ALCTS Institutional Repository Series continues

[Cindy Hepfer <hslcindy@buffalo.edu>]

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)