GLOBAL RESEARCH LIBRARY 2020

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GLOBAL RESEARCH LIBRARY 2020

• Willows Lodge
• Woodinville, WA
• Sept 30th Oct 2nd, 2007

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Agenda Review Workshop Overview
Lee Dirks Director, Scholarly Communications Tech
nical Computing / External Research at Microsoft
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What do you want to see come out of this event?
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Your Marching Orders

• Think big.
• What expectations do you have?
• What is going to make this worthwhile for you?
• Fill out a card.
• Define a key risk, an opportunity, and an
  impediment. The most important change?
• What is the biggest looming issue?
• What is the greatest opportunity facing libraries
  in the next 13 years?
• What are the impediments the burning issues
  that we need to address / solve?
• You can submit up to two (2) items per card
  i.e., front and back.
• Speak up.
• Make your opinions known!
• This gathering is in the hands of the people
  here
• Make a difference. (Your leadership.)

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How do we get to 2020?

• Action/Application/Execution vs. Theory/Research
• Tangible (now to 2012) vs. Aspirational (2020!)
• Global vs. Local
• Other Perspectives vs. Librarians
• etc

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DAY 1 Monday, October 1st

• 900-1030 Welcome and Launch
• Why GRL 2020? Why You?Betsy Wilson, Dean of
  University LibrariesUniversity of Washington
• A Perspective from a One-time Dean, Sometimes
  Physicist, and Always a Rabble-rouserTony Hey,
  Corporate Vice President, External Research
  Division, Microsoft Research (and Visiting
  Professor in Electronics and Computer Science,
  University of Southampton)
• Logistics, Expectations, and Intended Workshop
  OutcomesLee Dirks, Director, Scholarly
  Communications, Technical Computing, Microsoft
• 1030-1100 Break
• 1100-1200 The Cloud as the Platform for
  Research - A Technology View
• Savas Parastatidis, Architect, Technical
  Computing, Microsoft (and Visiting Fellow,
  University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
• 1200pm - A View from a Global Researcher
• Ann Marie Kimball, Professor, Epidemiology,
  University of Washington and Director, Asia
  Pacific Economic Cooperation Emerging Infections
  Network (APEC EINET)
• 130-200 Checking In and Taking Stock
• 200 300 - The View from Around the Globe and
  Across Sector
• 300 330pm Break
• 330 - 430pm Risks, Opportunities
  Impediments
• 430pm Adjourn
• 600pm Depart for Lake Washington Dinner Cruise
• 1000pm Return to Willows Lodge

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DAY 2 Tuesday, October 2nd

• 800-900am Continental Breakfast
• 900-1030 Reboot and Engage
• 1030 1100 Break
• 1100 1200 Work Groups
• 1200pm Lunch
• 100 230pm Grand Gathering
• 230 300 Break
• 300 400pm Onward with Promise
• 400PM Adjourn
• Evening Free (Self-organizing)
• Evening options will be facilitated by hosts for
  those interested

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What can YOUor your institutiondo?Outcomes,
Deliverables, Tangible Activities, Next Steps

• Update the website, post a report/summary
• Socialize these concepts back in your home
  country, institution, etc.
• Blog / Discuss / Spread awareness of this
  event/effort
• Write a Whitepaper, Publish an article, etc.
• Either sponsor or apply for grants, new funding
  programs, etc.
• Surveys, Studies, etc.
• Advocacy / Lobbyingwork to impact policy
• Host/Sponsor the next meeting
• Etc.

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• Be Entrepreneurial Influence the University Meet
  the Needs of the Research Community Manage
  Scientific Datasets Facilitate the Peer Review
  Process Institutional Repositories vs. Central
  Discipline-specific Repositories Focus on
  Preservation Enable Services Publishing Build the
  Platform Do Research Data Curation Collect
  Primary Research Data Reintegrate into the
  Learning Process eHumanities Text-mining Choose
  the future

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DAY 3 Wednesday October 3
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Other Logistical Matters

• Why are they wearing red ribbons?
• Can I blog about this?
• The burning question Internet access!
• How to get to the dinner cruise tonight
• What am I supposed to do Tuesday night?
• Car service for your departure!