Janus Conference on Research Library Collections

Managing the Shifting Ground Between Writers and Readers

Cornell University Library

October 9-11, 2005

Sunday, October 9, 2005

4:00 p.m. - Registration - Statler Auditorium Lobby

5:00 p.m. - Opening session (open to the public) - Statler Auditorium

Sarah E. Thomas, Carl A. Kroch University Librarian, Cornell: Welcome and opening remarks

David Stam, University Librarian Emeritus, Syracuse University: Opening remarks

Hendrik Edelman, Adjunct Professor, Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University: A history of collection development and a view to the future

7:00 p.m. - Dinner (registrants only) - Statler Hotel Carrier Ballroom

Monday, October 10, 2005

9:00 a.m. - Noon - Morning session (open to the public) - Statler Auditorium

John Saylor, Director of Collection Development, National Science Digital Library; Director, Engineering Library, Cornell (on leave): Welcome and introduction

Papers:

Mark Dimunation, Chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress: On the continuing importance of physical artifacts

Mark Sandler, Director of Collections, University of Michigan Library: On library collections in the age of Google

Jean-Claude Guédon, Professor, Département de littérature comparée, Université de Montréal: On scholarly communication and collection development

Noon - 1:00 p.m. Lunch (registrants only) - Statler Hotel Carrier Ballroom

1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Afternoon session (registrants only):

Ross Atkinson, Associate University Librarian for Collections, Cornell: Remarks and a draft resolution on research library collections- Statler Auditorium

2:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Breakout sessions, discussion, synthesis - Statler classrooms (assigned)

6:00 p.m. - Reception (registrants only) - Kroch Library

6:30 p.m. - Drafting of conference resolution by designated writing team - 201 Olin Library

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

9:00 a.m. - Noon - Closing session (registrants only) - Statler Auditorium

9:00 a.m. - Report of writing team on draft resolution, discussion

11:15 a.m. - Sarah Thomas and Brian Schottlaender, University Librarian, University of California, San Diego: Discussion of the resolution and next steps

Noon - Close of conference

Post Conference Tours and Presentations

1:00-3:00 p.m.
Open House
Kroch Library, level 2B
The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections will host an Open House to showcase facilities and highlights from the collections. At 2 pm, a curator will lead a tour of the current exhibition, From Dublin to Ithaca: Cornell’s James Joyce Collection (rmc.library.cornell.edu/joyce/). Enter via Olin Library and meet on level 2B, Kroch Library. See: rmc.library.cornell.edu for details and collection descriptions.

Presentations
All presentations will be held in 106 Olin Library

1:00-1:30 p.m.
ITSO CUL, How About You?
Presenter: Scott Wicks
ITSO CUL provides a single interface to user-profiled, bibliographic records covering an international array of newly published titles for selectors to use in placing firm orders. Scott will demonstrate the existing product and discuss the potential for collaborative collection development between libraries using ITSO CUL.

1:30-2:00 p.m.
Center for Innovative Publishing
Presenters: Tom Hickerson and David Ruddy
The mission of the Center for Innovative Publishing is to develop an electronic publishing program that conceptualizes, implements, and promotes a wide variety of sustainable publishing initiatives to support and encourage the transformation of the scholarly communication landscape. Current initiatives include: Euclid, a publisher of journals in mathematics and statistics; arXiv, the world-renowned eprint repository for physics, computer science, mathematics, and quantitative biology; and the Cornell Scholars’ Network, a set of services specifically designed to support faculty in retaining and providing access to both formal and informal scholarly literature. Central to the larger goals of the Center and of the Library is the further enhancement and open source distribution of DPubS (Digital Publishing System), software designed to support both open access and subscription-based publication of journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other common and evolving means of academic discourse.

2:00-2:30 p.m.
VIVO: The Virtual Life Sciences Library
Presenters: Jon Corson-Rikert and Medha Devare
The Life Sciences Working Group of the Cornell University Library created a virtual life sciences library unique web-based index called VIVO (vivo.library.cornell.edu) in response to needs identified by faculty involved with the New Life Sciences Initiative. VIVO transcends campus, college and department boundaries to provide an integrated view of the life sciences at Cornell. It provides easy access to databases, software tools and image collections in the life sciences, and allows users to search for and seamlessly navigate across information on faculty, events, grants, recent publications with Cornell first authors, and other current life-science activities at Cornell, forming a virtual academic community that is serving as a model for other disciplines.

2:30-3:00 p.m.
Digital Consulting and Production Services
Presenter: Oya Rieger
Description: The Library’s Digital Consulting and Production Services was established in January 2003 to create a unified service point to ensure cost-effective planning, creation, management, use, and preservation of digital collections. It offers a suite of digital asset management services supporting digital resource development, from feasibility assessment to full-scale production. The unit also coordinates the faculty-library partnerships in building digital collections.