[Publib] ALCTS Webinars on Institutional Repositories - November and December 2009

[Keri Cascio]

ALCTS (Association of Library Collections and Technical Services) announces
two upcoming webinars on institutional repositories. To register see:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/index.cfm
.

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*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.

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*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.

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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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Keri Cascio
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St. Charles City-County Library District
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St. Charles, MO 63304
(636) 447-7323
kcascio at stchlibrary.org
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