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invitation / information: Word document

agenda for July 12: Word document

Suggested advance reading:

Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition of Networked Information:
Conference prenote address, February 2005, ECURE [Preservation and Access for Electronic College and University Resources]

http://www.asu.edu/ecure/2005/prenote/

Peter Murray: "A New Convergence"
source: Library Journal; October 16, 2004, netConnect, Vol. 129, p40
http://www.libraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&articleid=CA456768

abstract:

This article focuses on the integration of management systems at a university in order to create a digital library for student use. Academic libraries are actively building what we broadly call the digital library: course reserve documents, digitized collections of rare material, online abstract and indexes, electronic monographs and journals. At the same time, there is rapid expansion of network-enabled tools that support student instruction (learning management systems), student assessment (e-portfolios), and the intellectual output of a university (institutional or knowledge repositories). Our next challenge is to embed our digital library collections and services into the new instructional tools and reposition academic libraries and archives in the creation-acquisition-dissemination flow of our institutions' research. With an eye on these activities, along with the growth of the library's own digital collections and services, we're seeing striking possibilities for integrating systems. The systems that support digital collections, e-portfolios, electronic classroom tools, and knowledge repositories are specialized content management systems.

SFX Links to access the article from Five College Campuses:

                 

Links to additional information:

DLF Scholars' Panel (June 2004), Digital Library Federation

http://www.diglib.org/use/scholars0406/ with Findings &  Links

Emerging Best Practices for Integrating Library Content and Services with Educational Technology: (EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, 2003)
http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=EDU0397

Harvard University's Library Digital Initiative LDI)
http://hul.harvard.edu/ldi/

MCN : Museum Computer Network
Conferences: http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/  &  Links: http://www.mcn.edu/links/

MIMSY XG: Museum Collections Management software: http://www.willo.com/mimsy_xg/

Managing Digital Assets: A Primer for Library and Information Technology Administrators
CLIR Workshop, February 4–6, 2005
http://www.clir.org/activities/registration/feb05_managing.html

Five College DRAM issues retreat planning group:

Donna Baron (Five Colleges, Inc.)
Sika Berger (Smith College Libraries; DEDCC)
Stephanie Willen Brown (Hampshire College Library)
Owen Ellard (Mt. Holyoke College LITS, Research & Instructional Support)
Elisa Lanzi (Smith College, Imaging Center)
Mary McMahon (Amherst College, Curricular Computing Services)
Jill Meredith (Amherst College, Mead Art Museum)
Jay Schafer (UMass Amherst Libraries; FCLC)

Please send additions & corrections to Sika Berger:

sberger@email.smith.edu
Last updated July 8, 2005