Key Dates, 2006:

March 1 - Deadline for Applications
April 1 - Last Day of Notifications
July 12-14 - Institute on Scholarly Communication

(Check-in will begin at 11:30am on July 12th;
Last meeting will adjourn at 4:30pm on July 14th.)

Host Location: University of California, Los Angeles

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 2.5-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 communications 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.

Who Should Apply?

Institute planners are committed to creating an experience that allows people with varied expertise to explore scholarly communications issues together. The goal is to have the cohort represent a wide range of professional backgrounds, types and sizes of institutions, and roles within the institutions. Examples of institutional roles include:

• Librarians who work directly with faculty members on campus
• Library administrators
• College and university faculty and administrators
• Those responsible for digital repositories
• Librarians with collection development responsibilities

Application and Registration

The deadline for applications has passed.

Registration Fee

Registration fee is $500 per person. Fee includes all Institute materials, continental breakfast and breaks on each day, and lunch on Thursday and Friday. Participants are responsible for other meals, travel, and lodging expenses.

Lodging Information

Rooms have been reserved at specific locations for Institute participants. Lodging details will be provided to those who have been accepted into this Institute.

Questions?

Click here to access the FAQ page.

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