Charleston Conference Notes

Session summary: 458 ;people joined the closing summary and wrap-up, which was a long-time Charleston favorite, the Poll-a-palooza! What were the trending topics? Major takeaways? Pithy quotes and most talked-about statements? One vendor is reported to have said that...

Session summary: The COVID-19 pandemic hit libraries hard and fast leaving librarians little time to transition to remote access and scrambling to create more online resources for instruction. The closure of large print collections left librarians without access to...

Christopher Kenneally Christopher Kenneally, Marketing Director, Copyright Clearance Center moderated this session and said that innovation is what everybody is thinking about but nobody has done. This session featured 8 minute presentations from 4 companies, as...

Session summary: The scholarly book ecosystem was already under budgetary stress before the COVID pandemic closed or limited access to libraries. In the current environment, students and faculty are often no longer located near the university. It is difficult now for...

Session summary: Discovery has been around for over a decade now, and new, recent advances are making it much smarter. Researchers no longer have to settle for brute force keyword searches that drown them in irrelevant results. Instead, recent leaps in subject and...

Session summary: Libraries and bookstores have traditionally co-existed on campus, each serving discrete functions and together, powering the information needed to support the academic and research enterprise. In the era of electronic information, e-learning and the...

Leah Hinds shared some statistics from yesterday. Beth Bernhardt presented the Vicky Speck award to Meg White, a publishing and information services professional with 25 years of experience in the health sciences publishing industry.

Six librarians gave brief presentations on the challenges we face in changes of services and procedures during COVID. Gabrielle Wiersma The closures felt like a crash landing. We asked vendors to hold shipments, streamlined workflows to let people pass data...

John Palfrey The day 2 keynote was by John Palfrey, President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and moderated by Judy Luther, President of Informed Strategies, LLC. He presented his thoughts on the importance of librarians and their work. In his book,...