Please come hear Ellen Duranceau, an MIT librarian, in the Dean's Conference Room on Thursday, Dec. 3. Her appearance is sponsored by the University Libraries Scholarly Communications Committee.
10-10:45 Overview of Scholarly Communication/Open Publishing Issues and Trends (all faculty/staff invited).
11-12:00One hour workshop for liaisons: how to have conversations with faculty about scholarly publishing issues. (Liaisons invited).
As Program Manager, Scholarly Publishing & Licensing in the MIT Libraries, Ellen is responsible for outreach to authors at MIT in relation to their copyrights; acts as point person for copyright issues; and manages the Libraries' licensing program. She was staff to the faculty committee that developed the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy, passed by unanimous faculty vote in March 2009, and is now part of the team administering the policy.
Ellen has worked in the MIT Libraries in a variety of roles since 1990, and has prior experience in academic and special libraries. She has written and spoken widely on digital acquisitions, and more recently, on institutional repositories and author rights issues. She is the incoming program planner for the ACRL New England Scholarly Communication Special Interest Group.
Explore one of the treasures on the 3rd floor of Bailey/Howe!
The Staff and Faculty Development Committee invites you to meet Robin Katz and Sibyl Schaefer for a presentation on the Center for Digital Initiatives.
Robin and Sibyl will give their Libraries colleagues an introduction to CDI collections and the technical/scanning processes, plus discuss their recent and forthcoming projects.
Date: Thursday, December 10th
Location: CDI Conference Room
Time: noon-1p.m. (you may bring your lunch if you wish to brown bag it.)
Peter Spitzform and Albert Joy will discuss, "The Changing Landscape of Monographs," on Wednesday, Dec. 9 at 10:30 a.m. Peter and Albert gave this talk at a recent even in Charleston, SC.
Peter Blackmer will discuss, "UVM's Budgeting Process," on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 10:30 a.m.
Due to the winter holidays, these were the best (only) dates to hold these fora. Both will be held in the Dean's Conference Room.
Imagine waking up one day in your own personal terrarium, where everything you do and say can be seen by anyone passing by.In a world of Web cams, social networking sites, and GPs-equipped phones, your dorm walls may be more transparent than you realize...
The University of Vermont Libraries present a lecture and book-signing by Burlington-based attorney and computer forensics expert Fred Lane, on Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 4:30 p.m. in Billings North Lounge. Refreshments will be served.
The Medieval Manuscripts Exhibit Reception was very well attended yesterday afternoon. The cakes mirrored some of the images and garnered nearly as much interest as the real thing. Congrats to Special Collections and Travis Puller, in particular, for the great exhibit and event. Fortunately no one tried to eat the Manuscripts.
On Wednesday, November 18, 10:30 to Noon, Mara and Peter will host an open forum about the budgeting process at UVM and in the Libraries. Currently, there is no news about the FY 11 budget from central administration. The forum will focus on the how the process works in general.
II.Diversity Reporting
In September, the Provost sent a memo requesting diversity reports from units university-wide. Peter has drafted a report outlining the past strategies and achievements as well as future goals for workforce diversity with the Division of Libraries and Learning Resources.The current workforce within the division reflects 7.8 % diversity. ALA reports a national ALANA diversity percentage of 14.35 for higher education MLS-holding librarians.http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/diversity/index.cfm
III.Strategic Planning
At the next Dean’s Council meeting, Oct. 27, the group will work towards prioritizing the plan and creating actions steps for enacting it—based on feedback from departments. Jeff Marshall mentioned that the candidates for the Director of I&IS position were greatly impressed with the plan.
IV.Updates
Mara is working on the Gen Ed Task Force and is chairing Faynesse Miller’s five-year review. Along with with Dean Cynthia Belliveau of C.E., Mara is giving presentation about online learning to the Board of Trustees at their meeting next week.
Marianne reports that the “Funding to Publication” series, instigated by Donna O'Malley, has been very well attended. Dana Medical Library has mounted an H1N1 Swine Flu exhibit comparing the 1918 flu epidemic with today’s burgeoning pandemic. The affiliation agreement between UVM and FAHC currently is being renegotiated. Marianne is now a member of the President’s Commission on Diversity and Inclusion.
Paul and Jeanene met last Thursday to work on top-level pandemic plan for the Libraries. Tech Help with ETS continues through the semester in B/H on Sundays from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Birdie reports that the workspace redesign for tech services is on track. Birdie is working on a newspaper digitization grant with the help of Robin, among others.
Peter is working with Paul on the Rowell Studio move to Bailey/Howe. Peter is also chairing a UVM committee on procurement redesign.
Selene reports that the signage project for B/H (as well as the LRA and small solutions for Dana) are moving into production and are on track for installation over winter break.The outreach librarians across the libraries are working together on blog postings and monitoring user interaction with updates. A new ASK photo session will take place outside Cyber Café next Thursday.
Tina reports that the Acquisitions Group is ready to begin firm orders.
Jeanene is working with Roger Wiberg about improving the technology in the I&IS classroom. She also will co-chair the Libraries’ Scholarly Communication Committee with Chris Burns. They will create a white paper to help foster understanding about scholarly communications.
