Open Access Un/Conference: Promote, Impact, Assess

Open Access Un/Conference: Promote, Impact, Assess
San Jose State University, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
October 25, 2013
Call For Proposals 

Final deadline for submission: August 1, 2013. 

In celebration of Open Access Week, San Jose State University will be hosting a one-day conference October 25, 2013 on all things Open: Open Access, Open Resources, Open Education. This event will be a dynamic combination of formal refereed conference and informal unconference. 

Unconferencing provides "a participant-guided experience that actually brings the unstructured conversations people usually have between conference sessions into the conference itself. Unlike most conferences where a group of leaders determine what will be discussed, the participants make those decisions at an unconference” (American Library Association, 2012) 

For the formal conference sessions, we are interested in any and all topics related to: 

• Open access publishing and institutional repositories
• Sustainability, scalability, and assessment of open access
• Open educational resources and open access applications in the classroom
• Massive open online courses (MOOCs) - copyright issues, assessment, challenges
• Outreach, promotion, and overcoming resistance to open initiatives

We will consider proposals for individual presentations and panels organized around a theme. Presentations are scheduled for either 60 minutes or 30 minutes. In the final program, 30-minute sessions will be paired. 

To submit a proposal for the formal conference, please go to: http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/oa-un-conference

For the unconference discussion sessions, participants will build the agenda through the registration process and actively contribute to the conference as facilitators, presenters, note takers, and commentators. We welcome those interested in brainstorming big ideas and moving discussions beyond the walls of their library. 

To propose unconference discussion topics, please go to: http://goo.gl/eYGPv

New Book: Digital Libraries and Information Access: Research perspectives

Digital Libraries and Information Access: Research perspectives

Edited by G G Chowdhury, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and Schubert Foo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

"Professors Chowdhury and Foo are to be commended on assembling this thoughtful body of work on digital libraries from around the world. The volume is a valuable addition to library collections, digital and otherwise."

- Christine L Borgman, UCLA

An authoritative and truly global exploration of current research in digital libraries.

Internationally renowned academics discuss what has been achieved with digital libraries and what we can expect in the future through the prism of research. The increasing number of digital libraries in all sectors and the pressure of ever more demanding and diverse user needs have encouraged the development of user-centred interfaces, intelligent search and retrieval capabilities, effective metadata description and efficient contents organization.

In addition to the two editors who are renowned for their works in digital library research, this collection brings together established international names in the field to analyse these developments in relation to users and information access and the future trends and challenges that practitioners will face.

Contents:

• Foreword Christine L Borgman
• Digital libraries and information access: introduction Gobinda Chowdhury and Schubert Foo
• Design and architecture of digital libraries Hussein Suleman
• Metadata and crowdsourced data for access and interaction in digital library user interfaces Ali Shiri and Dinesh Rathi
• Information Access Gobinda Chowdhury and Schubert Foo
• Collaborative Search and Retrieval in Digital Libraries Dion Hoe-Lian Goh
• The social element of digital libraries Natalie Pang
• Towards socially inclusive digital libraries Chern Li Liew
• Users’ interactions with digital libraries T D Wilson and Elena Macevičiūtė
• Digital libraries and scholarly information: technology, market, users and usage Jeonghyun Kim, Angel Durr and Suliman Hawamdeh
• Digital libraries and open access Gobinda Chowdhury and Schubert Foo
• iSTEM: integrating subject categories from multiple repositories Christopher C Yang and Jung-ran Park
• Usability of digital libraries Sudatta Chowdhury
• Intellectual property and digital libraries Michael Fraser
• Digital preservation: interoperability ad modum Milena Dobreva and Raivo Ruusalepp

Digital libraries and information access: research trends Gobinda Chowdhury and Schubert Foo.

2012

256pp

£49.95

Paperback: 978-1-85604-821-7

Free sample chapter: http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/downloads/file/chowdhury&f-ch1.pdf

More information:  http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=8217

http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=4044

Application of Free and Open Source Software in Libraries Operations - National Workshop

The Librarians' Registration Council of Nigeria (LRCN) in collaboration with National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) hold all a National Workshop on Application of Free and Open Source Software in Libraries.

This workshop is worth attending, Don't be left behind.

DATE: 4th - 9th November, 2012
VENUE:   E-library, University of Calabar, Cross River State,
THEME: Application of Free and Open Source Software in Libraries Operations
TARGET AUDIENCE:   Librarians, Information Scientist, Archivists, Documentalist, Information Managers, Information Officers, Computer Scientists, Researchers, Teachers, etc.

REGISTRATION FEE:  N40,000.00 (covers conference materials, certificates, bags, refreshments, lunch, etc.)

MODE OF PAYMENT:  Payment should be made to the Librarians' Registration Council of Nigeria through First Bank of Nigeria Plc Account No. 2019113517 Sort Code:  0110876. 

NOTE:  Participants are free to come to the workshop with their laptops and modems. 

For further details contact:

Dele Omotoso , Director (Professional Services Department)
Tel: 08130000149; 08033839359; 08036239884
Email: lrcn.info@yahoo.com
website: www.lrcn.gov.ng