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UMASS AMHERST HOSTS
SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION COLLOQUIUM
“The University’s Role in the Dissemination of Research & Scholarship: A Call to Action”
Amherst, MA – UMass Amherst will host the fourth annual Digital
Quadrangle Colloquium, “The University’s Role in the Dissemination of
Research & Scholarship: A Call to Action,” on September 24, 2009, from
8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in Room 168C of the Campus Center. Faculty,
staff, and graduate students are invited to attend. The event is also
open to the public. A continental breakfast will be served. The
agenda and speaker list is available at:
http://scholarworks.umass.edu/dq/.
The colloquium will explore the implications of the digitization of
scholarly materials on the university. A panel presentation will
include Stuart Shieber (James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch
Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University) and Ann Wolpert
(Director of Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology). UMass
Amherst Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs James
V. Staros and selected faculty members will provide a campus response
to their recommendations.
Stuart Shieber is director of Harvard University’s Office for
Scholarly Communication and its Center for Research on Computation and
Society. On February 12, 2008, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences
voted unanimously to adopt a policy to mandate open access to its
faculty members’ research publications. Dr. Shieber was the driving
force behind the adoption of this policy.
As Director of Libraries, Ann J. Wolpert oversees MIT’s library system
and MIT Press. She also has oversight of Technology Review, MIT’s
magazine of innovation. Wolpert was executive director of library and
information services at the Harvard Business School. Previous to
Harvard, she managed the Information Center of Arthur D. Little, Inc.,
an international management and consulting firm. In 1998 she was
elected to the National Network for Women Leaders in Higher Education
of the American Council on Education.
Shieber and Wolpert are authors of a recently released report “The
University’s Role in the Dissemination of Research & Scholarship: A
Call to Action” issued by the Association of American Universities,
The Association of Research Libraries, the Coalition for Networked
Information, and the National Association of State Universities and
Land Grant Colleges now known as the Association of Public Land Grant
Universities. The report is available at
www.arl.org/bm~doc/disseminating-research-feb09.pdf.
The colloquium is sponsored by the UMass Amherst Libraries, Office of
the Vice Chancellor for Research and Engagement, the Graduate School,
and the Office of the Provost and is part of the Digital Quadrangle
series exploring scholarly communication topics in research,
scholarship, and teaching.
For more information, contact Marilyn Billings, (413) 545-6891,
mbillingsATlibrary.umass.edu or Marla Michel, (413) 577-0092,
marlaATresearch.umass.edu.
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