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Schedule of Events
2:00 – 4:30 PM | Meeting Registration
Stop by our registration table to pick up your badge and other items.
Location: International Room, Sterling Memorial Library
2:30 – 3:45 PM | Campus Tour
Explore the university's history and architecture, hear about Yale’s rich 300-year history, and experience aspects of student life at several of Yale’s residential colleges. The tour concludes at the Yale Bookstore.
Location: Meet at the Yale Visitor Center, 149 Elm Street, New Haven
4:00 – 4:45 PM | Sterling Memorial Library Tour
In the heart of central campus, Sterling Memorial Library is the largest of 14 libraries at Yale and one of the University’s most iconic buildings. Completed in 1930, it houses more than 2.5 million volumes on 14 floors of book stacks. Designed by architect James Gamble Rogers (Yale Class of 1889) and later named for its benefactor, John William Sterling (Yale Class of 1864), the library is built in the Collegiate Gothic style to resemble a European cathedral.
Location: Meet in the Sterling Library Nave, near the security desk
5:00 – 7:30 PM | EBSCO Happy Hour
Location: Siena at The Blake Hotel, 9 High St, New Haven
* All programming on Tuesday is optional
8:30 – 9:00 AM | Breakfast & Registration
Location: Memorabilia Room, Sterling Memorial Library
9:00 – 10:00 AM | Welcome & Announcements
- Christina Sheley, Cornell University
- Erin Wachowicz, Yale University
- Lauren DiMonte, Associate University Librarian for Research & Learning, Yale University Library
Location: Library Lecture Hall, Sterling Memorial Library
10:00 – 10:45 AM | Year in Review
Ken Peterson, Harvard Business School
Location: Library Lecture Hall, Sterling Memorial Library
10:50 – 11:20 AM | Lightning Round #1 – Collections
- But I Need It! Exploring a Magic Quadrant for Collections Needs, Wants and Contributions
- Every Contract Everywhere All at Once: Transferring Data Licenses from B-School to Library
Location: Library Lecture Hall, Sterling Memorial Library
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM | Vendor Showcase
- BCC Research
- Data Axle
- EBSCO
- PrivCo
- WRDS
Location: Memorabilia Room, Sterling Memorial Library
12:20 – 1:30 PM | Vendor Lunch
Location: Mory’s Association, 306 York Street, New Haven
1:30 – 2:00 PM | News & Updates from EBSLG
Lorna McNally, President, European Business Schools Librarians’ Group
Location: Library Lecture Hall, Sterling Memorial Library
2:10 – 3:10 PM Faculty Presentation: How I use ChatGPT in my Research
Balázs Kovács, Professor of Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management
Location: Library Lecture Hall, Sterling Memorial Library
3:10 – 3:30 PM | Snacks & Break
Location: Memorabilia Room, Sterling Memorial Library
3:30 – 4:20 PM | Unlocking Success: The New Business Librarian Adventure
- Angela Horne, University of California, Los Angeles
- Laura Walesby, Michigan State University
Location: Library Lecture Hall, Sterling Memorial Library
4:30 – 4:50 PM | Campus Collaborations: Yale University x Data-Intensive Social Science Center at Yale (DISSC)
Barbara Esty, Data Collections Librarian, Yale University Library; Senior Research Support Specialist, DISSC
Location: Library Lecture Hall, Sterling Memorial Library
5:00 – 5:45 PM | ISI Emerging Markets Presentation (EMIS/CEIC)
- Valerie Ruiz, Account Manager
- Kaan Anlar, Head of Account Management
Location: Library Lecture Hall, Sterling Memorial Library
5:45 - 6:00 PM | Travel
Walk from Sterling Memorial Library to dinner venue
6:00 PM | ISI Emerging Markets Dinner
Location: Olives and Oil, 124 Temple Street, New Haven CT
8:30 – 9:00 AM | Breakfast
Location: Memorabilia Room, Sterling Memorial Library
9:00 – 10:00 AM | Help! Roundtable Discussions of our Day-to-Day (Dilemmas, Difficulties and Delights)
Angela Horne, University of California, Los Angeles
Laura Walesby, Michigan State University
Location: Library Lecture Hall, Sterling Memorial Library
10:10 – 10:30 AM | Group Photo
Location: Selin Courtyard, Sterling Memorial Library
Rain Location: Nave, Sterling Memorial Library
10:40 – 11:20 AM | Lightning Round #2 – Research Services
- Internal Drivers of New Research and Data Services
Alex Caracuzzo, Harvard Business School
- Text Mining: From Nuisance to (Almost) a Service
- Working with Faculty and PhDs: Issues and Insights
Shikha Sharma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Library Lecture Hall, Sterling Memorial Library
11:25 – 11:55 AM | Lightning Round #3 - Future/Trends
Back to the Future: Are Business Libraries Adjusting Forward or Adjusting Back after COVID-19
Corey Seeman, University of Michigan
Location: Library Lecture Hall, Sterling Memorial Library
Noon – 1:30 PM | Lunch
Catering by Sally’s Apizza
Location: Library Memorabilia Room, Sterling Memorial Library
1:30 – 2:15 PM | ABLD History Panel Discussion
Panelists:
- Michael Enyart, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Alicia Estes, New York University
- Jill Parchuck, Columbia University & Yale University
Moderator: Erin Wachowicz, Yale University
Location: Library Lecture Hall, Sterling Memorial Library
2:20 – 3:10 PM | Drinking from the Data Firehose: Building Future-Focused Business Data Collections
Dan Hickey, New York University
Location: Library Lecture Hall, Sterling Memorial Library
3:10 – 3:30 PM | Break & Travel
Walk to Yale Art Gallery
3:30 – 4:30 PM | Yale University Art Gallery
The gallery features more than 4,000 works on display as well as a rooftop terrace and a sculpture garden. Galleries showcase artworks from ancient times to the present, including vessels from Tang-dynasty China, early Italian paintings, textiles from Borneo, treasures of American art, masks from West Africa, modern and contemporary art, ancient sculptures, masterworks by Degas, van Gogh, and Picasso, and more.
Lockers are available on a limited basis. Large bags, backpacks, shopping bags, umbrellas, food, and drinks are not permitted in the museum.
Location: 1111 Chapel Street (at York Street), New Haven
4:30 – 5:30 PM | Break
Explore downtown New Haven / Free Time
5:30 – 8:30 PM | Dinner
Location: ZINC, 964 Chapel Street, New Haven
Dinner is in their private dining area, around the corner from the main entrance.
8:30 – 9:30 AM Breakfast
Location: Kline Tower, Room 101
9:30 – 11:30 AM Business Meeting
Location: Kline Tower, Room 101
11:30 AM Lunch
Bagged lunches will be available to go
Various Times Tours & Other Visits
Led by Yale Library Staff
- Marx Science and Social Science Library - 11:45 AM
- Yale School of Management - Noon
- Sterling Memorial Library - 1:30 PM – If interested, please let Erin know by 4/24
Standing Tours (Not ABLD-specific)
- Campus Tour – Yale Visitors Center – 1:00 PM – Register here
- The Cushing Center at Yale’s Harvey Cushing/Jon Hay Whitney Medical Library - 2:00 PM