Annual Conference June 1, 2007 Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Hassenfeld Conference Center

Program Details and Speaker Biographies

Paul Gherman has served as University Librarian at Vanderbilt since 1996. Prior to Vanderbilt he served as College Librarian at Kenyon College and University Librarian at Virginia Tech, and in other administrative posts at Iowa State, Penn State and Wayne State Universities. He is a former member of the OCLC Board of Trust, Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) President, and the SOLINET Board. He was involved in establishing the Blacksburg Electronic Village, http://www.bev.net, The Five Colleges of Ohio, http://www.ohio5.org, along with other ventures such as Electronic Tools and Ancient Near East Archives (ETANA,) a portal in ancient Near Eastern Studies, http://www.etana.org, and the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu. Paul is providing a guest editorial in the July issue of Portal: Libraries and the Academy (Johns Hopkins University Press) on the North American Trust.

Brian Lavoie has worked in OCLC Research in 1996. His work ranges from the development of OCLC's Four-Figure Cutter Tables and automated cuttering tools, to analyzing the structure and content of the World Wide Web. Brian's current research interests include analysis of aggregate collections, economic issues associated with information and the provision of information services, service models and frameworks for libraries, and digital preservation. He is a member of the PREMIS Editorial Committee. Recent publications include:
"The Costs of Digital Preservation." 2006. In Digital Preservation, ed. Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner. London: Facet
"Books without Boundaries: A Brief Tour of the System-wide Print Book Collection." 2006. With Roger C. Schonfeld. Journal of Electronic Publishing, 9,2 (Summer).
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;view=text;rgn=main;idno=3336451.0009.208
"A Service Framework for Libraries." 2006. With Geneva Henry and Lorcan Dempsey. D-Lib Magazine, 12,7/8 (July/August). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july06/lavoie/07lavoie.html

Respondent

Anne Sauer, Director of Digital Collections and Archives (DCA), Tufts University, Medford, MA
Anne Sauer is currently Director of Digital Collections and Archives (DCA) As Director, Anne is responsible for the university-wide archives, records management, and the digital library program. She works collaboratively with Academic Technology to cultivate the development and expansion of Tufts Digital Library (http://dl.tufts.edu/), a web-based application that provides tools for accessing, viewing, and searching the digital content produced and developed at Tufts. She serves on several university-wide committees, including Tufts OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.tufts.edu), an educational project initiated by MIT that offers free access to certain course materials on-line. Anne has conducted workshops for professional organizations such as the New England Archivists, the Society of American Archivists, and the Museum and Library Archives Institute.

Linda holds a BA in Political Science from Douglass College, an MLIS from the University of Rhode Island, and an MLS with a concentration in Women's Studies from Simmons College. Her responsibilities include coordinating the efforts of the LaChance Library team, and library management and planning. Mt. Wachusett Community College has hired an architectural firm to renovate the LaChance Library. Preliminary plans have been developed and Phase I construction will begin in summer 2007. In this workshop, Linda will share her experiences working with diverse groups on campus to create a common vision for the library renovation. Time will be provided for discussion among the attendees.

Session 1B -- Collaborative Collecting: Panel Discussion

Leslie has been Associate Director for Collection Services at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst since 2004. She is responsible for Acquisitions, Collection Development, Cataloging and Processing, the Image Library, Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery, and Integrated Library Support. Prior to that, she was head of Acquisitions and serials librarian at the University of Massachusetts. She has an M.L.I.S. from the University of Rhode Island and an M.S. from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. In her spare time, she enjoys gardening, quilting, knitting, and chasing little white balls down large expanses of grass.

Stephen received his M.L.S. from the University of Maryland's College of Library and Information Services in 1981. After library school, he worked in the direct marketing industry for 15 years, and held a variety of Account Management and Customer Service positions. Before joining YBP, he was Supervisor of Circulation for the Concord Public Library, and later Reference Librarian at the New Hampshire State Library. He is currently one of YBP s Collection Development Managers responsible for YBP s customers and consortiums throughout New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

Cooperative Collection Development among academic libraries makes it possible to acquire more unique titles collectively. Vendor tools for collaboration need to provide multiple options for collaboration; one size does not fit all. Developing those tools is a continuous process that also includes collaboration: between vendors and libraries. Pat Adams came to Blackwell 10 years ago after 10 years as Acquisitions/Serials Librarian at Union College in Schenectady NY. She was formerly Northeast Regional Sales Manager and, more recently, Eastern District Sales Manager. She has served on the Executive Council of Eastern New York ACRL and a number ALCTS committees, currently serving on Acquisitions Section Executive Committee.

Barbara Preece has served as Executive Director of the Boston Library Consortium since 2000. Previously, she held a number of positions at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) including Acting Associate Dean for Technical and Automated Services and Director of Systems Services. Also, she served as Coordinator of Technical and Automated Services at Shawnee Library System (Illinois) an 18 county multitype library network. She received her M.A. in Library Science from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of New Hampshire. Professionally, Preece is active in the American Library Association's Library Administration and Management Association, and served as the editor for Library Administration & Management, the association's journal. She has written extensively in the area of patron initiated interlibrary loan and document delivery. Currently, she sits on the steering committee of the Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative and the board of the Open Content Alliance.

Session 2 -- Digital Space Solutions: Digital Commonwealth

Greg Pronevitz has been the Administrator of the Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System, http://nmrls.org/ (NMRLS) for its entire nine-year history. This state-funded organization's mission is to provide support, training, electronic services, and other services to over 300 libraries in northeast Massachusetts. NMRLS now hosts some 4,000 images from nine member libraries in a CONTENTdm repository. NMRLS partners with the Boston Public Library and Nelinet in the Digital Commonwealth project in creating a statewide digital library for Massachusetts cultural institutions. Greg is past president of the Executive Committee. Prior to his move to New England, Greg spent 15 years in Columbus, Ohio. He held positions at Ohionet (an OCLC network similar to Nelinet), the Ohio State University, and at Chemical Abstracts Service. He began his library career as a cataloger for Slavic materials at the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago. He has written and spoken previously on retrospective conversion, vendor and user trends for electronic resources, and demonstrating the value of consortial services. This session will introduce attendees to the Digital Commonwealth, a project designed to bring Massachusetts digital assets together through a statewide web portal. This collaborative effort by multi-type libraries holds the promise of cost-effectively enhancing access to objects held in digital asset management tools/systems by all cultural institutions and libraries in the Commonwealth. Topics covered will include the goals of the project and its current status, membership options (who may join, why join, and costs), the difference between this statewide portal and an online digital repository (Digital Asset Management System), as well as other technical aspects and considerations.

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