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Blogs, wikis, tags, RSS feeds, Facebook, MySpace, chat, plus the student focus and organizational changes that we need to capitalize on web 2.0 technology and ideas.

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From [mars-l] Announcement: New OPAL Online Series: Casual Conversations

Friday, November 30, 2007 beginning at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 1:00 Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m. Pacific, and 7:00 p.m. GMT/UTC/Zulu:

A Casual Conversation with Aaron Schmidt. Aaron Schmidt is the Director of the North Plains Public Library in Oregon and a blogger at Walking Paper. The Casual Conversations series is designed to be up-close and personal from a respectable online distance. While there are many conferences (in-person, online, and in-world) where librarians can hear leaders in the field make formal presentations about interesting projects, there are few opportunities to hear these same leaders discuss informally what they currently are working on, their future plans and goals, the challenges and opportunities facing librarianship, their personal pet peeves, etc.

Several of these conversations are planned. See the full list

I attended the RLG Collections Summit last week. Before the meeting, they sent out some background reading (we each had to read at least 2 of the articles/reports). Thought there would be some interest here. Every attendee was asked to read at least 2 of these background articles/reports.

1. Ensure retention of last copies
• Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, Edward T. O’Neill, and Chandra Prabha. 2006. “Last Copies: What’s at Risk?” College and Research Libraries, 67, 4 (July): 370-379.
• Schonfeld, Roger C. and Brian Lavoie “Books without Boundaries: A Brief Tour of the System-Wide Print Book Collection” The Journal of Electronic Publishing, 9(2) Summer 2006.
2. Ensure back-up to online access
• Schonfeld, Roger. “Ithaka’s 2006 Librarian and Faculty Studies: Overview of Key Findings.”
• Kenney, Anne R. et al. “E-Journal Archiving Metes and Bounds…” CLIR Report, Sept. 2006. Conclusions — pages 71-75.
3. Expanding coverage, reducing duplication
• Jackson, Mary E., Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Edward T. O’Neill, and Eudora Loh. (2006) “Changing Global Book Collection Patterns in ARL Libraries“. Report issued by the Association of Research Libraries.
4. Overall context setters
• Grafton, Anthony. “Future Reading: Digitization and Its Discontents.” New Yorker, November 5, 2007
• The Really Modern Library blog

This article was referenced in one of the sessions at the Charleston Conference this week - on the current and future impact of China on scholarly communication: Wells, William A. (2007) “The returning tide: How China, the world’s most populous country, is building a competitive research base.” The Journal of Cell Biology, Vol. 176, No. 4, 376-401

Some key quotes:

The future of Chinese science revolves around three main challenges: improving the education system for graduate students; forging a connection between scientists and the general public; and constructing a funding system suited to the country’s unique needs. If these three issues are solved, getting more returnees should not be a problem.

“China had a 20-fold increase in publications in international scientific journals from 1981–2003.”