Subject: ALCTS webinars on institutional repositories
From: pbluh_at_umaryland.edu
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 13:19:09 -0400 (EDT)
Announcing the ALCTS webinars on institutional repositories – Fall
2009
Continuing a webinar series begun in the spring, ALCTS is pleased
to announce the details for four new webinars about various aspects of
institutional repositories.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 2pm Eastern time
Presenter: Heather Morrison
Title: Open Access: Key Trends
While content recruitment at the local IR may seem slow and
painful, from a global / historical perspective, the growth of open
access in all its flavors is nothing short of phenomenal. The benefits
of the IR for authors and for institutions will become more and more
apparent in the near future. The chicken will
emerge from the egg, and the IR will be seen as a great career
choice. This session will provide an overview of the latest key trends
in open access: why we need green as well as gold, both institutional
and disciplinary repositories, and open access policies to fill the
repositories. Institutional open access policies will be highlighted,
introducing different types of policies, what makes for good policy, and
approaches to open access policy development at the university.
Biographical information:
Heather Morrison (heatherm_at_eln.bc.ca) is a well-known open access
advocate who has written and presented extensively on topics relating to
open access and scholarly
communication. Heather is Project Coordinator for BC Electronic Library
Network, a consortium of post-secondary libraries in British Columbia;
Adjunct Faculty at the University of British Columbia's School of
Library; Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS); PhD Student at Simon
Fraser University's School of Communication; author of Scholarly
Communication for Librarians (Chandos, 2009); and editor of the
scholarly blog The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com.
************
Wednesday October 28, 2009, 2:00pm Eastern time
Presenter: Dwayne K. Buttler
Title: Yours, Mine, Ours? Copyright Ownership and IRs
Assessing who owns intellectual property (IP) has become a global
obsession and often a necessity in the university and library
communities, particularly for copyrighted works. The intense focus on
ownership has not altered a longstanding concern about managing
copyright: misunderstandings can obscure principles of using copyrighted
works and sometimes produce wayward "IP"policies "allocating" ownership
of copyright in problematic ways. This conversation will address
principles of copyright ownership under copyright law and identify
possibilities for managing copyright for IRs.
Biographical information:
Dwayne K. Buttler (dwayne.buttler_at_louisville.edu) serves as the first
Evelyn J. Schneider Endowed Chair for Scholarly Communication at the
University of Louisville
and holds a faculty appointment as a Professor in University Libraries.
Much of his work
focuses on the complex interrelationship of copyright law, and
activities at the core of the teaching, learning, and scholarly
communication.
Professor Buttler earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the
Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and holds a BA in
Telecommunications from Indiana University Purdue University
Indianapolis. He teaches mass communication law at the
University of Louisville and leads numerous invited presentations on
copyright and scholarly communication for audiences of administrators,
faculty, librarians, and scholars in the library and education communities.
*************
Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 2:00pm Eastern time
Presenter: MacKenzie Smith
Title: Bringing Research Data into the Library: Expanding the Horizons
of Institutional Repositories.
The focus of Library-managed Institutional Repositories has so far been
on document-like items (published articles, preprints, theses, reports,
working papers, etc.) but there is growing demand to expand their use
into new genres such as scientific research datasets (sensor readings,
genomics data, neuroimages, etc.). The presentation will explain how IRs
are including this type of collection, what librarians need to know in
order to manage such collections, and a few case studies from the MIT
Libraries.
Biographical Information
MacKenzie Smith (kenzie_at_mit.edu) is the Associate Director for
Technology at the MIT Libraries, where she oversees the Libraries'
technology strategy and its digital library research and development
program. Her research agenda focuses on Semantic Web applications for
scholarly communication, distributed digital library architectures, and
research data curation, including long-term data preservation. She was
the Project Director at MIT for the DSpace open source software digital
archiving platform and has considerable expertise developing and
sustaining large open source software communities. Prior to joining MIT,
MacKenzie was the Digital Library Program Manager for the Harvard
University Library, and held several IT positions at the Harvard and the
University
of Chicago Library. Her academic background is in Library and
Information Science, and her research interests are in applied
technology for libraries and academia, and digital libraries and
archives in particular.
*************
Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 2:00pm Eastern time
Presenter: Marilyn Bllings
Title: The Potential of Partnerships: Dissolving Silos for a Successful
IR Implementation
This webinar will use the University of Massachusetts"institutional
repository as a case study to explore how the new digital repository
service has affected the way librarians envision our place in the future
of the academy, how the academy is changing its view of the
library’s role, new tools and skills that we are developing to
fulfill this service, and new partnerships that we have created and
fostered to exploit this new vision. We hope to foster discussion and
provide insights and opportunities for further exploration of how the
role of libraries as publishers enables us to be key partners in the
creation, dissemination, and archiving of academic scholarship.
Biographical Information
Marilyn Billings (mbillings_at_library.umass.edu) is the Scholarly
Communication & Special
Initiatives Librarian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She
provides campus-wide leadership and education in alternative scholarly
communication strategies and is frequently an invited speaker at faculty
department colloquia. She gives presentations on author rights,
alternative digital publishing models and the role of digital
repositories in today's research and scholarship endeavors at the
regional, national, and international levels. As co-PI on an NSF funded
grant to create an Ethics Clearinghouse in response to the America
COMPETES Act, Marilyn works closely with faculty, researchers, and
administrative staff and organizes programs on many new and emerging
topics. Another key aspect of her responsibilities includes the
oversight of the institutional repository ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst.
Recent presentations include "The Academic Library as Publishing Agent:
showcasing student, faculty, and campus scholarship and
publications” with Terri Fishel at the Association of Research
Libraries in Seattle, WA in January 2009; “ "Exploring Ways That
Institutional Repositories Facilitate New Roles and Partnerships for
Libraries and the Academy;" at the Czech and Slovak Library Information
Network (CASLIN) conference in June 2009, and providing workshops at
numerous institutions. Her presentation "Changing Scholarly
Communications and the Role of an Institutional Repository in the
Digital Landscape" appears in the ACRL
Scholarly Communication Toolkit.
For registration information see the ALCTS website:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/index.cfm
*****
Coming in Spring 2010:
February 10, 2010 - Bob Gerrity on Selecting a Platform
March 24, 2010 - Marisa Ramirez and Nancy Fallgren on Metadata
April 28, 2010 - Sharon Farb, Bonnie Tijerino, and Catherine Mitchell on
Consortial Implementation
May 19, 2010 - Leah Vanderjagt on What we Thought Then and What we Know Now
ALCTS thanks Berkeley Electronic Press for their support for this series
of webinars
***********************
Pamela Bluh
Associate Director for Technical
Services & Administration
Thurgood Marshall Law Library
University of Maryland
School of Law
501 West Fayette
Street
Baltimore, MD 21201-1768
410-706-2736
410-706-2372 FAX
pbluh_at_umaryland.edu
Announcing the ALCTS webinars on institutional repositories – Fall 2009
Continuing a webinar series begun in the spring, ALCTS is pleased to
announce the details for four new webinars about various aspects of
institutional repositories.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 2pm Eastern time
Presenter: Heather Morrison
Title: Open Access: Key Trends
While content recruitment at the local IR may seem slow and painful,
from a global / historical perspective, the growth of open access in all
its flavors is nothing short of phenomenal. The benefits of the IR for
authors and for institutions will become more and more apparent in the
near future. The chicken will emerge from the egg, and the IR will be
seen as a great career choice. This session will provide an overview of
the latest key trends in open access: why we need green as well as gold,
both institutional and disciplinary repositories, and open access
policies to fill the repositories. Institutional open access policies
will be highlighted, introducing different types of policies, what makes
for good policy, and approaches to open access policy development at the
university.
Biographical information:
Heather Morrison (heatherm_at_eln.bc.ca) is a well-known open access
advocate who has written and presented extensively on topics relating to
open access and scholarly communication. Heather is Project Coordinator
for BC Electronic Library Network, a consortium of post-secondary
libraries in British Columbia; Adjunct Faculty at the University of
British Columbia's School of Library; Archival and Information Studies
(SLAIS); PhD Student at Simon Fraser University's School of
Communication; author of Scholarly Communication for Librarians
(Chandos, 2009); and editor of the scholarly blog The Imaginary Journal
of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com.
************
Wednesday October 28, 2009, 2:00pm Eastern time
Presenter: Dwayne K. Buttler
Title: Yours, Mine, Ours? Copyright Ownership and IRs
Assessing who owns intellectual property (IP) has become a global
obsession and often a necessity in the university and library
communities, particularly for copyrighted works. The intense focus on
ownership has not altered a longstanding concern about managing
copyright: misunderstandings can obscure principles of using copyrighted
works and sometimes produce wayward “IP” policies “allocating” ownership
of copyright in problematic ways. This conversation will address
principles of copyright ownership under copyright law and identify
possibilities for managing copyright for IRs.
Biographical information:
Dwayne K. Buttler (dwayne.buttler_at_louisville.edu) serves as the first
Evelyn J. Schneider Endowed Chair for Scholarly Communication at the
University of Louisville and holds a faculty appointment as a Professor
in University Libraries. Much of his work focuses on the complex
interrelationship of copyright law, and activities at the core of the
teaching, learning, and scholarly communication.
Professor Buttler earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the
Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and holds a BA in
Telecommunications from Indiana University Purdue University
Indianapolis. He teaches mass communication law at the University of
Louisville and leads numerous invited presentations on copyright and
scholarly communication for audiences of administrators, faculty,
librarians, and scholars in the library and education communities.
*************
Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 2:00pm Eastern time
Presenter: MacKenzie Smith
Title: Bringing Research Data into the Library: Expanding the Horizons
of Institutional Repositories.
The focus of Library-managed Institutional Repositories has so far been
on document-like items (published articles, preprints, theses, reports,
working papers, etc.) but there is growing demand to expand their use
into new genres such as scientific research datasets (sensor readings,
genomics data, neuroimages, etc.). The presentation
will explain how IRs are including this type of collection, what
librarians need to know in order to manage such collections, and a few
case studies from the MIT Libraries.
Biographical Information
MacKenzie Smith (kenzie_at_mit.edu) is the Associate Director for
Technology at the MIT Libraries, where she oversees the Libraries'
technology strategy and its digital library research and development
program. Her research agenda focuses on Semantic Web applications for
scholarly communication, distributed digital library architectures, and
research data curation, including long-term data preservation. She was
the Project Director at MIT for the DSpace open source software digital
archiving platform and has considerable expertise developing and
sustaining large open source software communities. Prior to joining MIT,
MacKenzie was the Digital Library Program Manager for the Harvard
University Library, and held several IT positions at the Harvard and the
University of Chicago Library . Her academic background is in Library
and Information Science, and her research interests are in applied
technology for libraries and academia, and digital libraries and
archives in particular.
*************
Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 2:00pm Eastern time
Presenter: Marilyn Billings
Title: The Potential of Partnerships: Dissolving Silos for a Successful
IR Implementation
This webinar will use the University of Massachusetts’ institutional
repository as a case study to explore how the new digital repository
service has affected the way librarians envision our place in the future
of the academy, how the academy is changing its view of the library’s
role, new tools and skills that we are developing to fulfill this
service, and new partnerships that we have created and fostered to
exploit this new vision. We hope to foster discussion and provide
insights and opportunities for further exploration of how the role of
libraries as publishers enables us to be key partners in the creation,
dissemination, and archiving of academic scholarship.
Biographical Information
Marilyn Billings (mbillings_at_library.umass.edu) is the
Scholarly Communication & Special
Initiatives Librarian
at
the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She provides campus-wide
leadership and education in alternative scholarly communication
strategies and is frequently
an invited speaker at faculty
department colloquia. She gives presentations on author rights,
alternative digital publishing models and the role of digital
repositories in today's research and
scholarship endeavors at the
regional, national, and international levels. As co-PI on an NSF
funded grant to create an Ethics Clearinghouse in response to the
America COMPETES Act,
Marilyn works closely with faculty,
researchers, and administrative staff and organizes
programs on many
new and emerging topics. Another key aspect of her responsibilities
includes the oversight of the institutional repository ScholarWorks @
UMass Amherst.
Recent presentations include "The Academic Library as Publishing
Agent: showcasing
student, faculty, and campus scholarship and
publications” with Terri
Fishel at the
Association of Research Libraries in Seattle, WA in
January 2009; “Exploring Ways That
Institutional Repositories Facilitate New Roles and Partnerships for
Libraries and the
Academy” at the Czech and Slovak Library Information
Network (CASLIN) conference in
June 2009, and providing workshops at
numerous institutions.
Her presentation “Changing
Scholarly Communications and the Role of an
Institutional Repository in the Digital Landscape”
appears in the ACRL
Scholarly Communication Toolkit.
For
registration information see the ALCTS website:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/index.cfm
*****
Coming in Spring 2010:
February 10, 2010 - Bob Gerrity on Selecting a Platform
March 24, 2010 - Marisa Ramirez and Nancy Fallgren on Metadata
April 28, 2010 - Sharon Farb, Bonnie Tijerino, and Catherine Mitchell on
Consortial lementation
May 19, 2010 - Leah Vanderjagt on What we Thought Then and What we Know Now
ALCTS thanks Berkeley Electronic Press for their support for this series
of webinars
***********************
Pamela Bluh
Associate Director for Technical
Services & Administration
Thurgood Marshall Law Library
University of Maryland
School of Law
501 West Fayette Street
Baltimore, MD 21201-1768
410-706-2736
410-706-2372 FAX
pbluh_at_umaryland.edu
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