Subject: ALCTS webinar May 19 - in the institutional repositories series
From: pbluh_at_umaryland.edu
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 20:32:13 -0400 (EDT)
On Wednesday, May 19, 2010, ALCTS offers the final webinar in this
season’s Institutional Repository series when Leah Vanderjagt and
Allison Sivak present Perpetual Beta: Early Literature about
Institutional Repositories and What Assessment Can Tell Us Now
As new technologies for managing, accessing, and preserving information
materials are developed, libraries concurrently develop theories and
predictions for how those new technologies will affect their operations,
services, and patrons. These predictions create a framework within which
workflows and measures of success are designated. 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.
Allison Sivak is the Assessment Librarian at the University of Alberta
Libraries (UAL). She works with system-wide assessment initiatives at
the UAL using a variety of methods. She is currently pursuing her PhD in
Library and Information Studies and Elementary Education.
Leah Vanderjagt is the Digital Repository Services Librarian at the
University of Alberta Libraries (UAL). She administers ERA: Education
and Research Archive, which is UAL’s institutional repository, oversees
library operations for Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD)
submission, and manages and directs the delivery of UAL’s Open Journal
Systems service.
Registration information may be found at:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/irs/051910know.cfm
ALCTS thanks Berkeley Electronic Press for supporting the IR 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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