[Asis-l] GL7 Conference Memorandum No. 7

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               GL7 CONFERENCE MEMORANDUM No. 7 - AUGUST 1, 2005
             Seventh International Conference on Grey Literature
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                      "Open Access to Grey Resources"
                             5-6 December 2005
                         INIST-CNRS Nancy, France


C O N T E N T S:

Roundtables, the Frontline at GL7  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Conference Calendar Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2


1. ROUNDTABLES, THE FRONTLINE AT GL7

Roundtables are an opportunity for delegates and participants to meet in
smaller groups on both days of the conference in order to discuss their
special interests in grey literature. Each of the four roundtables has at
least one facilitator and discussion papers have already been assigned to
them. The facilitator has an opportunity to direct the course of a round-
table and with this in mind to report its (preliminary) outcome during the
Closing Session.

[ ] One  | Curriculum Development and Research on Grey Literature
[ ] Two  | Theses and Dissertations
[ ] Three| Repositories and Collections of Grey Literature
[ ] Four | Quality Assessment of Grey Literature


Roundtable Facilitators:

· Julia Gelfand is asked to facilitate Roundtable One: Curriculum
Development and Research on Grey Literature. This follows from her previous
contributions at GL’97 in Luxembourg and GL’99 in Washington, D.C., where
she dealt with teaching and exposing grey literature to information
professionals and applications for distance education. Her endeavor at GL7
is to address bold new teaching initiatives involving grey content.

· Christiane Stock is asked to facilitate Roundtable Two: Theses and
Dissertations. This follows from her comprehensive overview of French
doctoral theses presented at GL6 in New York together with other colleagues
from INIST. Her engagement at GL7 will lend itself to still other types of
grey literature in an open access environment.

· Keith Jeffery and Gretta Siegel are asked to facilitate Roundtable Three:
Repositories and Collections of Grey Literature. For Jeffery the emphasis
lay in repositories, where at GL’99 in Washington D.C. he set out an
architecture for grey literature to which he expanded at GL6 in New York
with a corporate model that both public and private sectors would do well to
consider. For Siegel, collections are the vanguard. At GL5 in Amsterdam, her
research results introduce concrete change for library collection
development affecting both policy and procedures. At GL7, she offers a
unique look on a special collection of grey literature.

· Paola De Castro is asked to facilitate Roundtable Four: Quality Assessment
of Grey Literature. This follows from her previous contribution at GL5 in
Amsterdam on the quality of grey literature in the open access era and her
explicit proposal at GL7 for the adoption of a “Nancy Style” for grey
literature. Her premise is that production of a valuable and formally
correct document is dependent on the existence and application of reference
standards, which should be commonly used within the global grey literature
community.


Roundtable Stakeholders:

Each roundtable will have its own room assignment and each room will be
equipped with PC, etc. A two-hour block is reserved on both afternoons of
the conference program and participants registering for GL7 will indicate on
their registration form, which roundtable they would like to attend. The
discussion papers that are assigned to a roundtable will be presented in a
more informal setting than in a scheduled session or panel. This can
conceivably be done seated round in the group. The three stakeholders in a
Roundtable are (1) authors of discussion papers, (2) conference participants
who sign-up for the roundtable, and (3) the facilitators who will ‘Report-
Back’ at the Closing Session. Each category of stakeholder will have equal
opportunity to contribute to a Roundtable’s discussion and debate.


2. CONFERENCE CALENDAR UPDATE

In order to provide you with the latest on the Program and Planning of the
7th International Conference on Grey Literature, a GL7 Conference Calendar
is periodically updated and maintained at http://www.textrelease.com/pages/3

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