Doctoral Colloquium
Rackham Assembly Hall and Amphitheatre, 4th floor
The colloquium brings together a selected group of outstanding iSchool doctoral students for intensive workshops with faculty. Check-in and conference materials pickup for Doctoral Colloquium participants opens at 8:00 in the Rackham Building lobby.

Community Informatics Workshop
Ehrlicher Room, 411 West Hall, 1085 South University Ave.
Organizers: The Community Informatics Initiative at Illinois (Ann Bishop and Chip Bruce), the Community Information Corps at Michigan (Steve Jackson, Maurita Holland, Joan Durrance, Paul Resnick, Dan Atkins, and Edward Vielmetti), and CRACIN at Toronto (Nadia Caidi and Andrew Clement)
(Learn more about this workshop .)

Conference Check-in Opens
Rackham Building Lobby
Pre-registered attendees will be able to check-in and pick up their conference materials starting at noon and continuing throughout the conference.

Preconference Presentation: "U-M Digital Library Initiatives and the Google Book Search Project"
Rackham Auditorium
Speakers: John Wilkin, Interim Co-University Librarian, U-M and Perry Willett, Head, Digital Library Production Service, U-M

Walking Tour of University of Michigan Libraries
Guide: Donna Hathaway, U-M Library
Depart from Rackham Building.

On-site Registration Available
Rackham Building Lobby
Those who wish to register on-site will be able to do so during this time.

Walking Tour of University of Michigan Campus Architecture
Guide: Anatole Senkevitch, Jr., associate professor of architecture
Depart from Rackham Building.

Meet-and-greet for iSchool development, alumni relations, and communications staff (contact Shelley MacMillan at smacmill@umich.edu if you plan to attend this session)

i-Conference 2006 Welcome Reception
Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th floor

Featured Speaker: John Seely Brown, director emeritus, Xerox PARC
"Learning Reconceived for the Networked Age"
Rackham Auditorium

On-site Registration Available
Rackham Building Lobby
Those who wish to register on-site will be able to do so during this time.

Featured Speaker: Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief, Wired
"A Problem with the Long Tail"
Rackham Auditorium

"Searching for our Future"
Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th floor
Organizer: Douglas W. Oard, Maryland
Participants: Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley; Liz Liddy, Syracuse; Gary Marchionini, North Carolina; Javed Mostafa, Indiana; ChengXiang Zhai, Illinois

"Politics and Ethics of Information as a Reflection of iSchool Identity"
Rackham Amphitheatre, 4th floor
Organizers: Robert Mason, Washington; Karine Barzilai-Nahon, Washington; John N. Gathegi, Florida State
Participants: Jose-Marie Griffiths, North Carolina; John L. King, Michigan

"Services: Science, Management, and Engineering Emerging Research Agenda for iSchools"
Rackham East Conference Room, 4th floor
Organizers: Robert J. Glushko, UC Berkeley; AnnaLee Saxenian, UC Berkeley
Participants: Steve Sawyer, Penn State; Eric Yu, Toronto

"Collaborating on Collaboration: How can we Leverage iSchool Multidisciplinarity to Improve the Study and Design of Communication and Collaboration Technologies"
Rackham West Conference Room, 4th floor
Organizer: Jeremy Birnholtz, Toronto
Participants: Kevin Crowston, Syracuse; Gloria Mark, UC Irvine; David McDonald, Washington; Judy Olson, Michigan; Michael Twidale, Illinois

Break for lunch (local restaurants)

Working lunch for iSchool development, alumni relations, and communications staff (contact Shelley MacMillan at smacmill@umich.edu)

"Community Online: The Leadership Role of iSchools in Research on Online Education"
Rackham Amphitheatre, 4th floor
Organizer: Linda Smith, Illinois
Participants: Bruce Kingma, Syracuse; Chris Tomer, Pittsburgh

"Human Diversity and Social Inclusion in the i-World"
Rackham East Conference Room, 4th floor
Organizer: Eileen M. Trauth, Penn State
Participants: Lynette Kvasny, Penn State; Ann Bishop, Illinois; Ramesh Srinivasan, UCLA

"Developing Promising Research Agendas and Partnerships in Knowledge Management"
Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th floor
Organizers: Kevin C. Desouza, Washington; Ixchel M. Faniel, Michigan
Participants: Susan Gasson, Drexel; Steve Sawyer, Penn State; John P. Gant, Syracuse; Mark Ackerman, Michigan

"iSchools in a Flat World"
Rackham West Conference Room, 4th floor
Organizer: Ronald L. Larsen, Pittsburgh
Participants: Raymond von Dran, Syracuse; Martin B. Weiss, Pittsburgh; Shalini R. Urs, U Mysore; Prasad Ram, Yahoo! India; Zhendong Niu, Beijing Institute of Technology

"New Directions in Community Informatics"
Rackham Amphitheatre, 4th floor
Organizers: Ann Bishop, Illinois; Nadia Caidi, Toronto; Steve Jackson, Michigan
Participants: Jack Carroll, Penn State; Andrew Clement, Toronto; Joan Durrance, Michigan; Jenny Preece, Maryland; Anno Saxenian, UC Berkeley; Kate Williams, Dominican U

"Incentive-Centered Design"
Rackham East Conference Room, 4th floor
Organizers: Yan Chen, Michigan; Paul Resnick, Michigan
Participants: John Chuang, UC Berkeley; Tracy Mullen, Penn State; Jeff MacKie-Mason, Michigan

"Digital Libraries as Collaborative Structured Information Spaces" [preliminary presentation (PPT) →]
Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th floor
Organizers: Dagobert Soergel, Maryland; Judith Klavans, Maryland; Ann Weeks, Maryland
Participants: Gary Marchionini, North Carolina; Michael Twidale, Illinois; Christine Borgman, UCLA

Dinner
Michigan League Ballroom

Featured Speaker: Christine L. Borgman, Presidential Chair in Information Studies, UCLA
"Disciplines, Documents, and Data: Convergence and Divergence in the Scholarly Information Infrastructure"
Rackham Auditorium

Plenary Discussion
"i-Conferences Past, Present, and Future"
Rackham Amphitheatre, 4th floor

Conference Adjournment

The deans of the 19 member schools of the iSchools Project will meet.
Ehrlicher Room, 411 West Hall, 1085 South University Ave.