ISSUE COLLABORATORIES

Issue Collaboratories are highly interactive sessions of discussion, stimulated by brief presentations given by one or more leaders from the information professions. Each Collaboratory will provide an opportunity for a focused and sustained exchange of ideas about a current issue.

ISSUE I

• Shared Points of Service
  How are institutions designing and implementing "shared service points" which integrate information resources and services from multiple providers (library, computing, media, or other) to better serve their constituents?
  Moderators:
  

  Malcolm Brown
  
  Dartmouth
  

  Arnold Hirshon
  
  Lehigh University
  
  
  

ISSUE II

• Managing Electronic Records -- A Partnership of Archivists and IT Professionals
  How can archivists, technologists, managers, and others cope with the explosion of electronic records -- both traditional structured data and unstructured information like e-mail and WWW documents? How can we make sure that the information our institutions need still exists, is retrievable, and is useful in 10, 20 or 100 years?
  Moderators:
  

  Helen Samuels
  
  Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  

  Jeannie Kellam
  
  Indiana University
  
  
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ISSUE III

• Staff (Re)Training
  How are libraries, computing centers, and other information resource and service organizations addressing issues of staff retraining? How are institutions helping their valued staff cope with the non-stop transition of new technologies, new services, growing expectations, and changing professional identities?
  Moderators:
  

  William Walker
  
  New York Public Library
  

  Dennis Aebersold
  
  Gettysburg College
  
  
  

ISSUE IV

• Information Policies: Intellectual Property, Privacy, and Beyond
  How are institutions establishing information policies in the areas of copyright, intellectual property, privacy, and security? Are campus policies too little, too late or too much, too soon?
  Moderators:
  

  Steve Worona
  
  Cornell
  

  David Green
  
  NINCH