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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

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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!

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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.

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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,

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ALA Annual Conference 2016

Today I am at the ALA Annual Conference in Orlando. I am at a library services platform panel hosted by @mbreeding. At this panel most of the major library services platform vendors discussed the state of the market. There was actually a pretty good analysis of the consolidation happening in

ALA

ALA Annual Conference 2016

Today I am at the ALA Annual Conference in Orlando. I am at a library services platform panel hosted by @mbreeding. At this panel most of the major library services platform vendors discussed the state of the market. There was actually a pretty good analysis of the consolidation happening in

JCDL

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2016

This week am in Newark, NJ at the Rutgers University-Newark Campus with many old friends talking digital libraries. Am very excited about our proposal for next year in Toronto (go JCDL 2017). https://www.instagram.com/p/BG32d6kythL/?utm_source=ig_embed

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Keynote at Designing for Digital 2016

Having a good time this week at the Designing for Digital Conference. This great UX conference is part of the now famous ER&L Conference held annually in Austin. This year’s keynote was from Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path fame. He spoke a bit about UX themes

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ER&L 2016

Today I got to speak on a panel with a great set of speakers Marshall Breeding, Neil Block and Curtis Thacker. We had a great time and really enjoyed the audience. Our slides from today are below. ER&L The Role of Choice in the Future of Discovery Evaluations

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2015 HathiTrust Annual Member Mtg

This week I am in Chicago, IL for the HathiTrust Annual Members Meeting as well as some side meetings for the HT Program Steering Committee and the HT Board. We will be talking about the latest accomplishments of the HathiTrust Research Center as well as work that we have done

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#EDU15 First Timers Pit Stop

Had a great time at #EDU15 and took a good shot of one if our first time pit stoppers along with @kayakpete.

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IU Statewide IT Meeting at 20

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the IU Statewide IT Meeting (ca 1995). So far so good, tomorrow features the grand opening of MDPI for IUB. We were delighted to have members of DPN (Digital Preservation Network) Steven Morales and Mary Molinaro on hand for discussions around our project.

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Unizin Innovation Summit

Last week I was at the Unizin Innovation Summit #UIS15 in Grapevine, TX (near Dallas). Had a great time and met new friends!

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OLE Board Meeting Summer Retreat 2015

Today I am at the OLE Board Meeting Summer Retreat at the Big 10 Center in Rosemont, IL supporting the mission of our wonderful board. We have a great community that really wants to see change for how libraries are managed through our available software platforms.

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VIVO 2015 Conference

This week I am at the VIVO 2015 Conference. I am very excited about seeing all of my VIVO friends in Cambridge, MA this week. I am also part of this year’s Intro to VIVO Workshop with the wonderful Julia Trimmer, Paul Albert, Michaeleen Trimarchi and Brian Lowe. So

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VIVO 2015 – What A View!

Great view from the Hyatt here in Cambridge at the VIVO 2015 Opening Reception. https://www.instagram.com/p/6UyEgWStpO/?utm_source=ig_embed

Harvard Purdue Data Management Symposium 2015

This week I am at the Harvard Purdue Data Management Symposium held in Cambridge, MA. Some great talks by @esayeed and others on this topic.

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#OR2015 Takes Indy by Storm

So this week I am at the 10th International Open Repositories Conference held here in Indianapolis, IN. This year Indiana University, the University of Illinois and Virginia Tech are the host sponsors. We have a large group of over 400 in attendance from all over the world. Welcome to Indy!

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Friday WebCast on "Saving My Stuff" Sponsored by TLT Group

On Friday June 5, 2015 I will be speaking at a TLT Group Discussion on personal and scholarly archiving and preservation with Stephen Bell and Cliff Landis. Please join us! Below are my slides TLT Discussion on "Saving My Stuff" - 06.05.15 from Robert H. McDonald

SEAD

SEAD All Hands Meeting Comes to Bloomington

For the next two days the IU Data to Insight Center is hosting the SEAD All Hands Meeting at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. At the meeting we will be discussing SEAD 2.0 release and futures for our data management and curation software services platform.

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HTRC Uncamp 2015

Here is another action shot of @MikeFurlough kicking off the 3rd Annual HTRC UnCamp that was held March 30-31, 2015 in Ann Arbor, MI. We had a great 1.5 days together showing off our work from this year’s deliverables on the HTRC as well as getting valuable user

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ACRL 2015 – Lessig Keynote

The closing keynote at this year’s ACRL Conference is my hero Lawrence Lessig. I really took alot away from his talk, namely that of government and the ways in which it is corrupted by different types of influences. He mentioned his grassroots group rootstrikers – http://www.rootstrikers.org and

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ACRL 2015 – Wilson Keynote

The opening keynote for #ACRL2015 is G. Willow Wilson (@GWillowWilson) who is the author of the critically acclaimed comic book Ms. Marvel. Her talk was very refreshing and brought some interesting perspectives to the overall conference. If you have not seen it you should check out the ACRL poster of

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ACRL 2015 TechTalk on VIVO

So this year I got accepted for a TechTalk at the 2015 ACRL Conference. I was honored to present with Nicole Vasilevsky from the Oregon Health Sciences University. On a personal note I got a new iphone 6 plus while in Portland (Tax Free) that is unlocked and works on

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Designing For Digital 2015

So last week I got to attend a new event sponsored by ER&L called Designing for Digital (see Twitter Design4Lib). This conference had some great library as well as external perspectives on user experience design. The keynotes were great and had very broad experience in this area (see