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ALCTS Institutional Repository webinar series continues Cindy Hepfer 04 Sep 2009 17:06 UTC

Announcing the ALCTS webinars on institutional repositories - Fall 2009

Continuing a webinar series begun in the spring, ALCTS is pleased to
announce the details for four new webinars about various aspects of
institutional repositories.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 2pm Eastern time
Presenter: Heather Morrison
Title:  Open Access:  Key Trends

While content recruitment at the local IR may seem slow and painful, from a
global / historical perspective, the growth of open access in all its
flavors is nothing short of phenomenal.  The benefits of the IR for authors
and for institutions will become more and more apparent in the near future.
The chicken will emerge from the egg, and the IR will be seen as a great
career choice.  This session will provide an overview of the latest key
trends in open access:  why we need green as well as gold, both
institutional and disciplinary repositories, and open access policies to
fill the repositories.   Institutional open access policies will be
highlighted, introducing different types of policies, what makes for good
policy, and approaches to open access policy development at the university.

Biographical information:

Heather Morrison (heatherm@eln.bc.ca) is a well-known open access advocate
who has written and presented extensively on topics relating to open access
and scholarly communication.  Heather is Project Coordinator
for BC Electronic Library Network, a consortium of post-secondary libraries
in British Columbia; Adjunct Faculty at the University of  British
Columbia's School of Library; Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS); PhD
Student at Simon Fraser University's School of Communication; author of
Scholarly Communication for Librarians
(Chandos, 2009); and editor of the scholarly blog The Imaginary Journal of
Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com.

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Wednesday October 28, 2009, 2:00pm Eastern time
Presenter: Dwayne K. Buttler
Title: Yours, Mine, Ours? Copyright Ownership and IRs
Assessing who owns intellectual property (IP) has become a global obsession
and often a necessity in the university and library communities,
particularly for copyrighted works. The intense focus on ownership has not
altered a longstanding concern about managing copyright: misunderstandings
can obscure principles of using copyrighted works and sometimes produce
wayward "IP" policies "allocating" ownership of copyright in problematic
ways. This conversation will address principles of copyright ownership
under U.S. copyright law and identify possibilities for managing copyright
for IRs.
Biographical information:

Dwayne K. Buttler (dwayne.buttler@louisville.edu) serves as the first
Evelyn J. Schneider Endowed Chair for Scholarly Communication at the
University of Louisville and holds a faculty appointment as a Professor in
University Libraries.  Much of his work focuses on the complex
interrelationship of copyright law, and activities at the core of the
teaching, learning, and scholarly communication.

Professor Buttler earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the Indiana
University School of Law-Indianapolis and holds a BA in Telecommunications
from Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.  He teaches mass
communication law at the University of Louisville and leads numerous
invited presentations on copyright and scholarly communication for
audiences of administrators, faculty, librarians, and scholars in the
library and education communities.

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 2:00pm Eastern time
Presenter: MacKenzie Smith
Title: Bringing Research Data into the Library: Expanding the Horizons of
Institutional Repositories.

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.

Biographical Information

MacKenzie Smith (kenzie@mit.edu) 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.

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 2:00pm Eastern time
Presenter: Marilyn Billings
Title: The Potential of Partnerships: Dissolving Silos for a Successful IR
Implementation
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.
Biographical Information

Marilyn Billings (mbillings@library.umass.edu) 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.

For registration information see the ALCTS website:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/index.cfm

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Coming in Spring 2010:

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 Tijerino, and Catherine 	Mitchell on
Consortial Implementation

May 19, 2010 - Leah Vanderjagt 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@buffalo.edu