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Agenda

10:30 - 11:30 a.m. “The Purpose Driven Library: How to Thrive in the Digital Age” (Presentation PDF)

Keynote Speaker Joe Lucia, Villanova University

11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. “Taking Charge of Change: Fostering Organizational Vitality” (Presentation PDF)

Lisabeth Chabot, College Librarian, Ithaca College

Susan Currie, Binghamton University

Appreciative Inquiry? Emotional Intelligence? Team Building? We’ve all heard about these and other organizational development tools. Is it possible and practical to apply theory to produce tangible outcomes in the workplace? The speakers will discuss their experiences with leading change management and engagement activities; provide practical examples of the use of Appreciative Inquiry, Team Building, Emotional Intelligence, Reframing Organizations”and “Managing Organizational Transitions”; and engage the audience in sample development exercises.

1:15 - 2:45“Bibliographic Gestalt” - Content Delivery and Discovery in Emerging User Spaces and Contexts”

Corey Harper, Metadata Services Librarian, New York University

Linking Library Data (Presentation PDF) The number of sources of metadata for resource discovery, and the variety of schemes and formats they come in, presents an increasingly large problem for libraries. Currently, the community has limited methods for achieving cross repository discovery; the choices are metadata harvesting/normalization and federated search.
Both of these solutions are post-hoc, and don't scale to the volume of data becoming available. Increasingly, libraries need to provide access to non-library data and also need to be indexing, displaying and making use of user-supplied metadata. This talk will focus on how the technical underpinnings of the web can be used as an interoperability framework toward the development of a “self-describing” web of (meta)data. Looking at library metadata in a broader context and “web-ifying” it has the potential to allow libraries to more effectively re-purpose and re-use their own data and more easily integrate new data sources into our discovery environments. Additionally, publishing linked data offers hooks for others on the web to link their own descriptions to & enrich their metadata, as well as benefit from library developed tools.

Diane Hillmann, Director of Metadata Initiatives for the Information Institute of Syracuse

Embracing the Chaos (Presentation PDF) In libraries we’ve traditionally assumed that interoperability means everyone has to agree on approaches, metadata formats, and standards--because that’s what we’ve always done. The reality is that our old world is gone, and it's not coming back. What to do now? The current crisis can free us to try new approaches – what are they?

Coming to Town Early?

SENYLRC [the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council] is presenting a workshop, Information Commons 2.0: Lessons Learned and Moving Forward, on May 7, also at The Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home in Hyde Park, NY. For more information and to register for SENYLRC’s workshop, go to http://www.senylrc.org/.

You might also like to visit the Culinary Institute of America and one of its restaurants. More about the CIA’s Hyde Park campus.

Hotel & Travel Information

Directions, as well as links to local information, on the FDR Presidential Library and Museum web site.

Amtrak’s Empire Service and three other routes serve the Poughkeepsie Train station, as well as Metro North’s Hudson Line.

Nylink has reserved a block of rooms at the Quality Inn, Hyde Park, located across from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum at the rate of $119 for the night of Thursday, May 7. To reserve a room, please contact the hotel directly at 845-229-0088 and reference Nylink to reserve this rate. To reserve this rate, you must reserve this room by Tuesday, April 7.

Visit the hotel web site (Quality Inn site) for additional hotel information and directions.

Registration

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Speaker Bios

Lisabeth Chabot

Lisabeth Chabot has been the College Librarian at Ithaca College since August 2003. She has worked as a cataloger, reference librarian, and library administrator over her more than 30-year professional career. She believes that a successful library is one that is used -both virtually and on-site. The Mission of the Ithaca College Library is to enhance teaching and learning at Ithaca College through the provision of flexible, diverse, and user-centered information services and resources. The IC library staff works to create an organization that is receptive to innovation, recognized for efficient management, and focused on continuous improvement in its services, resources, and facility.

Susan Currie

Susan Currie is Associate Director of University Libraries for Binghamton University Libraries, currently responsible for Library Technology and Systems, Research and Instructional Services, Information Commons, Collection Development, Reader Services, Acquisitions, Cataloging, Continuing and Electronic Resources. Prior to joining SUNY Binghamton in 2005, she was at Cornell University Libraries for over 20 years, where she held a series of progressively more responsible positions culminating in the Director of Resources and Planning for the Division of Instruction, Research and Information Services. With close to 30 years as a librarian, her professional background includes extensive experience in the design and implementation of innovative, high quality, user-centered services, collaborative leadership, personnel management, and project management. The Mission of Binghamton University Libraries: Binghamton University Libraries are the center of the University’s intellectual community, providing a welcoming environment for the creation and management of knowledge through innovative thinking, open inquiry, and collaborative partnerships

Christopher Harris

Christopher Harris, author of the Infomancy blog, is the Coordinator of the School Library System for Genesee Valley BOCES, an educational services agency that supports the libraries of 22 small, rural districts in Western NY. In addition to his writing on Infomancy, he is a regular technology columnist for School Library Journal talking about "The Next Big Thing". Along with Andy Austin, Christopher wrote an ALA TechSource Library Technology Reports issue on using the open source Drupal content management framework in libraries published in 2008. A book on gaming in school libraries written with Brian Mayer will be published in 2009. Christopher was a participant in the first American Library Association Emerging Leaders program in 2007, and was honored as a Library Journal Mover and Shaker in 2008. An avid gamer as well as a dedicated reader of both digital and print formats, he lives with his wife, a K-12 school librarian, and four cats in Le Roy, NY. Christopher’s web site.

Cory Harper

Corey has been the Metadata Services Librarian at NYU for a little over 2 years. Much of that time has been spent on an ILS migration, and implementation and upkeep of a next-generation Enterprise Search System: ExLibris’ Primo. This experience has further convinced him of the need for more rigorous data modeling and the use of common web protocols to support metadata interoperability. Prior to coming to NYU, Corey was a Cataloger, Metadata Librarian, and Digital Library Developer at the University of Oregon.

Diane Hillmann

Diane Hillmann, currently Director of Metadata Initiatives for the Information Institute of Syracuse (formerly Research Librarian, Cornell University Library and Director of Library Services and Operations of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL)) has been involved with Dublin Core since its inception. She is the editor of "Using Dublin Core," former administrator of the AskDCMI Service, co-moderator of the DC Education Community, and former member of the DCMI Usage Board. She is active in the library standards community, having served several terms on the MARC Standards Advisory Committee (MARBI) as a liaison from the law library community and as a LITA representative. She currently represents the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative on the ALA Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA) discussing the new Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard [RDA]. In addition, she serves as the Standards Coordinator for the Library Information Technology Association (a division of the American Library Association) and was recently appointed to the NISO Content and Collection Management Topic Committee. Diane’s web site.

Joseph Lucia

Joseph Lucia is University Librarian and Director of Falvey Memorial Library at Villanova University. Prior to assuming his post at Villanova in July, 2002, Lucia served as Director for Library Technology & Access Services within the Information Resources organization at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.. He has managed library technology projects incorporating open source components since the late 1990s. His library initiated and sponsors the VuFind project, an open source resource discovery tool.