2010 TENTATIVE CONFERENCE PROGRAM

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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

All Day Preconferences:

E-Everything: Putting It All Together
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Cost: $150
Speakers: Audrey Powers, Associate Librarian for CVPA, Research Services and Collections, University of South Florida; Sue Polanka, Head, Reference/Instruction, Wright State University Libraries.; Peter McCracken, Librarian, Developer and Vendor, Serials Solutions and ShipIndex; Jason Price, Science Librarian & Manager, Collections & Acquisitions Teams, Claremont Colleges Library; Michael Gorrell, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, EBSCO; James Mouw, Electronic Resources Officer, University of Chicago; Lisa Carlucci Thomas, Digital Services Librarian/Southern Conn State University; Stephen Rhind-Tutt, President of Alexander Street Press; Emilie Delquie - Publishers Communication Group; Cory Tucker, Head of Collection Management, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Anh Bui - Executive Publication Manager, Books Products, HighWire Press

Electronic resources continue to flood the library marketplace at a staggering rate and there is no turning back now.  Libraries are making an effort to accommodate the influx of electronic content while budgets and staffing levels continue to diminish. Publishers are undergoing a paradigm shift, trying to maintain traditional publishing models while experimenting with born digital content.

This full day pre-conference will discuss the current state of electronic resources from both the library and publishing perspectives and offer insight into the E-Everything future. Some of the current issues that will be addressed include access, content integration, technology, and discoverability.  Presentations by librarians and vendors will update you, challenge your thinking, stimulate questions and generate discussion.  Attendees will gain knowledge of the market and get ideas for plugging into the latest and the greatest information technologies for electronic content.

Lost in the Forest of License Negotiations???
Your Glowing Breadcrumbs at XXX Charleston Conference, 2010
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Cost: $150
Speaker: Anjana Bhatt, Florida Gulf Coast University

• Are you struggling to understand complicated license agreements and ensure fair usage of
  e-resources at your library?
• Are you always in doubt if you got the best subscription price for your e-resources? 
• Are you expected to communicate with publishers, library directors, university attorney, systems and ILL department, fellow librarian and the library staff in spite of not being in charge of complete license negotiation process?
• Do you ardently hope to be an expert license negotiator one day?

Then look no further….sign up and check it out for yourself. 

Back by popular demand this day long pre-conference workshop addresses everything you ever wanted to know about license agreements, copyright issues, pricing factors and negotiating skills.

You will get a chance to address your specific concerns through a questionnaire and complete an exercise to analyze your current license review process before the pre conference. During the post lunch hours you will learn from shared wisdom in the classroom and create an improved workflow for your organization.  And….you can continue to learn through the presenter’s blog on e-resources licensing issues.

Discussion topics include:

• Components of a licensing agreement
• What to expect under each section such as authorized users/usage; fair usage rights for using, printing, downloading, copying, e-mailing, ILL, course packs, course reserves, electronic links, and persistent URLs; licensor/licensee obligations; renewal terms; early termination rights; perpetual license; archival rights; warranties; indemnities; governing laws; force Majeure, &  fees etc.
• Pricing factors
• Model licenses
• License related NISO standards and initiatives: SERU, ONIX: PL, LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, PORTICO
• License addendums
• ERMS and licenses management
• Negotiation tips
• Sample clauses

Presenter will share best practices for license negotiations and records keeping that are adopted at FGCU library.  Workshop provides e-copies of the presentation, reference list, sample clauses and adequate opportunities for questions.

The Radically Different Future of Collection Development
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Cost: $0 for CRL Members, $150 for non-CRL Members
Speaker: Rick Anderson - Associate Director for Scholarly Resources & Collections, University of Utah; Dan Hazen - Associate Librarian of Harvard College for Collection Development, Harvard University; Greg Raschke - Associate Director for Collections and Scholarly Communication Administration, North Carolina State University; Ivy Anderson - Director, Collection Development & Management, California Digital Library; Judy Luther - President, Informed Strategies.

CRL and the University of Utah will cosponsor a preconference that will explore the future of collection development in a radically disrupted information environment. We will explore where we are now and where change is likely to occur, and what we will lead, and what may just happen to us if we aren't nimble and don't take charge of our future.

The one-day program will open with an introduction by Rick Anderson (University of Utah) including a provocative statement about the future of library collections.  It will be followed by four 20-minute presentations from distinguished panelists, and then an audience discussion period.  Following a brief break, the audience will divide into four groups (each facilitated by one of the panelists) for a 45-minute discussion period.  After lunch, there will be a 10-minute report from each group, with time for discussion.  Then a wrap-up and discussion of future directions.

Morning Preconferences:

The NEXT BIG IDEA Preconference
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Cost: $100
Speakers: Robb M. Waltner- Head of Acquisitions, University of North Florida; Michael Kucsak - Director of Library Systems & Technology, University of North Florida; Michael Arthur - Head of Acquisitions and Collections Services, University of Central Florida

The purpose of this workshop is for the group of participants (30 maximum) to combine efforts to push forward an important issue related to our libraries, our institutions, or our profession.  The concept is that we will be more successful when librarians pool their efforts, resources, and time into combined social/political/professional action rather than just trying to individually negotiate the complicated issues we face at our own institutions.  This preconference will be unique.  It will have 3 distinct parts.  First, we will decide as a group what THE NEXT BIG IDEA for libraries is, the idea that we think we can address the most effectively and have a positive impact on making change happen during the course of a year.  Second, we will assign specific tasks for all the participants to work on, individually or as a group, during the upcoming year.  That's right...this will require a post-conference commitment.  And finally, we will pledge to come back to Charleston next year and report (in a meeting or session) on the progress or impact that we have made… again individually or as a group!

This preconference may be different than others that you may have attended.  The speakers will not be lecturing.  The presenters will facilitate activity and discussion during the session so that the group makes progress towards advancing an important goal or issue that we can all (or at least a majority of us) agree on.  We believe this will create new alliances, relationships, and perhaps a core of activism throughout the library and Charleston Acquisitions Conference community.  Be prepared to participate and collaborate if you sign up for this preconference.

Negotiating With Vendors: Dos and Don’ts
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Cost: $100
Speaker(s): Buzzy Basch - President, Basch Subscriptions; Bruce Strauch, The Citadel; Rick Burke, SCELC; Kim Armstrong, Center for Library Initiatives; Adam Chesler, ASTD; Chuck Hamaker, Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services, UNC Charlotte.

Negotiating plays a major role in library administration and operation: negotiating for a share of scarce personnel and financial resources; developing contracts with vendors and suppliers; and liaising effectively in cooperatives and other common interest groups. Join a seasoned group of library and information industry negotiators who will share their experience in defining objectives, devising strategies, and measuring success in negotiations.

A Comparative Overview of Journal Discovery Systems: Library Users Offer Their Experiences
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Cost: $100
Speakers: George Machovec – Associate Director, Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries; Rebecca Lenzini – President, The Charleston Company; Dennis Brunning - E Humanities Development Librarian, Arizona State University; Ronda Rowe - Resource Acquisitions Coordinator, University of Texas Libraries, University of Texas at Austin.

Summon (Serials Solutions), EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), OCLC WorldCat Local, Encore Synergy (III) and PrimoCentral (ExLibris) all represent a new class of discovery systems for libraries.    Based on the success of Google Scholar, each of these solutions combines journal literature, MARC record data and digital repository metadata under a single umbrella.  This program will bring together librarians to discuss what they are doing in regard to enhancing their next generation interface.  This program will look at how different services have been integrated and used at local libraries.  What differentiates these offerings and what solution(s) might work best for your library?

Afternoon Preconferences:

Innovative Practices in Electronic Resources and Acquisition Management
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Cost: $100
Speaker: Ryan Weir- Serials and Electronic Resources Librarian, Murray State University; Geoffrey P. Timms, MLIS - Electronic Resources/Web/Systems Support Librarian, Mercer University; Kelly A. Smith - Electronic Resources Collection Librarian, Eastern Kentucky University Libraries; Regina Koury - Electronic Resources Librarian, Idaho State University; Denise Pan - Auraria Library, Associate Director of Technical Services, University of Colorado Denver

Want to learn how to amicably cut journal budgets across campus, do more with less, build your own efficient tools, structure your staff’s work environments to better support increased work productivity, use free products to track issues and communicate between departments in the library, and more?  Then this is the pre-session for you!

Participants to this pre-session will be given the opportunity to look at some of the innovative practices of electronic resources professionals and their colleagues from around the country.  You will hear from professionals on the front lines of budget cuts, staffing and workflow challenges, work-load increases, departmental merges, and rising cost of services and content.  Using a group storyboarding technique, the attendees will be given the opportunity to actively participate in the session by generating a list of new and innovative goals and workflows.   The presenters will also share their experiences and home-grown best practices.  At the end of the session, you will have many concrete ideas and practices from which to glean which ones will best suit you and your institution and the tools to take them back and implement them.

Serials Resource Management
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Cost: $100
Speaker(s): Buzzy Basch - President, Basch Subscriptions; Susan Zappen, Skidmore College; Martha Whittaker, George Washington University; Julie Gammon, Akron University; Arlene Sievers-Hill, Case Western Reserve University; Chuck Hamaker, Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services, UNC Charlotte; Katherine Hart, Electronic & Continuing Resources Librarian, Georgia State University Library.

Join a panel of seasoned experts in a discussion of the current issues in SRM. Participate in the exchange of experience and ideas. E-journals, paper, publisher pricing strategies, allocation of staff, and morphing of ERM and SRM.

Juried Product Development Forums
Wednesday and Thursday, 5:30 PM - 6:45 PM

The "JPDF" sessions are focus group-style presentations from publishers and vendors interested in gaining feedback on products in development.  This is your unique opportunity to influence the pricing, features and functionality of new products in the pipeline! Invitations will be distributed by email to librarian attendees.

Publishers and vendors who are interested in hosting a forum can find more information here.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

7:00 AM - 7:45 AM Continental Breakfast
Outside Carolina Ballroom, Francis Marion Hotel

8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Morning Plenary Sessions
Carolina Ballroom, Francis Marion Hotel

Let Them Eat... Everything: Embracing a Patron-Driven Future - Rick Anderson (Associate Director for Scholarly Resources & Collections, University of Utah)

In the print era – when books and articles were hard to find and could only be distributed slowly and at great expense – it made sense for libraries to build large, just-in-case collections despite the inevitable waste they entailed and despite our inability to predict our patrons’ needs accurately; the traditional collection was the only reasonable option.  But then scholarly information moved online.  First, journal content migrated in the 1990s, then monographs did the same (reaching a watershed with the Google Books project) in the 2000s.  In the print realm, the recently-developed Espresso Book Machine has now radically undermined the logistical fundamentals of traditional publishing.  These developments mean that information products are no longer either hard to find or difficult to distribute, and should prompt us to rethink our most fundamental assumptions about the role and functions of the traditional library collection.  This new reality is frightening, of course, but also incredibly exciting and it offers tremendous opportunities for libraries and their patrons.

Attendees will learn more about the radical implications of three specific developments: Google Books; emerging patron-driven print and ebook acquisition models; and local print-on-demand.  The presenter, whose library recently acquired and installed an EBM, will share his institution’s experiences, experiments, and policy innovations, and will solicit broader discussion with attendees on these topics.

The History of Books and the Digital Future - Robert Darnton (Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library)

Who Do We Trust? The Meaning of Brand in Scholarly Publishing and Academic Librarianship -  Anthony Watkinson (Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Studies, University College London); Kent Anderson (CEO/Publisher, The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery); Dean Smith (Director, Project MUSE); Hazel Woodward (University Librarian Cranfield University UK); Allen Renear (Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Charleston Conference Observatory presentation on Social Networking for Scholars - David Nicholas (Director of the Department of Information Studies, UCL Centre for Publishing and CIBER Research Group)

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Lively Lunch Concurrent Sessions (optional)
Francis Marion Hotel, Embassy Suites Historic District, Holiday Inn Historic District

2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Concurrent Sessions
Francis Marion Hotel, Embassy Suites Historic District, Holiday Inn Historic District

3:45 - 4:10 Break

4:10 PM - 5:30 PM Afternoon Plenary Session and Skit
Carolina Ballroom, Francis Marion Hotel

Skit: 30 Years in 20 Minutes
Charleston Skit Players

The Tower and the FreeWeb - John Dove (President, Credo Reference); Casper Grathwohl (Vice President and Online and Reference Publisher, Oxford University Press); Samuel Klein (Wikimedia Foundation, Trustee; One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), Director of Outreach); Jason B. Phillips (Librarian for Sociology, Psychology, Gender and Sexuality Studies and American Studies, New York University); Michael Sweet (CEO, Credo Reference)

Publishers, aggregators, and librarians realize the pressing need to “get under students’ noses” when and where students are looking for information.   And where do students start their searches? Google, in general, and Wikipedia specifically.

The idea of having scholarly content indexed by search engines like Google and delivered from within the firewall of academic libraries has been pursued for a number of years. Search engine indexing is a good first step, but there are other opportunities to help reach students from where they are, provide them with the context for which they are looking, and match them with quality information resources from their local libraries.

This panel will bring to Charleston, for the first time, a speaker from the Wikimedia Foundation as well as a publisher (Oxford University Press), and an aggregator (Credo Reference) to talk about new approaches to solving the challenges of information discovery and delivery and explore possibilities for collaboration with tools like Wikipedia. A librarian from NYU will present research he has conducted into ways in which to attract users from outside the firewall into the resources provided by their institution.

5:45 PM - 6:30 PM "Happy Hour" Concurrent Sessions

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Annual Reception
202 Calhoun Street, College of Charleston Science and Mathematics Building
Courtyard and Atrium
Sponsored by ProQuest

Charleston is well known for its hospitality, and the Annual Reception is a true Charleston affair! The reception this year will be held in the atrium and courtyard of the College of Charleston's new state-of-the-art School of Sciences and Mathematics building located at 202 Calhoun Street, only 2 blocks from the Francis Marion Hotel.  The atrium provides a modern open air space, 3 stories high,  while the large courtyard is reminiscent of the walled gardens of historic Charleston, a pleasant blending of modern and traditional concepts.

Friday, November 5, 2010

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Breakfast Discussions
Colonial Ballroom, Francis Marion Hotel
Sponsored by ebrary

8:10 AM - 12:00 PM Morning Plenary Sessions
Carolina Ballroom, Francis Marion Hotel

Plenary session include:

Brian Schottlaender (The Audrey Geisel University Librarian at the University of California, San Diego)

Executives’ Roundtable - T. Scott Plutchak (Director, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham), YS Chi (Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Global Academic & Customer Relations, Elsevier), Andy Prozes (LexisNexis Global CEO)

When Rubber Meets the Road: Rethinking Your Library Collections - Roger Schonfeld (Research Manager, Ithaka S+R ); Sue Woodson (Associate Director of Digital Collection Services, Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins Medicine)

Numerous libraries are collecting journals in electronic-only format, and increasingly they are withdrawing the print versions of journals once digitized versions are available to them. Navigating this transition effectively at both the local and the community level is imperative as libraries seek to provide responsive service to their users in an increasingly resource-constrained environment. In this plenary session, Roger C. Schonfeld of Ithaka S+R will present an overview of the latest research and policy developments on the transition from print to electronic formats for scholarly journals, including selected findings from the Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey, the What to Withdraw framework for library decision-making and preservation – and late-breaking news about monographs. Sue Woodson of Johns Hopkins Medicine will describe how the Welch Medical Library is dramatically reducing its print footprint (to the point of giving back its building to the university) and providing in its place robust digital collections and infrastructure, along with innovative new research support services. This session will be both strategic and provocative on a timely issue facing an increasing number of libraries across the country.

John Sack (Associate Publisher and Director, HighWire Press, Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources)

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Lively Lunch Concurrent Sessions (optional)
Francis Marion Hotel, Embassy Suites Historic District, Holiday Inn Historic District

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Concurrent Sessions
Francis Marion Hotel, Embassy Suites Historic District, Holiday Inn Historic District

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Break

4:30 PM - 6:15 PM Afternoon Plenary Sessions
Carolina Ballroom, Francis Marion Hotel

"I Hear the Train A Comin' - LIVE" session - Greg Tananbaum (CEO, Scholarnext); Joseph J. Esposito (President and Chief Executive Officer, Portable)

Each issue of Against the Grain, Greg Tananbaum's Train column explores what's around the bend on the scholarly communications track. This annual plenary pulls together insights from an esteemed group of scholarly communication's forward thinkers to sketch a future intuited but as yet unseen. The session will begin with a summary of where these experts believe publishing, libraries, and academic technology are headed. Next, Joe Esposito will present his own take on the future of our industry and the issues most likely to impact it. What are the big questions that everyone will be talking about at the 2010 Charleston meetings? What are lurking as transformative issues that will change the way publishers, libraries, and scholars interact? Join us to find out.

Creating a Trillion-Field Catalog: Metadata in Google Books - Jon Orwant (Engineering Manager, Google Books)

Google Books ingests metadata from over a hundred different sources,
all of which are incomplete, inaccurate, and ill-formatted. I'll talk
about our techniques for coping with the chaos, showing some
interesting successes and failures.

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Friday Night Dine Arounds
(Meet in Francis Marion Hotel Lobby at 6:30 PM to walk to restaurant with group.)

Get together and dine with colleagues at one of Charleston's finest restaurants.   Choose between several cuisines, each tantalizing your palate with local, fresh ingredients served in a unique way. Discuss conference topics that intrigued you, get together with old friends, form new friendships with other librarians, or just relax and enjoy a great meal after a thought provoking conference week.

Email invitations will be sent to attendees closer to the time of the conference with information on the restaurants that will be hosting us this year.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

8:00 AM - 9:10 AM NEW! Fast Tech Talks and Breakfast Buffet
For the first time in 2010, we are offering publishers and vendors 30 minute time slots to demonstrate and promote their newest and most innovative products on the market.  Saturday is "Innovation Day" for the Conference, and in that spirit we are offering a limited number of concurrent slots for product demonstrations that morning. Grab a plate at the Continental Breakfast Buffet and join one of the demonstrations.

9:20 AM - 11:00 AM Innovation Plenary Sessions
Carolina Ballroom, Francis Marion Hotel

Plenary session include:

Efficient and Effective Funding of Open Access ‘Books’ - Frances Pinter (Publisher, Bloomsbury Academic)

This session will explore some ideas on how to make library budgets go further and at the same time create sustainable business models for the publication of specialist research-led ‘books’ in digital form.

The objective is to find ways to fund the ‘long form publication’ (LFP) that is demand driven, free at point of use and makes best use of digital opportunities. To date many of the open access experiments have relied on institutional support, outside subsidies and/or the sale of individual printed books - and more recently e-books.  While there have been some successes the presenter argues that there are more efficient and effective ways of approaching the scholarly communications of LFPs that lead to better value for money for libraries. 

The Long Arm of the Law - Ann Okerson (Associate University Librarian for Collections and International Programs, Yale University); Bill Hannay (Attorney, Schiff Hardin LLP); Susan Kornfield (University of Michigan)

11:15 AM - 1:00 PM Innovation Concurrent Sessions

1:15 PM - 1:45 PM Hyde Park Corner SoundOff and Closing Remarks
Carolina Ballroom, Francis Marion Hotel

Hyde Park Corner in London is known as a place where one can go and express an opinion. You've been doing a lot of listening and thinking.  Now SOUND OFF with your opinion/view/whatever on a pertinent topic for the Conference. Each person will have five minutes to express an opinion or put forward an idea.  It's going to be invigorating!

4:00 - 6:00 PM Rump Session: An open conversation discussing legal, technical and professional implications of distributed and untethered Cloud Services in the library.
Location: Francis Marion, Calhoun Room
Speaker: Paul Coyne - VP Innovation, Emerald Group Publishing

This event offers an opportunity for the library and the information professional to become familiar with the concepts and issues surrounding the development of distributed computing and data service for the library and library user.

It is thought that the advent of untethered and distributed computing services - for example Google Docs, LibraryThing, Worldcat from OCLC and developments from publishers such as Elsevier - offers the library the opportunity to shift the burden & costs of infrastructure support and software licensing from the library to the vendor or publisher.

However, there are disadvantages, both legal and technical, related to privacy, security and branding and customisation that must be considered before the transference of services is considered.

The first half of the workshop will provide the intellectual tools to enable the audience to appreciate the Cloud in a more systematic way. The idea of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (Paas) and Software as a Service (SaaS) will be introduced as distinctly different aspects of the Cloud that the librarian must consider as part of any Cloud strategy.

In the second half of the workshop the Knowledgecafe format will bring the delegates together to have an open, creative conversation on the topic of ‘Cloud’ services to surface their collective knowledge, to share ideas and insights and to gain a deeper understanding of the implications, opportunities and the issues involved in supporting distributed and untethered computing and web services in the library.

For information on the 2009 Conference Program, visit the Archives page.