Collecting for Digital Repositories, ALA Annual program July 12

[Adrian Ho]

Apologies for cross-posting

Dear colleagues,

You are cordially invited to attend this program at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago:

Collecting for Digital Repositories: New Ways to Disseminate and Share Information
Date: Sunday, July 12th
Time: 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: Room W-190b, McCormick Place West

Three presenters will discuss collection development and management issues for three types of digital repository (i.e., institutional, disciplinary, and data repositories).  They will focus on selection criteria, content recruitment, and the role of digital repositories in scholarly communication. 

The presenters are:
Paul Royster, U. of Nebraska-Lincoln (presenter for institutional repository)
Dianne McCutcheon, National Library of Medicine (presenter for PubMed Central)
Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins U. (presenter for data repository)

Raym Crow from SPARC will be the moderator. 

This program is co-sponsored by ALCTS CMDS Collection Development and Electronic Resources Committee, ACRL Scholarly Communication Committee, and ACRL EBSS E-Resources in Communication Studies Committee.  It is funded in part by a generous donation from ARTstor. 

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Adrian K. Ho
Chair
Collection Development and Electronic Resources Committee
CMDS, Association for Library Collections and Technical Services

Scholarly Communication Librarian
The University of Western Ontario
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