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Contemporary source materials like news, government records and information, and economic and geospatial data are vital to original scholarly research in the humanities and social sciences. Historically, research libraries have ensured that the global information “supply chain” served researchers well. But since the advent of digital media and the web, money, politics and technology have altered the supply chain in ways that complicate the role academic libraries play in provisioning materials.
The 2018 Global Resources Collections Forum, in Chicago on May 17-18, will explore how CRL and its community can adapt to this new environment. The Forum, held in conjunction with CRL's 2018 Council of Voting Members meeting [2], is an opportunity for representatives of CRL libraries to help shape CRL's programs and strategic agenda.
Downtown Chicago: University of Chicago Gleacher Center [3] 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive
CRL has prepared a Meeting Area Guide [4]
CRL has arranged for special rates at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, 151 East Wacker Drive.
Live online streaming to the presentations is also available. See the online access option on the registration form.
How documentation and data critical for research are produced, managed and distributed today, and how new actors in the information world challenge traditional library roles and longstanding methodologies.
Archives, Access, and the Politics of Information in Africa Derek R. Peterson, Professor of History & African Studies, University of Michigan.
The LexisNexis Effect: The Metamorphosis of Critical Data Providers Sarah Lamdan, Associate Professor & Faculty Services Librarian, CUNY School of Law
Data, Platforms and the Global Data Supply Chain Jill Blaemers, Senior Editor, Data-Planet, SAGE Publications
Some Reflections on the Changing Knowledge Supply Chain David Marshall, Executive Vice Chancellor, University of California, Santa Barbara, and member, CRL Board of Directors
Recording [12]
Attendees are invited to a reception in the Gleacher Center, immediately following Session I. Recipients of the 2018 CRL Primary Source Awards [13] will be announced at the reception.
Continental breakfast 8:30-9:00 a.m.
The technical, economic and political developments affecting researchers' ability to access and mine digital documentation and data.
Big Data, the Cloud and Academic Research Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Social Science Research and the Challenges of Big Geospatial Data Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Head, Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections, Stanford University Libraries.
"Smart” Farming, the Privatization of Information and the Implications of Data-driven Agriculture Irena Knezevic, Assistant Professor in Communication, Culture and Health, Carleton University
Arcadia and the New Area Studies Funding Landscape Virginia Steel, University Librarian, University of California, Los Angeles, and Chair, CRL Board of Directors
How research libraries are responding to the new supply chain and research practices.
Harvesting Web Content and Data from Emerging Regions: a Status Report Jeffrey Garrett, Independent Consultant
The "Post-custodial" Model for Preserving At-risk Archives in Latin America Melissa Guy, Nettie Lee Benson Librarian and Director, Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Panel discussion: Adapting to and Exploiting the New Supply Chain Pamela Graham, Columbia University; Jeff Kosokoff, Duke University; Sarah Sussman, Stanford University; Caitlin Tillman, University of Toronto
Wrap-up Bernard Reilly, CRL President
Recording [27]
eDesiderata Forum: Licensing ‘Big Data’ Summary Report [31]. January, 2017
“Leviathan: Libraries and Government Information in the Age of Big Data [32],” FOCUS on Global Resources Summer 2014
“The Evolving Supply Chain for Government-Produced Information [33],” FOCUS on Global Resources Fall 2013
Bronson, Kelly, and Irena Knezevic,”Big Data in Food and Agriculture [34],” Big Data & Society 3.1 (2016): 1-5
Goet, Niels, “What Big Data Can Teach Political Scientists [35],” Oxpol, The Oxford University Politics Blog, 27 April 2016
Grimmer, Justin, “We Are all Social Scientists Now: How Big Data, Machine Learning, and Causal Inference Work Together [36],” PS: Political Science & Politics 48 (1), 80-83, 2015
Lamdan, Sarah and Yasmin Sokkar Harker, “LexisNexis’s Role in ICE Surveillance and Librarian Ethics [37],” in Law Librarian Blog, December 11, 2017
Lynch, Clifford, “Stewardship in the ‘Age of Algorithms’ [15],” First Monday 4 December 2017, 22 (12)
Jill Blaemers is the Senior Editor of SAGE Publishing. She has extensive information industry experience. Former Managing Editor of the CSA (formerly Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) social sciences databases, Ms. Blaemers also held product management responsibility for the social science portfolio of CSA and later ProQuest.
Jeffrey Garrett is an independent researcher and author of CRL’s study on the archiving of web-based primary source content for area and international studies, part of CRL’s Mellon-funded Global Collections Initiative. The study is an appraisal of the scope, functionality, and usefulness of the content archived for use by scholars in history and the social sciences. Garrett was previously Associate University Librarian for Special Libraries and Director of Special Collections and Archives at Northwestern University Library.
Melissa Guy is the Nettie Lee Benson Librarian and Director of the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas Libraries. She has served as Head of Collection Development for the Benson since November 2015. Previously she was the subject specialist for Latin American and Iberian Studies at Arizona State University Libraries.
Irena Knezevic is an Assistant Professor in Communication, Culture, and Health at Carleton University in Ottawa. Knezevic’s areas of expertise include food and culture, food systems, and health. One of her current projects, “Making Data Matter: Analyzing the Material Effects of Big Data Use in the Agri-food Sector,” is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Sarah Lamdan is an Associate Professor and Faculty Services Librarian at the CUNY School of Law. She specializes in government information access and transparency, especially issues related to environmental law and environmental information access, and teaches on legal research at CUNY. Her blog post “LexisNexis’s Role in ICE Surveillance and Librarian Ethics,” presented on the Law Librarian blog in November 2017, was widely discussed.
Clifford Lynch is the Executive Director for the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), a joint program of the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation. He served as co-chair of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) from 2011 to 2016. In 2017 Lynch was selected as an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow.
David Marshall is the Executive Vice Chancellor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and member, CRL Board of Directors. He served for sixteen years as Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts, and from 2005 to 2012 was also Executive Dean of the College of Letters and Science. Before joining UC Santa Barbara, Marshall was a professor at Yale University, where he taught from 1979 to 1997.
Derek R. Peterson is a Professor of History and African Studies at the University of Michigan. His early scholarly work was about the history of African-language literature in Kenya. Currently, with funding from the American Council of Learned Societies and NEH, he is at work on a book about the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. In 2016 Peterson was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in African Studies and elected Fellow of the British Academy. In 2017 he was named one of the prestigious MacArthur Fellows by the John H. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Virginia Steel has been University Librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) since 2013. Prior to UCLA she was University Librarian at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she oversaw a $100 million expansion and renovation of the largest library on campus. She is past president of the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) and is active in the American Library Association. Steel currently serves as Chair on the CRL Board of Directors.
Julie Sweetkind-Singer is the Head of Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections at Stanford University Libraries, and a member of the National Geospatial Advisory Group (NGAC). At Stanford she oversees the map and geospatial data and resources served out of the library and the Stanford Geospatial Center.
Links
[1] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/highlight_images/supply%20chain%20forum%20logo.png
[2] https://www.crl.edu/events/2018-council-voting-members-meeting
[3] http://www.gleachercenter.com/
[4] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/events/CRL%20Meeting%20Area%20Guide%202018.pdf
[5] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/events/CRL%20Forum%20agenda.pdf
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDfwioC46TA&feature=youtu.be
[7] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/events/S1%20p1%20Lamdan.pdf
[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZEELJK0e9w&feature=youtu.be
[9] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/events/S1P2.pdf
[10] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey1_pPjrAqc&feature=youtu.be
[11] https://edesiderata.crl.edu/resources/data-planet-statistical-datasets-and-hosting-services
[12] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ-xhBZUzWo&feature=youtu.be
[13] https://www.crl.edu/primary-source-awards
[14] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMezBzP4DOY&feature=youtu.be
[15] http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/8097/6583
[16] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/events/S2%20Singer.pdf
[17] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7mm2FL01yA&feature=youtu.be
[18] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/events/S2%20Knezevic.pdf
[19] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmhMEFYjSRs&feature=youtu.be
[20] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/events/s2%20steel.pdf
[21] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A2p9zpWSyU&feature=youtu.be
[22] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/events/s3%20Garrett.pdf
[23] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HwS2eW5Vbg&feature=youtu.be
[24] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/events/s3%20Guy.pdf
[25] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNZFvH0jMQI&feature=youtu.be
[26] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4pVD73vjv4&feature=youtu.be
[27] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD8umE6n7iE&feature=youtu.be
[28] https://www.crl.edu/facets/collections
[29] mailto:events@crl.edu
[30] https://www.crl.edu/events
[31] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/event_materials/eDesiderata_Forum_Summary_Report_Jan_10_2017.pdf
[32] https://www.crl.edu/focus/summer-2014
[33] https://www.crl.edu/focus/fall-2013
[34] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053951716648174
[35] https://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/big-data-can-teach-political-scientists/
[36] https://web.stanford.edu/~jgrimmer/bd_2.pdf
[37] https://llb2.com/2017/12/11/ice/