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Duke-Dartmouth Symposium, Dec 9, 2012, Washington
DC
Duke University and Dartmouth College have been doing some
fabulous work supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation over the
past few years, looking deeply at institutional digital information
management strategies. One of the most fascinating and unique
aspects of this effort has been the way that they have worked in both
a collaborative and comparative mode to gain insight into the
challenges they face.
Duke and Dartmouth are holding a symposium on the afternoon of
December 9, 2012, the Sunday before the Fall CNI Membership meeting,
in Washington DC. This is a great opportunity for participants in the
CNI meeting to learn about this important effort. The symposium is
open to all, however: you do not need to be attending the CNI fall
meeting to participate in the symposium.
I've reproduced the announcement, including the registration
information, below. Note that space is limited. I hope to see many of
you there.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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We invite you to attend a symposium titled "Digital
Information Management in the Research University: Strategic
Directions and Tactical Approaches."
The data deluge is an issue we all face, and the independent and
decentralized nature of organizations in academia makes digital
information management especially challenging for universities. How
should we approach the challenges of appropriately preserving,
disseminating, and disposing of institutional records and scholarly
outputs that exist only in digital forms? How do we balance costs and
benefits with other individual and institutional priorities? The
answers rest at the intersection of governance, culture, and
technology, and require both a strategic understanding of the issues
and pragmatic, tactical approaches to address them.
With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dartmouth
College and Duke University have explored these issues for the past
four years. In this symposium, representatives from Duke, Dartmouth
and other universities will discuss their experiences and insights,
with panel discussions focused on Open Access and Research Data in
particular, and will engage participants in discussions about how we
might work together to construct better ways to meet these challenges.
David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, will be the keynote
speaker, and Cliff Lynch, Executive Director of CNI, will provide
closing remarks.
This half-day symposium will be held on Sunday December 9, 2012,
on the day before the Fall 2012 CNI Membership Meeting in Washington,
DC, and will be held at the same venue - the Capital Hilton.
Registration is free for all attendees, but capped at 75
participants. A buffet lunch and reception will be provided.
Registration is open now, and will close on November 30.
Deborah Jakubs, Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University
Librarian and Vice Provost for Library Affairs at Duke
University,
Jeffrey Horrell, Dean of Libraries and Librarian of the
College at Dartmouth College
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