SCELC Colloquium 2006

SCELC is inaugurating a new "Colloquium" to precede our very successful Vendor Day. The schedule for the Colloquium is divided into two distinct parts:

Morning Program: Strategic Planning Workshop
SCELC is undertaking a year-long strategic planning process to help us determine future directions and initiatives. To initiate this process, SCELC's strategic planning consultant, Edward Grice, of the Center for NonProfit Management of Southern California, will be leading a strategic planning workshop from 10am-1pm. Limited to no more than 75 attendees, this workshop is an opportunity for SCELC librarians to contribute to the conversation, raise concerns and questions about the consortium, and help SCELC focus on key initiatives for the future.

We would particularly like the following to attend this workshop: current and past Board members, SCELC committee members, Library Directors, and librarians responsible for SCELC -related activities or transactions in their libraries. We want to be as inclusive as possible, but logistically need to limit registration to 75 for this program. So, sign up soon, as it's first come, first serve!

Lunch: Free buffet lunch for all registrants! Confirm your lunch attendance below.

Afternoon Program: Panel Discussion
In the tradition of past SCELC programs, we are presenting three afternoon panels on topics of current interest to libraries and librarians coping with new issues raised in the electronic resource environment. The schedule of programs is below, and each addresses a topic that often surfaces in discussions among SCELC librarians, or when SCELC negotiates a license for a particular electronic resource.

• Archiving is an ongoing issue in the licensing of electronic resources. Digital archives also provide a means for libraries to preserve local resources. Our two panelists will talk about two very new initiatives concerning archiving.
• Federated Searching has matured and many libraries are taking a second look at these products. We will have representatives from two such products whose approaches are quite different.
• Our final panel, on the economics of e-journals, features Dr. R. Preston McAfee of Cal Tech , an economist who, along with Dr. Ted Bergstrom, has led the conversation on the Liblicense listserv and in other venues regarding commercial e-journal pricing schemes, open access publishing, scholarly communication and more. Appearing with Dr. McAfee will be Christopher McKenzie, who has worked with SCELC on our Wiley Interscience EAL offer. This should be a very illuminating conversation.

• Session I: Electronic Archives
  • Eileen Fenton, Portico.org
  • Victoria Reich, Stanford University, LOCKSS/CLOCKSS
  • Moderator: Ann Hotta, Graduate Theological Union
• Session II: Federated Searching
  • J.R. Jenkins, Product Manager, Central Search, Serials Solutions
  • Jed Gilmore, Vice-President, Customer Solutions, Muse Global
  • Moderator: Janice Woo, California College of the Arts
• Session III: Economics of E-Journals
  • Dr. Preston McAfee, California Institute of Technology
  • Christopher McKenzie, Wiley Interscience
  • Moderator: Jeff Gatten, California Institute of the Arts

Space is limited for for the Colloquium (75 registrants in the morning, 125 in the afternoon), so sign up early!

For directions and hotel information, check out this page.

Last updated February 16, 2006.

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