Arnold Hirshon: Recent Presentations

• “Issues in Contemporary Librarianship.” (Minsk: Belarusian State University Fundamental Library and Belarusian Library Association 7th International Conference, October 10-12, 2006.) [Funded by the U.S. State Department]
• “E-Content and the New Digital Divide: Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives -- Challenges and Opportunities for Managing Library Information Resources” (Pretoria, South Africa: SASLI Conference, July 26, 2006)
• “Consortium Building” (Alexandria, Egypt: Bibliotheca Alexandrina/eIFL Workshop, March 5-6, 2006)
• “eIFL Portal Technology Report” and “eIFL Membership Survey Report” (Vilnius, Lithuania: eIFL General Assembly, October 29, 2005)
• “eIFL Library Consortium Building Workshop.” (Amman, Jordan: July 17, 2005)
• “Electronic Resource Licensing: Issues and Opportunities.” (Taipei, Taiwan: Leadership Institute, May 27, 2005)
• “Understanding and Managing Changes in Library Content and Information Technology.” (Taipei, Taiwan: Leadership Institute, May 27, 2005)
• “The 21st Century Digital/Print Hybrid Research Library: Challenges for Leadership.” (Macau: University of Hong Kong Library Leadership Institute, May 22 – 25, 2005)
• “A Boston-Based Buckeye Looks Back to the Future of Technology and Content.” (Columbus OH: OhioLINK Annual Meeting, March 17, 2005)
• “E-Licenses to Kill: or, Beyond the Boilerplate -- What Matters Most to Libraries and Consortia?” (London, England: Association of Subscription Agents, February 28, 2005)
• “Consortium Building and Strategic Planning Workshop.” (Abuja, Nigeria: eIFL Workshop, December 2, 2004)
• “Latest Developments in Consortium Management.” (Hong Kong: JULAC Meeting, November 12, 2004)
• “Consortium Building and Strategic Planning.” [eIFL Workshops] (Vientiane, Laos: November 5, 2004; Phnom Penh, Cambodia: November 8, 2004)
• “E-Content May Be King, But What Happened to the Kingdom?” (Taipei, Taiwan: CONCERT, November 10, 2004)
• “How does ICOLC Promote, Prepare, Discuss and Approve New Guidelines and Statements?” (Barcelona, Spain: International Coalition of Library Consortia, October 29, 2004)
• “International Coalition of Library Consortia: A Status Report;” ”Sustaining Library Consortia;” “Memorandum of Understanding and eIFL Dues Proposal.” eIFL.net General Assembly (Poznan, Poland: September 2004)
• “Negotiating Agreements for Electronic Journals and Other E-Content.” (Tilburg, Netherlands: Ticer Institute on Electronic Resources and Electronic Publishing, August 12, 2004)
• “The Role of Library Consortia in the Changing E-Content Environment.” (Tilburg, Netherlands: Ticer Institute on Electronic Resources and Electronic Publishing, August 11, 2004)
• “Consortia & Digital Libraries: Melodies, Harmonies, & Dissonances.” (Geneva, Switzerland: Ticer Institute on the Digital Library & E-Publishing for STM, June 16, 2004)
• “Consortium Management: Concepts, Trends and Opportunities.” (Taipei, Taiwan, March 26, 2004)
• “Believing Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Electronic Resource Collection Management in a Consortial Environment.” (Taichung, Taiwan: Interlibrary Cooperation Association Membership Conference, March 25, 2004)
• “Of Shoes, Ships, Sealing-Wax, Cabbages, and Kings: Library Consortium Management – Concepts, Trends and Opportunities.” (Taichung, Taiwan: Conference on E-learning, Digital Publishing, and Scholarly Communication Workshop, March 24, 2004)
• “Strategies for Funding Consortia and for Cost Sharing.” (Sardinia: eIFL General Assembly, October 20, 2003)
• “Electronic Resource Statistics Management Workshop.” (Sardinia: eIFL General Assembly Preconference, October 18, 2003)
• “E-Resource Collection Analysis, Management, and Integration.” (Istanbul, Turkey, May 2003; Johannesburg, South Africa, 2003: eIFL Workshop)
• International Seminar on Collaborative Management of Electronic Resources. (Beijing: National Academy of Sciences, October 9 - 10, 2003): “Library Consortia: Business Models, Current Issues, and International Developments”; “Principles of Electronic Resource Licensing”; “ICOLC Activities and Other Consortium-Related Standards and Guidelines”)
• How Can This Be Future When I Am Standing in Missoula? Or, What Me Worry About the Future When We’re Not Managing the Present So Well?  (Missoula MT: Information Futures Institute, September 18, 2003)

• International Library Consortia and the Information Industry: Recent Developments and Future Prospects.  (Tilburg, Netherlands: TICER Institute, August 26, 2003)

• Collection Management of Electronic Resources in a Consortial Environment: an eIFL Workshop.  (Istanbul, Turkey and Johannesburg, South Africa, May-June 2003)

• Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, or, Why Are Statistics So Boring, But So Important?  Report of the eIFL Electronic Resources Statistics Study.  (St. Petersburg, Russia: eIFL Country Coordinators Meeting, November 29, 2002).

• The Innovation Convergence of  Technology, Content, and Programs: An E-Future Time Capsule (Stockholm, Sweden: Swedish Association for Information Specialists, Designing E-Futures Conference, November 20, 2002)

• New England Regional Depository (Atlanta: American Library Association Conference, LAMA Storage Building Discussion Group, June 16, 2002
• Individualized Library Loan (Marlboro VT: NELINET Interlibrary Loan Conference, May 30, 2002)

• Executive Director's Report 2002 (Worcester MA: NELINET Annual Meeting, May 10, 2002) 

• International Library Consortia: Where Did We Come From?  Where Are We Going?   (Stellenbosch, South Africa: University of Stellenbosch Library Services Symposium, November 2, 2001)

• Bargaining for Believability: Digital Libraries in the Real World   (New Haven: North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries, October 15, 2001)

• Library Consortia: Where Did We Come From?  Where Are We Going? (Boston: IFLA Preconference on Library Consortia, August 16, 2001)

• Of Consortia and Caucus Races: One American’s View  (Hong Kong: Joint University Libraries Advisory Committee, May 11, 2001)

• Marching Beyond the Verizon: NELINET Executive Director’s Report 2001 (Hartford CT: NELINET Annual Meeting, May 4, 2001)

• Regional Storage Solutions for Libraries: Decisions = Money (Hartford CT: NELINET Annual Meeting, May 4, 2001)

• Digital Libraries: Decisions for Library Administrators (Hartford CT: NELINET Annual Meeting, May 4, 2001)

• Nailing Jello to the Wall:  A Snapshot of Access to Electronic Information Resources in Massachusetts and the Nation. (Masschusetts Board of Library Commissioners, April 2001)

• Of Bangs and Whimpers (Bridgeport, CT: Connecticut Community Colleges Council of Librarians, January 5, 2001)

• Library Consortia: One American's Perspective (Budapest, Hungary: Open Society Institute on Building and Extending Library Consortia in Eastern Europe, November 11, 2000)

• Caucus Races and Consortia: The Evolution of Consortia: How Will They Affect the Ways Libraries Do Business? (Chicago: American Library Association, Silverplatter Meeting, July 10, 2000)

• New England: Historical Traditions, Digital Futures -- The Formation of the New England Digital Library (Boston: Digital Realities II, June 5, 2000).

• Rider's Law and Moore's Law: NELINET at the Threshold of the 21st Century .  (Boston: NELINET Annual Meeting, June 5, 2000)

• Electronic Resources: Trends and Issues .  (Boston: NELINET Annual Meeting - Director's Breakout Sessions, June 5, 2000)

• Productivity Solutions to Increase Client Satisfaction   (Boston: NELINET Annual Meeting -  Director's Breakout Sessions, June 5, 2000)

• NELINET Programs, Membership and Fees: Issues Forum (Boston: NELINET Annual Meeting -  Director's Breakout Sessions, June 5, 2000)

• Coping with Consortia: A Checklist for National Aggregations (Washington, D.C.: Association of American Publishers, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division Conference, February 9, 2000)

• Clean Cups at the Mad Teaparty: Advancing Academic Libraries in the New Millenium (Hartford: Connecticut Council of Academic Library Directors, February 2000)

• Library Content Trends at the Gates of the New Millenium (Boston: University of Massachusetts at Boston Library 2000 Forum, January 2000)

• Transforming Libraries and Access: The Virtual Union Catalog -- Challenges, Opportunities and Approaches (Boston: Boston Library Consortium/ACRL New England, November 1999)

• Consortial Opportunities for New England (Vermont Librarians, October 1999)

• Electronic Journals: Pragmatic Solutions for User Access   (Dartmouth College Biomedical Libraries Annual Conference, October 21,1999)

• Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk? Or, Answering the Riddle of Client Services (Australia Library and Information Association, Reference and Information Section.  Sydney, Australia: September 8, 1999).

• Advice From a Caterpillar, or, Oh my, Toto, We're Not in Kansas Anymore!: Change Management and Information Services   (Parliamentary Library, Canberra, Australia: September 7, 1999)

• Planning the Future Rather than Mottoing Through: Now I Direct, and He Who Is Transplanted Still Sustains.  Let Us Hope So, but What is our Vision?  Should We Live Free or Die?  Should We Seek Peace, but Peace Only Under Liberty?

Should We Seek Freedom and Unity?  All of the Above? NELINET Executive Director's Report, Annual Meeting, May 14, 1999

· Academic Library Consortia: National Trends, Local Opportunities (PALCI, November 1998)

• Merging Libraries and Computing: Institutional Decision-Making and Implementation (CAUSE 1997)
• Text summary .  Same as Executive Summary to Integrating Computing and Library Services: An Administrative Planning and Implementation Guide for Information Resources [forthcoming; CAUSE, 1998])
• Presentation slides

• Academic Library Consortia: Past, Present, Future   (presented at Swets & Zeitlinger Annual Meeting, Lisse, Netherlands, February 1998)

• Jam Tomorrow, Jam Yesterday, But Never Jam Today (presented at NASIG Annual Meeting, June 1997 and International Association for Technical University Libraries, Trondheim Norway, July 1997)

• Outsourcing Library Technical Services (presented at Canadian Library Association, June 1996; Military Librarians Association [with Barbara Winters] November 1996)

• Strategic Planning, Restructuring, and Enterprise Wide Information Systems Planning at Lehigh University. (presented with Roy Gruver at the Coalition for Networked Information, December 1996.  Earlier version presented by Arnold Hirshon to the Society of American Archivists Association, August 1996 under the title "Of Strategies, and Ships, and Sealing Wax, of Intranets and Information.")