2020 Council of Voting Members Meeting

What risks and opportunities do library consortia face, and what is the future of collective enterprises for global information services? Today’s Center for Research Libraries represents a partnership among over 200 voting member institutions across the United States and Canada, an enduring model for building collective collections and leveraging shared infrastructure within the research library community. We will use the 2020 CRL Annual Members Meeting to take stock of the CRL partnership as it enters its eighth decade. We will mark our community’s successes and build collective intelligence on the challenges we face both locally and at scale. Most of all, we will lay the foundation on how CRL can best leverage its resources to project its mission into a radically altered knowledge ecosystem and continue to serve as a leading North American consortium for building and stewarding the collective collection.

Speakers

Kathy Peiss [3], Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of American History, University of Pennsylvania
Roger C. Schonfeld [4], Director, Libraries, Scholarly Communication, and Museums Program, Ithaka S+R

Facilitator

Katherine Skinner [5], Executive Director, Educopia Institute

Thursday, April 23: Voting Members Meeting

All Times Central Standard Time, Chicago, IL

12:00 noon	Welcome and Call to Order Virginia Steel, Chair of CRL Board of Directors
12:15 pm	President’s Report: State of the Consortium Greg Eow, President, CRL
1:00 pm	Secretary’s Report Brad Schaffner, CRL Secretary
1:15 pm	Treasurer’s Report Barbara Dewey, CRL Treasurer
1:30 pm	Nominations Committee Virginia Steel, Chair, Nominations Committee
1:45 pm	Break
2:00 pm	Exercising Leadership in Moments of Crisis: A Roundtable Discussion Greg Eow, President, CRL Deborah Jakubs, Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University Librarian & Vice Provost for Library Affairs, Duke University Adriene Lim, Dean of Libraries, University of Maryland; Denise Stephens, Vice Provost and University Librarian, Washington University. Katherine Skinner [5], Facilitator
2:45 pm	Day One Wrap-Up and Reflections Greg Eow, President, CRL
3:00 pm	Adjourn

Friday, April 24: CRL Open Members Forum

All Times Central Standard Time, Chicago, IL

12:00 noon	Welcome Greg Eow, President, CRL
12:15 pm	Restructuring Library Consortia: Facing Challenges, Leveraging Opportunity Roger C. Schonfeld [4], Director, Libraries, Scholarly Communication, and Museums Program, Ithaka S+R
1:00 pm	Reflections: Invited Responses
1:45 pm	Break
2:00 pm	Research Librarians in Time of Crisis: WWII and the Making of the Postwar Research Library Kathy Peiss [3], Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of American History, University of Pennsylvania and author of Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe (Oxford, 2020)
2:45 pm	Closing Reflections and Wrap-up Greg Eow, President, CRL
3:00 pm	Adjourn

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