- 4H: 3 meetings a month, and I'm doing most of the planning. We've done Public Presentations, and are working on planting seeds for our gardens. Aeddon and Alden joined John and I on an outing to the Orchid Show at the Buffalo Botanical Gardens. Alden is proud of being able to set the timer on the camera and be part of this photo. Don't you think he did a nice job?
- School: This semester is Managing New Product Design and Development. 4 components to each module. The obligatory discussion forum, with its first post protocol (you can't see any posts until you've made one); an ongoing group project to design a new product; reading about 150 pages from the book; and homework assignments which consist of answering any 2 questions at the end of the chapters.
- Finally, work. Digital Commons stuff is going well, with several new collections under way, including: the College of 2025, EOP newsletters and two new journals - Philosophic Exchange and Journal of Literary Onomastics - both in the design stage! I'm hosting 2 conferences, the 2013 Diversity Conference and 2013 Graduate Research Conference.
- Grants: Besides the two technology grant applications I just completed (a new scanner for ILL, with Logan, and a 3D scanner to go with the 3D printer we are getting); I am also trying to get a Conversations in the Disciplines grant to host a conference on Using Institutional Repositories to host/promote Open Access Journals (or something like that). It is a very involved grant application, and I am trying to get Josh Beatty, Ben Hockenberry, and Marc Dewey to join me.
- Webinar: In early April, I will be co-presenting a bepress Digital Commons webinar on Institutional Repositories Supporting Community Engagement, Part 2: Regional Research at the College at Brockport (SUNY) and University of of Massachusetts, Amherst. Institutional repositories can play a key role in a college or university’s mission to serve the greater community. At the College at Brockport (SUNY), Kim Myers views the repository as an ideal venue for supporting and sharing regional, community-oriented scholarship. SUNY Brockport has long been a center for Great Lakes research, but for years this valuable research was housed primarily on one professor’s computer. Working with Professor Joseph Makarewicz, Kim has created an IR collection to archive and disseminate these research articles, government documents, community newsletters, and technical reports.
- Article for
We are looking for experts and those who have learned on the job to
write articles about their experiences with a library publishing
program, service or project. These experiences could be a range of
activities from working with authors on copy editing and copyright
issues to digitization of archival materials or utilizing print on
demand services. All of these activities comprise the new role libraries
are filling–and we want to hear about it.
Specific areas of interest include:
- What programs and services are offered by libraries to writers?
- Does your library help users develop curated content to publishing in either in print or digital form?
- What strategies are being used to select items for digitization?
- Has your library identified unique print materials to be digitized and potentially sold?
- Has your library developed partnerships with other agencies to support digital publishing?
- The compilation of these articles will become the Library Publishing Toolkit. This open access publication will share a broad range of publishing strategies and projects from both academic and public libraries. It will serve as an essential guide and set of workflows for libraries of various types to get started or improve efficiency with publishing services.
Oh, and maybe do an internship this summer with Institutional Research. And try and talk my boss into a promotion.
That's whats been keeping me busy, besides the usual and not so usual family things. What have you been up to?
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