Proceedings

*Links will open a pdf document of the particular presentation or remarks*

• Meeting Overview (PDF)
• Welcome

• Opening Remarks

• Setting the Context from the BLC Perspective

• Summit Introduction & Introduction of Open Content Alliance Executive Director

• Keynote Address

• Panel Session: Digitization & Its Economics

Moderator: David Shulenburger, Vice President for Academic Affairs, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges
Leslie Hulse, Vice President, Digital Business Development, HarperCollins
Brewster Kahle, Director, Internet Archive
Jon Orwant, Google Book Search
Niko Pfund, Vice President, Oxford University Press
Gordon Tibbitts, CEO, Berkeley Electronic Press

• Keynote Address

Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer, University Professor and Director of the University Library, Harvard University

• Panel Session: Public Policies Response to Digitization

Moderator: Heather Joseph, Executive Director, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress
Mike Carroll, Visiting Professor of Law at the American University
Thinh Nguyen, Counsel, Science Commons

• The Googlization of Everything

• Barriers to Access: A Call to Action for Digitization and the Public Interest

James Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University

• Closing Remarks

Appendices

Appendix 1: Conference white paper: "Free Our Libraries! Why We Need a New Approach to Putting Library Collections Online" by Richard K. Johnson
Appendix 2: "Toward a Universal Access Digital Library: A BLC Issue Brief and Call for Action" Boston Library Consortium, Inc.