research libraries and Digital Libraries

In this 20 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Jim Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University. He provides leadership for university academic computing and network services as well as a system of twenty-five libraries. He also works with the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC) and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL). He serves on key academic, technology, budget and policy groups at the University.

Neal has also represented the American library community in testimony on copyright matters before Congressional committees and was an advisor to the U.S. delegation at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) diplomatic conference on copyright. He has worked on copyright policy and advisory groups for universities and professional and higher education associations. He was selected the 1997 Academic/Research Librarian of the Year by ALA's Association of College and Research Libraries.

In this 18 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Roger C. Schonfeld, Manager of Research at Ithaka, an independent not-for-profit organization with a mission to accelerate the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of higher education worldwide.

My colleague, Chuck Thomas, and I have put up a recent paper that we did "Millennial Net Value(s): Disconnects Between Libraries and the Information Age Mindset" in the FSU Institutional Repository.  This paper was originally created for the wonderful symposium Free Culture & the Digital Library held at Emory University. We are very interested in working with other libraries in studying subsets of this generation and how research libraries can evolve to support their research and information needs. This would be a good book opportunity as well. If you are interested, please contact us at cthomas at mailer.fsu.edu or rmcdonal at mailer.fsu.edu.