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DESCRIPTION:Can't attend in person? Watch remotely! This event will be live
  streamed here.\nHow will library spaces\, services and collections suppor
 t your aspirations for research\, teaching\, and learning at 91ÉçÇř?\nJoin
  us for this half-day symposium for 91ÉçÇř faculty featuring thought leade
 rs with extensive experience in the academic\, scholarly publishing and re
 search library world who will address the changing environment for academi
 c research libraries and the evolving role of digital and print collection
 s.\nPanelists (bios below): \nLarry Alford\, Chief Librarian\, University 
 of Toronto Libraries \n	Chris Bourg\, Director\, MIT Libraries\n	Harriette H
 emmasi\, Joukowsky Family University Librarian\, Brown University Librarie
 s\n	Clifford Lynch\, Director\, Coalition for Networked Information\nRSVP r
 equired. Please email: rsvp [dot] libraries [at] mcgill [dot] ca or call 5
 14-398-5711.\n \nLarry Alford\, Chief Librarian\, University of Toronto Li
 braries: Prior to his appointment as Chief Librarian at the University of 
 Toronto in 2011\, Larry Alford served as the vice-provost for libraries\, 
 university librarian and dean of university libraries at Temple University
  in Philadelphia. Alford has a long and distinguished library career. Prio
 r to joining Temple in 2005\, he spent 30 years with his alma mater\, the 
 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While at North Carolina\, he 
 served in a variety of positions\, including deputy university librarian a
 nd interim university librarian. At Temple\, he was responsible for a libr
 ary system that includes the five libraries of the Paley library system\, 
 the Ginsburg Health Sciences Library\, and the Podiatric Medicine Library 
 and also for the Temple University Press which publishes approximately 60 
 scholarly monographs per year. During his tenure there\, he has led a tran
 sformation of the Temple library system. His engagement in numerous librar
 y operations\, including the development of print and electronic collectio
 ns\, library services\, and the renovation and building of libraries\, has
  resulted in a superb vision for research libraries in the 21st Century. A
 lford has a lengthy and successful record of leadership in co-operative ac
 tivities among libraries\, first in North Carolina and then nationally and
  globally\, culminating in his chairing for the last four years the board 
 of trustees of OCLC (Online Computer Library Center)\, a global library co
 operative that serves 72\,000 libraries. He earned both his bachelor’s deg
 ree and his MLS at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and he 
 received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the School of Information an
 d Library Science in May 2005.\nChris Bourg\, Director\, MIT Libraries: Ch
 ris Bourg is the new director of the MIT Libraries\, effective February 20
 15. Bourg comes to MIT from Stanford University\, where she served as asso
 ciate university librarian for public services. At Stanford\, Bourg oversa
 w the largest division of the Stanford University Libraries\, with six bra
 nches and a collection of more than 4 million volumes. Bourg joins the MIT
  Libraries and MIT Press at a pivotal time\, and will play an important ro
 le in guiding the redesign and renovation of library spaces. She will also
  lead the exploration of the Libraries’ role in new modes of learning and 
 global engagement\, and advance MIT’s commitment and influence in the area
  of scholarly communication and open access.\nHarriette Hemmasi\, Joukowsk
 y Family University Librarian\, Brown University Libraries: Prior to joini
 ng Brown University in 2005\, Harriette Hemmasi served as the executive as
 sociate dean of libraries at Indiana University at Bloomington. As Univers
 ity Librarian at Brown University\, Hemmasi oversees the five libraries in
  Brown University’s library system and provides leadership in supporting t
 he University’s Plan for Academic Enrichment. As executive associate dean 
 of libraries at Indiana University\, Hemmasi provided oversight for collec
 tion development\, preservation\, public services\, technical services and
  operations of the 16 libraries on the Bloomington campus. She previously 
 was associate dean of libraries and director of technical services\, with 
 responsibilities for the arts\, humanities and social science libraries on
  the Bloomington campus. She also served as interim associate university l
 ibrarian for technical and automated services at Rutgers University (1998-
 2000) and music librarian at Rutgers (1989-1998). Hemmasi received her mas
 ter’s in library and information science from the University of California
 –Berkeley\, a master’s in music from Indiana University\, and a bachelor’s
  in music from Baylor University. She lived in Iran and taught music at Sh
 iraz University from 1971-80. While at Indiana University\, Hemmasi mainta
 ined her research interests in online access to music and information abou
 t music by participating as an investigator in a research project called “
 Variations2 – Digital Music Library at I.U.” She has written several paper
 s and given numerous national and international presentations on music met
 adata\, the creation of a music thesaurus\, and issues related to form and
  genre access to music.\nClifford Lynch\, Director\, Coalition for Network
 ed Information: Clifford Lynch has led the Coalition for Networked Informa
 tion (CNI) since 1997. CNI\, jointly sponsored by the Association of Resea
 rch Libraries and EDUCAUSE\, includes about 200 member organizations conce
 rned with the intelligent uses of information technology and networked inf
 ormation to enhance scholarship and intellectual life. CNI’s wide-ranging 
 agenda includes work in digital preservation\, data intensive scholarship\
 , teaching\, learning and technology\, and infrastructure and standards de
 velopment. Prior to joining CNI\, Lynch spent 18 years at the University o
 f California Office of the President\, the last 10 as Director of Library 
 Automation. Lynch\, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Univers
 ity of California\, Berkeley\, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley’s Schoo
 l of Information.  He is both a past president and recipient of the Award 
 of Merit of the American Society for Information Science\, and a fellow of
  the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National 
 Information Standards Organization. In 2011 he was appointed co-chair of t
 he National Academies Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI)\; he s
 erves on numerous advisory boards and visiting committees. His work has be
 en recognized by the American Library Association’s Lippincott Award\, the
  EDUCAUSE Leadership Award in Public Policy and Practice\, and the America
 n Society for Engineering Education’s Homer Bernhardt Award.\n
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LOCATION:Faculty Club Ballroom\, Faculty Club\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E
 5\, 3450 rue McTavish
SUMMARY:Faculty symposium on the future of academic research libraries
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