Schedule for ARL Membership Meeting Fall 2015

Monday, October 5, 2015

9:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m.

Glover Park A

ARL Executive Committee Meeting

12:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

Glover Park B

ARL Board of Directors Meeting I

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

7:00 a.m.–8:00 a.m.

Dupont Circle Ballroom

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.

Working Sessions—Enabling Capacity Committees

• Advocacy and Public Policy, Foxhall B/C
• Assessment, Georgetown
• Diversity and Inclusion, Foxhall A
• Member Engagement and Outreach, Kalorama

9:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m.

Dupont Circle Ballroom

Break

9:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m.

Working Sessions—Design Teams

• ARL Academy, Foxhall B
• Collective Collections, Kalorama
• Innovation Lab, Georgetown
• Libraries That Learn, Foxhall C
• Scholarly Dissemination Engine, Foxhall A

10:30 a.m.–10:45 a.m.

Dupont Circle Ballroom

Break

10:45 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Dupont Circle Ballroom

ARL System of Action—Cutting to the Chase

Presentation of ARL Strategic Design Transition Team’s Final Report and Interim Reports from Design Teams and Enabling Capacity Committees. The Coordinating Committee is charged with fostering development of new activities for the Association to pursue. This session set up subsequent discussions at the Fall Meeting about ideas for specific projects and priorities.

Speakers:
Brian E. C. Schottlaender, Audrey Geisel University Librarian, University of California, San Diego, and Chair of ARL Strategic Design Coordinating Committee

David Carlson, Dean of Libraries, Sterling C. Evans Chair, Texas A&M University, and Chair of ARL Advocacy and Public Policy Committee

Bob Fox, Dean, University Libraries, University of Louisville, and Chair of ARL Assessment Committee

Joyce Backus, Associate Director for Library Operations, National Library of Medicine, and Chair of ARL Diversity and Inclusion Committee

Anne Kenney, Carl A. Kroch University Librarian, Cornell University, and Chair of ARL Member Engagement and Outreach Committee

Vivian Lewis, University Librarian, McMaster University, and Chair of ARL Academy Design Team

Austin Booth, Vice Provost for University Libraries, University at Buffalo, and Chair of ARL Libraries That Learn Design Team

Tom Wall, University Librarian, Boston College, and Chair of ARL Innovation Lab Design Team

John Culshaw, University Librarian, University of Iowa, and Chair of ARL Collective Collections Design Team

Joe Lucia, Dean of Libraries, Temple University, and Chair of ARL Scholarly Dissemination Engine Design Team

12:00 p.m.–1:15 p.m.

Cafe Dupont

Networking Lunch

1:15 p.m.–2:15 p.m.

Dupont Circle Ballroom

“Under the Tent”

Updates on Advocacy and Public Policy and Assesment activities.

Moderators:
David Carlson, Dean of Libraries, Sterling C. Evans Chair, Texas A&M University, and Chair of ARL Advocacy and Public Policy Committee

Bob Fox, Dean, University Libraries, University of Louisville, and Chair of ARL Assessment Committee

Speakers:
Prue Adler, Associate Executive Director, Federal Relations and Information Policy, ARL

Krista Cox, Director of Public Policy Initiatives, ARL

Martha Kyrillidou, Senior Director, ARL Statistics and Service Quality Programs, ARL

2:15 p.m.–2:45 p.m.

Dupont Circle Ballroom

Break

ARL Membership Meeting Convenes

2:45 p.m.–3:15 p.m.

Dupont Circle Ballroom

President’s Welcome and Introductions

ARL president Deborah Jakubs introduced the current Board of Directors. New member representatives were introduced by their colleagues. Jakubs introduced new interim member representatives and meeting guests. 

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

3:15 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

Dupont Circle Ballroom

Mind Bugs: The Ordinary Origins of Bias

Conscious experience provides an immediate, compelling, and incomplete account of mental life. Much of perception, thinking, and action is shaped by mental activity that occurs outside of conscious awareness or conscious control. Because of that, judgment and action can be unintentionally influenced by factors that we do not recognize, and may not value.
     — from Project Implicit

Calvin Lai of Project Implicit led meeting participants in a highly interactive session that demonstrated everyone has implicit biases. He also showed participants some ways that they can work to consciously counteract their biases. 

Moderator:
Joyce Backus, Associate Director for Library Operations, National Library of Medicine

Speaker:
Calvin Lai, Director of Research, Project Implicit, Harvard University

6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

Glover Park Ballroom

Reception at the Dupont Circle Hotel

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

7:30 a.m.–8:30 a.m.

Dupont Circle Ballroom

Registration and Continental Breakfast

“I’ve Got a Problem” Breakfast Conversations
(Hosted by the Member Engagement and Outreach Committee)

• Campus Collaborations with IT Organizations
  Sara Lowman, Rice University
• Effective Ways to Reach Faculty
  Anne Kenney, Cornell University
• Engaging Library Unions/Associations re: The Evolving Nature of What Libraries Need in People Being Hired as Librarians
  Steven Mandeville-Gamble, University of California, Riverside
• Enhancing the Impact of University Press Relationships with Research Libraries
  Joe Lucia, Temple University
• Lessons Learned in Bringing Archives and Special Collections under One Roof (Physical or Administrative)
  Martha Bedard, University of Connecticut

8:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m.

Dupont Circle Ballroom

ARL Business Meeting

(ARL member representatives and specified substitutes only)

9:30 a.m.–9:45 a.m.

Dupont Circle Ballroom

Tributes to Retiring ARL Directors

9:45 a.m.–10:15 a.m.

Dupont Circle Ballroom

Break

10:15 a.m.–11:15 a.m.

Dupont Circle Ballroom

Grand Challenges & Wicked Problems

The Libraries That Learn Design Team engaged ARL member representatives and guests in a discussion about our perceived grand challenges and wicked problems in higher education and institutions. This discussion will assist the Design Team in surfacing commonalities among institutions and identifying potential partners in exploring these themes.

Moderator:
Austin Booth, Vice Provost for University Libraries, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Libraries

11:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Dupont Circle Ballroom

“I’ve Got a Hunch”

Meeting participants presented lightning round descriptions of new projects, programs, thought experiments, questions, conundrums, and lines of inquiry. Speakers shared ideas, obtained feedback, and found partners for further dialogue, exploration, and development.

Moderator:
Thomas Wall, University Librarian, Boston College Libraries

Speakers:

• Aggregated Social Media Feeds for ARL Libraries
  Joe Lucia, Temple University
• Collaborative Approaches to Preserving Born-Digital Resources
  Carol Mandel, New York University
• Immersive 3-D Virtual Bookstacks
  Catherine Quinlan, University of Southern California
• Libraries Shore Up Wikipedia
  Elliott Shore, Association of Research Libraries
• Technology Incubation Space and Gallery
  Andreas Orphanides, North Carolina State University

12:00 p.m.–1:15 p.m.

Cafe Dupont

Networking Lunch

1:15 p.m.–2:45 p.m.

Dupont Circle Ballroom

Break

2:45 p.m.–3:45 p.m.

Dupont Circle Ballroom

Analyzing Acquisitions Data

With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ithaka S+R is studying academic library acquisitions data. Although the researchers’ initial interest was the changing market share of book vendors, and especially Amazon, they are gathering a wealth of data that is permitting them to address a variety of additional questions. In this session, researchers previewed pilot findings, sought input on the types of additional analysis that would be helpful to ARL members, and solicited participation beyond the pilot phase.

Moderator:
Tyler Walters, Dean of University Libraries, Virginia Tech Libraries

Speakers:
Joseph J. Esposito, Consultant, Scholarly Kitchen

Roger C. Schonfeld, Director of Library and Scholarly Communication Program, Ithaka S+R

Liam Sweeney, Analyst, Ithaka S+R

3:45 p.m.–4:00 p.m.

Dupont Circle Ballroom

Break

4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

Dupont Circle Ballroom

Moving the ARL Strategic Framework to Implementation

Brian Schottlaender, chair of the ARL Strategic Design Coordinating Committee, reviewed the discussions held earlier during the Membership Meeting about design team projects and engaged the ARL membership in prioritizing next steps, to be followed after the meeting by a call for expressions of interest in particular action areas.

Moderator:
Brian E. C. Schottlaender, Audrey Geisel University Librarian, UC San Diego

Membership Meeting Adjourns

5:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m.

Glover Park Ballroom

ARL Board of Directors Meeting II