[MNASIS-L] MN SLA Chapter hosts the October 20th Virtual Seminar: Initiatives for Change

[Janet M. Arth]

The Minnesota SLA Chapter will host the upcoming SLA Virtual Seminar, 
"Initiatives for Change: Digital Access, Sharing & Intellectual Property."

Date:  Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Time:  1:00 - 2:30pm CDT  (plan to arrive a few minutes early, because the 
seminar starts promptly at 1pm)

Location:
   Northwest Area Foundation
   60 Plato Blvd., Suite 400
   St. Paul, MN  55107

   Your host:  Melissa Yauk

Directions: 
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&formtype=search&countryid=250&addtohistory=&country=US&address=60+Plato+Blvd+E&city=Saint+Paul&state=MN&zipcode=55107-1827&historyid=&submit=Get+Map


Cost:  $10 for SLA/ASIST members:  $15 for non-members  (Please make your 
check payable to "Minnesota Chapter SLA" and bring it with you to the seminar.

How to register:  Complete the following form and send it via email to Jim 
Tchobanoff (jtchobanoff at bigfoot.com) or call Jim at 651 636-3738.  Space is 
limited, so register ASAP.  Registrations will be handled in the order 
received and a confirmation message will be sent.

Please note that if you register, you are obligated pay for your seminar 
attendance, whether or not you show up on October 20.

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October 20th Virtual Seminar Registration Form:

Name:


Phone number:


SLA/ASIST member:  yes  no


Do you need a receipt:  yes  no


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Thanks to Melissa Yauk at Northwest Area Foundation for hosting the seminar.
Any questions, call Jim at 651 636-3738 or send an email 
(jtchobanoff at bigfoot.com)

    Jim Tchobanoff


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Seminar information follows:

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Initiatives for Change: Digital Access, Sharing & Intellectual Property

October 20, 2004
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm CDT

MacKenzie Smith is the Associate Director for Technology at the MIT 
Libraries where she oversees the Libraries' use of technology and its 
digital library research program. She is currently acting as the project 
director for DSpace, MIT's collaboration with Hewlett-Packard Labs to 
develop an open source Institutional Repository for scholarly research 
material in digital formats. She was formerly the Digital Library Program 
Manager in the Harvard University Library's Office for Information Systems 
where she managed the design and implementation of the Library Digital 
Initiative there, and has also held positions in the library IT departments 
at Harvard and the University of Chicago. Her background and research 
interests are in applied technology in libraries and academia, and digital 
libraries in particular.

Description

Over the past several years MIT has embarked on a number of high-profile 
projects that address issues of intellectual property in an academic 
context. DSpace, the MIT Libraries digital repository system, was created 
to capture the intellectual output of MIT faculty's research and teaching, 
both for immediate networked access and long-term preservation. DSpace is 
free, open source software that is being adopted by many other institutions 
world wide to build a federation of intellectual assets that achieves a 
virtual library of enormous scholarly value.

OpenCourseWare is another initiative to digitize and distribute on the Web, 
for free, all of MIT's course materials. The Open Knowledge Initiative and 
its successor, SAKAI, are developing free, open source course management 
and other educational software applications over a standard 
interoperability framework for academic enterprise computing applications.

MIT faculty and librarians are closely involved in the Creative Commons, 
which seeks to offer authors alternatives to standard copyright protection 
for their creations, as well as the Budapest Open Access Initiative and 
similar efforts to inform scholars of the value of providing free and open 
access to their scholarship instead of relying on expensive commercial 
journals for the distribution of their work. Put this all together and you 
have a picture of an institution that is taking on the forces of commerce 
around intellectual property in a significant way, without damaging its 
institutional financial base or other best interests. With these 
initiatives MIT is setting an example of what can be accomplished by active 
experimentation and public opposition to current trends in intellectual 
property rights, to protect the world of creativity, scholarship, and 
academia from the encroaching forces of intellectual property commerce.

This seminar will stimulate many ideas for initiating change in your 
environment!