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Presenters Susan Davis of the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, and Sarah E. Morris of Reed Smith, LLP, led an informal discussion of past and future trends in serials librarianship. By comparing their perspectives as new and mid-career librarians, they illuminated various topics related to work with serials and electronic resources, including the skill sets required for e-resource management, users' demands for online access, and generational attitudes within the profession.

Current diagnostic systems for mental disorders were established before the tools of neuroscience were available, and although they have improved the reliability of psychiatric classification, progress toward the discovery of disease etiologies and novel approaches to treatment and prevention may benefit from alternative conceptualizations of mental disorders. The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative is the centerpiece of NIMH's effort to achieve its strategic goal of developing new methods to classify mental disorders for research purposes. The RDoC matrix provides a research framework that encourages investigators to reorient their research perspective by taking a dimensional approach to the study of the genetic, neural, and behavioral features of mental disorders, RDoCs integrative approach includes cognition along with social processes, arousal/regulatory systems, and negative and positive valence systems as the major domains, because these neurobehavioral systems have all evolved to serve the motivational and adaptive needs of the organism. With its focus on neural circuits informed by the growing evidence of the neurodevelopmental nature of many disorders and its capacity to capture the patterns of co-occurrence of behaviors and symptoms, the RDoC approach holds promise to advance our understanding of the nature of mental disorders.

Presenters Oberg and Morris described the current environment in two major private libraries, highlighting both the similarities and differences with typical nonprofit libraries. Their special environment demands accountability from their library divisions, often expressed in terms of financial return on investment, and can be instructive for librarians in other types of libraries.

Anyone who needs to get an electronic resource management (ERM) system up and running needed this session! Moderated by Ted Fons of Innovative Interfaces, Inc., “Real ERM Implementations: Notes from the Field,” included panelists Jeff Daniels of Grand Valley State University (GVSU), Karl Maria Fattig of Bowdoin College, Toni Katz of Colby College, Jeanne Langendorfer of Bowling Green State University (BGSU), and Paul Moeller of the University of Colorado at Boulder (UCB). Each panelist is at various stages of implementing an ERM at his or her library. By telling their stories, including their challenges, regrets, failures, and solutions, the panelists hoped they might help other libraries survive the same process. From the nuts-and-bolts details to tips on better serving users, this session was a road map for any other library trying to navigate a similar path.

The panel at this strategy session was composed of three distinguished women from technical services who currently hold leadership positions. The session topic was divided into two sections: 1) What is leadership?; and 2) How can technical services help you be a leader? Each panelist spoke to the first topic and then reversed order to explore the second. The panelists all spoke to a definition of leadership based on the personal, social, and professional skills possessed by leaders. The panel concurred that technical services staff are uniquely prepared for leadership for a variety of reasons because the personal, social, and professional skills discussed by the panel in the first half of the session are prevalent in technical services departments.