[Sigdl-l] SIG-DL Survey on Past and Current Digital Initiatives in Digital Libraries/Institutional Repositories

[Martens, Betsy V.]

Our SIG-DL Workshop is now a little more than a month away (October 12th, 2011)!  In preparation for this highly participatory workshop, we are soliciting your opinion on the accomplishments and challenges of digital libraries and institutional repositories for discussion there. Even if you can't join us for the workshop, we would very much to have your thoughts to share in the discussion!

The link to participate in this anonymous survey is as follows:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8T79T9V

And please do considering joining us in New Orleans to share your thoughts in person at:

SIG Digital Libraries: A Builders’ Dozen
ASIST 2011 Post Conference Workshop
Sponsored by SIG Digital Libraries


Please join us for an afternoon of interactive discussion, and maybe just a little reminiscing, focused on past and current digital initiatives, directions for research and evaluation, and perspectives from leaders in the field!


This highly participatory workshop builds on the past dozen years of SIG-DL efforts and looks forward to the next dozen years. Three participants from previous SIG-DL-sponsored panels representing some of the most significant developments in the current “built” environment of digital collection projects will discuss their views of the most important “building blocks” for successful projects. Three participants from digital collection projects either proposed or now under development will discuss their views of the most important “building blocks” necessary to create “to-be-built” environments of the future.

When: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 1:30-5:30
Where: ASIST post conference workshop. Room to be announced later
Why: To participate in discussions about research, development, and pedagogy

Keynote speakers include:

·      Dr. Gary Marchionini, Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina

·      Dr. Edward Fox, Professor and Director of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech University


If you are interested in presenting either an established or new digital initiative, please send a short abstract (100-250 words), a link to the project, and contact information to Dr. June Abbas at jmabbas at ou.edu by September 15th. Projects chosen to present at the post conference workshop will be notified by September 22nd. Presenters will receive free admission to the post conference workshop.

To attend this interactive workshop, please register by adding the cost of the post conference to your ASIST registration when you register for the annual conference. Price for the workshop is $65.00 (this includes the workshop and afternoon refreshments).

A full program (when available) and updates about the event will be posted to the SIG-DL webpage at: http://www.asis.org/SIG/sigdl/ and on SIG DL Facebook LinkedIn, or Twitter groups. Also feel free to contact either June Abbas (jmabbas at ou.edu) or Betsy Martens (bvmartens at ou.edu) for more information.


Betsy Van der Veer Martens
Communications Officer, SIG-DL


Betsy Van der Veer Martens, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Library and Information Studies
University of Oklahoma
4502 East 41st Street, Room 1J36
Tulsa, Oklahoma  74135

(918) 660-3376
bvmartens at ou.edu
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