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Monday, May 18, 2009 |
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Keynote Presentation: Charlotte Hess is Associate University Librarian for Collections and Scholarly Communication at Syracuse University Library. Ms. Hess was Director of Library and Information Services at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University from 1989 to July 2008. She was the founder of the Digital Library of the Commons at Indiana University and served as the director from 2000 to 2008. Hess has been the Information Officer for the International Association for the Study of the Commons since 1997. Hess is a leading scholar on “new commons.” She has written and lectured extensively. She collaborated on several works with Elinor Ostrom, including their 2007 book, Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice, published by MIT Press. Other works include:
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| River of Tears: Copyright or Not in the Digital Age
Paul Rapp, Intellectual Property Lawyer and Adjunct Professor, Albany Law School |
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| Future of Access: Rethinking Library Service to Provide Context, Convergence, and Disambiguation Cyril Oberlander is the Associate Director of Milne Library at the SUNY College at Geneseo since January 2008. Prior to that, he was the Director of Interlibrary Services at the University of Virginia Library 2005-2008; and Head of Interlibrary Loan at Portland State University from 1996-2005; and before that served as the Assistant Supervisor and the Staff Trainer for Access Services. His consultation experience includes independent consulting services through OCLC Western, and workflow design with various vendors. |
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Bridge to Somewhere: Connecting the Digital Spaces between Distance Learners and Library Services Moderated by: Holly Heller Ross, Interim Associate Dean, Library and Information Services, SUNY Plattsburgh Panel members: Jean Green, Head of Special Collections, Preservation and Archives, Binghamton University Libraries Mila Su, Coordinator, Access Services, Feinberg Library, SUNY Plattsburgh Dana Longley, Lead Information Resources Coordinator, Empire State College Holly Chambers, Distance Learning Library Services Coordinator, SUNY Potsdam Libraries |
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Holly Heller-Ross is Interim Associate Dean of Library & Information Services at the Feinberg Library at SUNY Plattsburgh. She has a B.A. in Environmental Science from Plattsburgh and an MLS from Albany. She has worked as a public librarian, hospital librarian and academic librarian. As a librarian she gets to connect with faculty and students from all over campus, and has focused a good deal of attention on issues of distance learning support, information literacy, plagiarism and research integrity. Holly teaches LIB105, a one-credit general education course at Plattsburgh, and coordinates support for e-learning and Plattsburgh Branch Campus students and faculty. She has published articles in College & Research Libraries News, The Reference Librarian, MC Journal: the Journal of Academic Media Librarianship, the Journal of Library Services for Distance Education, and the Journal of Library Administration, co-authored a book chapter on distance learning in Teaching the New Library to Today’s Users, and has published a model active classroom exercise in Empowering Students II: Teaching Information Literacy Concepts with Hands-on and Minds-on Activities. Holly attended the ACRL Institute for Information Literacy Immersion programs in 1999 and 2002. She received the SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Librarianship in 2000, was fortunate enough to spend a semester as a Fellow in the Plattsburgh State University Institute for Ethics in Public Life in 2003, studying academic integrity as an applied ethical value, and then conducted research in Cairo, Egypt for two months as a Fulbright Scholar, studying information literacy and librarianship at the University of Cairo in 2007. She has one husband, one son, one dog and one cat, and is an active summer hiker, aiming for the coveted Adirondack 46er patch! Jean Green is the Head of Special Collections, Preservation and University Archives at Binghamton University, SUNY. There, she serves as senior administrator responsible for collection development, preservation, on-site and digital access, information and research services, scholarly communication, digital initiatives and references services for Special Collections, Preservation and University Archives.
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