Welcome
GILLES EBOLI (Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, Lyon, France)
Session 1:
Introduction: Brave New World: Special Collections in Transition
EDWIN C. SCHROEDER (Yale University, United States)
What should we teach? (Competencies and curricula)
RAPHAËLE MOUREN (Warburg Institute/ENSSIB, France)
Core competencies for a variety of specialist practitioners
MARK DIMINUTION (Library of Congress, Washington DC, United States)
Collection-oriented approach
SIMON ELIOT (University of London, London, United Kingdom)
Institution-oriented approach
GARRELT VERHOEVEN (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
The view from the library director’s office
WINSTON TABB (Johns Hopkins University, United States)
Panel Discussion: What is the ideal curriculum?
Session 2:
How do we teach? (Modes of delivery, purpose and intent, audience)
Moderator: ANGELA NUOVO (University of Udine, Udine, Italy)
Continuing education programs
SIMON ELIOT (University of London, London, United Kingdom)
Certificate programs
TERRY WELCH (University of Illinois, United States)
On-line and distance learning
HELEN VINCENT (National Library of Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom)
Degree programs
RAPHAËLE MOUREN (Warburg Institute/ENSSIB, France)
Session 3:
Using special collections to support education
Moderator: CLAUDIA FABIAN (Bavarian State Library, Germany)
Case study: Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon
MONIQUE HULVEY (Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, France)
Case study: Uppsala University
PETER SJÖKVIST (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Educating the general public: Exhibitions, “laboratories,” storytelling, social media
DARYL GREEN (University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom)
Leveraging collections for promotion and marketing
MARK DIMINUTION (Library of Congress, Washington DC, United States)
Panel discussion
Session 4:
Future trends in leadership and management
Moderator: DAVID FARNETH (Getty Research Institute, United States)
(5-minute “lightning” presentations followed by 5 minutes of discussion)
New types of physical collections
GARRELT VERHOEVEN (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Open content and the democratization of information
KRISTER ÖSTLUND (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Sharing collections and metadata; uniting collections virtually
ISABEL GARCIA-MONGE (Spanish Bibliographical Heritage Union Catalogue, Spain)
Managing digitized collections; Physical and digital: a complementary relationship
CLAUDIA FABIAN (Bavarian State Library, Germany)
Selecting, acquiring, managing, and preserving born digital collections
DAVID FARNETH (Getty Research Institute, United States)
Session 5:
Responses from the audience: Future trends and educational requirements
Moderator: KRISTER ÖSTLUND (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Summation and insights
JAN BOS (National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague, Netherlands)