Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership Through Collaboration
20-21 September 2010
Smithsonian Institution, Ripley Center, Washington, D.C.
Hashtag #CForum
Organized by the RLG Partnership and OCLC Research
Hosted by the Smithsonian Institution
Supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Endorsed by the Joint SAA, ALA and AAM Committee on Archives, Libraries & Museums (CALM)
This event was streamed live for remote viewers. Some recordings are available on the agenda below. Further recordings will be posted here in the near future. Slides are available on the agenda below.
A summary of the proceedings is available in a HangingTogether blog post.
OCLC Research and an RLG Partnership planning committee created a two-day event on strategies for effective collaboration that was hosted by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C, 20-21, September. All RLG Partners, as well as representatives from other cultural heritage organizations, were invited to attend this free event.
Building on the success of our workshops on LAM (libraries, archives and museums) convergence held at five RLG Partner institutions in 2007/2008, we highlighted collaboration from a local institutional perspective as well as cross-institutional and network-level vantage points. What is necessary to ensure successful outcomes? What lessons learned by others can help us all do better? Participants took away specific strategies and models to realize their own collaborative ambitions.
The event featured three keynote speakers, thematic panels, a lightning round and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions enabling participants to more deeply engage with their choice of topics. Speakers focused first and foremost on their leadership strategies in making their collaborations a success, and exemplify these strategies with the specific projects they are spear-heading. Attendees played an active role in shaping the event by voting on topics for the Birds-of-a-Feather sessions during event registration. An opening keynote by Allan R. Cohen, Professor of Global Leadership and Director of Corporate Entrepreneurship, Babson College, on the emerging area of management theory and practice in collaborative leadership exposed participants to new ideas for creating a more collaborative work culture. Dave Remsen, Senior Programme Officer, Global Biodiversity Information Facility, inspired attendees by describing a collaboration at international scale in the natural sciences focusing on infrastructure, standards and capacity-building for biodiversity collections and data. Dylan Tweney, Senior Editor at Wired.com, enumerated the multiple forces that are significantly affecting the communications sector, which gave us an opportunity to consider the increased importance of collaboration in the face of upheaval in our own professional world.
Attendees were encouraged to read the short report, Collaboration Contexts: Framing Local, Group and Global Solutions [pdf], prior to the event for an overview of the benefits and limitations inherent in each of these collaboration settings. In addition to providing a high-level guide to the trajectory of the event, the report serves as a resource in its own right for assessing collaborative activities.
Contact Merrilee Proffitt with questions.
Day 1
Monday, 20 September
Note: Except for the Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, the location for all segments of Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership Through Collaboration took place the Ripley Center Lecture Hall (room 3027). See the agenda Day 2 below for Birds-of-a-Feather locations.
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 10:00 a.m. | Coffee & Tea |
| 10:30 | Welcome |
| 10:40 | Setting the Scene: Collaboration |
| 11:00 | Keynote 1: Collaborative Leadership
Introduced by Ann Speyer, Chief Information Officer, Smithsonian Institution |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch (on your own) |
| 1:30 | Common Administration
|
| 2:45 | Break |
| 3:00 | Common Interest
|
| 4:15 | Keynote 2: Introducing an Inspirational Large-scale International Collaboration
Introduced by Nancy E. Gwinn, Director, Smithsonian Institution Libraries |
| 5:00 | Adjourn |
| 5:30-7:30 | Reception in the Commons of the Smithsonian Castle |
Day 2
Tuesday, 21 September
Note: Except for the Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, the location for all segments of Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership Through Collaboration took place at the Ripley Center Lecture Hall (room 3027). See below for Birds-of-a-Feather locations.
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m. | Coffee & Tea |
| 9:30 a.m. | Welcome
|
| 9:45 | Common Value
|
| 11:00 | Break |
| 11:15 | News Flash: The Grand Challenge Consortia at the Smithsonian
Introduced by Nancy E. Gwinn, Director, Smithsonian Institution Libraries |
| 11:30 | Birds-of-a-Feather 1
|
| 12:30 | Lunch (on your own) |
| 2:00 | Birds-of-a-Feather 2
|
| 3:00 | Lightning Round
|
| 3:30 | Break |
| 3:45 | Keynote 3: Communications Industries in Crisis
Introduced by Anne Van Camp, Director, Smithsonian Institution Archives |
| 4:15 | The "Take-aways" Fireside Chat
|
| 4:45 | Adjourn |
*Please note that these temporary links to the streaming video will be replaced by permanent links to the video recordings in the near future.
Ripley Center
1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Washington, D.C.
Entered from a copper domed kiosk on Jefferson Drive between the "Castle" and the Freer Gallery of Art.
See http://www.si.edu/ripley/ for details.
Forum Sponsoring Committee
Elizabeth Broun, Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Anne Van Camp, Director, Smithsonian Institution Archives
Nancy E. Gwinn, Director Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Ann Speyer, Chief Information Officer, Smithsonian Institution
Forum Planning Group
Marcia Adams, Assistant Director for Technical Services, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Jackie Bell, Programme Director, Taylor Family Digital Library, University of Calgary
Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass, Collections Catalogue Specialist, Yale Center for British Art
Wendy Duff, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
Christine Hennessey, Department Chief, Research and Scholars Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Steven K. Galbraith, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Books, Folger Shakespeare Library
Cathryn Goodwin, Manager, Collection Information & Access, Princeton University Art Museum
Martin Kalfatovic, Assistant Director, Digital Services, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Dan Santamaria, Assistant University Archivist for Technical Services, Mudd Library, Princeton University
Pam Smith, Special Assistant for Strategic Planning, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Smithsonian Institution
Sarah Stauderman, Manager of Collections Care, Smithsonian Archives