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Seth Shaw (Duke)
*Tentative. (I reserve the right to think of something better; comments & suggestions welcome.)* "IT Audit Fun": I will briefly talk about our Library's IT audit including the auditors initial reactions (hint: they weren't expecting Special Collections born-digital electronic records), their report, and our next steps.

Dave Thompson , (Wellcome Library)
'Welcome to the dark side' - I'd like to spend my five mins explaining how we got to where we are at the Wellcome Library, the principles on which we work and how we build on existing professional knowledge to leverage the core principles of archival work in a digital context.  We've also worked hard to tie our digital work closely to the buisness drivers of our wider organisation and I'll talk a little about that.. 

Gretchen Gueguen (UVA)
"Presenting the whole fruit basket" -- I'll talk about the issues surrounding presentation of digital resources in the special collections/archives environment (aggregate description) vs. the library environment (item-level description). As an example, I'll look at the work we've been doing at East Carolina University, where we have experimented with providing digital resources both in a digital library and EAD environment, and mixing item-level objects (apples) and folder-level objects (oranges) in the same fruit basket. It's a delightful and fruity mess! :)

Simon Wilson (Hull)
"The Good, the bad and the Ugly: negotiating the deposit of born-digital archives" - I won't be re-enacting scenes from the movie but I will be looking at some of our experiences to date in dealing with depositors regarding born-digital archives and what we have learned in the process.