Pre-Meeting Events

Tuesday, May 20

Wednesday, May 21

7:00 a.m.–8:00 a.m.

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.

Working Sessions

• Diversity Initiatives Working Group
• E-Science Working Group
• Membership Committee
• Regional FDLP Library Directors [tentative]
• Statistics & Assessment Committee

10:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.

Working Sessions with Lunch

• Scholarly Communication Steering Committee
• Public Policies Steering Committee
• Research, Teaching, and Learning Steering Committee

11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Luncheon (no speaker)

2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.

Concurrent Topical Briefing Sessions Sponsored by Strategic Direction Steering Committees

• Scholarly Communication: Research Library Publishing Services
• Public Policies: Section 108 Study Group
• RTL: Special Collections in the 21st Century

ARL Membership Meeting Convenes

3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

Welcome & Introductions

Opening Program on Institutional Strategies

Keynote Remarks

6:00 p.m.

Buses begin departing hotel for campus

6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.

Cuban Evening

Reception and Dinner Hosted by Dean of University of Miami Libraries Bill Walker and University President Donna Shalala

President’s Residence, Coral Gables

8:30 p.m.

Buses depart campus for hotel

Thursday, May 22

7:00 a.m.–8:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.

ARL Business Meeting

Member representatives only

10:15 a.m.–11:15 a.m.

Disciplines, Documents, and Data

Introduction: Gary Strong, University Librarian, University of California, Los Angeles

Christine L. Borgman, Professor & Presidential Chair in Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

11:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m.

Assessing Quality in the Digital Environment

Diane Harley, Senior Researcher, Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley

12:15 p.m.–2:00 p.m.

Luncheon & Program
Institutional Libraries: Hubs of the Research Web

Introduction: Wendy Lougee, University Librarian, University of Minnesota

John Wilbanks, Executive Director, Science Commons

2:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m.

Profiles of Collaborations

Introduction: Winston Tabb, Dean of University Libraries, Johns Hopkins University

US National Virtual Observatory

Alex Szalay, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University

Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean of University Libraries and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center, Johns Hopkins University

Bamboo Planning Project

Chad Kainz, Senior Director for Academic Technologies Networking Services & Information Technologies, University of Chicago

Charles Faulhaber, Director, Bancroft Library, and Professor of Spanish & Portuguese, University of California, Berkeley

Opportunities of the NSF DataNet Solicitation: A Status Report from the Field

Neil Rambo, Director of Cyberinfrastructure Initiatives, University of Washington Libraries, and Visiting Program Officer for Library Support of Research and E-Science, ARL

4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

Concurrent Follow-up Discussion Sessions

Follow-up: National Virtual Observatory

Alex Szalay, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University

Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean of University Libraries and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center, Johns Hopkins University

Follow-up: Bamboo Planning Project

Chad Kainz, Senior Director for Academic Technologies Networking Services & Information Technologies, University of Chicago

Charles Faulhaber, Director, Bancroft Library, and Professor of Spanish & Portuguese, University of California, Berkeley

5:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m.

Reception in Honor of Duane E. Webster

Friday, May 23

8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.

Breakfast Briefing: The Future of Bibliographic Control

Brian E. C. Schottlaender, Audrey Geisel University Librarian, University of California, San Diego

Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress

Judith Nadler, Director, University of Chicago Library

9:15 a.m.–10:45 a.m.

Lessons from Open Source Strategies in the Academy

Convener: Ann Wolpert, Director of Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Christopher J. Mackie, Associate Program Officer, Research in Information Technology, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Michele Kimpton, Executive Director, DSpace Foundation

Paul Courant, University Librarian and Dean, University of Michigan

Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information

11:00 a.m.–Noon

Concurrent Discussion Sessions

• Open Source ILSs

  Deborah Jakubs, Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University Librarian and Vice Provost for Library Affairs, Duke University

  Jeffrey Trzeciak, University Librarian, McMaster University

• Library Engagement with E-Science

  Wendy Pradt Lougee, University Librarian, University of Minnesota

  Neil Rambo, Director of Cyberinfrastructure Initiatives, University of Washington Libraries, and Visiting Program Officer, ARL

• NIH Policy Implementation

  Joan Giesecke, Dean of Libraries, University of Nebraska

Noon

Membership Meeting Adjourns

Noon–2:00 p.m.

ARL Board of Directors Meeting

Optional

12:15 p.m.–2:15 p.m.

Tours of University of Miami Libraries & Campus

Includes box lunch and transportation