8:30 am

Registration & Breakfast

9:15 am

Welcome

Paul Gray, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost University of California, Berkeley

9:30 am

Keynote: Partners in Time

Paul Duguid, Research Associate in Social and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Berkeley

What do some of the commercial-academic partnerships of the recent past and the present (for example, the Australian National Library's collaboration with Oracle and IBM to build a national, distributed collection; Cornell's with Xerox to develop scanning and digitizing technologies; and law schools' and law libraries' with Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw) tell us about the sort of partnerships that might be entered into in the future?

10:45 am

Featured Speaker: Creating a Research Library in the 21st Century: Technology and Partnerships

Carol Tomlinson-Keasey
Chancellor, University of California, Merced

Access to knowledge becomes the centerpiece of a library in the 21st century. As the knowledge explosion continues, access is accomplished through technology and partnerships.

12 noon - 1:00 pm

Lunch

1:15 pm

Panel: Successful Partnering

Moderator: Thomas C. Leonard
University Librarian, University of California, Berkeley
Panelists:
Eric Celeste
Associate University Librarian for Information Technology at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)
Diane Harley
Director, Higher Education in the Digital Age Project, Center for Studies in Higher Education
Cynthia Hill
Manager, SunLibrary and HR Knowledge Management, Sun Microsystems
Lee Zia CANCELLED
Lead Program Director, National SMETE Digital Library Program, National Science Foundation
Alice M. Agogino NEW SPEAKER
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley

This panel will consider how information professionals can "partner for profit" in the age of networked resources. Drawing on their extensive experience in libraries, universities, foundations, and industry, panelists will address issues including:

• The benefits of partnerships
• Elements of successful partnership with research libraries
• Lessons from collaborative projects and programs that have succeeded (or failed)
• How to initiate and maintain a successful partnership
• New opportunities for partnering using the Internet and digital technologies

3:15 PM

Wrap-up Speaker

Betty G. Bengtson
Special Advisor for Academic Library Services, OCLC, Inc.

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