Libraries as digital crossroads: a report on the 10th Annual Collection Development Symposium

✍ Scribed by Angi Herold Faiks; Karen J. Docherty

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 50 KB
• Volume: 27
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1464-9055
• DOI: 10.1016/j.lcats.2003.09.017

✦ Synopsis

The 10th Annual Collection Development Symposium, titled Libraries as Digital Crossroads, took place at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus on May 19 th , 2003. Over 160 people registered for this full-day conference, sponsored by the University of Minnesota Libraries and the MINITEX Library Information Network. The program description read as follows:

Libraries and librarians are serving an increasingly central role in connecting our user community and digital resources. Words such as intersection, hub, junction, and link are used to describe the path libraries are taking to identify, locate, organize, preserve, and make available intellectual resources in digital format. Speakers at the 10th annual symposium will explore this goal from various perspectives.