R2

Date	City	Venue	Topic
10/18/10	Boxborough, MA	NELA Annual Conference 2010	Summary presentation of R2's Report on the North American MARC Records Marketplace
8/16/10	Rock Island, Ill	Augustana College Faculty Retreat	Rethinking Library Resources
6/27/10	Washington, DC	ALA Annual Members' Meeting Program for Cooperative Cataloging	Summary presentation of R2's Report on the North American MARC Records Marketplace
5/19/10	Allendale, MI	Grand Valley State University Library	Legacy Print Collections in a Digital World
2/2/10	Austin, TX	E-R&L 2010 University of Texas, Austin	Scaling Organizational Capacity to Meet E-Resources Needs: Centralize or De-Centralize? (with Denise Pan, Auraria Library)
1/17/10	Boston, MA	ALA Mid-Winter ALCTS Discussion Group: Automated Acquisitions	Summary presentation of R2's Report on the North American MARC Records Marketplace
1/16/10	Boston, MA	ALA Mid-Winter OCLC Seminar: Dollars and Sense - Paying for the national bibliographic framework. Video.	Summary presentation of R2's Report on the North American MARC Records Marketplace
1/15/10	Boston, MA	ALA Mid-Winter ALCTS Big Heads of Technical Services Meeting	Summary presentation of R2's Report on the North American MARC Records Marketplace
11/10/09	Bloomington, Indiana	Presentation to the Indiana University Print Collections Task Force	De-Selection Decisions and Workflows
11/4/09	Charleston, SC	Pre-Conference 29th Charleston Conference	Weeding, Offsite Storage, and Sustainable Collection Development: Library Space and Collections - 30 Years After the Kent Study
5/19/09	Bloomington, Indiana	Off the Shelf: CIC Center for Library Initiatives Conference	Expert Selection and Monograph Use: A Brief History (and A Brief Future?)
4/15/09	Oxford, England	Exploring Acquisitions 2009, Oxford University	Expert Selection and Monograph Use: A Brief History (and A Brief Future?)
2/10/09	Los Angeles, CA	ER&L 2009 (Electronic Resources & Libraries) UCLA	The Invisible Mainstream: E-Resources in Workflows and Organizations
1/26/09	Denver, CO	ALA Mid-Winter LITA Town Hall Meeting	Facilitated by Matt Barnes
1/26/09	Denver, CO	ALA Mid-Winter ALCTS Interest Group: Publisher, Vendor, Library Relations	Who's at the Wheel?: What We've Learned about Patron-Driven Collection Development
1/25/09	Denver, CO	ALA Mid-Winter ALCTS Discussion Group: Acquisitions Managers and Vendors	Institutional Repository Workflows
11/5/08	Charleston, SC	Pre-Conference 28th Charleston Conference	Weeding, Offsite Storage, and Sustainable Collection Development: Library Space and Collections 30 Years After the Kent Study
10/23/08 10/22/08 10/21/08	Sioux Falls, SD Fargo, ND Minneapolis, MN	MINITEX/OCLC User Group Meeting	Creating Capacity for Change: Transforming Library Workflows and Organization
9/10/08	Champaign, Ill	CARLI Seminar	Technical Services Workflow Analysis Seminar Co-sponsored by the CARLI I-Share Acquisitions/Serials Team and the I-Share Cataloging and Authority Control Team
3/28/08	Philadelphia, PA	NFSAIS Conference (National Federation of Science Abstracting and Indexing Services) PALINET Headquarters	The Future of Bibliographic Control: A Time of Transition Closing Keynote: Changing Landscape, Changing Roles Rick Lugg, Principal, R2 Consulting, LLC
1/13/08	Philadelphia, PA	ALA Mid-Winter ALCTS Discussion Group: Role of the Professional Librarian in Technical Services	Appropriate Roles for MLS and Non-MLS Catalogers
1/13/08	Philadelphia, PA	ALA Mid-Winter ALCTS Interest Group: Acquisitions Managers/Vendors	Locataions and Dislocations in Technical Services Presentations by: Rick Lugg, R2 Consulting, LLC Mary Page, Rutgers University Germaine Wadeborn, UCLA and Kittie Henderson, EBSCO
1/13/08	Philadelphia, PA	ALA Mid-Winter ALCTS Discussion Group: Automated Acquisitions/In-Process Control Systems	MARC Records for Electronic Content moderated by Ruth Fischer
1/12/08	Philadelphia, PA	ALA Mid-Winter ACRL Personnel Administrators and Staff Development Officers Discussion Group	Ruth Fischer reported on R2's 2007 onsite management project at George Washington University's Gelman Library.
11/7/07	Charleston, SC	Pre-Conference 27th Charleston Conference	Creating Capacity for Change: Transforming Library Workflows and Organizations
10/17/07	St. Louis, MO	Washington University	From Selection to Access: Optimizing the Collections/Technical Services Workflow (Sponsored by the Missouri Library Network Corporation)
10/2/07	New York, NY	NYPL	From Selection to Access: Optimizing the Collections/Technical Services Workflow (Sponsored by the New York Public Library)
9/28/07	Madison, WI	University of Wisconsin	Creating Capacity for Change: Transforming Library Workflows and Organizations through Workflow Analysis and Redesign (Sponsored by Wisconsin Library Services)
7/9/07	Washington, DC	Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control Mumford Room, Library of Congress James Madison Memorial Building	Setting the Stage: Economics and Organization of Bibliographic Data
6/25/07	Washington, DC	ALA Annual ALCTS Technology Committee	Tech Services 2.0 Rick Lugg and Matt Barnes of R2 took part in a panel discussion on this timely topic for the ALCTS Technology Committee.
6/25/07	Washington, DC	ALA Annual Reference Books Bulletin Panel	Is Print Reference Dead? Ruth Fischer of R2 was one of three panelists to speak on the topic of whether the print reference collection is a thing of the past, or whether it still has a place in the increasingly electronic world of reference.
6/24/07	Washington, DC	ALA Annual ALCTS AS Acq Managers-Vendors IG	eBook Prospect: 2007 Co-Chairs Rick Lugg and Lauren Corbett (Emory University) lined up six eBook luminaries to weigh in on emerging trends.
6/22/07	Washington, DC	ALA Annual ALCTS Pre-Conference on Technical Services Management	Workflow Analysis, Redesign, and Implementation: Integrating Electronic Resources Rick Lugg and Ruth Fischer of R2 kicked-off this afternoon session; sharing their methods and experiences in academic libraries.
4/19/07	Cambridge, England	Exploring Acquisitions Peterhouse, Cambridge	The Academic Workflow, Worldwide Best Practices
1/19/07	Seattle, Washington	ALA Midwinter IRPG Meeting	E-Reference: Opportunity or Chaos?
10/8/06	Charleston, SC	Pre-Conference 26th Charleston Conference	Creating Capacity for Change: Transforming Library Workflows and Organizations: Integrating E-Resources
6/15/06	Independence, MO	Mid-Continent Public Library's Distribution Center	From Selection to Access: Optimizing the Collections/Technical Services Workflow (Sponsored by the Missouri Library Network Corporation)
6/14/06	Columbia, MO	Libraries of the University of Missouri,Columbia	From Selection to Access: Optimizing the Collections/Technical Services Workflow
3/28/06	Chicago, IL	TAIGA Forum 2006: Shifting Boundaries Palmer House	Organizational & Service Model Experiments
1/21/06	San Antonio, TX	ALA Midwinter ALCTS Acquisitions Managers & Vendors Discussion Group	Managing the Acquisitions Workflow of Monographs
12/12/05	Boston, Mass.	Boston Public Library	Optimizing Technical Services Workflows: From Selection to Access
11/02/05	Charleston, SC	Pre-Conference 25th Charleston Conference	From Recommendation to Reality: Implementing Workflow Changes in Collections and Technical Services
6/26/05	Chicago, IL	ALA Annual The Automated Acquisitions and In Process Control Discussion Group	eBook Models for Libraries
6/25/05	Chicago, IL	ALA Annual	RR Bowker/BIP/BBAS Inaugural User Group Meeting
4/15/05	Canton, NY	St. Lawrence University Libraries	Optimizing Technical Services Workflows: From Selection to Access
1/16/05	Boston, Mass.	ALA Midwinter The Automated Acquisitions and In Process Control Discussion Group	Extending the Acquisitions Module of the Integrated Library System
11/5/04	Charleston, SC	Charleston Library Conference	eBooks and eContent: Evolving Perspectives on Users' Needs
11/3/04	Charleston, SC	Charleston Pre-Conference	Patron-Oriented Technical Services
6/28/04	Orlando, FL	ALA Annual Publisher ,Vendor, Library Relations Open Forum	When are eBooks THE Books?
6/4/04	San Francisco, CA	Society for Scholarly Publishers Annual Meeting	The Host with the Most: eBook Distribution Options for Publishers and Libraries
3/25/04	Cambridge, Mass	Harvard College Library	Optimizing Technical Services Workflows: From Selection to Access
3/19/04	New Haven, CT	New England Law Library Consortium Yale Law School	Optimizing Technical Services Workflows: From Selection to Access
2/26/04	Sydney, Australia	CAVAL Collaborative Solutions: Professional Development and Training	eBooks for Libraries: 2004
2/25/04	Sydney, Australia	CAVAL Collaborative Solutions: Professional Development and Training	From Selection to Access: Optimizing the Collections and Technical Services Workflow
2/20/04	Canberra, Australia	CAVAL Collaborative Solutions: Professional Development and Training	From Selection to Access: Optimizing the Collections and Technical Services Workflow
2/19/04	Gold Coast, Australia	CAVAL Collaborative Solutions: Professional Development and Training	From Selection to Access: Optimizing the Collections and Technical Services Workflow
2/17/04	Melbourne, Australia	CAVAL Collaborative Solutions: Professional Development and Training	eBooks for Libraries: 2004
2/16/04	Melbourne, Australia	CAVAL Collaborative Solutions: Professional Development and Training	From Selection to Access: Optimizing the Collections and Technical Services Workflow
2/5/04	Auckland, New Zealand	CAVAL Collaborative Solutions: Professional Development and Training	From Selection to Access: Optimizing the Collections and Technical Services Workflow
1/30/04	Cambridge, Mass	Cambridge Marriott	SAGE Electronic Reference Focus Group and Luncheon
1/12/04	San Diego, CA	ALA Midwinter Publisher ,Vendor, Library Relations Open Forum	Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Why Online Content Disappears
12/12/03	Cambridge, Mass.	Cambridge Marriott	eBooks for Libraries: 2004
11/11/03	Lawrence, Kansas	University of Kansas Libraries	eBooks in Libraries
11/5/03	Charleston, SC	Charleston Pre-Conference Lightsey Conference Center	From Selection to Access: Optimizing the Collections and Technical Services Workflow
10/9/03	Boston, Mass.	Moakley Law Library Suffolk University Law School	Technology, Time, and Talent: Finding the Right Balance with a Workflow Audit
6/23/03	Toronto, Canada	ALA Annual ALCTS, PVLR, and CMDS	A New Seal of Approval: Print and Electronic Approval Plans in the 21st Century
5/30/03	Baltimore, MD	Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting	Emerging Sources of Revenue in Book Publishing (Print on Demand, eLibraries, Aggregators, Distributors, and Publishers)
5/8/03	Dublin, Ohio	E-Book 2003 Sponsored by the University of Michigan, Ohio State, BBS, and OCLC	eBooks and Approval Plans
4/26/03	San Jose, CA	11th Annual Innovative Users Group Conference	The Real Cost of ILS Ownership
11/1/02	Charleston, SC	Charleston Library Conference	eBooks: One Year Later
10/31/02	Charleston, SC	Charleston Library Conference	Yours? Mine? Ours?: Duplication in Consortia
10/30/02	Charleston, SC	Charleston Pre-Conference	From Selection to Access: Best Practices in the Collections and Technical Services Workflow
6/29/02	St. Petersburg, FL	American Association of University Presses Annual Mtg	eBooks for Publishers: Mapping a New World
5/31/02	Boston, Mass	Society of Scholarly Publishers Annual Conference	eBooks: Now That They're Dead, They're Alive!
5/29/02	Boston, Mass	SSP Pre-Meeting Seminar	Digital Rights Management: Old Hat or New Wrinkle?
4/29/02	Manchester, NH	Special Libraries Association New England Chapter	eContent for Special Libraries: Looking for Desktop Access
1/10/02	Ithaca, NY	Tomkins County Public Library	eBooks for Libraries: Mapping a New World

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