Conference on the Future of the Library
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Illini Union, Illini room A
 1401 West Green Street
 Urbana, Illinois 61801

  What are the important issues for the future?

Chair:
Paula Kaufman, University Librarian, UIUC

Speakers:
Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress
Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

What are important services/service issues for the future?

Chair:
Robert Burger, Associate University Librarian for Services, UIUC

Speakers:
Sarah Thomas, University Librarian, Cornell University
Wendy Lougee, University Librarian, University of Minnesota

What will be the importance of print and what’s the role for major print collections?

Chair: 
Karen Schmidt, Associate University Librarian for Collections, UIUC

Speakers: 
Bernard Reilly, President, Center for Research Libraries
Abby Smith, Director of Programs, CLIR

What trends in scholarly communications are most important for us to know about?

Chair:
Linda Smith, Associate Dean, Graduate School of Library & Information Sciences, UIUC

Speakers:
Mary Case, Director, Office of Scholarly Communications, Association for Research Libraries (ARL)
Jean Claude Guédon, Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Montreal

What’s new with old spaces?

Chair:
Betsy Kruger, Circulation Librarian, UIUC

Speakers:
Geoff Freeman, Principal, Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbott
Stephen Murray, Chair, Department of Art History & Archaeology, Columbia University