
Our Futures in Times of Change:
The Academic Library in the 21st Century
May 18, 2018
Miami University – Voice of America Campus
Registration closes on May 11th, 2018
About the SOCHE Library Conference
Our Futures in Times of Change: The Academic Library in the 21st Century
Academic libraries are facing issues of flexibility, form, and function involving everything from the expectation of their users to the resources and services they offer. Assuring that libraries remain essential and central to the academic enterprise demands vision, planning, and building relationships. How can academic libraries in the 21st century increase their flexibility, re-shape their form and re-tool their function to better contribute to overall student success? We will explore steps and strategies to help academic libraries advance their traditional roles as gatekeepers to their rich lodes of information and knowledge while continuing to transition to the resource needs of their users in the 21st century.
Schedule
May 18 | SOCHE Library Conference |
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | REGISTRATION – Room 116 |
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM | WELCOME – Room 116 |
10:45 AM – 11:30 AM | KEYNOTE – The Academic Library in the 21st Century with Damon Jaggars – Room 116 |
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM | CONCURRENT SESSION A
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12:30 PM | NETWORKING LUNCH – Room 127 and 128 |
1:45 PM – 2:30 PM | CONCURRENT SESSION B
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2:45 PM – 3:30 PM | CONCURRENT SESSION C
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Registration closes on May 11th, 2018
Call For Papers
The SOCHE Library Council calls on librarians, faculty, staff, administrators, and graduate students to submit proposals for the May conference that create opportunities for deep discussion and to showcase best practices from Ohio and beyond. The committee will be looking for proposals that fit within the overall theme of the conference. We are particularly interested in proposals that include both librarians and other campus partners. Suggested concurrent session topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Library partnerships with faculty and student support units
- Research data management services in libraries
- The function of the library as publisher through its institutional repository
- Creating a user-centric academic library by using the User Experience (UX) to rethink and redefine library services and spaces
- Evolving nature of the scholarly record
- Providing the means to educate students about digital literacy
- Approaches to library liaison positions that provide for organizational and workforce flexibility
- Collaborating and sharing space with other units inside the library
- Librarian outreach both within and beyond the academy
- Open educational resources (OERs) and affordable textbooks
- Patrons as Creators: Makerspaces, 3D Printers, and Natural User Interfaces
- Library’s role in student success
- Library space as an important “resource” for students
- Marketing library resources and services effectively and creatively
- Research assistance models in the 21st century
All Concurrent session proposals must be submitted online by the due date of Friday, January 19, 2018, via this form. Late and or incomplete submissions will not be considered.
When
Friday, May 18, 2018 from 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Registration begins at 10:00 AM
Lunch will be provided.
Where
Miami University – Voice of America Campus
7847 VOA Park Dr
West Chester Township, OH 45069
*Free parking in parking lot across from the Main Entrance
Cost
$75 Regular Member
$100 Regular Non-Member
$35 Students
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Meet Our Speaker
Damon Jaggars
Vice Provost and Director of University Libraries at The Ohio State University
Damon E. Jaggars is Vice Provost and Director of University Libraries at The Ohio State University. He assumed the post on February 1, 2016.
Jaggars previously served as interim vice provost and university librarian at Columbia University, following several years as Associate University Librarian for Collections and Services. Beginning in 1996, Jaggars worked at the University of Texas (UT) Libraries in several roles, including Associate Director for User Services, Associate Director for Student and Branch Services, and Head Librarian, Undergraduate Library. He began his career at the Iona College Libraries, where he served as Coordinator of Information Technology/Access.
Jaggars’ leadership experience includes supporting the evolving academic enterprise in the libraries at both Columbia and UT. His administrative background includes extensive experience in service planning, collection development and management, facilities planning and design, budgetary management and human resources. Jaggars also has broad experience building and managing distinctive and unique collections, developing and managing information technology infrastructures within research libraries, and in service quality assessment.
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