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Announcing two webinars on institutional repositories<br><br>
Bringing Research Data into the Library: Expanding the Horizons of
Institutional Repositories.<br>
Presenter: MacKenzie Smith<br>
Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 2:00pm Eastern time<br><br>
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<br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
The Potential of Partnerships: Dissolving Silos for a Successful IR
Implementation<br>
Presenter: Marilyn Billings<br>
Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 2:00pm Eastern time<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
To register see:
<a href="http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/index.cfm" eudora="autourl">
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/index.cfm<br>
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Webinars on institutional repositories scheduled in 2010
include:<br><br>
February 10, 2010 - Bob Gerrity on Selecting a Platform<br><br>
March 24, 2010 - Marisa Ramirez and Nancy Fallgren on Metadata<br>
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April 28, 2010 <x-tab> </x-tab>- Sharon
Farb, Bonnie Tijerina, and Catherine Mitchell on Consortial
Implementation<br><br>
May 19, 2010 - Leah Vanderjagt and Allison Sivak on What we Thought Then
and What we Know Now<br><br>
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ALCTS thanks Berkeley Electronic Press for their support for this series
of webinars<br>
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Cindy Hepfer<br>
Continuing Resources Cataloging Team leader<br>
Central Technical Services<br>
University at Buffalo (SUNY)<br>
134 Lockwood Library<br>
Buffalo, NY 14260-2210<br>
Tel 716-645-2784/2786 Fax: 716-645-5955<br>
HSLcindy@buffalo.edu<br><br>
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