Past, Present, and Future of Libraries Papers

Foundations: Reading, Collecting, Discovering

American Philosophical Society
Benjamin Franklin Hall
427 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA

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2:00–3:00 p.m.: Panel 1: Reading Communities

“From Literary Salon to Library: The Female Mind and the Art of Reading Across the Color Line”
Ariel Silver, Columbus Ohio Institute of Religion

“Women of the Roxburghe Club: Bibliomania, Country Houses and Bridges to the 21st Century”
Sharon Prado, University College Dublin

“New Frontiers in Library History”
Jonathan Rose, Drew University

Comment: John Van Horne, Director Emeritus, Library Company of Philadelphia

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3:30–4:30 p.m.: Panel 2: Building Collections

“Ushering in the Era of Expansion: Academic Libraries Supporting Change in American Higher Education, 1860-1920”
Katy Mathuews, Ohio University Alden Library

“Harvard's Public Library: What the Birth of the Harvard Map Collection Can Tell Us about the Changing Meanings of Library Collections”
Lena Denis and David Weimer, Harvard University

“From Wastebasket to Library: Creating the Twentieth Century Literary Archive”
Alison Fraser, University at Buffalo

Comment: David Gary, American Philosophical Society

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Friday, September 28

Present: Access, Preservation, and Representation

American Philosophical Society
Benjamin Franklin Hall
427 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA

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9:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m.: Panel 3: Voices in the Library

“Decolonizing Special Collections: Collection Development for Diversity and Inclusion”
Michael Kelly, Amherst College

“Racial Imaginaries of the Catalog”
Laura Helton, University of Delaware

“Transforming Trapped Audio: Digitization in Indigenous Contexts”
Sarah Dupont, The University of British Columbia

Comment: Guha Shankar, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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11:00–12:00 p.m.: Panel 4: Access and Accessibility

“Take me Into the Library and Show Me Myself: Towards Authentic Accessibility in Digital Libraries”
Dorothy Berry, Houghton Library

“Changing Attitudes toward Access to Special Collections”
Jae Rossman, Yale University Library

“Preservation of Electric Government Information: An Urgent National Priority”
Scott Matheson, Yale Law School

Comment: Bethany Wiggin, University of Pennsylvania

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Saturday, September 29

Future: Virtual Libraries

American Philosophical Society
Benjamin Franklin Hall
427 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA

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9:30–10:30 a.m.: Panel 5: Tools and Technologies

“The Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts: A Special Collections Research Tool for the 21st Century”
Emma Cawlfield, University of Pennsylvania Libraries

“Expanding Access to Library Collections in Three Dimensions”
Zachariah Lischer-Katz and Matthew Cook, University of Oklahoma Libraries

“The New Wave of Digital Collections: Reimagining Library Curation for Multi-Faceted Data-Sets”
H. Alexander Wermer-Colan and James Kopaczewski, Temple University

Comment: Scott Ziegler, Louisiana State University

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11:00–12:00 p.m.: Panel 6: Networks, Collaboration, and Community

“The Collection is the Network: Collection Collaboration and Cooperation at Network Scale”
Daniel Dollar and Sarah Tudesco, Yale University Library, with Jeff Kosokoff, Duke University Libraries

“Refworld: Future Frontiers for Special Collections Libraries”
Rachael Dreyer, The Pennsylvania State University

“Library Metadata as Linked Data: Transition, Transformation, and Accountability”
Philip Schreur, Stanford University

Comment: Will Noel, University of Pennsylvania