4th Annual Symposium on Scholarly Communication

The Digital Academy: Innovations in Scholarly Publishing

November 1st, 2005, 1-4, Student Union Ballroom C.
[photo] Ann J. Wolpert, MLS

Ann J. Wolpert, MLS [Keynote Speaker] [View streaming video of presentation]

Ann Wolpert is the Director of Libraries for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Her position also includes reporting responsibility for the MIT Press, which publishes approximately 200 new books and more than 40 journals per year in fields related to science and technology. Recently, Wolpert also assumed oversight of Technology Review, MIT’s magazine of innovation.

Prior to joining MIT, Wolpert was Executive Director of Library and Information Services at the Harvard Business School. Her previous experience also includes management of the Information Center of Arthur D. Little, Inc., where she additionally engaged in consulting assignments. More recent consulting assignments have taken her to Cornell University and Adelphi University in New York, to the campuses of INCAE in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and to the Malaysia University of Science and Technology, Selangor, Malaysia.

Ann Wolpert is active in the professional library community. She currently serves as President of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and is a member of ARL’s Intellectual Property and Copyright Committee. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Boston Library Consortium, and serves on the Steering Committee of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). Wolpert is a member of the Editorial Boards of Library & Information Science Research and The Journal of Library Administration. She serves on the advisory committee to the National Science Foundation’s publication Science and Engineering Indicators, and is an advisor to the Publication Committee of the Massachusetts Medical Society. A frequent speaker and writer, she has recently contributed papers on such topics as library service to remote library users, intellectual property management in the electronic environment, and the future of research libraries in the digital age.

Ann Wolpert is an Honorary Trustee of Simmons College, having recently retired from active board service. In 1998 she was elected to the National Network for Women Leaders in Higher Education of the American Council on Education. She received the BA from Boston University and the MLS from Simmons College.

Wolpert's presentation was titled "Institutional Repositories: An Innovative Solution for the Scholarly Community."

[photo] Abby Smith, PhD

Abby Smith, PhD  [View streaming video of presentation]

Abby Smith has published and lectured widely on the subject of the scholarly communication: preservation and access strategies for libraries, archives, and museums; the impact of digital information technologies on cultural heritage institutions; and the evolving role of information as a public good. She is currently working with the Library of Congress in its implementation of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and is an advisor to the ACLS Commission on the Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Previously, she was director of programs at Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) in Washington, D.C. She joined CLIR in 1997 to develop and manage collaborative programs with library and archival institutions to ensure long-term access to our cultural and intellectual heritage. Before that, she worked at the Library of Congress, first as a consultant to the special collections research divisions, then coordinating several cultural, academic, and international programs.

She holds a doctoral degree in history from Harvard University and has taught at Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities. Her recent publications include: Access in the Future Tense; New-Model Scholarship: How Will It Survive?; Strategies for Building Digitized Collections; The Evidence in Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections; and Authenticity in the Digital Environment.

The title of her talk was "More Innovative than We Think."


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 Holly Buchanan or Carol Parker.