Digital Libraries Colloquium Series

Present Digital Libraries Colloquium Series

Featuring world-level experts in the emerging field of Digital Libraries.

• Thursday, March 27, 2008
  Speaker Ananda Gunawardena, School of Computer Sciences, Carnegie Mellon
  "Adaptive Book - A Textbook Management Platform for Interaction, Collaboration and Analysis"
  4:00 - 5:00 pm, Room 501, IS Building, 135 North Bellefield Avenue
  
  
• Monday, February 11, 2008
  Speaker Dr. Peter Suber, Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College
  " What is Open Access to Research?"
  4:30 ­ 6 p.m. , Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall, Carnegie Mellon
  [ link to: abstract | bio ] [ poster ] [ PowerPoint ] [ video ]
  
  
• Friday, December 7, 2007
  Presented with The Sara Fine Institute
  by Dr. William Arms, Professor, Cornell University
  "Cyberscholarship: supercomputing meets digital libraries, with the Web as a case study"
  Noon - 1:30 pm, Room 404, IS Building, 135 North Bellefield Avenue
  [ link to: abstract | bio ]
  
  
• Friday, November 2, 2007
  Presented as part of  The International Conference on Universal Digital Library
  by Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director, Library of Alexandria in Egypt.
  "Intellectual Property. Rights in the Digital Age: Reflections on Why Copyright Law Must Change"
  4:30 pm - 6:00 pm, Posner Center
  [link to : ICUDL 2007 program ] [ poster ]
  
  
• Friday, June 1, 2007
  by Dr. Donald Waters, Program Officer for Scholarly Communications, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 
  “The Future of Scholarly Communications: A Perspective on Issues and Priorities from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.” 
  10:30 am – 11:30 am, Room 501, IS Building, 135 North Bellefield Avenue
  [ link to: poster ] [ video ]
  
  
• Wednesday, April 4, 2007
  by Ed Galloway, Coordinator, Digital Research Library within the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
  "Collaborating with Pitt Faculty to Build Image Collections"
  12:00 noon - 1:00 pm in Room 501, Information Science Building
  [ link to: abstract | bio ] [ video ]
  
  
• Wednesday, March 14, 2007
  by Fei Yu, ILS Applications Specialist in eiNetwork
  "Users' Emotional and Material Satisfaction at the Micro/macro Level in Academic Libraries"
  12:00 noon - 1:00 pm in University Center, Rangos II at Carnegie Mellon University
  [ link to: abstract | bio ] [ poster ] [ video ]
  
  
• Wednesday, February 14, 2007
  by Lewis Lancaster, Professor Emeritus, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Director, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, International and Area Studies, University of California, Berkeley
  "Support for the Learner: Digital Reference to What, Where, When, Who"
  12:00 noon - 1:00 pm in Room 501, Information Science Building
  [ link to: abstract | bio ] [ video ]
  
  
• Wednesday, January 17, 2007
  by Denise Troll Covey, Principal Librarian for Special Projects, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
  "Faculty Rights and Other Scholarly Communication Practices."
  12:00 noon - 1:00 pm in Newell Simon Hall, Room 3305 at Carnegie Mellon University
  [ link to: abstract | bio ] [ video ] [ presentation ]

Past Colloquia: 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002