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 The public is invited to a colloquium
on Digital Libraries on Friday, June 1, 2007. The
colloquium will feature Don Waters, Program Officer for
Scholarly Communications at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Dr.
Waters will discuss “The Future of Scholarly Communications:
A Perspective on Issues and Priorities from The Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation.” The Colloquium will
take place at 10:30 am in Room 501 of the School of Information
Sciences Building, 135 North Bellefield Avenue. The
Digital Libraries Colloquium is free and open to the
public.
Dr. Waters will discuss how scholarly communications
is changing rapidly as scholars, disciplines, and their
institutions increasingly embrace digital technologies. This
talk will focus on the development of scholarly resources
in humanities disciplines, the changing role of libraries
and scholarly publishers, the cyberinfrastructure that
is needed to facilitate these developments and how the
Mellon Foundation is shaping its grant-making activity
to strengthen and support scholarly communications.
Donald J. Waters is the Foundation's Program Officer
for Scholarly Communications. Before joining the Foundation,
he served as the first Director of the Digital Library
Federation (1997-1999), as Associate University Librarian
at Yale University (1993-1997), and in a variety of other
positions at the Computer Center, the School of Management,
and the University Library at Yale. Mr. Waters graduated
with a Bachelor's degree in American Studies from the
University of Maryland, College Park in 1973. In 1982,
he received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University.
Mr. Waters conducted his dissertation research on the
political economy of artisanry in Guyana, South America.
He has edited a collection of African-American folklore
from the Hampton Institute in a volume.
In 1995-96, Mr. Waters co-chaired the Task Force of
the Commission on Preservation and Access and the Research
Libraries Group on Archiving of Digital Information,
and was the editor and a principal author of the Task
Force Report. He is a fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science and is also the author
of numerous articles and presentations on libraries,
digital libraries, digital preservation, and scholarly
communications.
The Digital Libraries Colloquium is sponsored by the
School of Computer Science-Carnegie Mellon University,
the School of Information Sciences-University of Pittsburgh,
the University Library System-University of Pittsburgh,
the University Libraries-Carnegie Mellon University and
the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
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