09
Fiesole
Retreat
What is the likely shape of the library of the Future?
And how do we build collections for it?
Glasgow
2009
Glasgow 2009
July 24-25, 2009

University of Strathclyde
Glasgow, Scotland

Theme: Reshaping Library Content : Building e-Collections and Accessing Global Resources

For the past 10 years, the Fiesole Collection Development Retreat has been increasingly focused on the challenges of rapid digitization of scholarly materials, and how that process is changing the publishing profession and the services offered by libraries. Another major trend, also attributable to technological advances, has been the globalization of scholarly communication. This too has a profund impact on how we work together to share knowledge. In this eleventh retreat, we are taking a reflective look at how far we've come. The dominance of digital media and the power of complex electronic networks have changed forever the processes of recording, collecting, describing and preserving scholarly resources. The program will present a broad-based look at where we are and make some informed suggestions about where we should be going.

Programme

Thursday, July 23

  University of Strathclyde, Court Senate, Collins Building, 22 Richmond Street

Conference

13:00 - 13:30
Registration
13:30 - 16:30
Preconference: Funding and Content: How Philanthropy and Non-Academic Markets Are Shaping Scholarly Publishing
This program will focus on funding streams for scholarly electronic publishing. It will examine how various types and sources of funding affect, and will continue to influence, what is published through both Open Access digital libraries and conventional e-publishing platforms. Presenters will discuss the digital publishing goals of government and philanthropic sources of funding, and also trace the influence of the financial and policy research industries on recent production and distribution of digital resources.
Break sponsor, Dawson Books
  • Alastair Dunning
    Digitisation Programme Manager, Joint Information Systems Committee
    Digitised Content: Universities, Publishers, Sharing Openness
  • W. Robert Kiley
    Head of e-Strategy, Wellcome Library and Wellcome Trust
    Open Access: The View from the Wellcome Trust
  • Bernard F. Reilly
    President, Center for Research Libraries / Global Network
    Funding and Content: How Philanthropy and Non-Academic Markets Are Shaping Electronic Publishing
18:30
Buses depart for Opening Dinner
Sponsor, EBSCO
19:00 - 22:00
Opening Dinner
House of the Art Lover, Glasgow (Co-sponsors, Elsevier and The Charleston Company)
  • Jay Jordan
    President, OCLC
  • John MacColl
    Director, Programs and Research, OCLC Europe
    All Together Now: The Work of OCLC Research

Friday, July 24

  University of Strathclyde, Court Senate, Collins Building, 22 Richmond Street

Conference

Reception Immediately Following
Glasgow City Chambers
Open dinner
08:30 - 09:30
Registration
09:00 - 09:45
Opening Remarks
  • Peter J. Nicholson
    President Council of Canadian Academies of Science: "Information Rich and Attention Poor"
    Intellectual Authority: Who Do We Trust in the Era of Massively Distributed Collaboration
09:45 - 11:45
What Are We Collecting? Evolving Formats in the Digital Era
In this session, two publishers will look at ebooks and ejournals – the last ten years of progress and where we may be heading. We will conclude with a librarian's perspective on evaluating, acquiring and preserving digital content within the context of our valuable but shrinking print collections.
Break at 10:15 a.m. (Sponsor, Sage Reference)
  • Gordon Tibbitts
    CEO, bepress
    E-Journals and the Continuum: Exponential Expansion Is Near
  • Rolf Janke
    Vice President, Sage Publications
    E-Books: Riding the E-Collection Wave and How Publishers Remain Afloat in the Digital Era
  • Lorelei Tanji
    Associate University Librarian, Collections, University of California, Irvine
    E-Books: Some Library Perspectives
11:45 - 13:15
Lunch
Sponsor, CIG/ProQuest
13:15 - 15:00
Expanding Access to Digital Content
This session addressess building and deploying discovery tools that best enable access to information, retooling our existing mechanisms to serve us better, and developing the tools to measure our effectiveness
Break at 3:00 p.m. (Sponsor, Ingram Digital)
  • Convener

    Lotfi Belkhir
    Founder, Kirtas Technologies
    Transformative Digitization Technologies
  • Ruth Jones
    Director Publisher Business Development, EMEA, Ingram Digital Ltd.
    Expanding Access to Digital Content: Electronic Journals & Books: The End of Divide?
  • Klaus Kempf
    Head of Collections, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Germany
    The Library Perspective I: Visibility and Accessibility of Digitised Documents. The Approach of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
  • Hildegard Schäffler
    Head of Journals and Electronic Media, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Germany
    The Library Perspective I: Visibility and Accessibility of Digitised Documents. The Approach of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
15:15 - 17:30
Measuring Our Effectiveness
This section will look at how we decide if our collection strategies are paying off in increased user productivity. Two researchers will report on how scholars are using digital materials.
Break at 3:00 p.m. (Sponsor, Ingram Digital)
  • Convener

    Johan Bollen
    Principal Investigator, MESUR Project
    MESUR: Making Use and Sense of Scholarly Usage Data
  • James Evans
    Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
    Science Broadering and Narrowing Influences of the Internet
  • Carol Tenopir
    Professor of Information Science, University of Tennessee
    Electronic Publication: The Narrowing of Science and Scholarship?
  • Dan Tonkery
    Vice President, Business Development, EBSCO
    Merger Madness: How Company Mergers Affect Customers. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Saturday, July 25

  University of Strathclyde, Court Senate, Collins Building, 22 Richmond Street

Conference

09:00 - 11:45
Global Perspectives
Librarians have been so focused on the whole area of licensing and commercial deals for digital materials that no real thought has been given to collection building in a digital era. Non-commercial material has always been a substantial part of the intake of any serious research library from archives to grey literature and ephemera. No coherent philosophy of digital collection building has emerged – or even been considered. This session looks at such collection building from three quite different perspectives in order to explore what common themes or differences emerge.
Break at 10:15 a.m. (Sponsor, bepress)
  • Derek Law
    University of Strathclyde
    Introduction to the Session
  • Fred Heath
    University of Texas, Austin
    Human Rights: The Challenge of Documentation in the Digital Age
  • Mel Collier
    University of Leuven, Belgium
    Digital Collection Building at the Local and European Level: Perspectives from Flanders and the Europeana Project
  • Robert Lacey
    National Library of Wales
    Poets, Performing Arts and Government Publications: Building a Digital Collection at the National Library of Wales
  • Malcom Read
    JISC
    The Value of Content in an Open World
11:45 - 12:30
Closing Session
  • Cliff Linch
    CNI
    Wrap-Up

Contacts

For further information about the Retreat Series please contact Katina Strauch, Rebecca Lenzini or Michele Casalini.

Proceedings

Listed in order of program schedule