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Repositories: How are They Evolving?
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Repositories: What are they, why do they matter? What are the most recent developments? Come hear about their features and functionality, policy development and issues around their implementation. Then see the most recent versions of popular products both commercial and open source as some local implementers describe their systems and experiences.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Marilyn Billings of University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Date/Time:
Monday, September 26, 2005
9:00am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
College of the Holy Cross,
Hogan Campus Center, Fourth Floor - Suite A
Worcester, MA
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Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $76
Non-Members: $176
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Event Schedule:
8:00am – 9:00am Registration and Coffee
9:00am – 10:00am Repositories: Features, Functions and Flops(?)
Speaker: Marilyn Billings, Coordinator, Five College Cooperative Library Systems & Special Initiatives, Librarian W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts
Framing the context of the day, this presentation will outline the core features and common functionality of repository software. The development of new policies and new staff functions to ensure the successful implementation of these relatively new services will also be discussed. In addition, this presentation will outline some key issues, or possibilities for flops that need to be acknowledged and continue to be worked on in future development.
10:00am – 10:10am Break
10:10am – 11:50am Solutions: Commercial Products
10:10am –10:40am Using CONTENTdm To Support An Introductory Survey Course
Speaker: Bryan Goodwin, Reference Librarian, Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke acquired CONTENTdm at the beginning of summer 2004. Shortly afterwards, a faculty member asked for assistance in building an image depository of major works of art that would support his survey course on Western Civilization. CONTENTdm proved to be an effective way to organize art reproductions, maps, photos and, eventually, music files that could be readily accessed by his students.
10:45am – 11:15am Institutional Repository in a Day: DigitalCommons@UConn
Speaker: Jonathan Nabe, Agriculture and Natural Resources Librarian, UCONN
The University of Connecticut implemented ProQuest's DigitalCommons product in March of this year. The decision to use DigitalCommons was based on the features it offers, the reliability and support provided by bepress (the software developers behind the product) and ProQuest, and the speed and ease of the initial set-up. Processes, problems and promises will be discussed.
11:20am – 11:50am Daumier, Digital Files and DigiTool: the Brandeis University Experience
Speaker: Susan Pyzynski, Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Special Collections, Brandeis University
In May 2002 Brandeis University Libraries became the first site to go publicly live on DigiTool 1.0. The initial purchase of DigiTool was for a 2001 Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant to digitize a collection of Honore Daumier lithographs. Since then, as DigiTool has evolved, so has Brandeis University's use of DigiTool. This presentation will discuss the history of DigiTool at Brandeis, the positive and the negative, and what future uses for DigiTool we are considering.
11:50am – 12:45pm Lunch
12:45pm – 2:00pm Solutions: Open Source Products
DSpace Speaker: Michael Leach, Librarian of the Physics Research Library, Harvard University
Additional information will be available shortly.
Helping Jumbo Remember: Fedora at Tufts University Fedora Speaker: Eliot Wilczek, University Records Manager, Tufts University
This presentation will give an overview of FEDORA (Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture), an open source repository approach. The presentation will also examine the motivations Tufts University had for selecting Fedora as the basis for its institutional repository.
2:00pm – 3:00pm Panel session and Q&A with attendees
3:00pm End
Speaker:
Bryan Goodwin
Bryan Goodwin is a reference librarian who has worked at Mount Holyoke College since 1989. He is a member of the Research and Instructional Support Team, a merged unit consisting of librarians and information technologists who work in partnership with faculty to integrate new technologies, research methods and information resources into courses to enhance teaching and learning.
Speaker:
Eliot Wilczek
Eliot Wilczek currently serves as the University Records Manager in the Digital Collections and Archives at Tufts University. He is a Co-principal investigator of a NHPRC electronic records grant, Fedora and the Preservation of University Electronic Records. Eliot is also an Instructor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. He is the Chair of the Archival History Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Electronic Records Section of SAA. Eliot undertook a 2003-2004 NHPRC Archival research fellowship on records creation in the US Army during the First World War.
Speaker:
Jonathan Nabe
Jonathan Nabe is the Agriculture and Natural Resources Librarian at the University of Connecticut, as well as the head of the institutional repository pilot project. Interest in scholarly communications and open access led him to the latter role, and he heads the Libraries' Scholarly Communications Group. Prior to coming to UConn, he worked at Brandeis University and SUNY Stony Brook as the manager of branch science libraries. He has also worked for the US Forest Service and National Marine Fisheries Service as a wildlife biologist.
Speaker:
Marilyn Billings
Marilyn Billings has been the Coordinator of the Five College Cooperative Library Systems Office and Special Initiatives Librarian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst since May 2004. From July 1998 to April 2004, she had coordinated the Library Information Systems Department. She started her career in library automation while at Bates College in the 70s and 80s. She then moved to western New Hampshire, becoming the first systems librarian at Keene State College. Since joining the library staff at the University, she has been actively involved on several university-wide technology committees, Five College committees, and has been organizing NERCOMP Library/IT SIGs since September 2003. She has recently returned from sabbatical where her research focus was Institutional Repositories.
Speaker:
Susan Pyzynski
Susan Pyzynski is currently the Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Special Collections at the Brandeis University Libraries where she manages Special Collections and consults on metadata standards, digital preservation, and the creation of digital collections throughout Brandeis University. Recently she served as the project leader of an IMLS grant to digitize, catalog and preserve the Special Collections' Honoré Daumier Lithograph Collection. She has accepted the position of Associate Librarian of Houghton Library for Technical Services, Harvard College Library, starting September 2005.
Related Media Files:
MichaelLeach.ppt
Marilyn Billings.ppt
M.BillingsIR bibliography.doc
wilczek.ppt
SusanPyznski.ppt
Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
ldimauro@wesleyan.edu
Hotel Information:
Rooms are available at the Comfort Inn, 426 Southbridge Street in Auburn, MA.
Please state that you are with NERCOMP and you will receive the reduced rate of $85, includes continental breakfast & internet access.
Call the hotel directly at: 1-508-832-8300
The room block will be held until September 11, 2005.
For additional information go to:
http://www.comfortinn.com
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