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Getty Library head to keynote annual Friends meeting, April 16
Posted 4/1/2008
MADISON, Wis. – Susan M. Allen, associate director and chief librarian of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, Calif., will give the 2008 Douglas Schewe Annual Lecture April 16 for the Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. She will address the rapidly changing environment for research libraries as they move into the digital age.
"With vast collections of rare materials, they are at risk of becoming irrelevant, and even non-rare print collections are fast becoming a thing of the past," she says.
Allen will outline specific steps research libraries can take to remain competitive, including trumpeting their unique qualities not offered on the Web, leveraging intellectual property rights, and practicing marketing techniques.
Allen will also speak about her own research experiences and why that work, and the work of many other scholars, depends on having access to original materials and cannot be successfully carried out using digital copies alone.
Allen earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the UW-Madison, a master’s degree from St. John’s College in New Mexico and a doctorate from UCLA. Before becoming chief of the Getty Research Library, she headed special collections at the Young Research Library, UCLA.
The Friends named the annual lecture for the late Douglas Schewe, a Madison bibliophile who left a large share of his estate, nearly $1 million, to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries to benefit its Friends organization.
The talk, which is open to the public at no charge, will be at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 16, in the Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium, 816 State Street.
