Preliminary Program

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

            Informal Meet and Greet for Conference Attendees

            (Details will be forthcoming soon.)

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. -- Registration

8:15 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.

            Coffee and pastries

8:45 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

            Introductions and Greetings from the University of Toronto Libraries and      Faculty of Information Science

            Steve Witt, Carol Moore, Judith Dunn, and Victoria Owen

9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

            Plenary Session

            "Disciplinary Boundaries in an Interdisciplinary World" - Margaret Robb    (University of Oxford)

10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

            Break

10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Track 1 - Interdisciplinarity  in the Social Sciences - Where are we going?

"Being Undisciplined; or Traversing Disciplinary Configurations in Social Science and Humanities Databases:  Conceptual Considerations for Interdisciplinarity and Multidisciplinarity" - Jean-Pierre Hérubel (Purdue University)

"Library Area Studies Organizations and Multi-Disciplinary Collecting and Research: The Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) Experience" - Mark Grover (Brigham Young University)

"Walls Tumbling Down - Our Opportunity" - Jeffrey Knapp (Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College)

Track 2 - Dataservices - A future for  the Social Sciences?

"Share and Share Alike?  Data-Sharing Practices in Different Disciplinary Domains in the Social Sciences" - JoAnn Jacoby (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

"Realistically, Isn't Everything Social Science Data?" - Cindy Severt (University of Wisconsin at Madison)

"Interdisciplinary Social Science Research and Socio-Economic Databases: Indian Scenario" - P.R. Goswami (National Social Science Documentation Centre, Indian Council of Social Science Research)

12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. - Lunch on your own

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

            Plenary Session

            TBA

2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

Track 3 - Continuing Challenges

"Disappearing Disciplinary Borders in the Social Sciences - Data Acquisition - Access -- Management" - Jon Stiles (University of California, Berkeley) and Libbie Stephenson (UCLA)

"Congressional Documents: Opening Content for Multidisciplinary Studies" - Catherine Jervy (Lexis-Nexis), Marianne Ryan (Purdue University)

"Globaldisciplinarity in Academic Libraries" - Tasha  Cooper (Syracuse University) and Urmila  Sharma (Syracuse University)

Track 4 - Social Networks and Interdisciplinary Networking

"The Digital Difference of Online Social Networking in the Caribbean" - Fay Durrant (The University of the West Indies)

"The Academic Librarian & Techno-Communication: Facilitating Social Networking with Generation Y Students" - Anne Switzer (Oakland University)

"Community contributed content with Web 2.0 social bookmarking tools" - Michel Wesseling and Richard Lalleman (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands)

"The Interdisciplinary Communities of Practice of the Karst Information Portal" - Kay Townsend (University of South Florida, St. Petersburg) and E. Spencer Fleury (University of South Florida, Tampa)

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

            Conference Dinner

            Keynote Speaker - David Moorman (Social Sciences and Humanities Research      Council of Canada)

Thursday, August 7, 2008

8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. - Registration

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

            Coffee and pastries

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

            Plenary Session

            TBA

10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Track 1 - Interdisciplinarity Continued

"Collection or Content?  Developing a Social Science Proposition in the British Library" Jude England (The British Library)

"Trans-Atlantic Masters Program:  Crossing Global and Disciplinary Boundaries"  Angele Bardeen (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Lisa Norbert (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

""Keeping Up with the Joneses:  New Models to Support Developing Needs"  Terry B. Hill (North Carolina Central University/UNC Chapel Hill)

Track 5 - Social Science Portals

"Promoting Interdisciplinary Resources:  Teaching Scholars Portal Search"

Jenny Mendelsohn (University of Toronto) and Patricia Bellamy (University of Toronto)

"Going Global:  Facilitating Global Research and Education at GMU Libraries"  LeRoy LaFleur (George Mason University), Melissa Johnson (George Mason University), and Beth Roszkowski (George Mason University)

"No Passport Needed:  Border Crossings in the Academic Library"  Susan Alteri (Wayne State University) and Michael Sensiba (Wayne State University)

Noon - 1:30 p.m.

            Wrap-up Luncheon and Presentations

            Lynne Rudasill, Steve Witt

2:00 p.m. - Tours - TBA