1. 1 Closing Session ETD 2010: 13 th Int. Symp. on ETDs Austin, TX Edward A. Fox Executive Director, NDLTD, www.ndltd.org fox@vt.edu Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA http://fox.cs.vt.edu/talks/2010

2. Outline Acknowledgements Straw Polls, Discussion Activities, Challenges Exciting news: Mentoring program launching!

3. Acknowledgements All those working with ETDs NDLTD, including Board, Committees, and Members ETD 2010 Conference Team Sponsors Presenters, Attendees

4. Outline Acknowledgements Straw Polls, Discussion Activities, Challenges

5. 5 Straw Poll 1 Please vote by raising your right hand for no more than 2 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD. Which part of the world would you like to visit for ETD 2013? 1.Latin America 2.Caribbean 3.North America 4.Eastern Europe 5.Africa 6.India 7.Asia - Pacific

6. 6 Straw Poll 2 Please vote by raising your right hand for no more than 1 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD. Where in the world should a smaller regional ETD conference be held? 1.Latin America 2.Caribbean 3.North America 4.Eastern Europe 5.Africa 6.India 7.Asia - Pacific

7. 7 Straw Poll 3 Please vote by raising your right hand for no more than 2 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD. Which focus do you have in your ETD-related activities/interests? 1.Graduate education 2.Library / information science / practice 3.University administration 4.Policy and planning 5.Electronic publishing 6.Digital libraries 7.Technology/science/development 8.Other – please explain

8. 8 Straw Poll 4 Please vote by raising your right hand for no more than 2 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD. Which type of online community support would you use re ETDs? 1.Blogs 2.Facebook 3.Listserv 4.Myspace 5.Second Life 6.Twitter 7.Wiki 8.Other – please explain

9. 9 Straw Poll 5 Please vote by raising your right hand for no more than 1 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD. Which of the following DL-related areas is of most interest? 1.Overview – General information 2.Digital objects, composite objects 3.Collection development 4.File formats, standards 5.Information / knowledge organization 6.Metadata

10. 10 Straw Poll 6 Please vote by raising your right hand for no more than 1 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD. Which of the following DL-related areas is of most interest? 1.User behavior / interactions 2.Searching 3.Preservation, migration 4.Digitization 5.Browsing 6.Analytics / statistics

11. 11 Straw Poll 7 Please vote by raising your right hand for no more than 1 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD. Which of the following DL-related sub-areas is of most interest? 1.Subject description, vocabulary control, thesauri, terminologies 2.Multimedia, hypermedia 3.Intellectual property / copyright 4.Identifiers, handles, DOI, PURL

12. 12 Straw Poll 8 Please propose some other straw poll, or bring up another topic of interest, related to any or all of: …

13. Review, Wrapup Acknowledgements Straw Polls, Discussion Activities, Challenges

14. 14 Activities, Challenges Build Collection –Promote richer use of ETDs –Enhance services for students (incl. ugrad) –Integrate with: institutional repositories, e- portfolios, e-publishing, e-science, … Build Community: local, national, regional –See you in South Africa, Peru, regions & virtually! Please join/support NDLTD!