Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 18, 2005|Volume 33, Number 22

Library conference will explore
preservation of global collections

"The Global Record: Ensuring Its Future for Scholarship," a conference exploring how collections around the world can be preserved for tomorrow's researchers, will be held at Yale on Thursday and Friday, March 24 and 25, at Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

The conference is hosted jointly by the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and the University Library. It is sponsored by Yale and the Global Resources Network of the Association of Research Libraries and the Association of American Universities. It is the first of what organizers hope will be a series of conferences that will be held in different regions of North America under the auspices of other research universities.

According to organizers, the conference will explore "a fundamental challenge facing 21st century scholarship: How can the top research universities preserve our global historical record in dynamic collections readily accessible for current and future scholars and students?"

Speakers will discuss current trends of international scholarship as they shape future research possibilities in the humanities and social sciences, and outline key issues that librarians and archivists must address to build and preserve collections in an ever-expanding variety of media and formats in order to ensure access for new generations of scholars and research networks worldwide.

While most of the conference is open only to participants, members of the Yale community are invited to attend the keynote address at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday by Jonathan Spence, Sterling Professor of History, a noted historian of classical China and the president of the American Historical Association for the term ending in January 2005. Faculty, staff and students are also invited to attend the reception that follows in order to give the conference participants a chance to interact with members of the Yale community at large.

The event will also include two panel discussions loosely grouped around the themes of traditional and electronic media; small discussion groups focusing on specific problems and suggestions for future work; and a closing plenary session led by Donald Waters, program officer for scholarly communications at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The latter session will consider how scholars and librarians can continue to work together to ensure the preservation of the scholarly record in the future.

Further information about the conference as well as a detailed schedule can be found online at www.library.yale.edu/mssa/globalrecord.

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