Thursday, October 24, 2013

International Forum “Development of Publications and Challenges to Libraries”

2013 Annual Conference of the Library Society of China
Session of the Resource Development and Sharing Committee
International Forum "Development of Publications and Challenges to Libraries"

Host: Resource Development and Sharing Committee, Library Society of China
Co-Host: Foreign Acquisitions & Cataloging Department, National Library of China
Date: November 7, 2013, 2:30pm-5:00pm
Venue: Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center, Meeting Room 4

Themes:
  • Forms of publications in the future and the trends of international publishing industry
  • Roles of future publications in academic exchanges
  • Impacts of digital publishing on library resources development
  • Digital publishing and the transitions of libraries
  • Future development of library resources
  • The win-win cooperation of publishers and libraries in the new information environments

Guest Speakers:
  • Nancy Roberts (Cambridge University Press): "Form of Publications in the Future and the Trend of Development in International Publishing"
  • XIAO Ximing (Wuhan University): "Digital Reading and the Development of LibraryResources"
  • Carol Bacchus (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.): "Digital Books and Challenges of Library"
  • YU Haixian (East China Normal University Library): "How Should We Buy Books Today? Library Collection Development from in the Eyes of a Manager"
  • Jan Willem Wijnen (Elsevier B.V.): "Article of the Future: Overview of Recent Innovations and the Road Ahead"
  • ZHANG Yong (Hunan Library): "Public Library Collection Development in the All-Media Environment"

Moderator: GU Ben (National Library of China)

Each guest speaker will make a 20-minute presentation (including Q&A), and then there will be a 30-minute discussion. English-Chinese/Chinese-English Simultaneous Interpretation and bilingual presentation will be provided.

About Guest Speakers and the Moderator:

  • Nancy Roberts, Ph.D. in Literature, Global Production & Operations Director, Academic Publishing, Cambridge University Press, extremely experienced publishing professional with deep industry knowledge in a range of sectors including children's, reference and trade.
  • XIAO Ximing, Professor of the School of Information Management, Wuhan University, Vice-Chair of the Academic Research Committee of the Library Society of China (LSC), Chair of the Resource Development and Sharing Committee of LSC, Governing Board Member of the Hubei Provincial Society of Library Science.
  • Carol Bacchus, Ph.D. in Human Genetics, VP & Director, Life Sciences, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., with experiences in several publishing companies as medical editor, editorial director and publishing director. Since late 2010, she spends most of her time in China to further develop editorial services for Chinese authors and editors.
  • YU Haixian, Executive Vice-Director of the East China Normal University Library, Member of the Academic Library and Information Work Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, Member of the Resource Development and Sharing Committee of LSC, Governing Board Member of the Shanghai Society for Library Science, Vice-Chair of the Shanghai Academic Library and Information Work Steering Committee.
  • Jan Willem Wijnen, Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Publishing Executive in Physics, Elsevier B.V., with experiences as publishing editor, business developer, publishing consultant, project manager and senior publisher for several publishing companies. In his current position he manages a portfolio of 15 journals in physics and is involved in setting up new innovative academic publications.
  • ZHANG Yong, Director of the Hunan Library, Chair of the Hunan Society for Library Science, Chair of Local Documents Committee of LSC, Editor-in-Chief of Library (Journal).
  • GU Ben, Director of the Foreign Acquisitions & Cataloging Department of the National Library of China, Vice-Chair of the Resource Development and Sharing Committee of LSC, Editorial Committee Member of IFLA Journal.

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Preparing a Session on the Future of Library Collection Development during LSC Annual Conference Next Month in Shanghai

I am preparing a session jointly organized by the Committee for Resource Development and Sharing of the Library Society of China and the Foreign Acquisitions & Cataloging Department of the National Library of China during the Annual Conference of the Library Society of China, Shanghai, November 7-8, 2013.
I don't want to follow the old way to arrange call-for-paper writers to speak. Instead, I would like to arrange three foreign publishers to talk about the future of publishing industry and three Chinese library scholars to talk about the challenges faced by libraries, and ask the six speaks to have panel discussions.
Since it is the first time for us to arrange such a session during LSC annual conference, we have to solve many problems, such as simultaneous interpretation and bilingual PPTs.