Washington, DC
October 15-16, 2003

Fred Heath, University of Texas at Austin
ARL President, presiding

Program Session I

Organizational Strategies to Deliver a Liberal Education

Carol Schneider, President Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) Greater Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College

Program Session II

The Hard Reality of Moving Toward an Open Access Model

Mary Case, Director, Office of Scholarly Communication
ARL

Stuart M. Shieber, Professor of Computer Science (PDF)
Harvard University

Heather Joseph, President
BioOne

Federal Relations Luncheon Program
Access Strategies for Government Information: A Briefing and Community Discussion

Convener: Ken Frazier, University of Wisconsin

ARL Prospectus: A National Digitization Plan for Retrospective Government Documents (Preliminary)
(PDF) October 2003

Ridley Kesler, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, "A preliminary analysis of the ARL Survey of Regional and ARL Selective Depository Libraries in the Federal Depository Library Program, 2003 " (PDF)

Supplemental Documents:

• "ARL Survey of Regional Depository Libraries, Summary of Likert Analysis" (PDF)

• "ARL Survey of Selective Depository Libraries, Summary of Likert Analysis" (PDF)

• "ARL Survey Regional and Selective Depository Libraries, Summary of Likert Analysis" (PDF)

• "ARL Survey of Regional and Selective Depository Libraries, Summary of Likert Analysis, Final " (PDF)

• "William Sudduth, University of South Carolina, "Initial Analysis of ARL Survey of Regional and Selective Depository Libraries " (October 8, 2003) (PDF)

Briefing
Assessing ILL/DD Services: Briefing on the Study Findings

Mary Jackson, ARL

Concurrent Discussion Sessions

Opportunities for Support Staff: A Report on Recommendations from the 3rd Congress on Professional Education David Ferriero, Duke University
Camila Alire, University of New Mexico
Virginia Steele, Washington State University

Background [PDF]
Discussion [PDF]

Implementing Institutional Repositories: Key Policy Issues
Paul Gherman, Vanderbilt University
Joanne Eustis, Case Western Reserve University

Background [PDF]
Discussion [PDF]

Changing Demographics of Research Libraries: Trends and Implications
Stanley Wilder, University of Rochester

Background [PDF]

ARL Business Meeting

Appendices

AAU/ARL Global Resources Network: October 2003 Update Report

ARL Committee Meeting: Agenda Highlights

Collections & Access Issues
Diversity
Information Policies
Intellectual Property & Copyright
Leadership
Membership
Portal Applications Working Group
Preservation
Scholarly Communication
Statistics & Measurement

Attendance List (PDF)