1. Go8 Librarians Best Keep Together Here The Value of Collaboration Inaugural Go8 Directors’ Conference Melbourne 28-29 May 2009

2. Go8 Librarians Collaboration as guiding principle and established practice Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL)

3. Go8 Librarians Role of Go8 Librarians engagement with and promotion of issues which more narrowly concern research-intensive universities opportunity and opportunism

4. Go8 Librarians Publishers Consortial purchasing Elsevier Springer Aftermath of GEC Elsevier Springer Taylor & Francis Wiley-Blackwell

5. Go8 Librarians Collections ‘last copy’ collection retention strategy development of distributed print journal archive

6. Go8 Librarians Value Frameworks cost-benefit (RoI) study on value of library-provided information resources contingent valuation methodology

7. Go8 Librarians Man. Some dismal accident it needs must be; What shall we do, stay here or run and see? Chor. Best keep together here, lest running thither We unawares run into dangers mouth. Samson Agonistes, ll. 1519-22

8. Go8 Librarians ‘run and see’ passive/active information management institutional digital asset management/ publishing new relationships SII – ARROW, APSR NCRIS/PfC – ANDS

9. Go8 Librarians Overlaps and Opportunities Chief Financial Officers Research Directors Student Services Directors Facilities Directors and Digital Futures Group

10. Go8 Librarians Thank you Vic Elliott 29 May 2009