EDUCAUSE Seminars in Academic Computing Executive Leadership Seminar Aug. 3-5, 2007 Susan Perry, Senior Advisor The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Indiana University

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Leadership, staffing, recruitment, continuing education issues for information professionals

Digital Asset Creation, Management and tools. How and when to collaborate with other libraries, when to go it alone, records management as well as academic resource management, collaboration or integration with information technology organizations on these issues.

Getting a grasp on the changing nature of our students and providing services that are presented to them in interesting ways.

What to assess and how to do it without driving ourselves crazy.

Learning spaces, real and virtual and the cyberinfrastructure needed to support them

Teaching and learning issues, face to face course integrated information fluency, building electronic tools and resources that teach students how to find and evaluate scholarly information by their very design. Building resource based learning into the curriculum.

Making the move from print to electronic, what scholarly information in what formats?

Organization of both print and electronic information, better catalogs, better ways of creating web pages so that scholars can find the materials they need easily.

Preservation of print and electronic information. Off site storage solutions, what to store in what formats?

Workflow redesign, what can we quit doing so that we can do the most important things?

Copyright issues

Thinking differently about the various services on our campuses that support student learning--can we get writing centers, math tutoring centers, counseling centers, career centers, libraries,

Scholarly publishing issues. How can libraries play a part in helping to shift the paradigm?