Ideas and Insights Series
The LYRASIS Ideas and Insights Series offers opportunities for members to actively participate with library peers and experts in key initiatives in library collections, cataloging, technology and resource sharing.
This online interactive series of member-focused events, also gives participants the chance to network, share best practices and innovative solutions with other LYRASIS Members and the larger library community.
Upcoming Ideas and Insights Series Events
Forging New Paths in Publishing and Scholarly Communication
May 24, 2012
11 a.m. - 4 p.m. ET
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A multitude of forces and circumstances predictable and unpredictable, positive and negative, internal and external have led to reconsideration of traditional means, approaches, and roles in the worlds of publishing and scholarly communications. Libraries and librarians have been portrayed both as active participants in the changing landscape and as passive bystanders. Just where do things stand? LYRASIS Ideas & Ideas series examines current key questions and issues affecting the discussion today including:
- challenges and opportunities faced by the traditional and emerging players in the scholarly communication chain, including open accesspublishers and advocates;
- how libraries themselves are faring as content creators, hosts and proponents of institutional repositories, and partners with publishers;
- the effectiveness of content creators at connecting to users’ emerging needs and preferences, and;
- an examination of how new approaches to publishing, expanding forms of content, and additional modes of access may be leading to heightened or new information literacy needs
Libraries are Boundless
June 15, 2012
11 a.m. - 4 p.m. ET
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Libraries are changing from spaces where we “marc and park” volumes of print material into more vibrant and vital organizations that focus on both internal and external access to services and information. How are libraries using both physical and virtual spaces to meet the needs and demands of library users? During this four hour LYRASIS Ideas & Insights gathering, we will hear how information organizations are challenging traditional ideas about space in libraries, and placing collections, staff and resources in the best possible position to meet user needs--in the cloud, in the digital realm, on site and online--in the future.
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