Conference - Electronic Thesis and Dissertation

The United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (USETDA) planning committee is pleased to invite you to our 2nd annual conference “USETDA 2012: A revolution in scholarship – A commonwealth of knowledge”, to be held June 13-15 in Quincy, Massachusetts, near downtown Boston, at the fabulous Boston Marriott Quincy Hotel. Discount lodging is available for only $149 per night. Don’t miss out on North America’s premier event on electronic theses and dissertations, institutional repositories and open access! The early bird discount registration rate of $129 has been extended through May 21, 2012. To register go to: http://www.usetda.org/?page_id=811 To view the conference website go to: http://www.usetda.org/?page_id=722 About the Conference: USETDA 2012 is designed for ETD professionals from graduate schools, libraries and information technology sectors who work with ETDs or ETD programs. Our focus will be on relevant and current ETD issues with an emphasis on sharing best-practices and resources within the U.S. The mission of USETDA is to provide information on best practices, develop and disseminate important information on ETD initiatives, support the development of state-wide ETD associations, bring ETD professionals together at the local level to network and improve ETD operations, educate and make others aware of ETD issues, and support the expansion of the NDLTD and other international ETD initiatives. Searching for innovative new ways to engage your students? Looking to increase efficiency by making technology work for you? Take your ETD program to the next level. This year’s program includes an outstanding lineup of speakers and presentations! Keynote presentations: Michele Kimpton – “DuraSpace – the future of repositories and the impact of the cloud” Michele Kimpton is Chief Executive Officer of DuraSpace and one of the founders of the organization. DuraSpace was formed in July 2009, and was the coming together of both the DSpace Foundation and Fedora-Commons organizations. DuraSpace is a not for profit organization that provides guidance and support for open source software projects DSpace, Fedora and more recently DuraCloud. Michele sets the strategic direction for DuraSpace with the executive team and members of the Board. Mrs. Kimpton was recently awarded Digital Preservation Pioneer by the NDIPP program at Library of Congress, you can find more detail at http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/pioneers/detail_kimpton.html. Prior to joining DuraSpace, Michele Kimpton was the Founder of the DSpace Foundation, a not for profit organization set up to provide leadership and support to the community of users of the DSpace open source software platform. The mission of the Foundation was to promote open access and preservation of the world’s scholarly works. The DSpace open source software platform is freely available to anyone or any institution, wishing to preserve, manage and provide internet access to their digital collections. Currently there are over one thousand installations world wide using DSpace software.Prior to joining DSpace, Michele Kimpton was the Director at Internet Archive for five years. In her role she works closely with National Libraries, Archives and Universities to provide technical expertise and services in web archiving. She has developed partnerships with several of these institutions to collaborate on web archiving activities, including being one of the founding members of the International Internet Preservation Consortium. Ed Fox – “NDLTD Innovations - ETD-db, Union Catalog and Future Developments” Ed Fox serves as Executive Director for NDLTD. He began work on ETDs in 1987 when some involved in SGML (a precursor to HTML and XML) were considering its application to dissertations. He received a B.S. from MIT in 1972 and then completed his M.S. and Ph.D. (1983) at Cornell University, working with Gerard Salton (‘the father of information retrieval’). At Virginia Tech since Aug. 1983, he is a Professor of Computer Science and is Director of the Digital Library Research Laboratory. He serves as a Board member of the Computer Research Association (CRA) and as chair of the steering committee of JCDL (ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries). He also serves on the steering committee of the International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries. Dr. Fox has been (co)principal investigator on over 105 grants/contracts. He has taught 75 tutorials in more than 25 countries. He has given 63 keynote/banquet/international invited/distinguished speaker presentations, about 150 refereed conference/workshop papers, and over 250 additional presentations. He has co-authored/edited 13 books, 96 journal/magazine articles, 46 book chapters, and many reports. Formerly he served as Chairman of the IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL), and earlier as vice chairman and then chairman of the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR). He has served on hundreds of conference/workshop committees, and now serves on 10 editorial boards. Notable special interest sessions:books, computer and coffee Pre-conference workshops: Copyright – Host Gail Clement, Texas A&M University ($50 fee – includes primer) ETDs for Beginners – Host John Hagen, Renaissance Scholarly Communications (free) Plagiarism – Host Dawn Bilkowski, Ohio University (free) Special events: Wednesday evening opening reception on the Boston Marriott Quincy Hotel terrace overlooking Boston – includes appetizers and hosted bar. Thursday evening exclusive Conference Dinner BanAdams Banquet Hallquet, hosted bar and music at the Boston Marriott Quincy. Tours of downtown Boston and the region are available. Local Attraction Highlights: Adams National Historical Park, Quincy John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Boston New England Aquarium Children’s Museum and Museum Wharf, Boston USS Constitution, Navy Yard, Boston Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth Harvard University Bunker Hill Monument, Charlestown Boston Common and Public Gardens Complete information about local attractions in the Boston area is available online at http://www.usetda.org/?page_id=1364 We hope to see you in sunny Boston this June! Make plans now to experience the revolution of ETDs in 2012 in the Commonwealth of the Boston area.

FREE webinar - Heritage Preservation

WebWise Reprise: A C2C Online Community Special Event Heritage Preservation, in cooperation with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), is presenting WebWise Reprise, two online events based on the IMLS WebWise 2012 conference. The first event, on June 14 at 2:00 pm EDT, will be “Sharing Public History Work: Crowdsourcing Data.” The second event, on June 28 at 2:00 pm EDT, will be “Oral History in the Digital Age.” Since 2000, the WebWise conference has brought together representatives of museums, libraries, archives, systems science, education, and other fields interested in the future of high-quality online content for inquiry and learning. This annual conference highlights recent research and innovations in digital technology, explores their potential impacts on library and museum services, and promotes effective museum and library practices in the digital environment. It also provides recipients of technology-based grants from the Institute with an opportunity to showcase their exemplary projects. This year’s conference, WebWise 2012: Tradition and Innovation, was held in Baltimore, Maryland from February 29-March 2. Moderated by Heritage Preservation Vice President Kristen Laise, these 90 minute webinars will each begin with a 20 minute video presentation from WebWise 2012. Participants will watch the video live together along with some of the presenters from each panel. (It is recommended that you have broadband access in order to watch the video live. If you are concerned about your system’s capabilities, you may want to watch the videos before the webinars. The videos are available here.) After the video, presenters will provide additional insights and participants will have the opportunity to ask questions live. WebWise Reprise is being offered free of charge and no pre-registration is required. The events will be hosted in the Community's virtual meeting room. If you haven't joined one of the Community's Live Chat webinars yet and would like to run a technical check of your system before the webinar, please click here. Sharing Public History Work: Crowdsourcing Data Thursday, June 14, 2012, 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EDT Public historians and librarians have long relied on their local communities for volunteers to assist paid staff as docents and interpreters, and as collections and reference assistants. More recently, a variety of collaborative online tools have it made possible for volunteers from a larger pool to assist museums and libraries to share in content work through crowdsourcing. We will watch the WebWise presentation of Ben Brumfield, Software Engineer at FromThePage Open-Source Transcription Software. In it, Ben discusses valuable lessons learned from crowdsourcing indexing of small collections. He will be joined by Sharon Leon, Director of Public Projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University to answer your questions. Oral History in the Digital Age Thursday, June 28, 2012, 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EDT The sound of voices from the past can bring history to life in a powerful way for the 21st-century learner. In this Webinar, we will watch the WebWise presentation of Dean Rehberger, Director of MATRIX: the Center for Humane Art, Letters, and Social Science Online at Michigan State University and learn about MATRIX's newest Web site Oral History in the Digital Age (http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/ project). Dean will provide a tour of the site which includes best practices on issues about collecting, curating, and disseminating oral histories and narratives using current technology. He will be joined by Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries to answer your questions about oral histories and how their projects might assist you in your work.

CFP - Time Organization for Librarians

Time Organization for Librarians: Beating Budget and Staff Cuts Book Publisher: Scarecrow Press Co-editor: Carol Smallwood, Tips for Librarians Running Libraries Alone and Preserving Local Writers, Genealogy, Photographs, Newspapers and Related Materials (Scarecrow Press, 2012) Co-editor: Jason Kuhl, Library Operations Director, Arlington Heights Memorial Library, Arlington Heights, Illinois; contributor, The Frugal Librarian: Thriving in Tough Economic Times (ALA Editions, 2011) Co-editor: Lisa Fraser, Public Services Librarian, Bellevue Library, King County Library System, Bellevue, Washington; Guest Lecturer, Information School, University of Washington Chapters sought for an anthology by practicing academic, public, school, special librarians, LIS faculty in the United States and Canada sharing practical how-to chapters on ways to organize time the most effectively especially with budget and staff cuts: Administration, Daily Operations, Maximizing Technology, Personal Life, Goal Setting. Creative methods are sought that work in various types of libraries and job titles. Concise, how-to chapters words based on experience to help colleagues. Your article should total 3000-3500 words; or two articles each 1500-1750 words to equal 3000-3500. No previously published or simultaneously submitted material. One or two authors per chapter; complimentary copy as compensation, discount on more. Please e-mail titles of 2-3 topics by May 30, 2012 with brief biography sketch(s). Please place TIME/Last Name on the subject line to: jkuhl@ahml.info

FREE workshop - Cooperative Curation Symposium and Workshop

August 8, 2012 and August 9, 2012 – All day Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia Cooperative Curation Symposium and Workshop This two-day symposium and workshop hosted by the GALILEO Knowledge Repository project at the Georgia Institute of Technology will be held Wednesday, August 8-Thursday, August 9 at the Clough Commons, Georgia Tech Library in Atlanta, Georgia. · Find out how institutions use collaborative efforts to promote scholarly communication. · Learn what you should consider when embarking on a project to host an Institutional Repository. · Interact with your peers, share lessons learned, share your stories. · Learn about future trends from experts in the field. The conference includes a one-day symposium featuring case studies from four institutions relating their approaches to cooperative scholarly communication initiatives and a one-day workshop featuring concurrent technology and program management sessions on topics including governance, metasearching, repository hosting, digitization, outreach, among others. Keynote Speakers Dr. P. Toby Graham, Deputy University Librarian & Director, Digital Library of Georgia, University of Georgia Catherine Murray-Rust, Vice Provost for Learning Excellence and Dean of Libraries, Georgia Institute of Technology Tyler Walters, Dean of Libraries, Virginia Tech August 8, 2012 Symposium: Inter-institutional Approaches to Supporting Scholarly Communication Program Overview Case studies from four institutions relating their experiences in cooperative scholarly communication efforts and a moderated panel discussion on future trends, including opportunities, technologies, organizational/social, linked data and digital preservation. Speakers - Case Studies John Davison, Assistant Director, Digital Resource Commons Development, OhioLINK Marlee Givens, GKR Manager, Georgia Institute of Technology Justin Gonder, Account Manager, California eScholarship Mark McFarland, Director of TDL, Associate Director for Digital Initiatives, University of Texas Libraries Speakers – Future and Trends Moderator: Julie Speer, Associate Dean of Research and Informatics, Virginia Tech Robert McDonald, Associate Dean for Library Technologies and Digital Libraries, Indiana University Tyler Walters, Dean of University Libraries, Virginia Tech Katherine Skinner, Executive Director, Educopia Institute Other Speakers - TBD August 9, 2012 Workshop: Georgia's Approach to Statewide Repository Services Program Overview A one day workshop featuring concurrent Technology and Program Management sessions as well as sessions on Assessment and Lessons Learned. Management Track Topics Technology Track Topics • Governance/sustainability • Outreach • Copyright • Content Submission • Digitization • Preservation/ Server infrastructure • Harvesting/Mapping Tool • Metadata • Metasearching Registration Free registration is now open. Access the registration form here. Note: Workshop space (Day 2) is limited to 70. Travel Scholarships A limited number of travel scholarships are available. Interested applicants can apply here. Conference Hotel To register rooms with the special conference rate go to the Hampton Inn Cooperative Curation page. Contact the conference organizers at gkr@library.gatech with questions about the event. Check the conference website often for more information and for updates. Larry Hansard Technology & Systems Librarian Library and Information Center Georgia Institute of Technology 704 Cherry St Atlanta, Ga 30332 404-894-4585

3rd Annual Symposium on Open Access

I am writing to announce an upcoming symposium on May 21st, 2012 concerning the emerging landscape of research data management and strategies for ensuring that publicly funded research remain openly accessible to the public. The 3rd Annual Symposium on Open Access will be held at the University of North Texas in the Dallas area; early registration rates are available until the end of April. The keynote for this symposium will be Dr. Myron Gutmann, head of the NSF directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences. Additional presenters will include: • Dr. José-Marie Griffiths (Provost of Bryant University and chair of the National Science Board Committee on Strategy and Budget Task Force on Data Policies, http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/publications/2011/nsb1124.pdf) • Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier (Vice President of Research at the University of Oklahoma and co-founder of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms) • Dr. Robert Hanisch (Director of the International Virtual Astronomy Observatory) • Brian E. C. Schottlaender (University Librarian at University of California, San Diego) • Sayeed Choudhury (Associate Dean for Research Data Management and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University) • Allen Renear (Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign GSLIS) • Michael Hulsey (Immunocytometry Systems Group of Becton Dickinson Biosciences, the largest vendor of cytometry equipment in the world) For more information and to register, see website at http://openaccess.unt.edu/symposium/2012 or email shannon.stark@unt.edu Best regards, Martin Halbert, PhD, MLIS Dean of Libraries University of North Texas

CFP - Archiving the Arts symposium

Archiving the Arts symposium - Call for Submissions For a downloadable version of this announcement, please visit http://amiastudentsnyc.com/committees-2/on-going-projects/archiving-the-arts/ The Association of Moving Image Archivists Student Chapter at New York University and Independent Media Arts Preservation invite submissions for… Archiving the Arts: addressing preservation in the creative process. This symposium will explore the relationship between media artists and audiovisual archivists. Archiving the Arts allows for a dialogue that can enhance mutual understanding between both constituencies. By exposing these communities to best practices, working methods, and the technological and industrial realities faced by members of each group, we hope to foster a discussion, improve the current conditions, and widen awareness of preventative preservation for the long term. The combined problems of born-digital works and media obsolescence intensify the urgency of preemptive preservation practices. Film and video archivists know all too well the risks media artworks face. At the same time, artists face the same concerns—not just with completed works, with the raw materials of film, video, audio, digital objects—that are essential to their ongoing creative process. But often these two groups lack a common language and a way for their communities to interact and develop tools that serve all parties. Archivists don’t necessarily understand the creative process. Artists don’t always think about their work in terms of its preservation. Archiving the Arts promotes dialogue between working professionals, artists, students, and other interested parties whose goal is to prevent avoidable loss of creative works by integrating preservation strategies into moving image creation and production. The day-long symposium of panels, screenings, and workshops will tackle the practical, theoretical, and technical issues that affect the artist and the archivist. Working across disciplines will result in a dynamic conversation and create a deeper understanding of the importance of preventative preservation. Please see the Call for Papers below and join us on October 13th, 2012 during Archives Week in New York City. www.imappreserve.org www.AMIAstudentsNYC.com CALL FOR PAPERS -- ARCHIVING THE ARTS The AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists) Student Chapter at New York University invites presentation proposals for Archiving the Arts, to be held jointly with IMAP (Independent Media Arts Preservation) in New York City on Saturday, October 13th, 2012 as part of Archives Week organized by Archivists Roundtable of New York - www.nycarchivists.org. Please submit a 250-word proposal to Kathryn Gronsbell at NYU.AMIA@gmail.com Priority will be given to submissions received by Friday, May 4, 2012. Papers, presentations, workshops, and posters are welcome on all issues concerning artists and audiovisual archivist. Possible topics include: Preventative Preservation How do we integrate preservation strategies into creation? What are the benefits? What are the disadvantages? Technically Speaking – creating & ingesting born-digital objects What are the technical issues/specs regarding metadata crawling, signal problems, and the application of preventative preservation in production? Temporal Art How does ephemeral art act as a counterargument to preservation? How do conservators work with artists who wish to intentionally destroy or abandon their own work? How do artists who restrict their work to a single format exist for posterity? From the Studio to the Archive How do artists' intentions affect collection development? Archive policies and practices? Growing an “Organic” Archive “Organic” archives are repositories that develop from the intentions and desires of the contributing artist(s). How are artists and archivists working (or not working) together to create this type of archival system? What is known about existing “Organic” archives and what methods can be used to expand their potential? Put Your Best Fail Forward Share your unique collection/archival challenges that were not resolved, and why. Artists – what attempts have you made to ensure the welfare of your work? What is the disconnect between theory and practice? Please forward this announcement to any interested parties concerned with creating or preserving media. -- Kathryn Gronsbell Moving Image Archiving & Preservation New York University President, AMIA Student Chapter at NYU

MLA Call for proposals

The Music Library Association’s Program Committee is pleased to announce its call for proposals for the 2013 MLA Annual Meeting in San Jose, California, February 27 – March 3, 2013! Proposals should be submitted through the online form: http://program.musiclibraryassoc.org/ProposalForm A separate call will go out for business meetings in May. Please use the program form for programmatic and poster sessions only. The deadline for submission is May 11, 2012.