A Virtual Compass:
Digital Technology and Resources as
an Impetus for Change in Higher Education
In recognition of Pat Battin
CLIR 2009 Sponsors’ Symposium
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Cosmos Club, Warne Lounge Ballroom
2121 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
8:45-9:30 Check-in and continental breakfast
9:30-9:40 Welcoming remarks, Charles Henry
An Acknowledgment of Pat Battin and her Contributions to Librarianship
9:40-10:30 Where Scientists End and Librarians Begin: The Need for Library Stewardship of Scientific Data.
Jillian Wallis, Data Archivist, Center for Embedded Network Sensing, and PhD student, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, Information Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:30 Changing Postgraduate Curricula in the Digital Humanities. Harold Short, Director, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College, London
11:30-12:15 Questions and discussion
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:00 Starting from Scratch: Crafting a Library for a New University. Mark Scheid, President and CEO, Tan Tao University, Vietnam
2:00-2:45 IT and the Humanities: Thinking Beyond Storage, Access, and Dissemination.
Jerome McGann, John Stewart Bryan Professor of English, University of Virginia
2:45-3:15 Questions and discussion
3:15-3:30 Concluding remarks, Charles Henry
