Preliminary Assembly Agenda

9:00-9:30am: Berry Terrace, Bren Center
• Registration and refreshments

9:30-10:30am: Stewart Room, Bren Center
• Call to Order
• University Librarian's Welcome: Gerald J. Munoff
• Announcements
• Preliminaries:

o Roll Call of Divisions and Delegates: G. Careaga
o Approval of Minutes, Fall Assembly 2007: G. Careaga

• President's Report – B. Heyer-Gray
• Committee Reports:

o Research and Professional Development Committee – S. Dunlap
  LAUC Minigrants Program  --  [Sample] Call for Minigrants Spring 2008  --  R&DP Revised Calendar
o Diversity Committee – Chimene Tucker
o Heads of Technical Services (HOTS) Summary of Activities FY2007-08 - Tony Harvell
o Resource Sharing Committee (RSC) Report - Lisa Mix
o Shared Library Facilities Board (SLFB) Report - Mary Ann Mahoney

• Presentation by Gary Lawrence, Director, Systemwide Library Planning

10:30 – 12:00pm: Stewart Room, Bren Center
• Stephen Abram (SirsiDynix): Heading for the 3.0 World: Technologies and Behaviors to Watch (PDF 8.3 Mb) (PPT 26.4Mb)

Can academic libraries be more open? Can we be more open to our scholars, our researchers, our learning communities, to new technologies? Can we be more open to change? How? Are there technologies that we should be trying and piloting to see if they improve the library's mandate? Which ones are worth investigating? What are the emerging learning technologies? Are there different and improved ways to enhance our organization's missions? Can we enhance our research and learning communities and attract more funding and use? What about books, OPACs, databases and interfaces? What changes are happening here? Stephen Abram is an inveterate library watcher and strategic technology futurist for libraries. In this session, he shares the top technologies that we should think about 'playing' with while finding a way to make our libraries more open to our learning, publishing and research communities. Can we drive quicker adaptation to change in our own library culture? He will end with five suggestions about how to have fun with change and technology adoption.

12:00-1:00pm: Berry Terrace, Bren Center
• Lunch

1:00-2:30pm: Stewart Room, Bren Center
• Brian Schottlaender (UCSD): "On the Record"; The Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (PDF 178 Kb) (PPT 1.0 Mb)
The Library of Congress, in response to the evolving information and technology environment, convened the Future of Bibliographic Control Working Group to examine the future of bibliographic description in the 21st century. As a member of the working group, Schottlaender will discuss the group’s final report and the implications and ramifications of the report or the UC libraries.

2:30-3:30pm: Stewart Room, Bren Center
• Chuck Eckman (UCB): New Funding Models for Scholarly Communications: BRII and SCOAP³ (PDF 233 Kb) (PPT 1.3 Mb)
Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) and SCOAP³ (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics)
BRII, co-sponsored by UC Berkeley's Vice Chancellor for Research and the University Librarian, is an 18-month pilot project supporting faculty members, post-docs, and graduate students who want to make their journal articles open access. SCOAP3 is a consortium that will attempt to facilitate Open Access publishing in High Energy Physics. By re-directing subscription money, everyone involved in producing the literature of particle physics (universities, labs, and funding agencies) pays into a consortium (SCOAP³) which then pays publishers so that all articles in the field are Open Access.

3:30pm: Call for Adjournment

3:30-4:30pm: Transportation provided to Orange County Airport (probably should not schedule airline departures for before 4:50pm); and to local train station (will take approximately 20 minutes to station, consider departure times accordingly).