Subject: webinars on institutional repositories - November and December
2009
From: pbluh_at_umaryland.edu
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 12:45:11 -0500 (EST)
ALCTS Announces two
webinars on institutional repositories
Bringing Research Data into the Library: Expanding
the Horizons of
Institutional Repositories.
Presenter: MacKenzie Smith
Tuesday,
November 10, 2009, 2:00pm Eastern time
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.
MacKenzie Smith 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.
The Potential of Partnerships: Dissolving Silos for
a Successful IR
Implementation
Presenter: Marilyn Billings
Wednesday,
December 16, 2009, 2:00pm Eastern time
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.
Marilyn Billings 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.
To register see:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/index.cfm
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Webinars on institutional repositories scheduled in 2010 include:
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 Tijerina, and Catherine Mitchell on Consortial
Implementation
May 19, 2010 -
Leah Vanderjagt and Allison Sivak on What we Thought Then and What we Know
Now
ALCTS thanks Berkeley
Electronic Press for their support for this series of
webinars
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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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