This Symposium, being held for the 7th year at University of San Diego, has an outstanding line-up of pre-conferences and speakers; I think many of you would find attending the program a very enriching experience.
—Joan Lippincott, Associate Director Emerita, CNI
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Registration for the Seventh Annual Digital Initiatives Symposium is now open!
Check out the program at: https://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/2020/
Monday, April 27:
Five pre-conference workshops:
– Cataloging in the Age of RDA: Latest Trends, Issues, and Challenges
Murtha Baca PhD, Getty Research Institute (emerita) and UCLA (emerita);
Luiz H. Mendes, California State University, Northridge and UCLA
– Developing and Articulating Open Access Policies, Principles, and Guidelines:
a Hands-On Workshop
Ellen Finnie, MIT
– Lessons from SPARC’s Journal Negotiation Community of Practice:
A Workshop on Aligning Negotiations With Making Scholarship Open By Default
Nick Shockey, Caitlin Carter, and Greg Tananbaum, SPARC
– Copyright Intersections for Academic Librarians
Sara Benson, University of Illinois
– Planning and Managing a Digital Collections Project
Dinah Handel, Stanford University
Outdoor Wine and Cheese Welcome Reception
Tuesday, April 28
Keynote speakers:
“What is Open about Closed: an Ubuntu Perspective of Open Access”
Reggie Raju, University of Cape Town
“Academy-Owned Non-Profit Open Access Publishing:
an Approach to Achieve Participatory and Sustainable Scholarly Communications”
Arianna Becerril García, Redalyc
Featured speaker:
“Facilitating OA Transformation through Publisher Engagement: The UC Experience”
Ivy Anderson, California Digital Library
Deans’ Panel:
Jennifer Fabbi, Dean, University Library; California State University, San Marcos
Maggie Farrell, Dean of Libraries; University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Larry Alford, University Chief Librarian; University of Toronto
Plus:
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN SAN DIEGO!
