December 6–8, 2006

The Association of Research Libraries and Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) are jointly sponsoring the Institute for Scholarly Communication as an immersive learning experience to prepare participants as local experts within their libraries and equip them with tools for developing campus outreach strategies. As a participant in this two-and-a-half-day immersion program, you will become fluent with scholarly communication issues and trends so that you are positioned to educate others on your library staff, engage in campus commnications programs and other advocacy efforts, and work collaboratively with other participants to begin developing an outreach plan for your campus.

Participants will work with experts in the field to understand how to better engage faculty at their institution around the crisis in the systems of scholarly communication. You will also learn about the emergence of new models for scholarly communication as well as strategies for creating systemic change. These will include:

• Faculty activism (e.g., editorial board control, author rights, copyright management, and self-archiving)
• New publishing models
• Digital repositories
• Legislative and policy advocacy

The goal is to help participants prepare a program plan that is customized for their institution. To achieve this goal you will prepare an environmental scan before the institute, engage in a series of active learning experiences during the event, and write an outreach program plan for implementation at your home institution.

Questions?

Click here to access the FAQ page.

The report on successful applications for the December institute may also be useful in making applications to future institutes.

With further questions about the institute and/or the application process, please contact Kara Malenfant, Scholarly Communications and Government Relations Specialist, ACRL, at kmalenfant@ala.org or Karla Hahn, Director, Office of Scholarly Communications, ARL, at karla@arl.org.