Monday, November 17th

7:00 – 9:00AM Breakfast - Maryland Ballroom, Salon D
Sponsored by Data Conversion Laboratory

9:00 - 9:15AM - Maryland Ballroom, Salon D

Welcome

Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC

David Prosser, Director, SPARC Europe

Masamitsu Negishi, Chairman, SPARC Japan

9:15 - 10:15AM - Maryland Ballroom, Salon D

Opening Keynote

John Wilbanks, Vice President for Science, Creative Commons

10:15 – 10:30AM Break
Sponsored by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries

10:30AM – 12:00PM - Maryland Ballroom, Salon D

New Horizons

Panel presentations and discussion. Moderated by Norbert Lossau, Director, Gottingen State and University Library/DRIVER

Early discussion of campus-based digital repositories focused on pre-print and post-print versions of faculty research papers. Many institutions have discovered strong community interest in disseminating other types of content as well – including audio, video, image research outputs, multimedia projects, and ancillary evidence such as datasets, etc. that might be created in the course of research and class work. This interest has been strengthened by requirements set by many federal agencies that data-sharing plans accompany grant applications. The New Horizons panel will explore the transformative potential of data-intensive scholarship as well as explore solutions for the depositing dilemma that redefine the repository within the library’s “story” and scope of services.

Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs, The Johns Hopkins University, A Data-centric View of the Academic Universe

Shawn Martin, Scholarly Communication Librarian, University of Pennsylvania, Institutional Repository Personality Disorder: How do we cure it?

Jennifer Campbell-Meier, Doctoral Student, University of Hawaii, Storytelling and Institutional Repositories

12:00 – 1:30PM Lunch - Maryland Ballroom, Salon B
Sponsored by BioMed Central's OpenRepository

1:30 – 3:00PM - Maryland Ballroom, Salon D

Value-added User Services

Panel presentations and discussion. Moderated by Kathleen Shearer, Canadian Association of Research Libraries

Now that your digital repository is up and running, what’s next? The success of repositories will depend on the extent to which users value the services they offer. What types of services are being developed to take digital repositories beyond the static repository concept and make them more attractive for deposit, search, and reuse of the material? How can these services be created and maintained, and how can repository practitioners engage with service providers? This session will explore strategies for individual repositories, as well as national and international repository networks, to improve user experiences.

Joan Giesecke, Dean of Libraries, and Paul Royster, Coordinator of Scholarly Communications, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Value-Adding Services Bundled through an Institutional Repository: A Successful Model

Hideki Uchijima, Librarian, Kanazawa University Library, A Usage-centered Approach to the Promotion of Institutional Repositories

Norbert Lossau, Director, Gottingen State and University Library/DRIVER, DRIVER: Open Access to Information through Digital Repository Networks in Europe and Worldwide

3:00 – 4:00PM Break

4:00 – 6:30PM - Maryland Ballroom, Salon D

Reception & Innovation Fair

Diatomscapes, personal repositories, depositor reluctance, Amazon.com, and theses are a few of the themes repository champions will introduce at the 2008 Innovation Fair. Twenty presenters from four countries will voice the creative and innovative tactics used to cement local support and bolster repository growth to more than 1,200 sites worldwide. Presentations will begin at 4:30PM.

Presenters, in order of appearance:

Aaron Birkland, National Science Digital Library
Alex Wade, Microsoft Corporation
Allyson Mower, University of Utah
Alvin Hutchinson, Smithsonian Institution
Brenda Burk, IUPUI University Library
Chris Wilper, Fedora Commons
Daniel Davis, Fedora Commons
Eddie Shin, Fedora Commons
Guy McGarva & Robin Rice, University of Edinburgh
Sean Thomas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marianne Buehler, Rochester Institute of Technology
Marilyn Billings, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Catherine Mitchell, University of California
Mary Betts-Gray & John Harrington, Cranfield University
Tenesha Gleason, Amazon
Tomonari Kinto, University of Tsukuba
Plato Smith II, Florida State University
Rhonda Marker, Rutgers University
Shane Beers, George Mason University
Sue Kunda, Oregon State University

Tuesday, November 18th

7:00 – 9:00AM Breakfast - Maryland Ballroom, Salon D
Sponsored by EPrints

9:00 – 10:30AM - Maryland Ballroom, Salon D

The Policy Environment

Panel presentations and discussion. Moderated by Susan Gibbons, Vice Provost and Dean, University of Rochester

One of the challenges facing all repositories is the establishment of policies that positively affect the submission, accessibility, and re-use of materials. The wide spectrum of deposit mandates and recommendations currently in effect reflect the diverse nature of governmental and organizational funding objectives. This panel will provide three perspectives on these policies, representing current practices in Europe, Japan and the United States.

David Prosser, Director, SPARC Europe. Public Policy Drivers for Change in Europe

Syun Tutiya, Chiba University, Japan. The Japanese Policy Environment

Bonnie Klein, Defense Technology Information Center, USA, U.S. Federal Government Repositories & Public Access to Grant Research

10:30 – 10:45AM Break
Sponsored by The University of Alberta

10:45AM – 12:15PM - Maryland Ballroom, Salon D

Campus Publishing Strategies

Panel presentations and discussion. Moderated by Richard Fyffe, Rosenthal Librarian of the College, Grinnell College

Digital repositories are part of a set of emerging publishing functions on many campuses. Campus publishing activities are becoming increasingly collaborative as libraries partner with departments, campus I.T., university presses, other campuses, and third-party organizations such as scholarly societies. The recent Ithaka-sponsored report on “University Publishing in a Digital Age” encourages the development of “university publishing strategies” for a more strategic approach to disseminating the work of faculty and staff, and the reinstatement of publishing as an activity that is mission-critical to the academic ambitions of every institution. Campuses that have not traditionally thought of themselves as “publishers” must grapple with the shifting definition of that term, while university presses and other dedicated publishers struggle to articulate the value of their traditional services in a tight marketplace.

These three presentations will showcase the lessons learned in three very different settings: a multi-institutional regional collaborative of Canadian universities, the University of California’s system-wide publishing services initiative, and the publishing program of a small liberal arts college.

Rea Devakos, Coordinator of Scholarly Communication Initiatives, University of Toronto, Building in Uncertain Times: News from the Great White North

Catherine Mitchell, Director, eScholarship Publishing Group, California Digital Library, University of California, Let’s Stop Talking About Repositories: A Study in Perceived Use-Value, Communication and Publishing Services

Janet Sietmann, DigitalCommons Project Manager, and Teresa Fishel, Library Director, Macalester College, Showcasing Student, Faculty, and Campus Publications: Promoting, Populating, and Publishing in a small liberal arts college IR

12:15 – 2:00PM Lunch - Maryland Ballroom, Salon B
Sponsored by the Berkeley Electronic Press

12:45 – 1:45PM - Maryland Ballroom, Salon B

Luncheon Keynote

Bob Witeck, CEO, Witeck-Combs Communications

Introduced by Jun Adachi, Director, SPARC Japan

2:00 – 3:30PM - Maryland Ballroom, Salon B

Marketing Practicum

Introduced by Susan Gibbons, Vice Provost and Dean, University of Rochester Led by Nicole Colovos, Vice President, Bremmer & Goris Communications

This module will be dedicated to addressing one of the most compelling questions of digital repository management: How do we grow our content? This “Marketing Practicum” will introduce key marketing principles and strategies for the academic context. Participants will have a hands-on opportunity to apply these in an exercise aimed at engaging campus constituencies and demonstrating the importance of digital repositories. They will examine the research and publishing process from a variety of perspectives and be challenged to introduce repositories in ways that clearly communicate their benefits and opportunities to wide-ranging constituencies.

3:30 – 3:45PM Break
Sponsored by Bremmer & Goris

3:45 – 4:45PM - Maryland Ballroom, Salon D

Closing Keynote

David Shulenburger, Vice President for Academic Affairs, NASULGC

Introduced by David Prosser, Director, SPARC Europe

4:45 – 5:00PM

Closing Remarks

Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC

David Prosser, Director, SPARC Europe

Masamitsu Negishi, Chairman, SPARC Japan