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The following plenary sessions will be available open access as a live streaming video feed available at http://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/video-live-stream/ during the 2016 Charleston Conference:

 

Thursday, November 3

*All times listed are Eastern.

 

8:30 - 9:15 am

Welcome and Opening Remarks

You Can’t Preserve What You Don’t Have – Or Can You? Libraries as Infrastructure for Perpetual Access to Intellectual Output. (Anja Smit, University Librarian, Utrecht University)

 

9:15 - 10:00 am

Libraries as Convener, Enabler, Distributor, Advocate, and Archive in the Future Knowledge Economy (Jim Neal, University Librarian Emeritus, Columbia University)

 

10:00 - 10:10 am

Cynthia Graham Hurd Memorial Scholarship Award Presentation

 

*A recording of these sessions will be re-broadcast on Thursday afternoon beginning at 1:00 pm Eastern.

 

Friday, November 4

 

8:30 - 9:10 am

Announcements and Opening Remarks

Reimagining Our World At Planetary Scale: The Big Data Future Of Our Libraries (Kalev Leetaru, Senior Fellow, Center for Cyber & Homeland Security, Georgetown University)

 

9:10 - 9:55 am

Hyde Park Debate - Resolved: APC-Funded Open Access is Antithetical to the Values of Librarianship (Rick Anderson, Associate Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication, University of Utah; Michael Levine-Clark, Dean and Director, University of Denver Libraries; Alison Scott, Associate University Librarian for Collections & Scholarly Communication, University of California, Riverside)

 

9:55 - 10:00 am

Presentation of Vicky Speck Leadership Award

 

10:20 - 11:20 am

Charleston Fast Pitch Competition - See four finalists compete for two $2,500 prizes to further support the development and implementation of compelling library innovations.

 

*A recording of these sessions will be re-broadcast on Friday afternoon beginning at 1:00 pm Eastern.

 

Recorded video from these and other sessions will be made available on the Conference Website in January. See our full schedule of sessions online at https://2016charlestonconference.sched.org/.