3rd Annual Symposium on Scholarly Communication
Cultural Transformation of the University’s Knowledge Base
March 3, 2005
The keynote speaker was Daniel Greenstein, Associate Vice Provost for
Scholarly Information and University Librarian for Systemwide Library Planning at the University of California and Executive
Director of the California Digital Library. He has also served as director of
the Digital Library Federation, a group of 28 leading research libraries that
collaborates in the use of electronic information technologies to extend their
member's collections and services.
His academic career has included appointments in Modern History at Glasgow University, where he was director of the Arts Faculty Computing Facility. He was also founding director of the Arts and Humanities Data Service of the United Kingdom, where he lead the development of a digital information service to support arts and humanities research and teaching in the U.K.
Greenstein’s presentation, “Institutional Repositories: What Problems Are They Trying To Solve, For Whom, and Who Should Care?” described the University of California’s four years of experience with their institutional repository. He also discussed the need to build an infrastructure, create incentives, eliminate barriers, and ultimately empower faculty for local decision-making. Greenstein's keynote is available via streaming video.
Biosketch:
Library Journal, 3/15/2002
Recent publications:
The Digital Library: A Biography, Digital Library Federation, 2002
The past three Annual Symposia were well attended by university faculty, staff and students and generated many requests to continue the dialog, and to provide emphasis on how disciplines in the humanities and social sciences are affected by the changing nature of scholarly publishing. For more information, read about all the UNM Scholarly Communication Symposiums.
If you have any questions, or wish to provide feedback to the symposium planning committee, please feel free to contact Dr. Holly Buchanan.