Dear cni-announce subscribers:

Registration is now open for the ARL/CNI Forum on Reinventing Science Librarianship.  We expect this conference to fill up quickly, so if you're interested, please register soon.

--Joan Lippincott 

For immediate release:
August 12, 2008

For more information, contact: 
Sarah Segura
Association of Research Libraries
202-296-2296
sarah@arl.org

Diane Goldenberg-Hart
Coalition for Networked Information
202-296-5098
diane@cni.org

Reinventing Science Librarianship, an ARL/CNI Forum, October 16-17, 2008, Arlington VA

Reserve Hotel Rooms by September 12, Register by September 30

Washington DC--The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) are cosponsoring a forum on "Reinventing Science Librarianship: Models for the Future," to be held Thursday and Friday, October 16 and 17, 2008, following the 153rd ARL Membership Meeting, at the Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City, in Arlington, Virginia.

Program

The forum organizers hope to broaden the understanding of trends in scientific research as well as support leadership in applying these trends in the development of new library roles. The program will highlight a few case studies of different scales to illustrate new, emerging models of library support.

Audience

The forum is designed for the leadership of libraries and enterprise-wide IT services. The intended audience includes directors or assistant directors of research libraries, campus IT services, science libraries, and health science libraries. Institutional teams comprised of people in these roles are encouraged, but not required, to attend the forum together.

Schedule

The forum will begin on Thursday, October 16, at 3:30 p.m. with an opening program session on "E-Science Trends," followed by poster sessions and a reception on Thursday evening. The forum programs continue all day on Friday, October 17, concluding by 4:30 p.m. For more details, see the forum Web sitehttp://www.arl.org/events/fallforum/forum08/oct08schedule.shtml.

Reserve Hotel Rooms by September 12

The ARL/CNI Forum will be held at the Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City Hotel, 1250 South Hayes Street, Arlington, Virginia. The nearby airport is Washington DC's National Airport. The cut-off date for securing hotel reservations at the ARL rate of $259 is September 12. Reservations made after that date will be on a space-available basis. Please make your hotel reservations by calling the Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City Hotel at 703-415-5000 or 1-800-241-3333 and asking for the Association of Research Libraries room block.

Register by September 30

The registration fee for ARL/CNI members is $275; the non-member price is $325. Register by September 30 at http://www.arl.org/events/fallforum/forum08/oct08reg.shtml.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 123 research libraries in North America. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/.

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is a coalition of some 200 institutions dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. The Coalition, which is sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and EDUCAUSE, is headquartered in Washington DC. CNI is on the Web at http://www.cni.org/.