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PRDLA 2009: Program

Libraries at the End of the World: Digital Content and Knowledge Creation

The University of Auckland

PRDLA 2009 Program [PDF]

Venue: Kate Edger Information Commons, Level 4 / Rooms 420 / 419

18 Nov 2009 WEDNESDAY

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM Registration
Morning refreshments
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Welcome

John Morrow, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) and Janet Copsey, University Librarian
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM Opening Keynote: Crowdsourcing and Social Engagement: Potential, Power and Freedom for Libraries and Users – Rose Holley
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM Break
10:45 AM – 11:30 AM PRDLA Business meeting

  • Membership update & financial report
  • Steering Committee report
  • Task Force report
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Pacific Café: An Open Space Forum – Paolina Martin
1:30 PM – 2:15 PM At the Moment of First Contact – Catherine Quinlan and Hugh McHarg
2:15 PM – 3:00 PM From Gutenberg (the project) to Kindle: the Evolution of a Digital Library – Bob Felsing
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Break
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM A Case Study of the Regional Digital Library Development in China – Zhao Jihai
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Baskets of Knowledge: Digital Collaboration in New Zealand – Brian Flaherty
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM Landscaping Taiwan’s Cultural Commonwealth: The Making of TELDAP Collection Level Descriptions – Hsueh-hua Chen
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM Dinner– Dynasty Restaurant, 57-59 Wakefield Street, Auckland

19 Nov 2008 THURSDAY

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM Morning refreshments
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM A Mission-Critical Hub: HKU’s IR Aligned with Mission & Vision – Tony Ferguson
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Curating Faculty Research Data at UC Merced – Emily Lin
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM IR Sustainability Through Stakeholder Governance – Ruth Pagell and Paolina Martin
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Peking University Library: Digital Projects Update – Nie Hua
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Next Generation Technical Services at UC – Bruce Miller
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM Preserving and Reconstructing Hong Kong’s Historical Past: Experiences and Lessons of the Hong Kong Memory Project – Y.C. Wan
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM Oceania Digital Library: Hawaii’s Digital Memory Collections – Martha Chantiny
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM One Year After: Digital Developments @ Otago – Barbara Taylor
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM Break
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM Closing Keynote: Wikipedia and Semantic Document Representation – Ian Witten
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM Campus Tour (including Library)
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Dinner at Old Government House

7:00 pm – Drinks and canapés

7:30 pm – Dinner

20 Nov 2008 FRIDAY

8:45 AM Meet outside the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Cnr Princes St & Waterloo Quadrant and walk through to Marae
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Waipapa Marae, University of Auckland. Powhiri and tour of meeting house
10:10 AM Board coach outside the Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road
10:20 AM Coach to depart for the Auckland Museum  (You will be dropped off outside the South Atrium Entrance)
10:45 PM Assemble to watch the Māori Cultural Performance
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

11:30 AM – Midday

 Māori Cultural Performance

Opportunity to meet, talk to and take photos of performers
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Lunch
12:45 PM Coach to depart from the Auckland Museum for tour of Auckland sights
3:00 PM Coach to return to the Hyatt Hotel to drop all delegates off

Program Planning Committee Members:

  • Brian Flaherty (Chair), Assistant University Librarian-IT, University of Auckland Library
  • Emily Lin (ex officio PRDLA Secretariat Support), Head, Digital Assets, University of California, Merced Library
  • Robin Chandler, Director, Digital Library Program, University of California, San Diego
  • Tony Ferguson, University Librarian, University of Hong Kong Libraries
  • Paolina Martin, Director, Institutional Repository, Singapore Management University
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