Subject: ALCTS webinars on institutional repositories
From: pbluh_at_umaryland.edu
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:13:43 -0400 (EDT)
ALCTS announces four new webinars on Institutional Repositories
Wednesday March 24, 2010 – Making the Most of your Descriptive Metadata:
Planning, Tranforming, and Re-using, presented by Marisa Ramirez and
Nancy Fallgren*
*This webinar was prepared by Nancy Fallgren in her private capacity.
The views expressed do not represent the view of or endorsement by the
United States Government or the National Library of Medicine.
Metadata is essential for organizing, searching, and managing
information resources, particularly as libraries expand their efforts in
making their collections available on the web. Libraries are populating
institutional repositories with a myriad of resources, including
digitized special collections materials, finding aids, electronic
theses, peer-reviewed faculty work and other research, scholarship and
creative outputs. But what are libraries doing about the descriptive
metadata that allows users to search, find, and select these resources
in their repositories? What redundancies are created when libraries
engage in collecting, enhancing, or redistributing metadata in siloed
systems? Can redundant metadata generation efforts be streamlined? We
will discuss some current descriptive metadata practices in
institutional repositories, identify areas where redundant efforts may
occur, and discuss strategies to improve management, collection, and
re-use of descriptive metadata.
The webinar requires a basic understanding of metadata and XML.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 – Selecting an IR Platform: Options, Approaches
and Implications, presented by Bob Gerrity
This webinar will explore the basics of determining the "right" IR
platform for your institution. It will cover issues such as the benefits
and drawbacks of open-source vs. commercial platforms and hosted vs.
local installations, determining what level of local technical expertise
is required for a successful IR implementation, understanding functional
requirements, etc. The webinar is not intended to provide detailed
information about any specific IR platform, but rather to provide useful
context for evaluating and selecting a platform that will work.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 – The consortial-campus view: Reinventing the
IR from all directions, presented by Sharon Farb, Bonnie Tijerina, and
Catherine Mitchell
The California Digital Library supports the 10 University of California
campuses' institutional repository and campus publishing efforts through
the development and central hosting of eScholarship. This presentation
will give an overview of a centralized model and the scholarly
publishing initiatives taking place at the University of California. The
director of the Publishing Group at the CDL will begin the conversation
with an overview of the publishing and dissemination services available
through eScholarship and the outreach and marketing campaign recently
launched in conjunction with the UC campuses. An eScholarship Liaison
from UCLA will discuss the role of campus librarians in this model and
highlight successful faculty and graduate student publications which
transitioned from print to online journals. The presentation will
conclude with a library administrator's perspective on new roles for
academic libraries and how this works fits in the mission of the
institution.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - Perpetual Beta: Early Literature about
Institutional Repositories and What Assessment Can Tell Us Now,
presented by Allison Sivak and Leah Vanderjagt
As we develop new technologies for managing, accessing, and preserving
information materials, libraries concurrently develop our theories and
predictions for how those new technologies will affect our operations,
services, and patrons; these predictions create a framework within which
we designate our workflows and measures of success. But to what extent
do we consider whether these early assumptions are viable or realistic?
How do we understand methods of assessment for institutional
repositories (IRs) when we are in a state of perpetual beta? Leah and
Allison will discuss their findings from a review of the early
literature and strategic documents and corresponding/related current
statements on IR success, showing the changes between theory and
practice, with implications for planning and assessment.
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All webinars begin at 2pm Eastern, 1pm Central, noon Mountain and 11am
Pacific time and run approximately one hour.
Please note that all webinars are recorded, so if it is not possible to
participate in the webinar during the broadcast, all registrants will
receive instructions on accessing the recording of the session.
For additional details about each webinar, please visit:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/index.cfm
To register, complete the online registration form located at:
URL:
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=eventsdist&Template=/Conference/ConferenceList.cfm&ConferenceTypeCode=D
Webinar Fees for Institutional Repositories Series
INDIVIDUALS (one person watching from 1 access point)
ALCTS members: $39 each; $99 any 3; $159 any 5; $219 any 7
Nonmembers: $49 each; $129 any 3; $209 any 5; $289 any 7
GROUP RATE (a group of people watching webinar together from 1 access
point)
Members and nonmembers: $99 each; $269 any 3; $439 any 5; $609 any 7
*The one-time fee includes unlimited access to the webinar recording and
materials.
Questions
For questions about registration, contact Tom Ferren, ALA Senior
Registration Coordinator at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4293 or tferren_at_ala.org.
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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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