

Panel presentation and Q&A:
            We’ll explore this complex topic with a team of experts from within and from outside of the immediate academic library community.  Each of our guests will make a presentation from their special perspectives:

• Lee Dirks, Director, Education & Scholarly Communication, Microsoft External Research

Mr. Dirks is the Director for Education & Scholarly Communication in Microsoft’s External Research division, where he manages a variety of research programs related to open access to research data, interoperability of archives and repositories, preservation of digital information as well as the application of new technologies to facilitate teaching and learning in higher education.

• Nick Loeffler, Business Development – Print on Demand, Amazon.com
• Cindy Cunningham, Director, Partner Programs, OCLC, Inc.

      Ms Cunningham directs a program that generates upwards of 4M hits a year on WorldCat.org via reciprocal partnerships with Internet companies that support libraries, information seekers, and book lovers. "Find in a library" links on Google, Goodreads, and weRead are examples of the work this program does to drive Internet traffic back to WorldCat and to libraries.

• Tim Jewell, Director, Information Resources and Scholarly Communication, University of Washington Libraries

In addition to leading and coordinating the selection, licensing, management and   preservation of   print and electronic resources for the University of Washington Libraries, Mr. Jewell is responsible for helping to develop the Libraries' overall strategy for engaging faculty and administrators in discussions of scholarly communication topics.

Their presentations will be followed by reactions and responses among the panelists to one another’s remarks, followed by Q&A with NAPCU members.

5:00pm – 6:30
Free time

7:00pm
Buffet dinner, Hector’s Restaurant, 112 Lake Street S, Kirkland [www.hectorskirkland.com]
Walking distance from the hotel.

Friday, November 6, 2009

7:30 – 8:30am
Buffet breakfast

8:45 – 10:00am
NAPCU Directors Reactor Panel #1 to Thursday’s Program
with full participant discussion
[Panelists to be recruited.  Indicate your willingness to serve via email to Jamie Spaine -jspaine@pugetsound.edu.]

10:00 – 10:30am - Break

10:30-11:45

NAPCU Directors Reactor Panel #2 to Thursday’s Program
(includes Round-Robin update from members)

 

11:45am – Noon
Meeting wrap-up and departure