42nd Annual Conference (April 2009)
Cultivating a climate of collaboration: Seeing the forest and the trees
photo courtesy Ann Arbor Area Convention & visitors Bureau
Ann Arbor, MI
April 27-29, 2009
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APLIC is a global network of communication, information, and resource professionals dedicated to providing assistance and support to members and to other population and reproductive health colleagues, especially in developing nations.
Program
| Monday, April 27, 2009 | ||
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| 1:30-3:00 pm | Tour Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) |
Perry Building 330 Packard St., Ann Arbor Meet in the lobby at 1:20 pm |
| 3:00-5:00 pm | Board Meeting All APLIC members are invited to attend. |
Institute for Social Research University of Michigan 426 Thomspon St., Ann Arbor |
| Tuesday, April 28, 2009 | ||
| 8:30-9:00 am | Registration & Continental Breakfast | Pond Room Michigan Union University of Michigan |
| 9:00-10:15 am | Keynote Protecting Respondent Confidentiality in a Spatially Explicit World Myron Gutmann, Director of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research and Professor of History, University of Michigan |
Pond Room Michigan Union University of Michigan |
| 10:15-10:30 am | Coffee Break | Pond Room Michigan Union University of Michigan |
| 10:30 am-noon | Session Author’s Rights and Open Access Molly Kleinman, Copyright Specialist, University of Michigan Library Jim Ottaviani, Director of Deep Blue, University of Michigan Library |
Pond Room Michigan Union University of Michigan |
| noon-2:00 pm | Lunch (on your own) |
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| 2:00-3:00 pm | Panel Capture This: Delivering Training Content with your Users’ Time in Mind Lori Delaney, Head Librarian, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Morgan Grimes, Librarian, Population Action International |
Pond Room Michigan Union University of Michigan |
| 3:00-3:30 pm | Coffee Break | Pond Room Michigan Union University of Michigan |
| 3:30-5:00 pm | Session Understanding China Demographic Data with GIS Shuming Bao, Senior Research Coordinator for China Initiatives, China Data Center, University of Michigan |
Pond Room Michigan Union University of Michigan |
| 7:00-9:00 pm | Banquet The banquet is included in your conference registration. |
Gratzi 326 S. Main Street, Ann Arbor |
| Wednesday, April 29, 2009 | ||
| 8:30-9:00 am | Continental Breakfast | Pond Room Michigan Union University of Michigan |
| 9:00-10:45 am | Meeting APLIC Business Meeting, Election, and 2010 Annual Meeting Planning All APLIC members are encouraged to attend and participate. |
Pond Room Michigan Union University of Michigan |
| 10:45-11:00 am | Break | Pond Room Michigan Union University of Michigan |
| 11:00 am-noon | Session How Libraries & Librarians Help: Outcome Assessment & Accountability Joan Durrance, author of How Libraries and Librarians Help and Margaret Mann Collegiate Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan |
Pond Room Michigan Union University of Michigan |
| noon-2:00 pm | Lunch (on your own) |
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| 2:00-3:30 pm | Session Online Collaboration and Virtual Organizations Thomas Finholt, professor and associate dean for research and innovation at the School of Information, University of Michigan |
Pond Room Michigan Union University of Michigan |
| 3:30-3:45 pm | Coffee Break | Pond Room Michigan Union University of Michigan |
| 4:00-4:30 pm | Tour Ann Arbor District Library |
Ann Arbor District Library 343 South Fifth Avenue, Ann Arbor |
Links
Population Association of America (PAA) 2009 Annual Meeting Program
PAA Annual Meeting information
Accommodations
All conference sessions will be held in the Michigan Union.
Hotels within a 10-15 minute walk of the Union building:
Ann Arbor Visitor’s Information
Come to Discover Ann Arbor by Yan Fu, University of Michigan (APLIC Communicator, Winter/Spring 2009)
Ann Arbor Area Convention & Visitors Bureau
Conference Speaker Bios
Shuming Bao received his Ph. D. in Applied Economics from Clemson University in 1996. He was a research scientist at MathSoft from 1996-97, and is currently a Senior Research Coordinator for China Initiatives of the China Data Center at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Bao’’;s research interests are in GIS, regional economics, spatial statistics and econometrics. He served as the president of the association for Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Science (CPGIS) for 1999-2000 and the Vice-President of the Chinese Economists Society (CES) for 2002-2003. He has been serving as a guest editor of the Journal of Geographical Information Sciences, a paper viewer for a number of books and journals, and a proposal reviewer for the U. S. National Science Foundation. Dr. Bao has published more than 40 journal papers and book chapters.
Lori Delaney is Head Librarian at the Carolina Population Center (CPC), a research center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ms Delaney oversees all library operations and provides guidance on a variety of scholarly communications issues including compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy. In addition, she is CPC’s media liaison connecting researchers to the news media and managing the use of digital cameras by the center’s researchers. She was Treasurer of APLIC from 2005 until 2007, when she became President-elect. She is APLIC’s current President. For four years prior to her joining CPC in 2005, she worked at IntraHealth (known as Intrah until 2003) as the Resource Center Manager. Prior to that, she worked in libraries in Wisconsin and Washington State. Ms Delaney received her MLIS degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her BA degree in International Relations from the University of Minnesota.
Professor Joan C. Durrance teaches and conducts research in information needs and use in community settings, community information systems, the evaluation of information services—in particular outcome assessment—and the professional practice of librarians. Dr. Durrance has written several books, most recently How Libraries and Librarians Help (with Karen Fisher); as well as numerous articles. Her research on the professional practice of librarians earned her ALA’s Isadore Gilbert Mudge—R.R. Bowker Award for distinguished contribution to reference librarianship. She has conducted evaluations of several major projects including the NEH funded “Let’s Talk About It†reading and discussion programs in public libraries and the Kellogg funded Job & Career Information Centers. Prof. Durrance has served the American Library Association, Public Library Association, the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), and KALIPER (a Kellogg-funded examination of changes in library and information science education). She was one of the developers of the Association for Community Networking (ACFN). Prof. Durrance’s undergraduate degree, cum laude, is from the University of Florida. She has an MS in Library Science from the University of North Carolina (where she has been honored as a Distinguished Alumna), a Specialist Certificate from the University of Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
Thomas Finholt is professor and associate dean for research and innovation at the School of Information. He is also director of the Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work (CREW). Finholt’s research focuses on the design, deployment, and use of cyberinfrastructure in science and engineering. He has also conducted research on the impact of geographic dispersion and computer-mediated communication on trust and performance in virtual teams, on the effect of electronic and cash incentives on response rates for online surveys, and on the use of archived digital content. He co-founded the Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work (CREW), and has served as the director of CREW since 1997.
Morgan Grimes is the Librarian at Population Action International (PAI) in Washington, DC where she oversees all library operations. Prior to joining PAI, Ms Grimes worked as a bibliographic assistant for the Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society and as a graduate assistant in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alabama. Ms Grimes earned her MLIS from the University of Alabama and her BA in English from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Myron P. Gutmann is Professor of History and Information and Director of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan. He has broad interests in interdisciplinary historical research, especially health, population, economy, and the environment, and is a leader in the archiving and dissemination of electronic research materials related to society, population, and health, with a special interest in the protection of respondent confidentiality. He is the author or editor of five books and more than seventy articles and chapters. His recent publications include “Two Population-Environment Regimes in the Great Plains of the United States, 1930-1990,†in Population and Environment (2005), and “Building Partnerships Among Social Science Researchers, Institution-based Repositories and Domain Specific Data Archives,†in OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives (2007). Gutmann chaired the National Research Council panel that produced Putting People on the Map: Protecting Confidentiality with Linked Social-Spatial Data. He has served on a number of national and international advisory committees and editorial boards.
Molly Kleinman received her B.A. in English from Bryn Mawr College, and her M.S. in Information from the University of Michigan School of Information. She is a member of the American Library Association, and serves as a Copyright Scholar for the ALA’s Copyright Advisory Network. Before becoming a librarian, Molly was an associate at the Wendy Weil Literary Agency in New York, where she assisted with contract negotiations, managed permission requests and reprint rights, developed new contracts for digital and audio permissions, and evaluated manuscript submissions. As Copyright Specialist for the University of Michigan Libraries, Molly coordinates copyright education and outreach for faculty, staff, and students, provides support for the Library’s digital publishing initiatives, offers workshops and one-on-one consultations, and redesigned and manages the U-M copyright website.
Jim Ottaviani is responsible for the Deep Blue service at the University of Michigan, a service whose primary goal is to provide access to the U-M authored work that makes the university a leader in research, teaching, and creativity. He comes from an academic and professional background as an engineer, and since getting his library degree has worked at U-M for the past 19 years. Prior to heading up Deep Blue he held positions as a librarian with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Engineering Library, and as Head of Reference for the Art, Architecture, and Engineering Library.