Centenary Anniversary Conference

Academic Libraries Today: Our Future is Now

8 November 2012
Wang Gungwu Theatre
The University of Hong Kong

In joining the University with its Centenary celebrations, the University of Hong Kong Libraries will host an international conference that will serve to highlight our 100 years of achievements as well as to set a vision for our next century of ambition.

This conference will bring together library leaders and senior information professionals from around the world to celebrate, to postulate and to share best practices from some of the world’s greatest academic and research libraries.

The conference will be concluded with a celebratory gala dinner in the University's historic Loke Yew Hall where we will launch our new publication Fung Ping Shan, The Man, His Life and His Library, marking the 80th anniversary of the Fung Ping Shan Library.

Schedule

Centenary Conference
8:30 - 9:00 am	Registration
9:00 - 9:15 am	Welcome address Professor Lap-Chee Tsui, Vice-Chancellor and President, The University of Hong Kong
9:15 - 9:20 am	Welcome address Mr Peter Sidorko, University Librarian, The University of Hong Kong
9:20 - 9:35 am	Ten celebratory acquisitions for HKU’s 10 faculties Ms Gayle Chan, Collection Development Librarian, The University of Hong Kong
9:35 - 9:45 am	Congratulatory remarks Mr Chen Li, Deputy Director, National Library of China
Keynote session
9:45 - 10:15 am	Keynote address Ms Ingrid Parent, President of IFLA; University Librarian, The University of British Columbia Leveraging the Digital Age: 21st Century Libraries in a Global Context
10:15 - 10:45 am	Group photo taking and tea break
Presentation session (1)
10:45 - 10:50 am	Session Chair Dr Y C Wan, Deputy Librarian, The University of Hong Kong
10:50 - 11:15 am	Professor Zhu Qiang, Director, Peking University Library Service Initiatives Recently Developed in Peking University Library
11:15 - 11:40 am	Dr Peter Cunich, School of Humanities, The University of Hong Kong A British Colony and its Books: The University of Hong Kong and its Libraries, 1912-62
11:40 - 12:05 pm	Prof Joyce Chao-Chen Chen, Professor and University Librarian, National Taiwan Normal University Library as Publisher: the Ideas and Experiences of National Taiwan Normal University Library
12:05 - 12:10 pm	Q & A
12:10 - 1:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 - 2:15 pm	Library tour – (Main Library / Law Library and Music Library)
Presentation session (2)
2:15 - 2:20 pm	Session Chair Professor Paul Gandel, Vice President for Information Technology and Services, Syracuse University
2:20 - 2:40 pm	Ms Anne Kenney, University Librarian, Cornell University Future Directions for Collection Development in Academic and Research Libraries
2:40 - 3:00 pm	Professor Zhang Xiaolin, Executive Director of National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences Open Access, Open Data, and Open Innovation: Towards a Knowledge-based Open Innovation Service Platform
3:00 - 3:05 pm	Q & A
3:05 - 3:30 pm	Tea break
Presentation session (3)
3:30 - 3:35 pm	Session Chair Ms Rachel Cheng, University Librarian, Lingnan University
3:35 - 3:55 pm	Ms Cathrine Harboe-Ree, University Librarian, Monash University Cycling to Success: Academic : Libraries and the Research and Learning Cycle
3:55 - 4:15 pm	Mr Peter Sidorko, University Librarian, The University of Hong Kong Academic Library Trends in Hong Kong: Global and Local Issues
4:15 - 4:35 pm	Mr Jeffrey Trzeciak, University Librarian, Washington University in St. Louis Commercialization of Library Special Collections
4:35 - 4:40 pm	Q & A
4:40 - 4:50 pm	Closing remarks Mr Peter Sidorko, University Librarian, The University of Hong Kong
4:50 - 6:00 pm	Tour (Main Library / Law Library and Music Library / Learning Common of the Centennial Campus)