The Appraisal of Electronic Records & Personal Papers
Madison Wisconsin, October 22 – 24, 2009
Join us! The Fall 2009 MAC Symposium, The Appraisal of Electronic Records & Personal Papers, builds on the discussion of last year's successful symposium on digital preservation, to discuss approaches to the appraisal of electronic records and digital objects. Presenters Richard Pearce-Moses, Nan Kunde, and Joanne Kaczmarek will be guiding attendees through discussions of appraisal of electronic records, including records in highly structured large systems as well as records being created in commonly used formats.
The symposium will begin on the evening of Thursday, October 22, with a hospitality suite, to allow you to register early and mingle with colleagues. Friday's workshops will be fueled by refreshments and we'll provide a working lunch, to continue discussion. Optional restaurant tours will be organized for Friday evening. Saturday's half-day session will allow for a second workshop and a wrap up, and will include refreshments as well.
Come join us on the shore of beautiful Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin. Enjoy the fall colors. Meet colleagues who are struggling with the same challenges as you. Meet leaders who have found solutions.
Registration: Enrollment is limited to 75 attendees. Registrations will be accepted beginning September 15, 2009.
Accommodations are available at the University of Wisconsin Madison Lowell Center, or at the Campus Inn. Note that to insure conference rates, you must book your room at the Lowell Center by September 23, 2009!
Download the 2009 Symposium brochure (pdf) (http://www.midwestarchives.org/2009Fall/FallSymposium2009.pdf) or look for it in your mailbox.
For more information, please visit the symposium website: http://www.midwestarchives.org/2009Fall/index.asp, or if you have questions about the symposium, please contact Co-Chairs Amy Cooper Cary (amyccary@uwm.edu ) or Sally Jacobs (Sally.Jacobs@wisconsinhistory.org )
Friday, September 4, 2009
Online workshops - PHP and JavaScript
Amigos has scheduled the following PHP and Javascript courses in our live online
classroom: http://www.amigos.org/learning/calendar/index.php?format=2.
All times below are Central Time.
PHP Basics
10/13/2009 - 10/22/2009, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
PHP: Interacting with the World
11/2/2009 - 11/23/2009, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
JavaScript Basics
12/2/2009 - 12/11/2009, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
To view the details for these sessions, visit http://www.amigos.org/?q=node/472#liveonline.
classroom: http://www.amigos.org/learning/calendar/index.php?format=2.
All times below are Central Time.
PHP Basics
10/13/2009 - 10/22/2009, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
PHP: Interacting with the World
11/2/2009 - 11/23/2009, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
JavaScript Basics
12/2/2009 - 12/11/2009, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
To view the details for these sessions, visit http://www.amigos.org/?q=node/472#liveonline.
Webinars - ALTCS institutional repositories
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 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
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.
************
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 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.
*************
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.
*************
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
RFP - Library Website
The Oak Park Public Library has issued an Request for Proposal (RFP) for services for the design and build of the Oak Park Public Library's teen website in Drupal. Download the RFP at www.oppl.org/rfp/.
Proposals must be received by the Library by 10 a.m., October 5, 2009, in accordance with the specifications contained within the RFP.
All proposals will be reviewed objectively based upon the qualifications, experience, and suitability for this project. Any questions regarding this RFP should be sent by email to Sharon Grimm, Communications Coordinator, sgrimm@oppl.org by the deadline specified in the RFP Schedule of Events.
Thank you for your interest and consideration.
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Sharon Grimm
Communications Coordinator
Oak Park Public Library
http://www.oppl.org
708-697-6916
sgrimm@oppl.org
Proposals must be received by the Library by 10 a.m., October 5, 2009, in accordance with the specifications contained within the RFP.
All proposals will be reviewed objectively based upon the qualifications, experience, and suitability for this project. Any questions regarding this RFP should be sent by email to Sharon Grimm, Communications Coordinator, sgrimm@oppl.org by the deadline specified in the RFP Schedule of Events.
Thank you for your interest and consideration.
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Sharon Grimm
Communications Coordinator
Oak Park Public Library
http://www.oppl.org
708-697-6916
sgrimm@oppl.org
Conference - Museum Computer Network
Join the Museum Computer Network for the 37th annual conference in
Portland, Oregon, November 11th – 14th.
Museum Information, Museum Efficiency: Doing More with Less!
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM AVAILABLE ONLINE NOW
Join MCN for four days of programming with innovative sessions – panels,
papers, case studies, and workshops – that illustrate how institutions
are effectively functioning and planning to function during the tough
times ahead.
Visit www.mcn.edu/conferences to view the preliminary program and for
registration, hotel & travel information.
Portland, Oregon, November 11th – 14th.
Museum Information, Museum Efficiency: Doing More with Less!
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM AVAILABLE ONLINE NOW
Join MCN for four days of programming with innovative sessions – panels,
papers, case studies, and workshops – that illustrate how institutions
are effectively functioning and planning to function during the tough
times ahead.
Visit www.mcn.edu/conferences to view the preliminary program and for
registration, hotel & travel information.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Workshop - Omeka, NYC
Using Omeka to Build Digital Collections for Libraries and Archives
Date: Friday September 11, 2009
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Location: METRO, 57 E. 11 St, New York , NY 10003
Registration fees: $50 for METRO and NY-ART members. To receive your
discount, enter ART2009 and click "Apply Class Code."
Register online here: http://bit.ly/28Bzbh
Description:
The Archivists Roundtable of Metropolitan New York (ART) is
collaborating with METRO to host this full-day workshop on Omeka, a free
and open source collections based, web-based publishing platform for
scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, educators, and
cultural enthusiasts.
Its "five-minute setup" makes launching an online exhibition as easy as
launching a blog. Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind,
allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than
programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic
and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation.
This workshop will introduce Omeka, provide a brief background on
developing the software, show examples of different types of websites
created with Omeka and teach participants how to use Omeka to build a
website for your institution. Topics will include data entry, data
migration, using/developing Themes, and using/developing plugins.
By the end of the program, participants will:
* Understand how to install Omeka, and manage content and enter
Collections data in Omeka
* Install and modify public themes
* Install and manage plugins
Presenter:
Jeremy Boggs is the Creative Lead at CHNM and Omeka's Project Manager.
In addition to actually being a web designer, he is writing a
dissertation on the history of web design and plans to use Omeka to
collect and share stories and files from web designers past and present.
Date: Friday September 11, 2009
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Location: METRO, 57 E. 11 St, New York , NY 10003
Registration fees: $50 for METRO and NY-ART members. To receive your
discount, enter ART2009 and click "Apply Class Code."
Register online here: http://bit.ly/28Bzbh
Description:
The Archivists Roundtable of Metropolitan New York (ART) is
collaborating with METRO to host this full-day workshop on Omeka, a free
and open source collections based, web-based publishing platform for
scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, educators, and
cultural enthusiasts.
Its "five-minute setup" makes launching an online exhibition as easy as
launching a blog. Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind,
allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than
programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic
and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation.
This workshop will introduce Omeka, provide a brief background on
developing the software, show examples of different types of websites
created with Omeka and teach participants how to use Omeka to build a
website for your institution. Topics will include data entry, data
migration, using/developing Themes, and using/developing plugins.
By the end of the program, participants will:
* Understand how to install Omeka, and manage content and enter
Collections data in Omeka
* Install and modify public themes
* Install and manage plugins
Presenter:
Jeremy Boggs is the Creative Lead at CHNM and Omeka's Project Manager.
In addition to actually being a web designer, he is writing a
dissertation on the history of web design and plans to use Omeka to
collect and share stories and files from web designers past and present.
ACRL elearning scholarships
ACRL announces new e-Learning scholarships to help librarians, library staff and library school students stretch their professional development dollars. Twenty scholarships, each covering the registration cost of one ACRL e-Learning Webcast, will be awarded. Complete details are available online at http://www.acrl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/elearning/escholarships.cfm
To qualify for a scholarship, applicants must be ACRL members, complete the online scholarship application form and submit a 300 word written statement that describes how participation in an ACRL e-Learning Webcast meets your professional needs and goals. The application deadline is Oct. 16, 2009 with notifications issued by late November.
Applications must be submitted via the online submission form available at http://www.acrl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/elearning/escholarships.cfm. Scholarships can be redeemed for any ACRL e-Learning Webcast offered between Dec. 15, 2009, and Aug. 31, 2010.
Complete details are online at http://www.acrl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/elearning/escholarships.cfm. Send questions on scholarships and the application process to Margot Conahan at mconahan@ala.org or (312) 280-2522.
To qualify for a scholarship, applicants must be ACRL members, complete the online scholarship application form and submit a 300 word written statement that describes how participation in an ACRL e-Learning Webcast meets your professional needs and goals. The application deadline is Oct. 16, 2009 with notifications issued by late November.
Applications must be submitted via the online submission form available at http://www.acrl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/elearning/escholarships.cfm. Scholarships can be redeemed for any ACRL e-Learning Webcast offered between Dec. 15, 2009, and Aug. 31, 2010.
Complete details are online at http://www.acrl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/elearning/escholarships.cfm. Send questions on scholarships and the application process to Margot Conahan at mconahan@ala.org or (312) 280-2522.
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