[Web4lib] ALCTS Scholarly Communication DG at ALA Annual

[brad.eden at unlv.edu]

Please excuse duplicate postings.  Please forward to interested colleagues
and related listservs.

The ALCTS Scholarly Communication discussion group will meet on Monday,
June 26, from 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn in New Orleans, the
Clementine Hunter Room.  We will have 5 speakers informally presenting on
the role of technical services in institutional repositories.  They are:

Anastasia Guimaraes, University of Notre Dame
      "If you build it, they won't come:  Institutional Repository pilot
project at the University of Notre Dame"
John W. Chapman, University of Minnesota
      "Defining a technical services role in Minnesota's Digital
Conservancy"
Carol Hixson, University of Oregon
      "Beyond metadata:  an expanded role for technical services in
institutional repositories"
Rhonda Marker, Rutgers University
      "The Rutgers Community Repository (RUCore) and technical services"
Amada J. Wilson and Magda El-Sherbini, The Ohio State University
      "Metadata from the campus and from the library:  the role of
technical services in the OSU Knowledge Bank"

Please attend if you can, and learn more about how technical services can
participate in institutional repository initiatives.

We will also be electing a new Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect.  If you are
interested, please contact Andrea Imre at the email below.


Brad Eden, Ph.D.
Chair, ALCTS Scholarly Communication DG
Associate University Librarian for Technical Services and Scholarly
Communication
University of California, Santa Barbara
eden at library.ucsb.edu

Andrea Imre
Vice-Chair
Electronic Resources Librarian
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
aimre at lib.siu.edu