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Expanding Opportunities for Collaboration
and Next Generation Access
May 7, 2004
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Worcester, MA
25th Year of Incorporation
| Agenda |
| 8:30
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9:00am |
Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00
- 10:30am |
Annual Business Meeting |
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- Board
of Directors’ Report (Ruth Kowal, Chair)
- Treasurer’s Report
(Helen Shuster)
- Dues and Fees Schedule (vote)
- Nominations to Board of Directors (Claudia Morner, Chair,
Nominating Committee)
- Executive Director's Report (Arnold Hirshon) |
| 10:30
- 11:15am |
Opening Keynote: |
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- Collaborations:
Secrets of Success
David B. Liroff, Vice President and Chief
Technology Officer at the WGBH Educational Foundation |
| 11:15
- 11:45am |
Break - Vendor exhibits and
networking time |
| 11:45
- 12:30pm |
Breakout Session 1. (Choose one of the
following:) |
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1a. |
Collaboration in Action: Societies, Libraries,
and BioOne (Susan Abell, Program Coordinator)
Session Speaker:
Todd Carpenter, Director of Business Development, BioOne |
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1b. |
Consortial Collaborations: Finding Success Together
(Rob Favini, Program Coordinator)
Session Speakers:
Greg Pronevitz, Regional Administrator, Northeast Massachusetts
Regional Library System;
Elaine Martin, Director of Library Service, Lamar Soutter
Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School |
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1c. |
Collaborative Catalogs:
Reaching Out to New Users (Margaret Lourie, Program Coordinator)
Session Speakers:
"OCLC's Open WorldCat Pilot"
James Estrada, V.P. for Information Services
& University Librarian, Fairfield University;
"The Massachusetts Virtual Catalog"
Daniel Ortiz, Director of Libaries, UMass Boston |
| 12:30
- 1:30pm |
Lunch and Raffle |
| 1:30
- 2:15pm |
Breakout Session 2. (Choose one of the
following:) |
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2a. |
Creative Collaborations and the Changing Market
for Libraries and Publishers (Mary Basilone, Program Coordinator)
Session Speaker:
"Joined at the Hip: Collaboration, Cooperation and Communication"
Susan Pastore, Director of Library Relations,
Kluwer Academic Publishers |
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2b. |
Collaborative Models for Institutional Repositories
(Carrie Bartels, Program Coordinator)
Session Speakers:
Institutional Repositories and DSpace
Margaret Branschofsky, User Support Manager, Digital
Library Research Group, MIT;
Collaborative Models for Institutional
Repositories: eScholarship@BC
Brendan Rapple, Collection Services Librarian, O'Neill
Library, Boston College;
Robert Gerrity, Head of Systems, Systems Department,
Office of the University Librarian, Boston College |
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2c. |
Virtual Reference: Linking
QuestionPoint to Course Management Systems (Tim Rivard, Program
Coordinator)
Session Speaker:
Virtual Reference in the E-learning Classroom
Heidi Sander, E-Learning Program Manager of Cooperative
Initiatives Group, OCLC |
| 2:15
- 2:30pm |
Break - Vendor exhibits and
networking time |
| 2:30
- 3:15pm |
NELINET Award and Distinguished Lecture: |
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Along the Paper Trail
Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe columnist
and winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary |
July 6, 2004
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