In order to remain relevant to the academic endeavor in higher education, academic libraries are transforming and adapting traditional collections and services.  The Third CALC Summit explores the many ways you can reposition your library within the academy to enhance the library's instruction role and to better collaborate with campus units.  

 

Alice Robison, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT, will present Videogames at the Library?! Using Games as Learning Tools, reviewing current research on videogames and learning as well as ways that videogames might be used to build culture and community spaces within and around libraries.

Lunch keynote co-sponsored by ACRL and CoALA:
Julie Todaro, ACRL President, will present on "Positioning the 21st Century Library in the Competitive Academy: Why We Can't Wait ".

Librarians must identify ways to position the library in today’s competitive academy. This discussion includes: the identification of challenges facing academic librarians related to the library's current position on campus; the need for recommendations for short- and long-term aggressive activities in to strengthen the library's position on campus; and the identification of short- and long-term proactive programmatic initiatives that can be undertaken by ACRL to support members addressing these challenges. Todaro will share content for an ongoing ACRL project that is illustrated through a series of practical 'must' statements and markers of the most successful academic libraries in higher education environments.

 

Regular Sessions include: