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The Fast Pitch competition is sponsored by The Goodall Family Foundation, headed by Steve Goodall, Founder and President and retired CEO of J.D. Power and Associates, a leading market research firm specializing in customer satisfaction and buyer behavior. Modeled on...

  One of the well established traditions of the Charleston Conference is the presentation of the Vicky Speck Leadership Award, which honors the late Vicky Speck, Editorial Director at ABC-CLIO until 2005. The award is presented to a person who has made a lasting...

Ruth Okediji, Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School, presented a stimulating keynote address on the role of libraries in the digital age. She began by emphasizing that the work that librarians and archivists is indispensable, but we might need to re-conceptualize...

The annual conference reception was again held at the South Carolina Aquarium. Attendees enjoyed lots of good southern dishes as they watched the fish in the tanks. Here are some photos from the...

Emily Farrell, Sales Manager, Northeast, De Gruyter, wondered if  the scholarly monograph still matters. It is still the central point for tenure and promotion in the humanities and social science. She then discussed the reason for university presses. Their commitment...

This session provided some very useful information on data breaches caused by Sci-Hub and in EZProxy systems along with advice on protecting data from them. Sari Frances, Manager, Digital License Compliance at IEEE, said that Sci-Hub is not the "Robin Hood of...

Sherri Michaels, Head of Collection Management at Indiana University (IU) Libraries and Director of MDPI Operations, discussed media preservation. The National Historic Preservation Act was passed in 1966. Media are now in a perilous state; here are some obsolete and...

Lisa Quinn, Director, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, said that one of the key components in stress can be how the press and library came together. The press is focused on monograph publication. The move to the library was a "shotgun wedding" to provide a solution...

This session was a panel discussion by Ann Michael, CEO of Delta Think; Ivy Anderson, Associate Executive Director, California Digital Library (CDL); and Gwen Evans, Executive Director, OhioLink. Ann introduced the panel with the observation that we must use data as a...

T. Schott Plutchak, formerly at the University of Alabama, described the latest developments with the Open Scholarship Initiative. There are costs and benefits: all stakeholders are included; all perspectives must be listened to; the capacity of existing groups must...

It has become a tradition at the Charleston Conference to present an award in honor of Cynthia Graham Hurd who was a librarian who tragically lost her life in the June 17, 2015 shooting in the Mother Emmanuel AME Church (which is just a few steps from the Gaillard...

The conference opened in the beautiful Gaillard Center with an opening keynote address by  Annette Thomas, CEO of Clarivate Analytics Scientific and Academic Research, who discussed the future of information. She said that our most valuable asset is information, and...

The Vendor Showcase (a.k.a. Exhibit Hall) took place on Tuesday, November 6. Only a few preconference workshops were concurrently scheduled, which meant that most of the attendees attended the Showcase. Here are a few scenes from that event....

Mike Gruenberg, author of Buying and Selling Information (Information Today, 2014) began this preconference workshop on marketing to libraries by asking the attendees what they wanted to gain from it. Here are some of the responses: Marketing to US libraries...

Katina Strauch had the vision for this session, and the inital one occurred at last year's Charleston Conference (click here for a summary). She asked Lisa Janicke Hinchcliffe to lead this year's followup. Lisa distributed a list of the following nine trends before...