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2016 University of San Diego Digital Initiatives Symposium
Featured Keynote Speakers
Charles J. Henry (President, CLIR)
– “The Persistent Embodiment of Knowledge,” will describe why digital libraries, library publishers, and digital expression are critical for the successful evolution of information professionals.
James G. Neal (University Librarian Emeritus, Columbia University)
– “The Past, Present and Future of Digitization in Academic and Research Libraries,” will discuss the history and future of digitization in academic and research libraries.
Half-day preconference: Wednesday, April 27, 2016, 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Full-day conference: Thursday, April 28, 2016, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, University of San Diego
Join University of San Diego's Copley Library for the third annual Digital Initiative Symposium. Extended to a day and a half and
featuring workshops and user group meetings for a variety of institutional repository platforms, the conference focuses on the
digital elements of library ecosystems and institutional repositories. Please see the conference program here.
For registration and
program information, please visit: http://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium.
$75 registration includes both the preconference and full-day conference
$65 registration includes full-day conference
$30 registration includes preconference workshops
Preconference Workshops (Wednesday, April 27)
Open Educational Resources Workshop
Nicole Allen | SPARC
Memorandum of Understanding Workshop: Creating a Process for Successful Digital Collaboration
Brett Currier, Rafia Mirza, and Peace Ossom Williamson | University of Texas at Arlington
Building Capacity for DH Work in the Library and Beyond
Ashley Sanders | Claremont University Consortium
Panels (Thursday, April 28)
So many things are possible when you don’t know they’re impossible: Building Collaborative Tools & Workflows for Digitization
Alyssa V. Lorea, Heather Briston, Claudia
Horning, and Jillian Cuellar | UCLA
Manipulation, Multiplicity, and Metadata: Piloting Linked Open Data with Artists’ Books
Kelly Spring, Emilee Matthews, and Laura
J. Smart | University of California, Irvine
Roles and Responsibilities of Deans and Directors in Digital Initiatives and Campus IRs
W. Lee Hisle | Connecticut College
Christopher Cox | University of Northern Iowa
Jennifer Nutefall | Santa Clara University
Concurrent Sessions
An Online Hub for Undergraduate Research: Leveraging an Institutional Repository to Engage Students & Disseminate Research
Suzanna Conrad | California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Catholic, Crowdfunded and Collaborative: A Unique Approach to Newspaper Digitization
Patricia Lawton | Catholic Research Resources Alliance
Jeff Moyer | Reveal Digital
Frederick Zarndt | Digital Divide Data, IFLA Governing Board
The Initiative for Digital IDEAS (Innovations in Digital Expression, Access and Scholarship) at Cal Poly
Anna Gold | Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Credible Journal Working Group in Action!: Collaborating to Create Positive Change in Scholarly Publishing
Shilpa Rele, Nataly Blas, and Marie Kennedy | Loyola Marymount University
Surveying the Landscape of Undergraduate Education in the Digital Humanities
Lydia Zvyagintseva | University of Toronto
The Cycle of User-Responsive Collection Development in Digital Libraries
Genevieve Podleski and Jane Davis | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
The Library as Host, Rather than Publisher, of Open Access Journals
John Novak and Andrea Wirth | University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Lifting All Boats: A Collaborative Approach to Support Student-Created Digital Publishing
Kate Dohe and Laura Leichum | Georgetown University
Giving the Digital Humanities Life: Community Partnerships that Extend a Digital Humanities Project’s Relevance
Kathryn Otto | Indiana University Bloomington
Creating a Wesleyan-Holiness Digital Library: Developing a Shared Open Access Collection with Constituent Institutional Repositories
Frank Quinn | Point Loma Nazarene University
Katie King | Southern Nazarene University
Sustainable Library Publishing: Opportunities and Challenges in Creating an Open Textbook Publishing Program
Karen Bjork | Portland State University
Digital Repository Futures at Caltech
Stephen Davison | Caltech
For further information contact Kelly Riddle at kriddle@sandiego.edu or 619-260-6850.
Laura Turner
Head of Technical Services
Helen K. and James S. Copley Library
University of San Diego
5998 Alcalá Park
San Diego, CA 92110-2492
Phone: (619) 260-2365
Fax: (619) 849-8301