From: Sean Andrews <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:14 PM

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http://www.nitle.org/live/events/148-all-the-kings-horses-and-all-the-kings-men-college

All the King’s Horses and All the King’s Men: College Libraries in the
Digital Age

Featuring David Lewis, IUPUI Dean of Libraries David W. Lewis and Bryn
Geffert, Librarian of the College at Amherst College

October 31, 2:00pm - 3:30pm (EDT)

This seminar—the first in a year-long series focused on the future of
the liberal arts college library—seeks to engage members of the NITLE
Network in building shared discussion about that future and in
developing common structures and strategies for sustaining the mission
of the college library. We encourage faculty, librarians,
instructional technologists, and others to attend: attendance by
institutional teams is strongly encouraged; individuals are also
welcome to participate. (Times EDT)

Description

This first seminar of the Future of the Liberal Arts College Library
series begins a shared journey of inquiry into the series topic with a
call and a response. IUPUI Dean of Libraries David W. Lewis will sound
the tocsin on the future of collections; Bryn Geffert, Librarian of
the College at Amherst College will respond.

David Lewis’ presentation will examine the current state of college
libraries. He will use the lens of Clayton Christensen’s theories of
disruptive innovation to attempt to determine what jobs students and
faculty will hire college libraries to do and what theories we can use
to look into the future and make reasonable predictions about what is
coming. (See webpage for related content.) A central consideration
will be the role of collections. Collections are of prime importance
because they are both where most of the money goes and because they
have shaped library practice and values. They are core to how we see
ourselves and how others see us. But collections have large
opportunity costs, and if college libraries are to be successful in
the next decade they must shed some of these costs, without impacting
their users, and reinvest them in new services.

Speaker:

David Lewis is dean of the IUPUI University Library and Indiana
University’s assistant vice president of digital scholarly
communications. Mr. Lewis received a B.A. in history from Carleton
College (1973) and an M.L.S. from Columbia University (1975). He has
two certificates of advanced study in librarianship, one from the
University of Chicago, which he received as part of a Council on
Library Resources fellowship (1983), and one from Columbia University
(1991). He came to Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
(IUPUI) in 1993 as the head of public services and has been the dean
of the University Library since 2000.

Mr. Lewis has written more than 40 articles and book chapters on
topics ranging from reference services to the management of libraries
to scholarly communication. (Many of these works can be found via
IUPUI Scholar Works.)

Respondent:

Bryn Geffert is the librarian of the college at Amherst College. He
received his master’s degree in library and information science from
the University of Illinois, and then attended the University of
Minnesota for a master’s in Russian history and a Ph.D. in modern
European history. Prior to Amherst, he served as the library director
and an associate professor of history at the United States Military
Academy, better known as West Point. In his role as librarian, Bryn is
keenly interested in the future of libraries and scholarly publishing,
arguing that the only hope for either is to merge with the other.

About the Future of the Liberal Arts College Library series:

The Future of the Liberal Arts College Library seminar series is part
of NITLE’s continuing effort to engage members of the NITLE Network in
conversation around this important topic. Over the course of the year,
the series will bring librarians, faculty, and interested others from
NITLE’s member campuses together to explore principal elements: What
is the future of the liberal arts? the future of the liberal arts
college? the future of the library?

Our goal in asking these questions, exploring potential answers, and
engaging stakeholders from across the NITLE Network in sharing their
diverse perspectives is to prepare the groundwork for moving on to the
next step: joint and individual action. These discussions are aimed at
both inspiring and guiding us in strategically crafting campus policy
or developing intra- and inter-campus collaborative connections.

Because broad engagement across diverse viewpoints is key to
developing strategies that are actually effective in the long run, we
encourage stakeholders from member campuses to participate regularly
in this seminar series, recruit campus colleagues to join the
discussion, and to use seminar discussions as fuel for ongoing
conversation on campus.

Series Hashtag:
Participants are encouraged to share their thoughts on Twitter via
this series’ hashtag: #LAClibrary.

Registration:
http://www.nitle.org/registrations/libraries_digital_age_registration.php

Please register online by Monday, October 29, 2012. Participation in
NITLE Seminars is open to all active member institutions of the NITLE
Network as a benefit of membership and as space allows. No additional
registration fee applies.

Questions:
For more information about this event, please contact Sean Johnson
Andrews at [log in to unmask]