[Rdap] FW: Invitation to Symposium on the Changing Role of Libararies in Support of Research Data Activities

Richard Hill rhill at asis.org
Mon May 24 14:06:12 EDT 2010


 

 

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Richard B. Hill
Executive Director
American Society for Information Science and Technology
1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510
Silver Spring, MD  20910
Fax: (301) 495-0810
Voice: (301) 495-0900 

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Dear Colleagues, 

 

Below is an invitation to a public symposium organized by the NRC Board on
Research Data and Information (BRDI). Please distribute this invitation to
others you think may be interested. Additional information about the meeting
logistics may be found at: http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi. Attendance
is open, but advance registration is required through Cheryl Levey at:
clevey at nas.edu.

 

Thanks,

 

Paul Uhlir

Director, BRDI

 

 

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INVITATION


THE CHANGING ROLE OF LIBRARIES 
IN SUPPORT OF RESEARCH DATA ACTIVITIES
A PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM
Sponsored by the 
Board on Research Data and Information

National Research Council
(http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi)  
Thursday, June 3, 2010, 4:00-6:15 p.m.
USDA Waugh Meeting Room, 3rd Floor

1800 M Street NW, South Lobby

 

In recent years, a great deal of attention has been devoted to the role of
different libraries in the federal government, university, and research
institute context with regard to the potential long-term preservation,
management, and provision of scientific data, and related support of
services and applications for publicly-funded research. This has come at a
time of rapid technological change, an enormous and accelerating increase in
the amount of scientific data that is being generated, and intense financial
pressures on libraries.

 

The institutional roles of libraries in the management and support of
scientific data activities for research and for the broader society are one
important area of focus for the National Research Council's Board on
Research Data and Information. Three of the Board's sponsors are major
federal library organizations-the Library of Congress, the National Library
of Medicine, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services-and they each
provide a different role and perspective concerning these issues.

 

The Board's public symposium on the afternoon of 3 June 2010 will feature
presentations on this set of topics by senior managers from these three
federal library organizations, as well as from the Association of Research
Libraries, which has examined the role of libraries for research data in
some depth and whose members are institutions with a great deal at stake in
this debate. The symposium will conclude with comments by two Board members,
a university professor and researcher working in the data-intensive field of
geographic information and a university professor of information science.
The symposium will be moderated by Prof. Michael Lesk, Chair of the Board on
Research Data and Information.

 


Moderator: Michael Lesk, Rutgers University

 

Speakers:

Deanna Marcum, Library of Congress

Betsy Humphreys, National Library of Medicine

Joyce Ray, Institute for Museum and Library Services

Karla Strieb, Association of Research Libraries

Michael Goodchild, UC, Santa Barbara

Christine Borgman, UC, Los Angeles

 

Panel Discussion of Invited Speakers and Board Members

and

General discussion with the audience

 


USDA Waugh Meeting Room, 3rd Floor, South Lobby, 1800 M Street NW,
Washington, DC
Thursday, June 3, 2010, 4:00 PM - 6:15 PM


The symposium is free and open to the public, but advance registration is
required because of space limitations. 

RSVP to Cheryl Levey at  <mailto:clevey at nas.edu> clevey at nas.edu.
For additional information, visit 

http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi 
or contact Paul Uhlir, the Board Director, at  <mailto:puhlir at nas.edu>
puhlir at nas.edu or 202-334-1531. 

 

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