What is the likely shape
of the library of the future?
And how do we build
collections for it?

The Fiesole Collection Development Retreat Series
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow, Scotland
July 23-25, 2009
Sponsored By: The Charleston Company and Against the Grain
Hosted By: University of Strathclyde and Casalini Libri
Additional sponsors: bepress, CIG and ProQuest, Dawson Books, EBSCO Information Services, Elsevier, Ingram Digital Ltd., OCLC, Sage Reference


An informal meeting of leading library and information industry participants
devoted to thinking through and debating the new world order in collection development.


Theme: Reshaping Library Content : Building e-Collections and Accessing Global Resources


Speeches and Presentations (listed in order of program schedule):

      LOFTI BELKHIR, Transformative Digitization Technologies [PDF document (2.592 KB)]
      JOHAN BOLLEN, MESUR: Making Use and Sense of Scholarly Usage Data [PDF document (5.270 KB)]
      MEL COLLIER, Digital Collection Building at Local and European Level: Perspectives from Flanders and the Europeana Project [PDF document (193 KB);
      power point document (696 KB)]

      ALASTAIR DUNNING, Digitised Content: Universities, Publishers, Sharing, Openness [PDF document (2.920 KB)]
      JAMES EVANS, Science Broadering and Narrowing Influences of the Internet [PDF document (3.290 KB)]
      FRED HEATH, Human Rights: The Challenge of Documentation in the Digital Age [PDF document (5.237 KB)]
      ROLF JANKE, E-Books: Riding the E-Collection Wave and How Publishers Remain Afloat in the Digital Era [PDF document (259 KB); power point document (1.657 KB)]
      RUTH JONES, Expanding Access to Digital Content: Electronic Journals & Books: The End of the Divide? [PDF document (632 KB)]
      KLAUS KEMPF, The Library Perspective I: Visibility and Accessibility of Digitised Documents. The Approach of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek [PDF document (3.150 KB)]
      W. ROBERT KILEY, Open Access: The View of the Wellcome Trust [PDF document (813 KB); power point document (2.625 KB)]
      ROBERT LACEY, Poets, Performing Arts and Government Publications: Building a Digital Collection at the National Library of Wales [PDF document (33 KB);
      word document (56 KB); power point document (26 KB)]

      DEREK LAW, Introduction to the Session [PDF document (655 KB); power point document (757 KB)]
      JOHN MacCOLL, All Together Now: The Work of OCLC Research [PDF document (712 KB); power point document (4.249 KB)]
      PETER NICHOLSON, Information Rich and Attention Poor [PDF document (116 KB); word document (122 KB)]
      MALCOM READ, The Value of Content in an Open World [PDF document (114 KB); power point document (291 KB)]
      BERNARD F. REILLY, Funding and Content: How Philanthropy and Non-Academic Markets Are Shaping Scholarly Publishing [PDF document (384 KB);
      power point document (1.677 KB)]

      HILDEGARD SCHÄFFLER, The Library Perspective II: New Approaching to Licensing [PDF document (111 KB); power point document (863 KB)]
      LORELEI TANJI, E-Books: Some Library Perspectives [PDF document (900 KB); power point document (1.148 KB)]
      CAROL TENOPIR, Electronic Publication: The Narrowing of Science and Scholarship? [PDF document (63 KB); power point document (360 KB)]
      GORDON TIBBITTS, E-Journals and the Continuum: Exponential Expansion Is Near [PDF document (2.432 KB); power point document (4.069 KB)]
      DAN TONKERY, Merger Madness: How Company Mergers Affects Customers. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [PDF document (211 KB); power point document (1.740 KB)]


      
     
Final Program
[PDF document (87 KB)]
      
     

For the past 10 years, the Fiesole Collection Development Retreat has been increasingly focused on the challenges of rapid digitization of scholarly materials, and how that process is changing the publishing profession and the services offered by libraries. Another major trend, also attributable to technological advances, has been the globalization of scholarly communication. This too has a profund impact on how we work together to share knowledge. In this eleventh retreat, we are taking a reflective look at how far we've come. The dominance of digital media and the power of complex electronic networks have changed forever the processes of recording, collecting, describing and preserving scholarly resources. The program will present a broad-based look at where we are and make some informed suggestions about where we should be going.


Thursday, July 23 2009
Location for all sessions: University of Strathclyde, Court Senate, Collins Building, 22 Richmond Street

1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Registration

1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
(Break sponsor, Dawson Books)
Preconference: Funding and Content: How Philanthropy and Non-Academic Markets Are Shaping Scholarly Publishing
This program will focus on funding streams for scholarly electronic publishing. It will examine how various types and sources of funding affect, and will continue to influence, what is published through both Open Access digital libraries and conventional e-publishing platforms. Presenters will discuss the digital publishing goals of government and philanthropic sources of funding, and also trace the influence of the financial and policy research industries on recent production and distribution of digital resources.

Speakers:
Alastair Dunning, Digitisation Programme Manager, Joint Information Systems Committee: "Digitised Content: Universities, Publishers, Sharing Openness" [PDF document (2.920 KB)]
W. Robert Kiley, Head of e-Strategy, Wellcome Library and Wellcome Trust: "Open Access: The View from the Wellcome Trust" [PDF document (813 KB); power point document (2.625 KB)]
Bernard F. Reilly, President, Center for Research Libraries / Global Network: "Funding and Content: How Philanthropy and Non-Academic Markets Are Shaping Electronic Publishing" [PDF document (384 KB); power point document (1.677 KB)]

6:30 p.m.
Buses depart for Opening Dinner
(Sponsor, EBSCO)

7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Opening Dinner
All Together Now: The Work of OCLC Research
House of the Art Lover, Glasgow (Co-sponsors, Elsevier and The Charleston Company)

Remarks:
Jay Jordan, President, OCLC
John MacColl, Director, Programs and Research, OCLC Europe: "All Together Now: The Work of OCLC Research" [PDF document (712 KB); power point document (4.249 KB)]


Friday, July 24

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Registration

9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Intellectual Authority: Who Do We Trust in the Era of Massively Distributed Collaboration

Peter J. Nicholson, President Council of Canadian Academies of Science: "Information Rich and Attention Poor [PDF document (116 KB); word document (122 KB)]

9:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Break at 10:15 a.m. (Sponsor, Sage Reference)
What Are We Collecting? Evolving Formats in the Digital Era
In this session, two publishers will look at ebooks and ejournals – the last ten years of progress and where we may be heading. We will conclude with a librarian's perspective on evaluating, acquiring and preserving digital content within the context of our valuable but shrinking print collections.

Gordon Tibbitts, CEO, bepress: "E-Journals and the Continuum: Exponential Expansion Is Near" [PDF document (2.564 KB); power point document (4.069 KB)]
Rolf Janke, Vice President, Sage Publications: "E-Books: Riding the E-Collection Wave and How Publishers Remain Afloat in the Digital Era" [PDF document (259 KB); power point document (1.657 KB)]
Lorelei Tanji, Associate University Librarian, Collections, University of California, Irvine: "E-Books: Some Library Perspectives" [PDF document (900 KB); power point document (1.148 KB)]

11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Lunch
(Sponsor, CIG/ProQuest)

1:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Break at 3:00 p.m. (Sponsor, Ingram Digital)
Expanding Access to Digital Content
This session addressess building and deploying discovery tools that best enable access to information, retooling our existing mechanisms to serve us better, and developing the tools to measure our effectiveness

Introduction to the Session
Lotfi Belkhir, Founder, Kirtas Technologies: "Transformative Digitization Technologies" [PDF document (2.592 KB)]

Ruth Jones, Director Publisher Business Development, EMEA, Ingram Digital Ltd.: "Expanding Access to Digital Content: Electronic Journals & Books: The End of Divide?" [PDF document (632 KB)]
Klaus Kempf, Head of Collections, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Germany: "The Library Perspective I: Visibility and Accessibility of Digitised Documents. The Approach of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek" [PDF document (3.150 KB)]
Hildegard Schäffler, Head of Journals and Electronic Media, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Germany: "The Library Perspective II: New Approaches to Licensing" [PDF document (111 KB); power point document (863 KB)]

3:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Measuring Our Effectiveness
This section will look at how we decide if our collection strategies are paying off in increased user productivity. Two researchers will report on how scholars are using digital materials.

Keynote: Knowledge Mapping
Johan Bollen, Principal Investigator, MESUR Project: "MESUR: Making Use and Sense of Scholarly Usage Data" [PDF document (5.270 KB)]

James Evans, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago: "Science Broadering and Narrowing Influences of the Internet" [PDF document (3.290 KB)]
Carol Tenopir, Professor of Information Science, University of Tennessee: "Electronic Publication: The Narrowing of Science and Scholarship?" [PDF document (63 KB); power point document (360 KB)]
Dan Tonkery, Vice President, Business Development, EBSCO: "Merger Madness: How Company Mergers Affect Customers. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" [PDF document (211 KB); power point document (1.740 KB)]

Reception Immediately Following
Glasgow City Chambers

Open dinner


Saturday, July 25

9:00 a.m. - 11:45 noon
Break at 10:15 a.m. (Sponsor, bepress)
Global Perspectives
Librarians have been so focused on the whole area of licensing and commercial deals for digital materials that no real thought has been given to collection building in a digital era. Non-commercial material has always been a substantial part of the intake of any serious research library from archives to grey literature and ephemera. No coherent philosophy of digital collection building has emerged – or even been considered. This session looks at such collection building from three quite different perspectives in order to explore what common themes or differences emerge.

Derek Law, University of Strathclyde: "Introduction to the Session" [PDF document (655 KB); power point document (757 KB)]
Fred Heath, University of Texas, Austin: "Human Rights: The Challenge of Documentation in the Digital Age" [PDF document (5.237 KB)]
Mel Collier, University of Leuven, Belgium: "Digital Collection Building at the Local and European Level: Perspectives from Flanders and the Europeana Project" [PDF document (193 KB); power point document (696 KB)]
Robert Lacey, National Library of Wales: "Poets, Performing Arts and Government Publications: Building a Digital Collection at the National Library of Wales" [PDF document (33 KB); word document (56 KB); power point document (26 KB)]
Malcom Read, JISC: "The Value of Content in an Open World" [PDF document (114 KB); power point document (291 KB)]

11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Closing Session
Cliff Linch, CNI: "Wrap-Up"

Adjourn

(Major Retreat Sponsor: OCLC)


      
     
List of Attendees
[PDF document (73 KB)]
      
     

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