The BC Research Libraries Group is proud to present

Philip Kent

**ARCHIVED WEBCAST**

University Librarian, University of Melbourne

who will be speaking about

Challenges for the Research Library in the 21st Century

 Vancouver

September 20 2013, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Dodson Room [Room 302], Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia

• Coffee and refreshments will be served.
• Register to attend in person HERE
• Participate online via webcast: http://www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca/philip-kent/

What are the challenges for the library in serving a research-intensive university in the 21st century? Join innovator Philip Kent, University Librarian at the University of Melbourne, who will share insights gleaned from leading university libraries around the world. He will also draw on his experience leading the library at the University of Melbourne, which consistently appears as the highest scoring Australian university in international rankings.

About the Speaker:

Philip G Kent is the University Librarian at The University of Melbourne. He commenced at the University in March 2009following an extensive career in universities and CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. Philip joined Melbourne at an important time. Following the Information Futures Commission and the development of a 10 year information strategy for the University, the Library is being reinvigorated under his leadership. Its history as a repository of vital research and cultural collections remains central to the role of the Library. A number of significant cultural collections including the University Archives, the largest non-government archive in Australia and the Grainger Museum also fall under Philip’s leadership. In addition the Library is developing innovative learning spaces to support the Learning and Teaching strategies of the University as well as providing appropriate technologies to support student learning. Melbourne has a prestigious pedigree as one of Australia’s top research universities. Consequently Library support for the University’s research, e-research and e-scholarship, research training and research data management agendas is a high priority.

*UPDATE* PowerPoint presentation now available >here<

Karla Hahn, PhD.

Field Study Findings on Faculty & Researcher Use of New Models of Scholarly Publishing & Communication

Vancouver

Thursday, March 5, 2009, 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (Rm. 302) University of British Columbia

Victoria

Friday, March 6, 2009, 2:00pm – 4:00pm

University of Victoria, Mearns Centre for Learning, Room 210

In the Spring of 2008, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) engaged Ithaka, a not-for-profit organization promoting innovation in academia, to conduct an investigation into the range of new models of scholarly publishing and communication valued by scholars, with a particular focus on those works that are pushing beyond the boundaries of traditional formats and are considered innovative by the faculty who use them. A field team of 301 librarians at 46 institutions interviewed professors about the digital resources they use.  Among the key findings and works Karla Hahn, Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication at ARL, will describe include:

• Evidence that innovative digital resources can be found across the humanities, social sciences, and scientific/technical/medical subject areas.
• Almost every resource cited by faculty operates under some form of peer review or editorial oversight.
• Some the resources with greatest impact are those that have been around a long while.
• Many digital publications are capable of running on relatively small budgets and are tailored to small, niche audiences.
• Innovations relating to multimedia content and Web 2.0 functionality appear in some cases to blur the lines between resource types.
• Projects of all sizes, especially open access sites and publications, employ a range of support strategies in the search for financial sustainability.

The findings were published in November 2008 and titled: “Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication - Results of an Investigation Conducted by Ithaka for the Association of Research Libraries:” http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/current-models-report.pdf

About the Speaker:

Karla Hahn has been the Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication at ARL since May 2005. Key areas of activity for the office include the assessment and implementation of selected new scholarly communication models; the development of alliances to advance new systems of scholarly communication; and advancement of library outreach efforts to inform the educational and research communities on trends, findings, opportunities, and their impact on promotion and tenure, on teaching and research, and on university budgets. Karla holds a PhD from the University of Maryland College of Information Studies, an MLS from Syracuse University, an MS from the University of Chicago, and a BS from Wittenberg University. Her writings include Electronic Ecology: A Case Study of Electronic Journals in Context and numerous articles on issues relating to publishing and electronic communication

BCLRG Lecture Series Coordinators: Joy Kirchner (joy.kirchner@ubc.ca), Kat McGrath (kat.mcgrath@ubc.ca), Don Taylor (dtaylor@sfu.ca), Heather de Forest (hdefores@sfu.ca) or Katy Nelson (katnel@uvic.ca)

*UPDATE* this presentation is now available online >here<

Andrew Waller

In June 2008, Libraries and Cultural Resources at the University of Calgary established an Open Access Authors Fund. The first of its kind in Canada and the sixth such program in the world, the Fund is designed to pay submission fees for University of Calgary authors who have articles accepted in Open Access journals that charge such fees. This initiative and other open access funds established at University of California-Berkeley, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Nottingham, and University of Amsterdam represents innovative ways Libraries, typically in partnership with their University administrations or VP of Research offices, are supporting open access publication on their campuses.

Monday, November 17th, 2008

3:30 to 5:00pm Dodson Room (302), Irving K. Barker Learning Centre The University of British Columbia

Andrew Waller is Serials Librarian in the Collections Services unit at the University of Calgary. He also has some managerial responsibilities in the Serial Acquisitions unit. Andrew regularly writes and speaks on topics such as Open Access, e-journals, the effects of the USA PATRIOT and similar legislation on Canadian libraries, and systematic downloading. He is a contributor to the Open Access Librarian blog and is a Canadian editor for E-LIS.