Washington, DC
October 16-17, 2002
Program Session I: ARL's 70th Anniversary Celebration
Welcome and Introduction of New Directors
Paula Kaufman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ARL President
Bill Crowe, University of Kansas
ARL Directorships in Transition
Jim Neal, Columbia University
Turnover Trends: ARL Library Directors, 1948-2002
Program Session II: Emerging Digital Preservation Strategies
Convener: Nancy Gwinn, Smithsonian Institution
Dale Flecker, Harvard University
Kevin Guthrie, JSTOR
Program Session III: Universities in the Digital Age
Convener: Ann Wolpert, Director of Libraries, MIT
Strategies to Disturb the Educational Universe
Chuck Vest, President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Digits, Documents and Dissemination: Opportunity and Challenge
Federal Relations Lunch Program
Convener: Lance Query, Tulane University
Digital Rights Management Issues
Fred (Rick) W. Weingarten, Director, Office for Information Technology Policy, American Library Association
DRM and Copyright: "Code" and the Public Interest at the Crossroads
Concurrent Discussion Sessions
Future Needs for Cyber Infrastructure
Recommendations of the NSF Blue Ribbon Panel
Convener: Marianne Gaunt, Rutgers University
Presenter: Dan Atkins, University of Michigan
ARL Input for the ACRL Task Force on the Future
Convener: Shirley Baker, Washington University in St. Louis
Building an Affordable E-Journal Archive and Preservation System: LOCKSS
Convener: Nancy Gwinn, Smithsonian Institution
Presenter: Vicky Reich, Stanford University
ARL Business Meeting