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Part I: CHANGES in the world of library services: Evolution and innovation
Program chair: Marie L. Radford, Ph.D. (School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University)
Keynote speakers:

  • Eileen G. Abels, Ph.D.(Associate Dean and Professor, iSchool at Drexel)
    "Change:  Opportunity or Threat for Reference Services in the Digital Age"
  • Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D. (Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Research)
    "I always stick with the first thing that comes up on Google": Motivating Student Engagement with the Digital Information Service Environment"
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Part II: CHANGES in the world of electronic resources: Information and digitization
Program chair: Christine L. Borgman, Ph.D. (Department of Information Studies, UCLA)
Keynote speakers:

  • Herbert Van de Sompel, Ph.D. (Lead of the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
    "Persistence, identification, and the actionability of data citations"
  • Alyssa Goodman, Ph.D. (Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University)
    "Seamless Astronomy"
  • Liz Lyon, Ph.D. (Director, UKOLN, University of Bath)
    "Incremental Change or Revolution? Libraries and the Informatics Transform"
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