Save the date! Mark your calendars for the 2017 ACRL/NY Annual Symposium!
When: Friday, December 1, 2017
The Mission: Exploring the Mission of Academic and Research Libraries in the 21st Century Information Environment
The 2017 ACRL/NY Symposium will be a day to take stock of the history of our profession and its contemporary challenges and opportunities, and to revisit the academic and research library core mission of mediator between student, faculty and researcher populations and the wider information world.
Our traditional mission—stewardship and guidance in the exploration of corpora of recorded knowledge and experience valuable for higher learning—must be adapted for the twenty-first century research, teaching, publishing and mass communication environments.
What are our responsibilities vis-à-vis our user populations and contemporary spheres of information and mass communication? How do we reconcile the interests of profit-driven commercial entities with the academic mission of college and research libraries? How have academic libraries worked to ensure the preservation, accessibility and discoverability of endangered research-valuable content?
At the Symposium, participants will be invited to critically reflect on these questions and more, to engage in discussion and work toward the construction a flexible but distinct identity for the institution of the academic library and for academic librarianship in the 21st century.
For further information about the symposium, visit: http://acrlnysymp2017.wordpress.com/
Where:
The William and Anita Newman Vertical Campus Conference Center,
Baruch College, CUNY
55 Lexington Avenue (at 24th Street) Room 14-220 (14th floor)
New York, NY
Stay tuned for upcoming details and registration information!
For further information, contact:
Thomas Keenan, 2017 Symposium Chair