Facilitators: Here are some tips for the facilitators.

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Friday, January 8, 2010

• Session 0 - 9:00-10:00 

  • Ballroom: Introductory session, opening statements, adjusting the schedule, stuff like that

• Session 1 - 10:10-11:30
  • Ballroom: Envisioning the science library of the future (Helen Josephine, Victoria Mitchell & Michelle Garcia / facilitated discussion)
  • 1880: Information literacy initiatives with engineering faculty/students (Patricia Watkins / facilitated discussion)
  • 1864: Are citation databases still necessary + indexing resources such as SCOAP3, arXiv, etc. (Michelle Wilde and Sharon Schwerzel / facilitated discussion)

• Session 2 - 11:40-1:00
  • Ballroom: Science librarianship & Web 2.0 (Jennifer King / hybrid)
  • 1880: Collection development: new collection emphases, patron-driven collection development, leasing content vs. owning books, etc. (Julia Gelfand and Michelle Wilde / facilitated discussion) 
    • PowerPoint Presentation - "Collection Development in the Sciences" - Julie Gelfand
  • [Will run on Saturday: 1864:  Mobile technologies in science libraries (Kimberly Chapman and Jeffra Bussmann / facilitated discussion)]

• Session 3 - 2:00-3:20
  • Ballroom: Ebooks: platforms, pricing, looking to the future, etc. (Michelle Wilde and Joe Kraus / facilitated discussion)
  • 1880: Training for science librarians (Julia Gelfand / facilitated discussion)
    • PowerPoint Presentation - "Training and Becoming a Science Librarian in 2010" - Julia Gelfand
  • 1864: Handling scholarly communication issues (author rights, open access, repositories, etc.) (Colleen Lyon / hybrid)

• Session 4 - 3:30-4:50
  • Ballroom: Citation-based metrics (Bill Jacobs / presentation if I'm the only one comfortable presenting on the topic. I'm hoping for a panel discussion at least.)
  • 1880: Journal collections: How science librarians are fine-tuning their journal collections during these tight times, etc. (Jeffra Bussmann and Kimberly Chapman / facilitated discussion)
  • 1864: Science programming as library services (Julia Gelfand / facilitated discussion)
    • PowerPoint Presentation - "Science Libraries Promoting Science" - Julia Gelfand

• Friday Wrap-Up Session - 5:00-5:30
  • Ballroom: Quick summaries of sessions, etc.

 Saturday, January 9, 2010

• Session 0 - 9:00-9:50
  • 1880: Setting the Saturday sessions

• Session 1 - 10:00-11:00
  • 1880: Social reference management (2collab, etc.) (Michael Habib)
  • 1864: Mobile technologies in science libraries (Kimberly Chapman)

• Session 2 - 11:00-12:00
  • 1880: Researcher identity online (Michael Habib) additional resources
  • 1864: Web 2.0, Part 2: Basics and demos (Joe Kraus)
  • Fireside: Stretched-too-thin librarians (Bill Jacobs)

• Session 3 - 12:00 - 1:00
  • 1880: Next-generation discovery tools (e.g., Summon)
  • 1864: Embedded librarians (Khue Duong)

• Lunch
  • Library space planning

Possible Saturday topics include (but are not limited to!):

• On being an embedded science librarian
• Free government science resources
• Future of the article and the journal
• Future of copyright
• Collaborative and local collection development in the 21st century
• Science information literacy instruction for non-science-major students
• Sustainability of the reference collection when reference books are moving from a one-time purchase to a seriasl model
• Finding funding for science resources in difficult budget times (fundraising, donations, grants)
• Media in science
• Copyright, digital access, and funding for science special collections for research
• Publishing of primary research data -- i.e., Thieme and the German National Library of Science and Technology
• Resource sharing aka ILL -- new ways of delivering services in reduced times
• Library space planning
• Changing role of textbook in sciences today
• Responding to the Darien Statements on the Library and Librarians
• Introduction for librarians to quantum computing and quantum computing resources
• Experiences on a vendor SciTech Advisory Group/Board
• The particular challenges of being the lone physical science librarian covering many departments at a university without a strong research focus in those areas
• A session springing from Futures Thinking and My Job in 10 Years blog post
• Part 2 of a Friday session...
• Anything that comes up...