Saturday, July 11, 2009
3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Chicago, IL

Library and publishing innovators offered concrete data and strategies for “Rough waters: Navigating hard times in the scholarly communication marketplace,” at the SPARC-ACRL forum. The forum, was held at the Chicago meeting of the American Library Association in July, was co-sponsored by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).

The economy and its impact on library and higher education budgets are the most urgent concern for the library community today. While libraries have long been grappling with constrained collection budgets, we face a new urgency in continuing the transformation promised by Open Access and new technologies. This forum took a bird’s eye view of the scholarly communication marketplace and suggested tactics for navigating through tough times.

Kimberly Douglas, University Librarian, Caltech
Podcast | 1.7 MB
Slides [PDF] | 288KB

Charles B. Lowry, Executive Director, Association of Research Libraries
Podcast | 1.7MB
Slides [PDF] | 6.8MB
Slidecast

Ivy Anderson, Director of Collection Development & Management, California Digital Library
Podcast | 3.2MB
Slides [PDF] | 5.3MB

Emma Hill, Executive Editor of The Journal of Cell Biology at Rockefeller University Press
Podcast | 2.4MB
Slides [PDF] | 676KB

James Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University
Podcast | 3.1MB
Slides [PDF] | 44KB