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The Library as Place: Symposium on Building and Revitalizing Health Sciences Libraries in the Digital Age
November 5-6, 2003

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Wednesday Nov. 5: Videocast

7:30-8:30

Registration, continental breakfast

8:30-9:00

Welcome and overview

Donald Lindberg, NLM
Rick Forsman, U. of Colorado

9:00-9:15

Keynote:
What Libraries Mean to America

Congressman Bill Young (invited)

9:15-10:00

Keynote:
The Library as Place: Thoughts of a Scholar and Researcher 

Timothy Hunt, Imperial Cancer Research Fund (11.9MB)

10:00-10:15

Break 

10:15-11:15

Panel:
Libraries--Physical Places or Virtual Spaces in a Digital World?

Deanna Marcum, Library of Congress
Eugenie Prime, Hewlett-Packard (0.4MB)
James Neal, Columbia

11:15-12:00

Panel:
Education, Research & Clinical Practice - Library Role Shifts within Academic Medical Centers 

Philip Pizzo, Stanford (20.9MB)
Judith Messerle, Harvard (0.6MB)
William Stead, Vanderbilt (0.3MB)

12:00-1:30

Lunch

1:30-2:45

Panel:
The Library -- The Place for Scholarship 

Sarah Thomas, Cornell (2.3MB)
Linda Watson, U. of Virginia (4.1MB)
Jeremiah Barondess, New York Academy of Medicine (7.2MB)
Catherine Norton, Marine Biological Laboratory (13.9MB)

2:45-3:15

Break

3:15-4:15

Panel:
The Library -- A Place for Discovery, Learning, and Education 

Carol Jenkins, UNC (1.7MB)
Shirley Dugdale, DEGW (10.1MB)
Parvati Dev, Stanford (8.7MB)

4:15-5:00

Panel:
The Library -- The Public's Space and Place 

Frieda Weise, Maryland (6.2MB)
Karin Trainer, Princeton (0.3MB)
Carole Wedge, Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott (4.5MB)

5:00-7:00

Reception

Sponsored by AAHSL


Thursday, November 6: Videocast

7:30-8:30

Continental breakfast

8:30-9:15

Panel:
Diagnosis: America's Hospital Libraries

Barbara Epstein, Pittsburgh (2.9MB)
Mary Bayorgeon, Mercy Med Center, Wisconsin (3.8MB)
Catherine Boss, Jersey Shore Med Center, NJ (1.4MB)

9:15-10:00

Panel:
NLM Building Project

Kent Smith, NLM (21.0MB)
Steven Foote, Perry Dean Rogers Architects (9.0MB)
David Lipman, NLM (3.4MB)

10:00-10:45

Break

10:45-11:45

Panel:
Library Space Considerations

James Shedlock, Northwestern (5.5MB)
Lynn Connaway, OCLC (0.2MB)
Rick Forsman, Colorado (21.3MB)

11:45-1:15

Lunch

1:15-1:30

Make No Little Plans

Steven Foote and Ned Collier, Perry Dean Rogers (42.3MB)

1:30-2:30

Panel:
Facility Design for a Sustainable Future

Alexander Lamis, Robert A.M. Stern Architects (1.3MB)
Jeremy Faludi, Stanford (18.1MB)

2:30-3:00

Break

3:00-3:30

Results of a Delphi Study:
What a Library Is Depends on What it Does

Logan Ludwig, Loyola University and Susan Starr, University of California San Diego (6.0MB)

3:30-4:30

Panel:
Teamwork and Library Design

Joan Zenan, Nevada, and Phil O'Keefe, Lundahl & Associates-Architects (2.3MB)
Judith Robinson, EVMS, and Barry E. Moss, Tymoff & Moss Architects (31.2MB)

4:30-4:45

Summary and adjourn

Donald Lindberg, NLM