FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 23, 2009
Contact:
Jennifer McLennan
(202) 296-2296 x 121
jennifer [at] arl [dot] org
SPARC releases videos on digital repository development,
Announces 2010 meeting
Washington, DC (Feb. 23, 2009) – Experts and advocates examine the
state of the art in digital repositories in a new series of videos now
freely available online from SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing &
Academic Resources Coalition). Also, by popular demand, SPARC has
announced it will host the third SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting on
November 8 & 9, 2010, in Baltimore, Maryland.
The video series was taped at the November 2008 SPARC repositories
meeting, and underscores the central role of repositories across
library services. Particular emphasis is placed on the added value they
contribute to the institution and on the importance of funding
repository development even in lean economic times. The clips feature
three full-length plenary addresses plus seven short interviews with
leading-edge repository implementers, including:
• Ernie Ingles, Vice Provost and Chief Librarian at University of
Alberta
• Michelle Kimpton, Executive Director of the DSpace Foundation
• Bonnie Klein, Information Collection/Copyright Specialist at the
US Defense Technical Information Center
• Catherine Mitchell, Director of the eScholarship Publishing Group
at California Digital Library (CDL)
• Sarah Shreeves, IDEALS Coordinator at University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
• David Shulenburger, Vice President for Academic Affairs of the
National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges
(NASULGC)
• John Wilbanks, Vice President for Science at Creative Commons
• Bob Witeck, CEO of Witeck-Combs Communications Inc.
In his keynote remarks, David Shulenburger urges institutions to expand
their support of institutional repository development and suggests
seven specific steps libraries should take to promote repositories on
their campuses.
Ernie Ingles highlights institutional repository development as
bringing libraries back into the mainstream of providing services to
faculty and graduate students. He argues that libraries must decide
whether supporting a digital repository is an “add on” or an “instead
of” in their resource allocations.
Bonnie Klein notes that digital repositories are not just for
universities. She explores the extensive experience of government
agencies in capturing and preserving intellectual assets so that
information can be reorganized, reduced, and recombined. She urges
universities to collect the corporate output of the institution to
support accountability and show patterns in the development of where
the institution has been—and where it might be going.
The videos are available through the SPARC video channel
(http://www.sparcspaces.org/video/tag/digitalrepository08), where they
may be shared, commented upon, or downloaded for campus use. Advocates
are invited to make wide use of these tools in making the case for
repository success at their institutions.
For news on the 2010 SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting, join the
SPARC-IR discussion list at
http://www.arl.org/sparc/about/emailsignup.shtml.
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SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), with
SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan, is an international alliance of more than
800 academic and research libraries working to create a more open
system of scholarly communication. SPARC’s advocacy, educational and
publisher partnership programs encourage expanded dissemination of
research. SPARC is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/sparc.
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Jennifer McLennan
Director of Communications
SPARC
(The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition)
http://www.arl.org/sparc
(202) 296-2296 ext 121
jennifer @ xxxxxxx
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