Library News & Exhibits

About the Webcast

The past several decades have witnessed unprecedented change in libraries and higher education. New technologies have led to new ways of creating and sharing scholarly information. There has also been a growing focus on assessment, an increasingly diverse range of students and library users, and tightening constraints on resources. Libraries and academic institutions are adapting to these changes with a variety of solutions, such as campus portals, course management systems, federated search engines, and chat reference. Over the years, librarians have served as gatekeepers to campus information resources and ensured that users learn how to identify, select, and value resources in research, learning, and teaching. As we move ahead in this evolving environment, we find ourselves recognizing the vast role that libraries play in research and education. But how best to proceed? How can our libraries and staff most effectively engage in the transformations affecting their institutions and users? How do we ensure that we coordinate our work with that going on in classrooms on the other side of campus or projects across the continent? Duane Webster of ARL will introduce the webcast, followed by Julia Blixrud of ARL, who will look more closely at this issue as it has been playing out in the academic library community and highlight some possible future directions for ARL libraries. Stanley Wilder of the University of Rochester will then share some of his own thoughts on the role of a librarian in teaching, learning, and research. Barbara Dewey will then tell us about the approach to this environment at the University of Tennessee and introduce The Teaching Library @ UT. We will end with questions from the audience.

Panelists:

Introduction: Duane E. Webster, Executive Director Association of Research Libraries
· Moderator & Presenter: Julia Blixrud, Assistant Executive Director, External Relations Association of Research Libraries
· Presenter: Stanley J. Wilde, Assistant Dean for Information Management Services
River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
· Barbara I. Dewey, Dean of Libraries, University of Tennessee

Resources

Links to additional readings, websites, as well as the PowerPoint Presentation and Participant Questions from the live event.

If you have any questions, please contact Beth Kilmarx at bkilmarx@binghamton.edu or 7-3403.