<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Another good news item-and please post on general list as well. thanks!<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Jennifer McLennan <<a href="mailto:jennifer@arl.org">jennifer@arl.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">March 17, 2009 9:15:14 AM EDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:SPARC-IR@serv01.siteground183.com">SPARC-IR@serv01.siteground183.com</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[SPARC-IR] ALCTS announces webinar series on institutional repositories</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"SPARC Institutional Repositories Discussion List" <<a href="mailto:SPARC-IR@arl.org">SPARC-IR@arl.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div> <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><p><font size="-1"><font face="Lucida Sans">[Forwarding on behalf of Pamela Bluh --jm]</font></font></p><p><font size="-1"><font face="Lucida Sans"><br> ALCTS announces webinar series on institutional repositories</font></font></p><p><font size="-1"><font face="Lucida Sans">CHICAGO - The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is offering three webinars on institutional repositories beginning in April. Based on the successful 2009 ALCTS Midwinter Symposium in Denver, the sessions introduce participants to the IR “movement” and provide tools for decision-making about the IR implementation and maintenance. Future topics slated for fall 2009 include open access, intellectual property, copyright, consortial implementation and using the IR as a publishing platform. </font></font></p><p><font size="-1"><font face="Lucida Sans">Wednesday, April 8, 2 p.m. EDT </font></font></p><p><font size="-1"><font face="Lucida Sans">Institutional Repositories: the Promises of Yesterday and of Tomorrow</font></font></p><p><font size="-1"><font face="Lucida Sans">Presented by Greg Tananbaum, ScholarNext. ScholarNext is a consulting firm focusing on issues at the intersection of technology, content and academia. Tananbaum has served as president of The Berkeley Electronic Press and director of product marketing for EndNote. </font></font></p><p><font size="-1"><font face="Lucida Sans">Based on his keynote addresses at the symposium, Tananbaum gives a brief history of institutional repositories, discusses the key benefits as well as the possible obstacles to a successful IR implementation and considers the future of the institutional repository within the larger context of the rapidly changing scholarly communication landscape. As the lead in the series, he provides the framework for the series of webinars to follow. </font></font></p><p><font size="-1"><font face="Lucida Sans">Wednesday, May 6, 2 p.m.EDT</font></font></p><p><font size="-1"><font face="Lucida Sans">Beyond the Institutional Repository: Campus Research Distribution Strategies</font></font></p><p><font size="-1"><font face="Lucida Sans">Presented by Marilyn Moody, dean of the university library at Boise State University. </font></font></p><p><font size="-1"><font face="Lucida Sans">Moody’s interests include scholarly communication issues and the development of research distribution policies and strategies. She is the co-author with Jean L. Sears of three editions of the reference work “Using Government Information Sources.”</font></font></p><p><font size="-1"><font face="Lucida Sans">Universities and libraries becoming more involved in developing a university's research distribution policy and developing strategies for the distribution of research and scholarship has sparked interest among provosts and university administrators. IRs are an important infrastructure for developing research distribution strategies, but other issues such as scholarly communication, copyright, campus publishing policies and strategies and open access need to be part of the discussion. This webinar develops a framework for thinking about research distribution policies and strategies using Boise State University as a case study. It offers strategies for selling the institutional repository concept to administrators and others on campus.</font></font></p><p><font size="-1"><font face="Lucida Sans">Wednesday, June 10, 2 p.m. EDT</font></font></p><p><font size="-1"><font face="Lucida Sans">Generating Campus Buy-In for Your IR</font></font></p><p><font size="-1"><font face="Lucida Sans">Presented by Marisa Ramirez, digital repository librarian, and Michael D. Miller, dean of library services at California Polytechnic State University. Ramirez is responsible for developing and implementing the DigitalCommons@CalPoly, a digital repository that provides online open access to scholarship and research produced by Cal Poly faculty and students. </font></font></p><p><font size="-1"><font face="Lucida Sans">How do you translate the value of an institutional repository to campus leaders, faculty and other key campus groups? Ramirez and Miller discuss strategies for marketing your IR to campus, demonstrating the return on investment. Offering perspectives from repository management and library administration, you will learn how Cal Poly has expanded the role of its IR as a vital component of the campus scholarly and research community. </font></font></p><p><font size="-1"><font face="Lucida Sans">The registration fee per session is $39 for ALCTS members and $49 for non-members.</font></font></p><p><font size="-1"><font face="Lucida Sans">For information on how to register, visit the ALCTS Web site (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ala.org/alcts">http://www.ala.org/alcts</a>) under “Conferences and Events.”</font></font></p><p><font size="-1"><font face="Lucida Sans">The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is the national association for information providers who work in collections and technical services, such as acquisitions, cataloging, collection development, preservation and continuing resources in digital and print formats. ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association.</font></font></p><p>-- <br> --------------------------<br> Jennifer McLennan<br> Director of Communications<br> SPARC<br> (The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition)<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.arl.org/sparc">http://www.arl.org/sparc</a><br> (202) 296-2296 ext 121<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jennifer@arl.org">jennifer@arl.org</a><br> <br> Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. </p> </div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>