[BOAI] ALCTS Nov.-Dec. webinar programs on Institutional Repositories

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Cindy Hepfer.  --Peter Suber.]


Please excuse cross-posting to several lists
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Announcing 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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Cindy Hepfer
Continuing Resources Cataloging Team leader
Central Technical Services
University at Buffalo (SUNY)
134 Lockwood Library
Buffalo, NY 14260-2210
Tel 716-645-2784/2786 Fax: 716-645-5955
HSLcindy at buffalo.edu

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