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What is the likely shape
of the library of the future?
And how do we build
collections for it? |
An informal meeting of leading library and information industry participants
devoted to thinking through and debating the new world order in collection development.
Theme: The Quest for Information: Open or Closed, Democratic or Controlled.
Perspectives from the Scholarly Community
Speeches and Presentations (listed in order of program schedule):
COLIN DAY, A Publisher's View of the Issue of Language of Publication [PDF document (26 KB); power point document (54 KB)]
LORCAN DEMPSEY, Thinking about Collections [PDF document (1.051 KB); power point document (1.659 KB)]
TONY FERGUSON, Welcome to the University of Hong Kong [PDF document (587 KB)]
TONY FERGUSON, Conclusions, Issues and Predictions [PDF document (126 KB); power point document (692 KB)]
JAY HENRY, Echo: Ebrary, EBooks and Blackwell [PDF document (206 KB); power point document (260 KB)]
DEREK LAW, Walking the Tightrope: Maintaining a Balanced Collection Amidst Changing Academic Needs, Information Seeking Habits,
and Publishing Patterns [PDF document (810 KB); power point document (3.847 KB)]
CORRIE MARSH, Open Acces in China: Potential and Strategies [PDF document (910 KB); power point document (3.467 KB)]
MARK ROBERTSON, Scholarly Publishing and Open Access in Asia [PDF document (164 KB); power point document (1.395 KB)]
COLIN STOREY, The Use of Multi-Lingual Web in Mainland China: The Ebb and Flow of Government Control of Information [PDF document (3.210 KB)]
CAROL TENOPIR, Looking Ahead: Studies in the Workplace Help Us Plan for the Future [PDF document (394 KB); power point document (3.600 KB)]
SYUN TUTIYA, Open Access: A Perspective from Japan [PDF document (282 KB); power point document (1.154 KB)]
MATTHIAS WAHLS, e-Publishing @ Brill: Does Google Really Change Our Business? [PDF document (81 KB); power point document (125 KB)]
MARTHA WHITTAKER, Responses to Google: What Do Librarians Want? Results of a Serials Solutions
Customer Survey [PDF document (306 KB); power point document (498 KB)]
Addressing the following questions and issues:
- The increasing predominance of the web as THE medium of global communication.
- The marginalizing effects of English, whether in print publishing upon the cultures and scholarship of those individuals and countries for which English is not
their first language.
- The democratizing and counter-democratizing effects of the web and perhaps print publishing as well.
- The effects of the Open Access movement and commercial publishing upon the entire world of ideas.
- The effects of Google print and similar enterprises.
Specifically, considering the following:
- The language of publishing. In the current highly politicized environment, does English enable global communication or is it seen as a tool of cultural
imperialism?
- National attempts to control the information resources found on the Web: US, China, France, other?
- Needs for non-English publishing.
- The many faces of Open Access: a non commercial alternative for scholarly communication; an alternative publishing business model; enabling search engine
crawling; OA and copyright; national efforts to use OA as a means of promoting national instead of international publishing programs, OA in countries X, Y and Z,
OA and the institutional repository movement, OA and journals, OA and books, etc.
- The ramification of Google Print: remote storage of lesser used materials that are now one click away; the reprint business and Google Print; will deposit accounts
with Google Print to go beyond snippets of books be the CD program of tomorrow?; will there be 3rd party approval plan dealers to give libraries links to
the old books via Google Print that match their local users' needs?; etc.
- The vendor, publisher, librarian, and users perspectives of each of the above.
Thursday, April 12 2007
Registration material will be sent to the rooms of guests staying at the Island Pacific and Ramada
hotels on Thursday. All others may retrieve their materials at the Retreat registration desk at the Meng Wah complex at the University of Hong Kong on Friday, April 13.
12:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Library, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Preconference (Optional)
Doing Business in China – A workshop and discussion
Karen Christensen, CEO, Berkshire Publishing Group
Matthias Wahls, Business Development Manager, Brill
NOTE: This session is also offered as a concurrent session to "The Academic Librarian : Dinosaur
or Phoenix? Die or Fly in Library Change Managemen", organized by the University Library System of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, on April 11-12, 2007
(https://www.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/conference/aldp2007/info/index.htm)
Those not attending the full Academic Librarian: Dinosaur or Phoenix conference should assemble in the lobby of the Island Pacific Hotel at 12:45 p.m. to get together to take a taxi to
the Chinese University conference site. This trip will take approximately 45 minutes to one hour. For four persons it is estimated it will be HK$100 per person (US$12.50).
Following this session at approximately 5:15 p.m. those participants registered to take part in the Optional Floating Dinner at the Jumbo Kingdom Restaurant should share taxis back to the Hong
Kong Island.
6:45 p.m.
Meet in the lobby of the Island Pacific Hotel (for those taking part in the Optional Floating Dinner)
7:15 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Floating Dinner (Optional)
Jumbo Kingdom Restaurant
We will board the water taxi to the restaurant at 7:15 and begin eating at 7:30 p.m. Costs for this optional dinner will be shared
by those participating. Return taxi ride to hotels, estimated at HK$ 25 per person.
Friday, April 13
All session will be held in the Council Chamber, 8F Meng Wah Complex
Island Pacific and Ramada hotel guests should meet at 8:20 a.m. in the lobby of the Island Pacific Hotel to take the coach to the
Meng Wah Complex. All others should make their own way to the complex.
9:00 a.m.
Welcome
Local host and Convener:
Tony Ferguson, University of Hong Kong [PDF document (587 KB)]
History of the Fiesole Retreat Series:
Michele Casalini, Managing Director, Casalini Libri
9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Opening Keynote
Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President and Chief Strategist, OCLC [PDF document (1.051 KB); power point document (1.659 KB)]
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Break at 10:45 (Courtesy of Brill)
Language and Communication: Politics, the Dominance of English,
and the Web
Convener: Tony Ferguson, University of Hong Kong
Speakers:
Colin Storey, University Librarian, Chinese University of Hong Kong: "The Use of the Global Multi-Lingual Web in Mainland China: The Ebb and Flow of Government Control of Information" [PDF document (3.210 KB)]
Colin Day, Publisher, University of Hong Kong Press: "A Publisher's View of the Issue of Language of Publication" [PDF document (26 KB); power point document (54 KB)]
Derek Law, University Librarian and Head, IRD, University of Strathclyde: "Walking the Tightrope: Maintaining a Balanced Collection Admist Changing Academic Needs, Information Seeking Habits, and Publishing Patterns" [PDF document (810 KB); power point document (3.847 KB)]
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Luncheon at Joseph's Restaurant, P3 Graduate House, University of Hong Kong
(Courtesy of Sage Publications)
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Break at 3:30 (Courtesy of Serials Solutions)
The Many Faces of Open Access: The Asian Perspective
Convener: Anthony Watkinsons, Senior Lecturer, University College London
Speakers:
Anthony Watkinsons, Senior Lecturer, University College London: "Opening Remarks"
Mark Robertson, President, Blackwell Publishing Asia: "Scholarly Publishing and Open Access in Asia" [PDF document (164 KB); power point document (1.395 KB)]
Libraries Perspectives:
Corrie Marsh, Associate University Librarian, Lee Shau Kee Library, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: "Open Access in China: Potential and Strategies" [PDF document (910 KB); power point document (3.467 KB)]
Syun Tutiya, Professor of Cognitive and Information Science and University Librarian, Chiba University: "Open Acces: A Perspective from Japan" [PDF document (282 KB); power point document (1.154 KB)]
5:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Tour of HKU's Main Library
5:45 p.m.
Meet at the ground floor lobby of the Main Library
6:30
Retreat Dinner at R66 Revolving Restaurant
(Co-sponsored by Cambridge Information Group, EBSCO and YBP)
Saturday, April 14
All session will be held in the Council Chamber, 8F Meng Wah Complex
Island Pacific and Ramada hotel guests should meet at 8:20 a.m. in the lobby of the Island Pacific Hotel to take the coach to the
Meng Wah Complex. All others should make their own way to the complex.
9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
Keynote
Convener: Liz Chapman, Deputy Director, Library Services, University College London
Speaker:
Carol Tenopir, University of Tennesse: "Looking Ahead : Studies in the Workplace Help Us Plan for the Future" [PDF document (394 KB); power point document (3.600 KB)]
9:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Break at 11:15 (Courtesy of Blackwell)
The Issue of the Commercial Sector: Google, Yahoo, Amazon – Issues,
Opportunities, Ramifications
Convener: Lis Chapman, Deputy Director, Library Services, University College London
Speakers:
Matthias Wahls, Business Development Manager, Brill: "e-Publishing @ Brill: Does Google Really Change Our Business?" [PDF document (81 KB); power point document (125 KB)]
Martha Whittaker, Director of Marketing, Serials Solutions: "Responses to Google: What Do Librarians Want? Results of a Serial Solutions Costumer Survey" [PDF document (306 KB); power point document (498 KB)]
Jay Henry, Electronic Content Manager, Blackwell Book Services: "Echo: ebrary, eBooks and Blackwell" [PDF document (206 KB); power point document (260 KB)]
Michael Keller, University Librarian, Director of Academic Information Resources, Stanford University; Publisher, Highwire Press; Publisher,
Stanford University Press and Ward Shaw, Founder, CARL and UnCover and Independent Investor: "Two For the Road"
12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Looking Toward the Future: Predictions and Caveats
Convener: Tony Ferguson, University Librarian, University of Hong Kong [PDF document (126 KB); power point document (692 KB)]
Post Retreat Events (Optional)
1/2-day Tour of Hong Kong
Saturday afternoon
Participants will gather together following the morning session, where they will receive a box lunch.
After lunch participants will go with a local librarian (one for each group of three) in taxis to the sites.
Join together to see some of Hong Kong's most interesting sites including the Wong Tai Sin Taoist Temple,
local shops and the Nan Lian Garden. Following the tour we'll get together for a dinner at one of Hong Kong's interesting local restaurants. Estimated cost
for transportation and dinner is HK$270. After dinner the more adventurous can go together to the Temple Street night market.
1/2-day Tour of Shenzhen, China (China Visa Required)
Saturday afternoon
Participants will gather together following the morning session and proceed directly to the coach station as a group, where they will receive
a box lunch. Please meet at 12:30 in Council Chamber.
Travel to the Shenzhen, a city of 13 million, just across the boarder from Hong Kong. We will visit the Shenzhen Central Book City which
is reputedly the largest bookstore in the world, the new Shenzhen Public Library and the Splendid China Cultural Village sound and light show.
Participants should arrive back in Hong Kong around 10:30 p.m. Estimated cost for transportation, admission ticket, and dinner is HK$500.
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