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Herding Tigers: Digital Proliferation and Management

Li Ka Shing Library, Singapore Management University
70 Stamford Road Singapore 178901

29 Oct 2008 (Wed)

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM
  • Registration at the entrance of Li Ka Shing Library
  • Morning refreshments
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM
  • Welcome speech by Professor Howard Hunter, President, Singapore Management University and Mr. Joseph Mullinix, Deputy President (Administration), National University of Singapore
9:15 AM – 10:00 AM
  • Keynote address by Mr. Steve Knight [1], Associate Director of the National Digital Library of New Zealand
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
  • Break
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
  • PRDLA Business meeting
    • Welcome and introductions
    • Membership update & financial report
    • Steering Committee report
    • Karl Lo Award
    • PRDLA 2009 & 2010 Meetings
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
  • Lunch (Sponsored by Gartner)
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM
  • Break
2:45 PM – 4:45 PM
5:00 PM – 6:15 PM
  • Visit to the Peranakan Museum at Armenian St.
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
  • Opening Banquet at Palm Beach Restaurant (Sponsored by Innovative Interfaces)

30 Oct 2008 (Thu)

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
  • Morning refreshments
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
  • PRDLA Business Meeting
    • PRDLA website
    • PRDLA Archive
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM
  • Break
10:45 AM – 11:30 AM
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
  • Lunch (Sponsored by Thomson Reuters)
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM
  • Break
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
  • Closing plenary by Dr. Andrew Treloar [13], Director of the Australian National Data Service Establishment Project – “From Data to Data: One Version of a History of Scholarly Communication”
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM
  • Refreshments followed by tour of the SMU campus & library
5:00 PM
  • Coach leaves for Water & Wine
5:30 – 7:30 PM
  • Cocktails and dinner at Water & Wine (Sponsored by iGroup)
8:00 – 10:00 PM
  • Visit to the Night Safari (Sponsored by Nature Publishing Group)

31 Oct 2008 (Fri)

8:30 AM – 8:40 AM
  • Pickup at Rendezvous and/or YMCA
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
  • Tour of Singapore Cultural Sites
12:30 AM – 1:30 PM
  • Lunch at Yunnan Garden Restaurant @One-North (Sponsored by NUS)
1:45 AM – 2:30 PM
  • Tour of Central Library at National University of Singapore
3:00 AM – 4:00 PM
  • Tour of Art, Design, & Media Library at Nanyang Tehcnological University

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