2021 Digital Initiatives Symposium

Workshop: Cataloging in the Age of RDA: Latest Trends, Issues, and Challenges

Luiz H. Mendes, California State University, Northridge

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Welcome and Announcements

Theresa Byrd, University of San Diego

9:00 AM - 9:10 AM

Opening Keynote: What is Open about Closed: an Ubuntu Perspective of Open Access

Reggie Raju, University of Cape Town

9:10 AM - 9:55 AM

International, Scholar-led Collaboration around Community-led Open Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs

Eileen Joy, Punctum Books
Janneke Adema, Coventry University

10:00 AM - 10:40 AM

Mapping Manuscript Migrations: Building and Using a Linked Open Data Environment for Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Studies

Lynn Ransom, University of Pennsylvania
Toby Burrows, University of Oxford

10:45 AM - 11:25 AM

Break

11:30 AM - 12:10 PM

Lightning Talks

Lana Mariko Wood, California State University, East Bay
Tina Baich, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
Sarah Hicks, Duquesne University

12:15 PM - 12:55 PM

Supporting Faculty in Digital Landscapes

Elaine Thornton, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Joel B. Thornton, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

1:00 PM - 1:40 PM

Working with the Community to Preserve Histories

Wei Xuan, University of Manitoba
Natalie Vielfaure, University of Manitoba

1:45 PM - 2:25 PM

Deans' Panel: Digital Collections and Institutional Repositories

Jennifer L. Fabbi, California State University, San Marcos
Maggie Farrell, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Larry Alford, University of Toronto

9:00 AM - 9:55 AM

Beprexit to Nowhere: The Institutional Repository Platform Landscape from the Perspective of Small-to-Mid Sized Private Institutions

Shannon Kealey, UC Berkeley
Jennifer Beamer, Claremont Colleges

10:00 AM - 10:40 AM

Crowdsourcing Metadata: the Revolutionary Cataloging Interface and How it Can Help YOUR Library Expose and Promote Hidden Collections

Samuel T. Barber, CSU Fullerton

10:45 AM - 11:25 AM

Break

11:30 AM - 12:10 PM

Featured Speaker: Facilitating OA Transformation through Publisher Engagement: The UC Experience

Ivy Anderson, California Digital Library

12:10 PM - 12:55 PM

Mapping Renewal: How An Unexpected Interdisciplinary Collaboration Transformed a Digital Humanities Project

Elise Tanner, UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture
Geoffrey Joseph, Arkansas Development Economic Institute

1:00 PM - 1:40 PM

Student Success: Open Access Repository Work Impacts University Libraries' Student Employees

Kelly Visnak Dr., University of Texas at Arlington
Yumi Ohira, University of Texas at Arlington

1:45 PM - 2:25 PM

From Vision to Action and Assessment: Creating an Open Educational Resources (OER) Strategic Plan and Measuring Its Impact

Regina Gong, Michigan State University

9:00 AM - 9:40 AM

Maintaining Your Identity: Supporting Our Own Faculty's Publishing while Participating in a Funded Consortia Publishing Program

Jennifer Coronado, Butler University

9:45 AM - 10:25 AM

Supporting Sustainable Digital Humanities Projects: Managing the Lifecycle of Student-Created Web Content from Inception to Archiving

Rachel Walton, Rollins College
Amy Sugar, University of Central Florida

10:30 AM - 11:10 AM

Where is the Social Democracy in Subscription Paywalls? Effects and Impact of Transitioning Journals from Subscriptions to Open Access on Researchers in Developing and Transition Economies

Colleen Campbell, Max Planck Digital Library
Rick Burke, SCELC

11:15 AM - 11:55 AM

Break

12:00 PM - 12:55 PM

Closing Keynote: Academy-Owned Non-Profit Open Access Publishing: an Approach to Achieve Participatory and Sustainable Scholarly Communications

Arianna Becerril García, Redalyc

1:00 PM - 1:45 AM

Closing Remarks

Theresa Byrd, University of San Diego

1:45 PM - 1:55 PM