DLF Spring 2000 Forum on Digital Library Organization: Presentations
Hosted at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
March 31 - April 2, 2000
Friday, March 31, 2000
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Registration
1:00 - 1:30 p.m. Welcome and opening remarks
Rebecca A. Graham, Research Associate,
Digital Library Federation
Joan Gotwals, Vice Provost & Director of Libraries,
Emory University
Betsey Patterson, Virtual Library Project,
Emory University
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Keynote
California Digital Library
"Organizing to Build a Digital Library
Collaboratively"
Richard Lucier, University Librarian and
Interim Associate Provost for
Academic Initiatives
John L. Ober, Director, Education and Applied Research
Phyllis S. Mirsky, Deputy University Librarian, University
of
California, San Diego and Member,
CDL Executive Planning Group
2:30 - 2:45 p.m. Break
Laying the groundwork
2:45 - 3:45 p.m. Session I
University of Virginia
"Building the Library of Tomorrow"
Martha Blodgett, Associate University Librarian for
Information Technology
Stanford University
Assunta Pisani, Associate University Librarian
for Library Collections and
Services
Paul Zarins, Head of Social Sciences Data Service
and Bibliographer for
Economics
2:45 - 3:45 p.m. Break
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Session 2
North Carolina State University
"Advocating for Digital Services in Higher Education"
Carolyn Argentati, Associate Director for Public
Services
Caroline Beebe, Head, Digital Library Initiatives
Indiana University
Kristine Brancolini, Acting Director, Digital Library
Program
5:00 - 5:30 p.m. Open discussion
6:00 p.m. Reception
Dinner on your own
Saturday, April 1, 2000
8:30 - 10:00 a.m. Session 1
Tom Hickerson, Associate University Librarian for
Information Technology and Special
Collections
General principles in moving from project to program will be
discussed in the context of defining those services that are
appropriate to the new library environment where access to
content and services is networked.
University of Michigan
Christie Stephenson, Assistant Head, Digital Library
Production Service
Addressing issues of organizational structure and how to make
the structure work, the presentation will focus on the recent
reorganization of Digital Library Production Services [DLPS] into
digitization, information retrieval, and architecture groups, the
relationship between DLPS and Digital Library Program Development
[DLPD], and relationships with selectors, preservation,
cataloging, library systems office and others.
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 am - 12:00 p.m. Session 2
Carnegie Mellon University
Denise Troll, Assistant University Librarian, Library
Information Technology,
This presentation will describe the advantages and
disadvantages of collaborating on digital library projects,
provide examples of successful and disappointing collaborations,
and suggest ways to ensure that the benefits exceed the
costs.
University of Texas at Austin
Mark McFarland, Head, Electronic Information Programs
Division
This presentation will explain how UT Austin is organized to
support digital library activities with some discussion of the
study of the library's Web-space funded by an IMLS grant.
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Session 3
University of Pennsylvania
"Improving the Quality,
Accessibility, and Maintainability of a Digital Library
Collection in a Distributed Setting"
Delphine Khanna, Digital Projects Librarian
At the University of Pennsylvania, digital resources are
created by multiple units in the library with each unit working
autonomously on its own projects. The presentation will describe
how a team of three digital library specialists is working toward
improving the overall quality, accessibility, and maintainability
of the content produced. There will be a discussion of the
specific challenges that such a distributed setting entails and
the strategies that are being developed to meet those
challenges.
Yale University
"Apples and Oranges and
Multi-tasking: Assessing E-Collections in an Evolving
Library"
Kim Parker, Electronic Publishing & Collections
Specialist,
This presentation will address E-resource usage statistics,
anecdotal evidence and patron commentaries about digital
materials' usefulness, patron requests for new/more e-materials
and interpreting the demand, building a comfort level with
e-resource issues among library staff, and seeking creative
solutions to information management demands caused by atypical
resources. (And they're all atypical at this point!)
3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 - 4:15 p.m. Session 4
Dinner on your own
Sunday, April 2, 2000
8:30 - 9:15 a.m.
Digital Library
Federation
Dan Greenstein, Director
Informing DLF next
steps
In order to help inform evolving
activities within DLF, the DLF Director and the Forum Organizing
Committee will identify three topics for future focus that became
evident as a result of discussion over the course of the Forum.
Activities related to these topics will be the focus of small
group discussions and will be presented to the participants as a
whole following the morning break.
9:15 - 9:30 a.m. Break
9:30 - 11:00 a.m. Small group discussions
11:00 am - 11:15 am Presentation of small group
discussions
11:30 am - 12:00 p.m. Next steps and wrap-up
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