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Agenda:

9:00 a.m. – 9:20 a.m. – Welcome and Opening Remarks

• Speaker: Richard Reyes-Gavilan, Executive Director, DC Public Library
• Introduced by: Maura Marx, Acting Director, IMLS, @imlsdirector

9:20 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. – Defining and Funding the National Digital Platform

• Moderator: Trevor Owens, Senior Program Officer, IMLS, @tjowens
• Panelists:
  • Brett Bobley, Chief Information Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities, @brettbobley
  • Amy Garmer, Director, Aspen Institute Dialogue on Public Libraries, @amygarmer
  • James G. Neal, University Librarian Emeritus, Columbia University

10:00 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. – The State of Distributed National Capacity

• Moderator: Tom Scheinfeldt, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut, @foundhistory
• Panelists:
  • Dan Cohen, Executive Director, Digital Public Library of America, @dancohen
  • Evelyn McLellan, President, Artefactual Systems Inc.
  • Sibyl Schaefer, Digital Preservation Analyst, University of California, San Diego, @archivelle
  • James Shulman, President, ARTstor, @jamesshulman

11:10 a.m. – 11:25 a.m. – Break

11:25 a.m. – 12:35 p.m. – Gaps in Distributed National Digital Capacity

• Moderator: Katherine Skinner, Executive Director, Educopia Institute, @educopia
• Panelists:
  • Karen Cariani, Director, WGBH Media Library and Archives, WGBH Educational Foundation
  • Sebastian Chan, Director, Digital & Emerging Technologies, Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, @sebchan
  • Mike Furlough, Executive Director, HathiTrust, @MikeFurlough
  • Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information

12:35 p.m. – 1:35 p.m. – Lunch

1:00 p.m. – 1:20 p.m. – Focus on eBooks

• Speakers:
  • Micah May, Director of Business Development, New York Public Library
  • Mary Minow, National Museum & Library Services Board Member

1:35 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. – Scaling up Practice

• Moderator: Deanna Marcum, Managing Director, Ithaka S+R
• Panelists:
  • Mary Flanagan, Professor, Dartmouth College, @criticalplay
  • Jon Voss, Director, Strategic Partnerships, Historypin, @jonvoss
  • Anne Wootton, CEO, Pop Up Archive, @annewootton
  • Trevor Muñoz, Assistant Dean, University of Maryland Libraries, @trevormunoz

2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. – Break

3:00 p.m. – 4:10 p.m. – Cultivating Digital Library Professionals

• Moderator: John Palfrey, President, Board of Directors, Digital Public Library of America, @jpalfrey
• Panelists:
  • Andromeda Yelton, Owner, Small Beautiful Useful, LLC, @thatandromeda
  • Bethany Nowviskie, Director, Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources, @nowviskie
  • Kim Schroeder, Lecturer, Wayne State University, School of Library and Information Science
  • Margo Padilla, Strategic Programs Manager, Metropolitan New York Library Council, @margo_padilla

4:10 p.m. – 4:20 p.m. – Going Forward

• Speaker: David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, @dferriero

4:20 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Closing Remarks