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November 02, 2005
Kate Wittenberg Gives Next KSL Digital Library Lecture on Thursday, November 3
On Thursday, November 3, 2005, from 1:30-3:30 PM, Kate Wittenberg, Director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia University (EPIC), will lecture on Collaborations in Scholarly Communication: The Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia as part of KSL's 2005/06 Digital Library Lecture Series. The lecture is in the KSL Dampeer Room and is free and open to all. Preregistration is not necessary--just show up!
In developing a partnership that involves the university press, the libraries, and the academic computing system, EPIC has tried to think creatively about how to maintain what is most valuable about what they do, while remaining open to the new realities in their environment. They have asked scholars, students, and librarians what they need, what they want, and what they will pay for, and have tried to use this information to rethink EPIC’s models and plans for building resources for scholarly research and education. The overall goal of this university-based center is to envision and then implement effective ways for acquiring, developing, and disseminating scholarly content in the digital environment. Over the last two years, however, as EPIC has pursued this mission, they have found that their role has grown, and that they have become part of a much larger shift in the role of the university in the area of scholarly communication. In this presentation Kate Wittenberg will describe some of these transformations and what they mean for the future.
The next lecture in the KSL Digital Library Lecture Series will be on Thursday, March 2, 2006, when David Saltz, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Georgia, will discuss Scholarly research and digital publication in the arts and humanities.
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Posted by tdr at November 2, 2005 02:54 PM
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