Funding Our Digital Future:
Budgeting for Libraries & Scholarly Communication
Binghamton University Libraries
March 20 & 21, 2006
Symposium Organized by
Ed Shephard, Head of Collection Development
Binghamton University Libraries
The academic library community has undergone rapid change with the move to digital in the last two decades. The discussion of the management of this change is still very much in a self-defining mode. As libraries struggle to identify both challenges and strategies internally, an equally important issue is the interaction between faculty, students (especially graduate students), campus administration and the libraries in identifying and developing common goals for collection resource development and budgetary methods to reach those goals.
The Binghamton University Libraries will hold a symposium on March 20 & 21, 2006 bringing librarians, faculty and students together with invited outside presenters to explore the best ways to improve this dialogue on our campus. The symposium’s primary audience is intended to be the Binghamton University community but it is open to all interested parties, especially those in other SUNY institutions. There is no fee.
Registration Deadline: Friday, March 10, 2006
The purpose of this symposium will be:
- To explore the challenges of information resource identification, prioritization and budgetary allocation in the digital age.
- 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;
- To address the broad issues of the changing nature of scholarship in the digital age, both the production of scholarly information and the communication of scholarship within the academic community (e.g. the open-access initiative and its funding model implications for libraries and universities) and how these impact the challenges facing libraries in collection resource management and the strategies used to address these challenges;
- To take an important next step in the creation of a flexible resource allocation process at Binghamton University that will enable the Libraries to respond to changing research and curricular needs of faculty and students.
Binghamton University Libraries invite symposium participants to tour our facilities to view exhibits and the newly opened Information Commons. The Bartle Library is continuously open from Sunday to Friday. Also, guided tours will be available immediately following the Symposium’s conclusion.
This symposium is being funded by a generous grant from the Binghamton University Provost’s Office, as well as additional support from the Binghamton University Libraries and Haworth Press.
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