Thursday, September 11

Welcome & Introduction

Kate Torrey, Director, University of North Carolina Press

Overview of Scholarly Communication Issues

Moderator: Kate Torrey

Administrator:
The Pace of Scholarship, the Scholarly Career, and the Monograph
Stanley Chodorow, Provost, University of Pennsylvania

Scholar:
Why do We Write Stuff That Even Our Colleagues Don't Want to Read?
R. Stephen Humphreys, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

Publisher:
Reaching Specialized Audiences: The Publisher's Conundrum
Joanna Hitchcock, Director, University of Texas Press

Librarian:
Libraries and the Specialized Scholarly Monograph
Robert Wedgeworth, Director, University of Illinois at Urbana Library

Economics of the Specialized Monograph

Moderator: Peter Givler, Executive Director, Association of Amercian University Presses

How Much Does It Cost to Publish A Monograph and Why?
Marlie Wasserman, Director, Rutgers University Press

Digital Alternatives: Solving the Problem or Shifting the Costs?
Colin Day, Director, University of Michigan Press

Just-In-Time Scholarly Monographs, or, Is There A Cavalry Bugle Call for Beleaguered Authors and Publishers?
Scott Bennett, Director, Yale University Library

Changing Expectations for Faculty

Moderator: Duane E. Webster, Executive Director, Association of Research Libraries

Is There a Crisis? If so, Does It Matter?: A View From a Liberal Arts College
Charles Beitz, Dean of Faculty, Bowdoin College

Promotion: A Triple Whammy at Research Universities
Peter Nathan, Professor of Psychology, University of Iowa

Advancing Humanistic Scholarship in the Pre-Tenure Years
John D'Arms, President of the American Council of Learned Societies

Impact of the Current Environment

Moderator: Anna Perrault, University of South Florida

Thinking Systematically about the Crisis in Scholarly Communication
Sanford G. Thatcher, Director, Pennsylvania State University Press

Friday, September 12

Experiments in Monographic Publishing

Moderator: Michael Jensen, Johns Hopkins University Press

Columbia International Affairs Online
Kate Wittenberg, Columbia University Press

Books Online: Potentialities and Realities
Carol Mandel, Columbia University Library

A Place for the Small Press in University Publishing
Robert Langenfeld, Professor of English, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Learning By Doing: Publishing Latin American Studies Books on the Web
Norris Pope, Director, Stanford University Press

New Frameworks for Scholarly Research & Communication

Moderator: Mary M. Case, Director, Office of Scholarly Communication, Association of Research Libraries

University Publishing in the Electronic Age: A Collaboration Among University Presses, Libraries and Computing Centers
Sheila Creth, University Librarian, University of Iowa Libraries

The Scholarly Monograph's Descendants
Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information

The AHA/ARL Proposal on the Endangered Monograph
Sandria Freitag, Executive Director, American Historical Association

Engaging the Issues

Facilitator: James Neal, Director, Johns Hopkins University Library

Future Directions

Moderator: Gloria Werner, Director, University of California, Los Angeles, Libraries

The Future of the Genre
Teresa Sullivan, Vice President and Graduate Dean, University of Texas at Austin