Fall 2007 / Spring 2008 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.

2007	Date	Topic	Time	Location
	September 12	Scholarly Communications in North Carolina A panel report on the North Carolina Library Association's workshop, "State of the State: Scholarly Communications in North Carolina." Panelists: Kate McGraw, Health Sciences Library; Tommy Nixon, Davis Library; Carolyn Kotlas, Information Technology Services. Powerpoint slides shown at the meeting	Wednesday 12:00 noon- 1:00 p.m.	Room 214 Manning Hall
	October 10	Learning Commons in Libraries Discussion of the new Learning Commons in the NC State Library and the planning for one at the UNC-Chapel Hill Library. Speakers: Joe Williams, NC State University; Lisa Norberg, Davis Library, UNC Chapel Hill	Wednesday 12:00 noon- 1:00 p.m.	Room 214 Manning Hall
	* November 12	Paul Miller, Technology Evangelist, Senior Management Team, Talis Information Ltd. "Web of Data" -- Mungeing together Web 2.0/Library 2.0 [and 3.0] and metadata issues with the emerging importance of the Semantic Web. RSVP: Jane Greenberg	Monday Morning reception: 8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. Talk: 9:30 a.m.	Room 205 Undergraduate Library
	November 14	Electronic Theses and Dissertations at UNC-Chapel Hill Cheryl Thomas, Director of Admission/Enrolled Students Office and ETD Site Administrator, The Graduate School, will explain the ETD submission process and answer questions from the client perspective. Tim Shearer, Library Systems, Davis Library, will talk about the technical aspects of the project.	Wednesday 12:00 noon- 1:00 p.m.	Room 214 Davis Library
	* December 6	The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University will host "Academic Publishing Global and Local." This event is a roundtable discussion on the publishing, translation, and global circulation of scholarly works featuring perspectives from/on the Middle East/North Africa, East Asia, Latin America, and Europe. Elaine Maisner, Senior Editor in Latin American Studies, UNC Press, will particpate on the panel.	Thursday 4:30 p.m.	Room 240, Franklin Center 2204 Erwin Road, Duke University, Durham, NC
	December 12	Students' Personal Information Management and the MyLifeBits SILS doctoral candidate Abe Crystal will discuss findings based on his dissertation research--an ethnographic study of how undergraduates in a biology class managed their personal educational information and how they used an experimental PIM system (MyLifeBits).	Wednesday 12:00 noon- 1:00 p.m.	Room 214 Davis Library
2008	Date	Topic	Time	Location
	January 16	Impact of Technology on Scholars and their Work Panel discussion featuring National Humanities Center scholars Kate Flint and Nancy B. Warren.	Wednesday 12:00 noon- 1:00 p.m.	Room 214 Davis Library
	* February 6	The Human Knowledge Project (Part 1): Four Conceptual Errors concerning Massive Digital Library Projects Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan will be the featured presenter at the 2008 Henderson Lecture hosted by the School of Information and Library Science. Vaidhyanathan's talk, "The Human Knowledge Project (Part 1): Four Conceptual Errors concerning Massive Digital Library Projects," will outline the grand mistakes that we are making in the rush to digitize everything and offer a vision of a better way to link the greater population of the world with the greatest sources of knowledge. (Please note: Part 2 of Vaidhyanathan's talk will be presented at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University on February 22, 2008 (see below).)	Wednesday 3:00 p.m.	Auditorium, Frank Porter Graham Student Union
	February 13	No meeting this month. Instead, plan to attend one or both of the two February talks by Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan, Associate Professor of Media Studies and Law, University of Virginia.
	* February 18	Content Tagging and Web2.0 Implications Joseph Busch,founder and a principal of Taxonomy Strategies, will discuss the usefulness to be found in tagging as it relates to librarians and usability professionals, the Semantic Web, and document and content management practices. The talk is sponsored by the SILS Metadata Research Center <MRC> Slides from Busch's talk..	Monday 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.	Room 205, Undergraduate Library
	* February 22	The Human Knowledge Project (Part 2): How to Build the Best Possible Global Digital Library Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan will participate in "Books Without a Future? A Symposium" sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. (See http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/panels/index.php for information on the other symposium panelists and their topics.)	Friday 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.	Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, Duke University
	* February 27	Writing for Readers: Scholarly Publishing in a Changing Climate Ken Wissoker, Editorial Director at the Duke University Press, will give a talk as part of the Franklin Humanities Institute and Duke Press' on-going series on Academic Publishing. (See http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/lectures/index.php for more information.)	Wednesday 5:30 p.m.	Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Rd., Duke University
	March 12	Speaker: Kevin L. Smith, J.D., Scholarly Communications Officer, Perkins Library, Duke University	Wednesday 12:00 noon- 1:00 p.m.	Room 214 Davis Library
	April 2	Please note meeting date has changed. The OpenCollection Software for Cultural Heritage Resources Seth van Hooland, Universitat Libre de Bruxelles, will speak on OpenCollection, open-source collection registration software specifically developed for the cultural heritage sector. Although only publicly released in 2007, OpenCollection has already attracted a lot of attention and received substantial long-term funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Van Hooland's presentation will introduce OpenCollection and provide an overview of members and plans. He will also focus on the stakes of metadata quality within the cultural heritage sector and the impact of technology upon collection description practices. The Scholarly Communications Working Group is co-sponsoring the event with the SILS/Metadata Research Center (MRC). MP3 audio file of Seth's talk Slides from Seth's talk	Wednesday 12:00 noon- 1:00 p.m.	Room 214 Davis Library
	* April 11	Amending the Copyright Act for the Digital Environment: A Panel Discussion Sponsored by the School of Information and Library Science and The Kathrine R. Everett Law Library. More details.	Friday 3:00 p.m.- 4:30 p.m.	Room 209 Manning Hall
	* April 12	Copyright Limitations and Exceptions: From Access to Research to Transformative Use Sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, with support from the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. More details.	Saturday 9:00 a.m.- 4:15 p.m.	Room 4047 Duke Law School Duke University
	May 14	UNC VoiceThread Pilot Project UNC has initiated a pilot project.to see how the VoiceThread application can be used in teaching, research, service, and other activities on our campus. Kotlas will demonstrate VoiceThread, explain the pilot project, and show examples of academic uses.	Wednesday 12:00 noon- 1:00 p.m.	Room 214 Davis Library

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