Monday, November 23, 2009

Conference - Engaging Communities for the Curation of Digital Products of Scholarly Endeavors

DigCCurr Public Symposium: Engaging Communities for the Curation of Digital Products of Scholarly Endeavors

January 8, 2010 (8:30 AM – 5:00 PM)

Explore strategies for engaging creators, curators, and users; meet other professionals working with digital collections; and participate in collaborative group discussions with attendees and panelists during this event at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Panelists will include:

* Jonathan Crabtree, Assistant Director for Archives and Information Technology at the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at UNC Chapel Hill

* Cal Lee, Richard Marciano, and Helen Tibbo, Professors at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC

* Nancy McGovern, Digital Preservation Officer at the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan

* Paul Marty, Professor at the School of Library and Information Studies at Florida State University

* Seamus Ross, Dean of the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto

* Kalpana Shankar, Professor at the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University

* Robert Allen, Professor, joint appointment with the Department of History and American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Registration is $60 and includes coffee in the morning and a boxed lunch. For more information and to register for this event, visit http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/symposium.html.