Past Events
Data, Media, and Society |
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Date: October 8, 2019 |
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Speaker: R. David Lankes, Director of the School of Library & Information Science, University of South Carolina |
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It would be easy to see the advent of open educational resources, open access publication, and repositories of data sets as a continuation of the traditional mission of a research library. Namely, providing access to the scholarly record including items studied as well as the results of study. It would also be easy to see this as happening in parallel to a pivot of libraries to more community centered models. In this presentation Lankes will show how these developments are deeply intertwined in how we conceptualize scholarly communication and the need for advocacy around data in all aspects of higher education. |
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Improving Access, Affordability, and Achievement with OER |
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Date: April 17, 2019 |
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Speaker: Dr. MJ Bishop, Associate Vice Chancellor and Director, William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation, University System of Maryland |
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Despite the transformative power that technology has had in a whole range of businesses, the history of technology use in education over the last 100 years paints a rather bleak picture of the extent to which digital tools, in and of themselves, can lead to sustainable academic change. The issue is that we often miss the key affordances of the tools that can be employed to help solve learning problems. This presentation traces the lessons we can learn from the history of educational technology in order to explore the true promise of openly licensed educational resources and the future they may hold for teaching, learning, and student success. |
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Spanning the Globe to Bring You the Collective Collection |
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Date: October 24, 2018 |
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Speaker: Kimberly Armstrong, Director of Library Initiatives, Big Ten Academic Alliance |
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Kim Armstrong provided an overview of the Big Ten Academic Alliance as a Collective Collection. |
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"Data, data, everywhere..." |
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Date: April 5, 2018 |
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Presenter: G. Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean for Research Data Management and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center, Johns Hopkins University |
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In reference to the famous quote of “Water, water, everywhere…” from Samuel Taylor’s Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” this talk explored the reality that we are awash in data and yet there are relatively few compelling success stories of libraries directly supporting data intensive research or learning. The talk described success stories from both the public and private sector, particularly in relation to the growing use of big data and new forms of machine learning. The talk then asked what research libraries may need to do in order to be more successful at supporting, even empowering, data intensive research or learning. |
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Diversity and the Library: Ensuring the Success of Our Community |
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Date: November 30, 2017 |
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Presenter: Trevor A. Dawes, Vice Provost for Libraries and Museums and May Morris University Librarian at the University of Delaware |
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Trevor Dawes discussed ways in which libraries contribute to overall diversity and inclusion initiatives, and also examined some issues that have led to heightened sensitivities, requiring a different level of discourse. |
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Sustainable Collection Management: Enabling the Transformation of Libraries |
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Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 |
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Presenter: Matt Barnes, Director of Sustainable Collection Services, OCLC |
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Matt Barnes reviewed how libraries are expanding the scope and nature of their collections; integrating information resources with applied learning experiences; facilitating researcher collaboration; and completely rethinking collections and access. |
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Solving the Textbook Cost Crisis |
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| Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 |  |
| Presenter: Nicole Allen, Director of Open Education, SPARC | |
| Nicole Allen leads SPARC's work on the issue area of Open Education, with a dual focus on public policy and engaging the library community to advance this issue on campus | |
HathiTrust and Your Library: An Update for 2016 |
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| Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 |  |
| Presenter: Mike Furlough, Executive Director, HathiTrust | |
| In this talk, Mike highlights HathiTrust’s services and its major programs focused on shared print, computational research, and federal documents. Discussion focused on how the University of Maryland can build on HathiTrust for their own needs. | |
The Evolving Scholarly Record: Scope, Stakeholders, and Stewardship |
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| Date: Monday, November 16, 2015 |  |
| Presenter: Brian Lavoie, Research Scientist at OCLC Research | |
| In this talk, Brian discussed highlights from the OCLC Research reports The Evolving Scholarly Record and Stewardship of the Evolving Scholarly Record: From the Invisible Hand to Conscious Coordination, with special emphasis on the ways the scholarly record is changing in a digital, networked environment. | |
Diversity in the Future of the Research Library |
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| Date: Monday, May 11, 2015 |  |
| Presenter: Courtney L. Young, 2014-2015 American Library Association President | |
| Courtney L. Young is currently Head Librarian and Professor of Women’s Studies at Penn State Greater Allegheny and the 2014-2015 American Library Association (ALA) President. In 2011, Courtney was named a Library Journal "Mover & Shaker", recognized as a Change Agent for her ability to successfully make connections among a diversity of duties in her library, on campus, and in the profession. | |
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Kentucky Fried Libraries: battered and chewed up in the digital marketplace |
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| Date: Thursday, December 4, 2014 |  |
| Presenter: Mark Sandler, Director of the Center for Library Initiatives at the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) | |
| Mark Sandler discusses the prospects for research libraries when proximity has diminished value, and scale, efficiency, and customer acquisition become the keys to success. | |
The Evolution of Open Access: What Might Happen Next |
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| Date: Thursday, April 10, 2014 |  |
| Presenter: Heather Joseph, SPARC Executive Director | |
| Heather Joseph reviews some of the trends that have emerged in open access: not only how we access and use scholarly research, but how it is disseminated, curated and evaluated. | |
Library Objectives: Collections – Discovery – Preservation |
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| Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2013 |  |
| Presenter: Roger Schonfeld, Program Director for Libraries, Users, and Scholarly Practices at Ithaka S+R | |
| Roger Schonfeld reviews some of the trends that have emerged in the areas of collections, discovery and preservation to help libraries consider wise objectives for each. | |
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Terps in Our Beds: Building Meaningful (Library) Relationships in a Multi-Partnered World |
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| Date: Monday, March 25, 2013 |
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| Presenter: Dan Hazen, Associate Librarian for Collection Development, Harvard College | |
| Dan Hazen's presentation centers on how partnerships are essential for research libraries but should include discussion on scope, adaptability, assessment plans, and business models. | |
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Altmetrics: Beyond the article and beyond the impact factor |
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| Date: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 |  |
| Presenter: Jason Priem, PhD student and Royster Fellow, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; co-founder of ImpactStory | |
| Jason Priem upends traditional measures of scholarly impact by looking in new places such as Wikipedia and Twitter. Doing so promotes and rewards new forms of Web-native scholarship. Priem demonstrates that “altmetrics”—a term he coined—can inform conversations about what it means to impact scholarship today. | |
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The River, the Pond, and the Future of the Research Collection |
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| Date: Monday, April 30, 2012 |  |
| Presenter: Rick Anderson, Associate Dean for Scholarly Resources and Collections, University of Utah | |
| Rick Anderson is a popular speaker on subjects related to the future of scholarly communication and information services in higher education. He discusses the future of library access to research collections. | |
The Future Library Print Collections: To Share is to Preserve |
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| Date: Monday, October 10, 2011 |  |
| Presenter: Lizanne Payne, Consultant | |
| Lizanne Payne discusses how research libraries are reducing the number of books on their shelves by developing strategies to share their print collections. | |
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Reshaping the research library: Observations on the future of academic collections |
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| Date: Thursday, April 28, 2011 |  |
| Presenter: Constance Malpas, Program Officer, OCLC Research | |
| Constance Malpas examines the transition of scholarly work from print-based media to networked resources and explores the impact of this transition on the organization of academic libraries. | |
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Academic Authors and Copyright: Recent Developments in Scholarly Communication |
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| Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010 |  |
| Presenter: Michael W. Carroll, Professor of Law, American University, Washington College of Law | |
| Michael W. Carroll's presentation on copyright, scholarly communication, author rights, and Open Access. | |
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