Wednesday, June 3, 2009
12:00 - 1:15 p.m. CDT (10:00 - 11:15 a.m. PDT; 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. MDT; 1:00 - 2:15 p.m. EDT) 

PROGRAM
The second annual ACRL Springboard Event, a free interactive webcast for ACRL members, was held on June 3.  ACRL knows that professional development is important to our members, and in these tough economic times, are pleased to offer this annual program to “thank you” for your participation in ACRL.  The session featured Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information.

During this webcast, Clifford Lynch will share "some things that keep me awake at night."  He'll discuss several topics he's been thinking a lot about lately, with plenty of time for audience Q&A.  Lynch will discuss some aspects of cultural memory in the age of economic instability and also speculate about the implications of the migration of vast amounts of personal history and activity to the digital environment. Both of these sets of developments have massive implications for academic and research libraries.

Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity.  Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last ten as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of Information. He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization.  

MEMBERSHIP HAS ITS BENEFITS
By providing this Springboard event, the ACRL Board is responding to your feedback that professional development is one of the most important services that ACRL provides and that members want additional online learning opportunities. ACRL is pleased to offer this free professional development event to our members and will make the archived recording available shortly after the webcast. 

Questions should be directed to Margot Conahan at  mconahan@ala.org or call 312-280-2522.

ARCHIVE
2009 Springboard Event - Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information
*Please note that we experienced audio difficulties around the 54 minute mark.  Audio was restored around the 1 hour 7 minute mark.

2008 Springboard Event - Henry Jenkins, the Co-Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities