Fall 2008 / Spring 2009 Semester Programs
Note: Programs displayed in teal and with an * are not sponsored by the Scholarly Communication Working Group, but may be of interest to UNC-Chapel Hill faculty and staff.
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September 24 | Making Digitization Count: Assessment & Evaluation Practices Evaluation is an important, but often overlooked, under-appreciated, or even avoided function that relates to organizational accountability, program assessment, and service improvement. While evaluation can proceed from many perspectives, none are more important than knowing how our clients view our services, collections, and performance. Nowhere is this truer than in the digital arena where costs are often unknown, standards are still in development, and we are just learning how individuals use digital materials. Presenter: Helen Tibbo, School of Information and Library Science, UNC Chapel Hill |
Wednesday 12:00 noon- 1:00 p.m. |
Room 214 Davis Library |
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October 23 | "Library-Based Publishing in the Scholarly Communications Universe: The View from the Scholarly Publishing Office at the University of Michigan Library" The Scholarly Communication Working Group is co-sponsoring a public talk on the state of scholarly communications at the University of Michigan. Presenter: Maria Bonn, Director of the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library |
Thursday 10:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m. |
Pleasants Family Assembly Room Wilson Library |
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November 12 | North Carolina Maps Project North Carolina Maps, a collaborative map digitization project of the UNC University Library, North Carolina State Archives, and the Outer Banks History Center, presents over 700 historic maps of North Carolina, including many of the earliest maps of North Carolina and the southeastern United States, a large selection of soil survey and coast survey maps, and detailed maps from each of North Carolina's 100 counties. Presenter: Nicholas Graham, NC Maps Project Librarian, Carolina Digital Library and Archives, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Wednesday 12:00 noon- 1:00 p.m. |
Room 219 Davis Library (Please note: this not our usual meeting room.) |
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December 10 | Scholars' Misuse of Intellectual Property While there is regularly much in the academic press on student plagiarism, lately we are also seeing more reports of misuse of intellectual property by scholars. Representatives from University Counsel will speak on how faculty misconduct and copyright violations are addressed on our campus. Presenters: Fletcher Fairey, Associate University Counsel, and David Parker, Associate Vice Chancellor and Deputy General Counsel, University Counsel, UNC-Chapel Hill Background readings: |
Wednesday 12:00 noon- 1:00 p.m. |
Room 205 Undergraduate Library (Please note: this not our usual meeting room/building.) |
| 2009 | Date | Topic | Time | Location |
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January 14 | Scholarly Science Journal Costs and Pricing:
Implications on Reading Patterns, Libraries, Publishing and Open Access Scholarly science journal price increases have exceeded inflation each year since at least 1960 due to many factors including costs. The accelerated price increases in the 1980s and early 90s, coupled with relative decreases in library budgets, led to a "revolt" by librarians particularly against the high prices of commercial journals. The introduction and rapid growth of electronic journals in the 1990s dramatically changed pricing or charging strategies, readership patterns, and the cost and use of library collections. Many felt that perhaps traditional journal publishing would no longer be necessary. This led to a series of alternative approaches (models) of publishing including versions of Open Access. This talk deals with this progression of the journal system and community, some realities, and implications for the future. Presenter: Donald W. King, Distinguished Research Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science King's Recent Publications |
Wednesday 12:00 noon- 1:00 p.m. |
Room 219 Davis Library Please note: this is not our usual meeting room in Davis. |
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February 11 | Metrics of E-Research Tools: Measuring and Understanding the Uses of Academic Databases Who uses what and how? What do we know about the use of the databases? How do we know it? Panelists: Tim Shearer, Systems, Davis Library; Robert Dalton, Reference, Davis Library; and Pam Sessoms, Reference, Davis Library. |
Wednesday 12:00 noon- 1:00 p.m. |
Room 214 Davis Library |
| March 11 | Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement:
A Publisher-Library Collaboration in Process The "Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement" project, funded by UNC-Chapel Hill and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is a collaboration of UNC Press, the University Library, the Southern Oral History Program, and the Center for Civil Rights at the UNC Law School. Sylvia Miller, the Project Director, will discuss the reasons that these four entities decided to collaborate and how the general and specific goals of the project have developed. She will review the mechanics of collaboration and lessons learned at this point, one-third of the way into a three-year project. Finally, she will describe the project team's latest ideas about online scholarly publishing, in particular the prototype that they are currently developing for a new interactive publishing platform. |
Wednesday 12:00 noon- 1:00 p.m. |
Room 214 Davis Library |
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March 21 | "Conference to Honor the Publication of No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment" What part of "No Law" don't you understand? That is the question that David Lange and H. Jefferson Powell pose in their provocative new book No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment (Stanford University Press 2008). In honor of the book's publication, CSPD presents a conference that will explore the intriguing intersection of intellectual property and freedom of expression. What would it mean for intellectual property if we took the First Amendment seriously? This event will bring together some of the leading scholars in the country to address this question, and debate the role of copyright and free speech in the marketplace of ideas and the construction of a collective culture. Panelists will include Professor Neil Netanel from the UCLA School of Law, Professor Garrett Epps from the University of Baltimore School of Law, Professor Keith Aoki from the UC Davis School of Law, Duke Law Professors James Boyle, David Lange, H. Jefferson Powell, Jerome Reichman, and Neil Siegel, and CSPD Director Jennifer Jenkins. The event is free and open to all, but it is suggested that you register to guarantee a seat by sending an email to Balfour Smith at bsmith@law.duke.edu. |
Saturday 9:30 am.- 4:00 p.m. |
Room 4047 Duke Law School, Duke University |
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March 23 | "Building Collections Cooperatively: Analysis of Collection Use in the OhioLINK Library Consortium" With the increasing demand for resources and budget constraints, it is important for librarians to use data to make informed decisions. The OhioLINK consortium provides library resources statewide for 87 academic institutions in Ohio that serve 600,000 faculty, staff, students, and researchers. OhioLINK institutions are a diverse group of academic libraries; large research universities and small community colleges and include both public and private institutions. The OhioLINK circulation records are the largest and most diverse set of book usage data ever gathered to study usage patterns in academic libraries and is breaking new ground in collection analysis at the consortial level. The presentation will report on a large-scale study examining consortial usage and lending patterns. The planning, data collection, analysis, and significant findings will be discussed. The research questions to addressed include: 1) What types of materials are not used or are underused? 2) Are there similar usage and collection patterns between the large research universities and the small community colleges? 3) Are there too few books in some disciplines and too many in others? 4) Are the books appropriately distributed across institutions? 5) What books are the best candidates for remote or compact storage or alternate formats such as e-books? About the presenter: Ed O'Neill is a Senior Research Scientist, OCLC. His research focuses on authority control, subject analysis, database quality, preservation, and collection management. He joined the OCLC Research staff as a Senior Research Scientist in 1983, and served as co-acting Director of Research from 1993 until 1994. This talk was recently presented at the ACRL 14th National Conference March 12-15, 2009, Seattle, WA. O'Neill's paper can be read in the conference proceedings. |
Monday 3:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. |
Room 205 Undergraduate Library |
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April 8 | Scientific Publications, Scientific Data, and the Role of
Domain-specific Digital Libraries
Although much attention has been given to open access scientific publishing, there are also glaring holes in the infrastructure for sharing the scientific data underlying those publications. Todd Vision will discuss ways in which domain-specific digital libraries such as Dryad are attempting to overcome the technical and social barriers to data sharing in the sciences. Specifically, the case will be made for incorporating low-burden data deposition directly into the existing publication workflow for authors. Dryad is an initiative of the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), the SILS Metadata Research Center, and a consortium of journals and scientific societies in evolutionary biology and ecology. Partners include the North Carolina Digital Library, TreeBASE, and the Long Term Ecological Research Network. Todd Vision is Associate Professor of Biology at Carolina and Associate Director for Informatics at the U.S. National Evolutionary Synthesis Center. |
Wednesday 12:00 noon- 1:00 p.m. |
Room 214 Davis Library |
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May 13 | E-Textbook Pilot What is the role of e-textbooks and other digital publishing options in university instruction? What steps are needed to help make faculty and students informed consumers in this market? |
Wednesday 12:00 noon- 1:00 p.m. |
Room 214 Davis Library |
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