Session Number
Second Keynote
Description
This keynote presentation starts with a consideration of the privacy and security obligations of libraries in their universities and moves on to an assessment of choices to be made in the policy and practice of optimising access. It proposes a view of a “threaded” principle underlying professional responses to censorship, to the invasion of the privacy of users, and on to interacting with the open agendas that have developed in the digital age. These agendas include open source, open content licensing, open access and open data. It reviews how these agendas mesh with rapid changes in the techniques and capabilities of research in the 21st century academy, and considers the convergence of longstanding professional principles with the research missions of our institutions, and the rationale for a stronger leadership of change by our information professionals.
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Open Versus Closed: Private Versus Public - A Library and Research Perspective
This keynote presentation starts with a consideration of the privacy and security obligations of libraries in their universities and moves on to an assessment of choices to be made in the policy and practice of optimising access. It proposes a view of a “threaded” principle underlying professional responses to censorship, to the invasion of the privacy of users, and on to interacting with the open agendas that have developed in the digital age. These agendas include open source, open content licensing, open access and open data. It reviews how these agendas mesh with rapid changes in the techniques and capabilities of research in the 21st century academy, and considers the convergence of longstanding professional principles with the research missions of our institutions, and the rationale for a stronger leadership of change by our information professionals.