SPARC releases videos on digital repository development, Announces 2010 meeting

[Jennifer McLennan <jennifer@arl.org>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 23, 2009

Contact:
Jennifer McLennan
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SPARC releases videos on digital repository development, 
Announces 2010 meeting

Washington, DC (Feb. 23, 2009) -- Experts and advocates examine 
the state of the art in digital repositories in a new series of 
videos now freely available online from SPARC (the Scholarly 
Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition).  Also, by popular 
demand, SPARC has announced it will host the third SPARC Digital 
Repositories Meeting on November 8 & 9, 2010, in Baltimore, 
Maryland.

The video series was taped at the November 2008 SPARC 
repositories meeting, and underscores the central role of 
repositories across library services. Particular emphasis is 
placed on the added value they contribute to the institution and 
on the importance of funding repository development even in lean 
economic times. The clips feature three full-length plenary 
addresses plus seven short interviews with leading-edge 
repository implementers, including:

.  Ernie Ingles, Vice Provost and Chief Librarian at University 
of Alberta

.  Michelle Kimpton, Executive Director of the DSpace Foundation

.  Bonnie Klein, Information Collection/Copyright Specialist at 
the US Defense Technical Information Center

.  Catherine Mitchell, Director of the eScholarship Publishing 
Group at California Digital Library (CDL)

.  Sarah Shreeves, IDEALS Coordinator at University of Illinois 
at Urbana-Champaign

.  David Shulenburger, Vice President for Academic Affairs of the 
National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant 
Colleges (NASULGC)

.  John Wilbanks, Vice President for Science at Creative Commons

.  Bob Witeck, CEO of Witeck-Combs Communications Inc.

In his keynote remarks, David Shulenburger urges institutions to 
expand their support of institutional repository development and 
suggests seven specific steps libraries should take to promote 
repositories on their campuses.

Ernie Ingles highlights institutional repository development as 
bringing libraries back into the mainstream of providing services 
to faculty and graduate students. He argues that libraries must 
decide whether supporting a digital repository is an "add on" or 
an "instead of" in their resource allocations.

Bonnie Klein notes that digital repositories are not just for 
universities. She explores the extensive experience of government 
agencies in capturing and preserving intellectual assets so that 
information can be reorganized, reduced, and recombined. She 
urges universities to collect the corporate output of the 
institution to support accountability and show patterns in the 
development of where the institution has been---and where it 
might be going.

The videos are available through the SPARC video channel 
(http://www.sparcspaces.org/video/tag/digitalrepository08), where 
they may be shared, commented upon, or downloaded for campus use. 
Advocates are invited to make wide use of these tools in making 
the case for repository success at their institutions.

For news on the 2010 SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting, join the 
SPARC-IR discussion list at 
http://www.arl.org/sparc/about/emailsignup.shtml.

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SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), 
with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan, is an international alliance 
of more than 800 academic and research libraries working to 
create a more open system of scholarly communication. SPARC's 
advocacy, educational and publisher partnership programs 
encourage expanded dissemination of research. SPARC is on the Web 
at http://www.arl.org/sparc.

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Jennifer McLennan
Director of Communications
SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition)
http://www.arl.org/sparc
jennifer@arl.org