LibraryLinks Fall 2005

Libraries to Hold Scholarly Communications Symposium

By Ed Shephard

The Libraries have received an award from the 2006 Provost’s Inter/Multidisciplinary Symposia to help fund a spring workshop entitled Funding Our Digital Future: Budgeting for Libraries & Scholarly Communication. The purpose of this day-long symposium will be to explore the challenges of library resource allocation in the digital age. Libraries must create a flexible resource allocation process to respond to changing research and curricular needs of faculty and students, to address the increasing interdisciplinary nature of teaching and research, and to involve the university community in an ongoing dialogue with the University Libraries in this process. This symposium will be a forum where librarians and the university community will come together to explore how the changing nature of scholarship and scholarly communication impact the challenges facing libraries in collection resource management. In addition, we hope to enlist the participation of nationally recognized leaders in the area of library resource allocation and the changing nature of scholarly production and dissemination of information.