[IP-OA_Forum] SPARC Repositories Meeting - Speakers & Early Bird Registration

[Birgit Schmidt]

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For immediate release
September 11, 2008

For more information, contact:
Jennifer McLennan
(202) 296-2296 ext 121
jennifer at arl.org

SPARC ANNOUNCES INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER ROSTER
FOR NOVEMBER REPOSITORIES MEETING

Early bird registration deadline is September 15, 2008

Washington, DC - September 11, 2008 - SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing 
and Academic Resources Coalition) has announced a prominent slate of 
speakers for the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 in Baltimore on 
November 17 and 18. The gathering, organized by SPARC in cooperation 
with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan (a Japan National Informatics 
Institute initiative), will examine how open online archives may be 
enhanced to further serve scholars, institutions, and the public.
Leaders, innovators, and practitioners from North America, Europe, and 
Asia will explore new frontiers in building and supporting online open 
archives. Four timely discussion tracks bring together speakers with 
far-reaching experience:
New Horizons (Monday, November 17, morning)

Speakers: Norbert Lossau (Director, Goettingen State and University 
Library and a leader of Europe's DRIVER Project, Germany), Jennifer 
Campbell-Meier (Doctoral Student, Communication and Information 
Sciences, University of Hawaii, USA), Shawn Martin (Scholarly 
Communication Librarian, University of Pennsylvania, USA).

Developing Value-Added Services (Monday, November 17, afternoon)

Speakers: Sayeed Chodhury (Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs, 
Johns Hopkins University, USA), Joan Giesecke (Dean of Libraries) and 
Paul Royster (Coordinator of Scholarly Communications, University of 
Nebraska-Lincoln, USA), Hideki UCHIJIMA (Librarian, Kanazawa University 
Library, Japan).

The Policy Environment (Tuesday, November 18, morning)

Speakers: Bernard Rentier (Rector, University of Liège, Belgium), Syun 
Tutiya (Professor of Cognitive and Information Sciences, Chiba 
University, Japan), Bonnie Klein (Information Collection and Copyright 
Specialist, Defense Technical Information Center, USA).
Campus Publishing Strategies (Tuesday, November 18, morning)

Speakers: Rea Devakos (T-Space Service Coordinator, University of 
Toronto, Canada), Catherine Mitchell (Director, eScholarship Publishing 
Group, California Digital Library, USA), Teresa Fishel (Library 
Director) and Janet Sietmann (DigitalCommons Project Manager, Macalester 
College, USA).

Filling out the extensive program will be a marketing practicum for 
repository advocates, an innovation fair, and keynote talks by John 
Wilbanks, Vice President for Science at Creative Commons and director of 
the Science Commons program; Bob Witeck, CEO and co-founder of 
Witeck-Combs Communications, a renowned marketing communications and 
public relations agency in Washington, DC; and David Shulenburger, Vice 
President for Academic Affairs at the National Association of State 
University and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC).

For program detail, see the conference Web site at 
http://www.arl.org/sparc/ir08.
The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 is supported by major 
contributions from Microsoft (Conference Sponsor); Berkeley Electronic 
Press, BioMed Central, and EPrints, (Coffee Break Sponsors); and by 
additional contributions from: Association of College and Research 
Libraries (ACRL), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), CRKN 
(Canadian Research Knowledge Network), DSpace Foundation, Fedora 
Commons, Greater Western Library Alliance, HP, the Japanese Coordinating 
Committee for University Libraries, JISC, and NISO.
This meeting is a follow up to SPARC's popular 2004 institutional 
repositories conference, which drew hundreds of participants from around 
the globe and set the stage for some of the key developments in open 
access of the past four years.

To register for the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008, visit the 
conference Web site at http://www.arl.org/sparc/ir08. Early Bird 
Registration is available only until midnight on Monday, September 15.
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SPARC

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.

The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting program has been developed by the 
members of the 2008 Program Committee: Jun Adachi (SPARC Japan), Raym 
Crow (SPARC), Richard Fyffe (Grinnell College), Susan Gibbons 
(University of Rochester), Melissa Hagemann (Open Society Institute), 
Karla Hahn (Association of Research Libraries), Bill Hubbard (SHERPA), 
Rick Johnson (SPARC), Michelle Kimpton (DSpace Foundation), Norbert 
Lossau (Goettingen State and University Library and DRIVER), Joyce 
Ogburn (University of Utah), Terry Owen (University of Maryland, College 
Park), Kathleen Shearer (Canadian Association of Research Libraries), 
Alma Swan (Key Perspectives Ltd.), Sean Thomas (Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology), Susan Veldsman (eIFL), and Charles Watkinson (The 
American School of Classical Studies at Athens).

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Dr. Birgit Schmidt
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