Digital Library Strategies Forum: Frameworks for Collaboration
Hosted by the California Digital Library for the University of California library community.
See sections below:
Overview
In part inspired by the successful "DLA Updates," but different in scope and structure, the CDL hosted an in-person forum directed at UC library staff and select others.
We structured this first forum as a participative way to:
- Share information about digital library goals, strategies, and activities (broadly defined) across the UC.
- Discover and create opportunities to continue and deepen collaboration.
- Share perspectives and opinions about digital library strategies.
- Communicate critical information about the CDL's activities.
Audience
The audience for this forum was UC librarians and library staff selected by campus, with 15 per campus (21 for UC Berkeley and UCLA). Select others included: working group members, academic computing or development principals, and CDL staff.
We hosted one northern regional forum and, with the help of the UC Irvine library, one in the south.
Due to space constraints, we asked that each UC campus general library send no more than 15 participants (21 for UC Berkeley and UCLA).
Up to three participants from non-general libraries or other campus partners were also encouraged to attend.
The forums were held as follows:
North: March 24, 1999, in Oakland at the Alameda County Conference Center, 125 12th Street. Directions and parking information.
South: March 31, 1999, at UC Irvine, Social Science Pavillion. Directions and parking information.
Agenda
The agenda was developed based on suggestions from the Systemwide Operations and Planning Advisory Group (SOPAG) and campus visits.
Morning:- 10:00–10:30 Welcome: Richard Lucier
- Building the co-library: digital library goals and activities
- 10:30–11:00 Demonstration of the CDL Directory as a tool for collaboration
- 11:00–12:15 Collaboration on open–access resources
- Participative discussion exploring goals and strategies for systemwide attention to open–access resources (non-commercial web sites, databases, etc). Note: The first component of the discussion included three-minute summaries of campus strategies.
- 12:15–1:00 Box lunch
- 1:00–2:30 Frameworks for collaboration (four simultaneous discussions — participants choose one to attend):
- Services and tools: Moderated by Tools and Services Working Group members. Brief presentation on future tool and service development, followed by discussion on points of intersection between campuses and the CDL. Supporting documents:
- Tools and Services Working Group charge [PDF]
- Tools and services selection criteria [PDF]
- Functional classes of tools and services [PDF]
- Process for soliciting and evaluating tools and services [PDF]
- Technology infrastructure: Moderated by Technical Standards and Architecture members. Brief presentation on current technology issues (authentication, metadata standards, etc.) followed by discussion on points of intersection between campuses and the CDL.
- Educating and informing users: Moderated by Education Working Group members. Brief presentation on education and communication programs followed by discussion on points of intersection between campuses and the CDL.
- Shared collections progress and strategies: Moderated by members of the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC). Brief presentation on progress with licenses, primary source materials, and collection priorities, followed by discussion on points of intersection between the campuses and the CDL.
- 2:30–3:00 Maintaining momentum: Richard Lucier. Future forums and other mechanisms for collaboration
Note: While the agenda did not have an explicit "round robin" session to describe campus digital library activities, the afternoon tracks provided opportunities to discuss projects.