So glad I got to spend quality time with my Frye Leadership Institute 2009 friends (now Leading Change Institute). That includes Rae, Scott and Ellen. Had a great time at The Kitchen in Denver. Thanks Educause for getting us together.
DU Presentation
On Oct 26, 2018 I am pleased to spend my afternoon with the University of Denver ASIS&T student chapter and the Department of Research Methods and Information Science and will give a talk entitled Collaborating for Student Success. The talk is in slides.com and can be viewed online at: https://slides.com/rhmcdonald/student-success
RDAP 2018
This week I am at The Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit in Chicago, IL. Great to see such a diverse group and to catch up with old friends. Looking forward to seeing which new logo gets the most votes.
See more on twitter (@RDAPsummit).
HTRC Data Capsule Appliance Panel at the CNI Fall 2017 Members Meeting
Just this week the good folks over at CNI posted our presentation from the December 2017 CNI Members Meeting on the HathiTrust Research Center Data Capsule APpliance Grant called Data Capsule Appliance for Research Analysis of Restricted and Sensitive Data in Academic Libraries. I am embedding the video here. Enjoy!
Data Capsule Appliance for Research Analysis of Restricted and Sensitive Data in Academic Libraries from CNI Video Channel on Vimeo.
IMLS 3D/VR Forum 1
This last week we held the first of three forums on 3D/VR in libraries sponsored by IMLS and held in Arlington, VA at the Virginia Tech Research Center. This was a fun event and was so good to work with my colleagues from VaTech, University of Oklahoma and many more…
Thanks to all of my colleagues for their support of this wonderful project!
Educause 2017 Annual Conference
I am glad to be at #edu17 this week doing a poster today on @iulibraries #Imago specimen repository. That is today at 12:45 in Exhibit Hall A-C Level 200 in the Philadelphia Convention Center. See poster. See below where I am putting up my poster. Thanks to Kent from@ucmerced for the assist.
This morning I got to hear Michio Kaku the futurist. He had some interesting things to say about the 4th Wave of Technology. I want to be a full time futurist too.
IU Libraries Celebrates Open Access Week
Everyone in the IU Libraries Scholarly Communications Department is very excited about all of our events happening next week to celebrate International Open Access Week (Oct 23-29, 2017).
We have a new press release (https://libraries.indiana.edu/iu-libraries-celebrates-open-access-week-2017) on the events and our workshops are listed below:
- The Office of Scholarly Publishing, along with the Scholarly Communication Department and the Teaching and Learning Department, will feature several events during the week aimed at faculty, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students.
- Workshop: What Does Google Tell the World About You? October 24, 3-4pm, Wells Library W138 (Learning Commons classroom)
- Workshop: Predatory Publishers, Open Scholarship, and Your Research! October 25, 2-3pm, Wells Library E159 (Hazelbaker Hall)
- Workshop: How Does Scholarly Peer-Review for Publication Work? An Introduction for Journals and Books October 26, 1:30-2:30pm, Wells Library E159 (Hazelbaker Hall)
HTRC CNI Fall 2016 Members Meeting Presentation
Just this week the good folks over at CNI posted our presentation from the December 2016 CNI Members Meeting on the HathiTrust Research Center called It Takes a Village. I am embedding the video here. Enjoy!
APTrust Member Meeting 2016
This week I am in DC for the APTrust Member Meeting. We are being hosted by the Georgetown University Libraries in Lauinger Library. A great view of the potamac from our window. Lots of discussion and lots of talk about scaling services over time and possible new partnerships. Great discussions.
WSSSPE4 Call for Papers
Many of you may have seen my latest posts about WSSSPE4 to be held Sept 12-14, 2016 at the University of Manchester. I am very excited to be involved in WSSSPE4 and encourage everyone to get their short (2pgs) or long (8pgs) papers in by the deadline of July 10, 2016.
Social Media: @WSSSPE or #WSSSPE4 on twitter.
Link to Organizing Committee: http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe4/organizers/
Link to Call for Papers: http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe4/submissions/