2011 NFAIS Humanities Roundtable X: Embracing The
Future while coping with the present
October 3, 2011
The Graduate Center of the City University of New
York
Skylight Conference Room, 9th Floor
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Attendees, note! We will be gathering for a dutch-treat dinner at a nearby restaurant at 6:00pm, following the day's closing session. All attenders and speakers are encouraged to join us to socialize, to continue, informally, the discussions of the day, and to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the NFAIS Humanities Roundtable.
Preliminary Program
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8:30am - 9:00am:
Registration
9:00am - 9:05am: Welcome
Jill O'Neill, Director, Planning and Communication, NFAIS
9:05 - 9:45am Opening Keynote
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director, Office of Scholarly Communication, MLA
Kathleen Fitzpatrick will address what she envisions as a potential future for the humanities in the context of a changing academic environment. Fitzpatrick wrote the online monograph, Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology and the Future of the Academy (New York: NYU Press/MediaCommonsPress) which may be accessed on-line at: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/ and successfully gathered a community around that work
9:45 - 10:30am Building Community Around Research and Content
This session will be an interactive interview of Jeremy Boggs, an active leader in the digital humanities by ATLA Executive Director, Brenda Bailey-Hainer. The two will discuss a variety of digital initiatives, the possibilities of new formats for dissemination of research, the key role of user experience in fostering community around such content and emerging tools for supporting scholarly discussion and study.
Jeremy Boggs, Humanities Design Architect, Scholar's Lab and University of Virginia Library's Digital Research and Scholarship Department interviewed by Brenda Bailey-Hainer, Executive Director of the American Theological Library Association
10:30-10:45am Break
10:45 - 12:15am Digital Humanities Initiatives
Using the realm of music and the performing arts as a common basis for discussion, three speakers will address both the creation and curation of digital content. Non-textual forms of expression pose their own challenges in the digital humanities and these speakers offer their insights into the nature of those challenges as well as how today's efforts shape the future of tomorrow's resources.
Doug Reside, Digital Curator, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B Cullman Center; Ichiro Fujinaga, Associate Professor, Music Technology Area, McGill University; Robyn Holmes, Curator of Music, National Library of Australia (via Skype)
12:15pm- 1:15pm: Lunch (will be provided)
1:15pm - 2:45pm: Practical Experiences Surrounding Metadata
This segment focuses on two sets of concerns surrounding metadata, a fundamental concern in the digital environment. The first is the creation and ingestion of metadata feeds from the viewpoints of primary and secondary providers. The second is the idea of how you can create community using the metadata in new environments.
Speakers: Brian Harrington, Coordinator for Content Development, Project Muse; Barbara Chen, Director, Bibliographic Information Services, MLA, Margot Lyon, Director of Business Development, American Theological Library Association
2:45 - 3:45 Whither the Humanities? Free Range Discussion
Three information providers in the humanities offer a snapshot of their organization, their mission and offer thoughts as to where they believe users will be in their particular discipline in the next 3-5 years. This lays the groundwork for defining where each provider believes the overall market will be in that same 3-5 years. After giving responses (each not more than 10 minutes), the representatives will then open the floor to discussions and observations of the implications for the community at large.
Roger Schonfeld, Director, Research,
ITHAKA-S&R
; Cameron Trowbridge, Manager, Research Services
and Information Center, Getty Conservation Institute;
Concetta Seminara, Publisher, Social &
Behavioral Sciences, Humanities, and Education,
Taylor & Francis Group, LLC;
3:45pm - 4:00pm Break and Networking Opportunity
4:00 - 4:30 Remaining Relevant in the Trenches
This session speaks directly to the issue of directing higher-level undergraduates as well as graduate students to high-quality information resources. What is required in introducing the concept of transliteracy in library information resources as well as more traditional bibliographic training? What are users expecting to be able to find? How are they expecting to interact with the content and the community? What issues do librarians working in the trenches see?
Lisa Norberg, Dean of Barnard Library and Academic Information Services, Barnard College.
4:30pm Final Wrap-Up
Don't Miss It! We will be gathering for a dutch-treat dinner at a nearby restaurant at 6:00pm, following the closing session. All attenders and speakers are encouraged to join us to socialize, to continue, informally, the discussions of the day, and to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the NFAIS Humanities Roundtable.
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