Friday, August 14, 2015
8:00am – 6:00pm
Conference Room 103, Horace Mann House 47 George Street, Providence, RI
8:00 - 8:45 a.m. Breakfast
8:45 - 9:00 a.m. Introduction to Workshop-Forum and Its Attendees/Presenters (Li Wang)
Session I. Trends in Global Information and Communication
(Moderator: Bill Monroe)
9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Keynote Speech (TBD) (Sonia Feigenbaum)
9:15 - 9:25 a.m. Keynote Speech: Libraries, Publishing and Intellectual Property in the Digital Age (Ned Quist)
9:25 - 9:35 a.m. Issues on Digital Publishing (TBD) (Xiao Chuan Lian)
9:35 - 9:45 a.m. From Hollywood to Huallywood—through Visual Literacy (Yan Ma)
9:45 - 9:55 a.m. Arab Spring and Publishing Landscape of the Middle East (Ian Straughn)
9:55 - 10:05 a.m. Brill Publishers and the Publishing Process with Brill (Qin Higley)
Session II. Landscape of Booming Publishing Enterprises in China
(Moderator: Hong Ji)
10:05 - 10:20 a.m. Keynote Speech: Growth of China’ Publishing Industry (Zhang Zhiqiang)
10:20 - 10:30 a.m. Chinese Scholarly Publishing: (Huang Fang)
10:30 - 10:40 a.m. Growth of Chinese Digital Publishing (Susan Xue)
10:40 - 10:50 a.m. Pishu: Non-official Report Series for Social Science Studies (Liren Zheng, Liang Fan)
10:50 - 11:00 a.m. Chinese Bookfairs: Domestic and International (Wang Pengfei)
11:00 - 11:10 a.m. Publishing Industry in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Maco (Zhuge Weidong)
11:10 – 11:20 a.m. Coffee Break
Session III. Challenges and Strategies for Accessing to Chinese Scholarly Resources
(Moderator: Zhuge Weidong)
11:20 - 11:30 a.m. Best Practices for Selecting and Acquiring Growing Chinese Print Resources (Ming-sun Poon)
11:30 - 11:40 a.m. Issues on Evaluation on Chinese E-resources (Chengzhi Wang)
11:40 - 11:50 a.m. Organization and Access to Chinese Materials for the Confucius Institutes in the United States (Yan Ma)
11:50 - 12:00 noon Reexamine the Role of Special Collection Librarians (Yan He)
12:00 - 12:10 p.m. Professional Exchanges and Collaborations between Chinese and American libraries and librarians (Shuyong Jiang)
12:10 - 12:20 p.m. Questions and Answers
12:20 - 12:30 p.m. Concluding Remarks and Announcements (Li Wang)
(12:00 - 1:00 p.m.) Lunch (on site or carry out)
12:30 - 6:00 p.m. Discussion and Exchange (group tour to Newport, R.I.)