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[Jennifer McLennan <jennifer@arl.org>]

For immediate release
September 11, 2008

For more information, contact:
Jennifer McLennan
(202) 296-2296 ext 121
jennifer@arl.org

SPARC ANNOUNCES INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER ROSTER
FOR NOVEMBER REPOSITORIES MEETING

Early bird registration deadline is September 15, 2008

Washington, DC -- September 11, 2008 -- SPARC (the Scholarly
Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has announced a
prominent slate of speakers for the SPARC Digital Repositories
Meeting 2008 in Baltimore on November 17 and 18. The gathering,
organized by SPARC in cooperation with SPARC Europe and SPARC
Japan (a Japan National Informatics Institute initiative), will
examine how open online archives may be enhanced to further serve
scholars, institutions, and the public.

Leaders, innovators, and practitioners from North America,
Europe, and Asia will explore new frontiers in building and
supporting online open archives. Four timely discussion tracks
bring together speakers with far-reaching experience:

New Horizons (Monday, November 17, morning)

Speakers: Norbert Lossau (Director, Goettingen State and
University Library and a leader of Europe's DRIVER Project,
Germany), Jennifer Campbell-Meier (Doctoral Student,
Communication and Information Sciences, University of Hawaii,
USA), Shawn Martin (Scholarly Communication Librarian, University
of Pennsylvania, USA).

Developing Value-Added Services (Monday, November 17, afternoon)

Speakers: Sayeed Chodhury (Associate Dean for Library Digital
Programs, Johns Hopkins University, USA), Joan Giesecke (Dean of
Libraries) and Paul Royster (Coordinator of Scholarly
Communications, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA), Hideki
UCHIJIMA (Librarian, Kanazawa University Library, Japan).

The Policy Environment (Tuesday, November 18, morning)

Speakers: Bernard Rentier (Rector, University of Li=E8ge, Belgium),
Syun Tutiya (Professor of Cognitive and Information Sciences,
Chiba University, Japan), Bonnie Klein (Information Collection
and Copyright Specialist, Defense Technical Information Center,
USA).

Campus Publishing Strategies (Tuesday, November 18, morning)

Speakers: Rea Devakos (T-Space Service Coordinator, University of
Toronto, Canada), Catherine Mitchell (Director, eScholarship
Publishing Group, California Digital Library, USA), Teresa Fishel
(Library Director) and Janet Sietmann (DigitalCommons Project
Manager, Macalester College, USA).

Filling out the extensive program will be a marketing practicum
for repository advocates, an innovation fair, and keynote talks
by John Wilbanks, Vice President for Science at Creative Commons
and director of the Science Commons program; Bob Witeck, CEO and
co-founder of Witeck-Combs Communications, a renowned marketing
communications and public relations agency in Washington, DC; and
David Shulenburger, Vice President for Academic Affairs at the
National Association of State University and Land-Grant Colleges
(NASULGC).

For program detail, see the conference Web site at
http://www.arl.org/sparc/ir08.

The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 is supported by major
contributions from Microsoft (Conference Sponsor); Berkeley
Electronic Press, BioMed Central, and EPrints, (Coffee Break
Sponsors); and by additional contributions from: Association of
College and Research Libraries (ACRL), Association of Research
Libraries (ARL), CRKN (Canadian Research Knowledge Network),
DSpace Foundation, Fedora Commons, Greater Western Library
Alliance, HP, the Japanese Coordinating Committee for University
Libraries, JISC, and NISO.

This meeting is a follow up to SPARC's popular 2004 institutional
repositories conference, which drew hundreds of participants from
around the globe and set the stage for some of the key
developments in open access of the past four years.

To register for the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008,
visit the conference Web site at http://www.arl.org/sparc/ir08.
Early Bird Registration is available only until midnight on
Monday, September 15.

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SPARC

SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition),
with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan, is an international alliance
of more than 800 academic and research libraries working to
create a more open system of scholarly communication. SPARC's
advocacy, educational and publisher partnership programs
encourage expanded dissemination of research. SPARC is on the Web
at http://www.arl.org/sparc.

The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting program has been developed
by the members of the 2008 Program Committee: Jun Adachi (SPARC
Japan), Raym Crow (SPARC), Richard Fyffe (Grinnell College),
Susan Gibbons (University of Rochester), Melissa Hagemann (Open
Society Institute), Karla Hahn (Association of Research
Libraries), Bill Hubbard (SHERPA), Rick Johnson (SPARC), Michelle
Kimpton (DSpace Foundation), Norbert Lossau (Goettingen State and
University Library and DRIVER), Joyce Ogburn (University of
Utah), Terry Owen (University of Maryland, College Park),
Kathleen Shearer (Canadian Association of Research Libraries),
Alma Swan (Key Perspectives Ltd.), Sean Thomas (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology), Susan Veldsman (eIFL), and Charles
Watkinson (The American School of Classical Studies at Athens).

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Jennifer McLennan
Director of Communications
SPARC
(The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition)
http://www.arl.org/sparc
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