ACRL New England Chapter News Online

ISSN 1527-0106

Winter 2007, Number 110

In This Issue (Home):

President's Letter

2007 Annual Conference Date Set

Board Elections begin this month!

ACRL Legislative Advocates Needed

Interest Group Reports:

Chapter Member News:

Board Minutes, January 9, 2007
Calendar Listings

Date Set for Annual Spring Conference

Judith Pinnolis, Brandeis University
Vice President, ACRL New England

Mark your calendars for June 1, 2007, for the ACRL New England Chapter Annual Meeting. It will be held at Brandeis University and promises to be one of the outstanding events this Spring, 2007 for New England librarians. The conference theme is "Space: The Final Frontier" which will be addressed throughout the day from a wide range of perspectives and many ideas offered as potential alternative solutions.

The morning will begin with two outstanding speakers in a forum on space issues in libraries: Paul Gherman, University Librarian, Vanderbilt University, and Brian F. Lavoie, Consulting Research Scientist at OCLC. Paul and Brian will be followed by our keynotes respondent, Anne Sauer, Director of Digital Collections and Archives (DCA), Tufts University.

In addition to being involved in several digital publication projects, such as one to create tools for history research, Gherman brings expertise as former President of ASERL (Association of Southeastern Research Libraries), and has proposed programs of "deep cooperation," including championing the idea of "virtual storage."

Brian Lavoie has worked as OCLC liaison to the Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, and as a member of the Digital Library Federation Framework Working Group. Among other ventures he has given us all a 'reality check' when he analyzed the holdings of the original "Google 5" and has spoken on the exploration of "collective collecting."

As Director of Digital Collections and Archives, Anne Sauer will bring a fresh perspective to the issues raised by the morning speakers and lend her own unique voice as well as lead the discussion.

In the afternoon, there will be two sessions of concurrent events. These will include: Linda Oldach of Mt. Wachusett Community College. Linda will address leadership issues for space planning and summarize the experiences at MWCC.

A Collaborative Collections Panel will include:

--Leslie Button, Collection Development Librarian, UMASS Amherst,
--Steve Hyndman, Regional Manager YBP Library Services
--Barbara Preece, Executive Director of the Boston Library Consortium

All will be giving their various perspectives on the process.

Additional sessions will include:

Gregory Crane, editor-in-chief of Perseus Digital Library at Tufts, Gregory's remarkable number of publications demonstrating his interest in ancient Greek authors goes hand in hand with his work on the rapid development of digital resources in the humanities.

Greg Pronevitz, Regional Administrator of Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library, Greg will give insights into the applications for the Digital Commonwealth.

This will prove to be a remarkable day looking at and discussing so many possible alternatives to space problems in libraries.