I hope to post on this, the crowning achievement in blogging, more news and information relating to scholarly communication and open access.  To start, here is a list of scholarly communication blogs that may interest you.  The Library’s scholarly commuication LibGuide contains all the feeds.  Or, sign up for your own.

Issues in Scholarly Communication from the University of Illinois
http://www.library.illinois.edu/blog/scholcomm/

Lawrence Lessig (Stanford Law School, Center for Internet and Society, Creative Commons)
http://lessig.org/blog/

Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/atom.xml

SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~feed.xml

DigitalKoans
http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/

Nigerian writer Chris Abani will speak in the Bluhm Lecture Hall (Parmer 108) this Wednesday, December 2, 2009.

Chris Abani is part of a new generation of Nigerian writers working to convey to an English-speaking audience the experience of those born and raised in that troubled African nations. he published his first novel, a controversial political thriller, when he was 16. Abani’s best-selling novel Graceland is the funny and unsettling story of a young Nigerian Elvis impersonator.

For more information on the works of Chris Abani, interviews and news stories click here.

Please note our changes in hours for the 2009-2010 holiday season.

Library Holiday Hours – 2009-2010

Thanksgiving

Winter Break

The Media Center is getting rid of its slide collection!!!  However instead of tossing them in the trash we thought we could give them a second chance.

Amy Hughes, Media Center Student Assistant, did just that.  This is just one of the many ways you can reuse art.  What can you make?  Stop by the Media Center and browse the slide collection and take what you can.  See if you can create your own work of art.

Dominican University joins Triton College for programs centered on reading an thoughtful discussion of the short story book: Sun, Stone, and Shadows – 20 great Mexican Short Stories

 

Friday, November 13, 2009

4:30 pm to 5:30 pm

Springer Suite, Crown Library

Book Discussion, hosted by LISSA

(Library Information Science Student Association)

Miércoles el 18 de noviembre de 2009

4:00pm—5:00pm

Lewis Lounge

Discusíon de libro, en español con estudiantes de

la Sociedad Honor Española y de OLA

(Organización de Latinoamericanos)

Refreshments will be served!

Book are available in English and Spanish at the circulation desk, Crown Library.

Check out Triton College’s Website for more information.

Video and slides (when available) from Open Access Week 2009 are available here: http://livedu.dom.edu/groups/openaccess/.

Thanks to the Dominican community and librarians from our LIBRAS consortium for participating.  If you have any comments about the Week or any suggestions for next year, please comment on this post or contact Caroline: csietmann@dom.edu, 708-524-6884.

Dominican’s Office of Marketing and Communication has created this video about the Noah Hart Papers from the Library’s Special Collections.  The video is also available on Dominican’s web site and on Dominican’s YouTube channel.  Thanks, especially, to Krissy Peterson and Matt Gibson.

The Hart Papers consist of correspondence and other materials from Captain Noah Hart during the Civil War.  The digital collection is available at : http://www.dom.edu/library/Noah_Hart_Papers_Digital_Collection.html.

Thursday, October 22nd
Creative Commons, Caroline Sietmann (Library)
Time: 1:00-2:15pm
Location: Center for Teaching & Learning Excellence (Parmer 115)

Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization working to help authors choose the terms of their copyrights and to increase the amount of materials in the “commons.” CC offers 6 legal licenses authors can apply to their work as an alternative to signing away all their rights to a publisher and as a way to increase the impact of their scholarship and creative works. As more and more CC-licensed work is available on the free Web, we need to understand the terms of the licenses and how we can help students use those works legally and ethically. In this workshop you’ll learn about the licenses and how they work with copyright, how to apply a CC license to your own work and how to find CC-licensed scholarship, audio, video, photographs, learning objects and more for use in the classroom. This event is part of the Technology Bytes series.

Today:

Wednesday, October 21st
Open Access Journals, Ed Valauskas (GSLIS), Jan Rodgers (GSSW) and GSLIS Internet Publishing students
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Location: Center for Teaching & Learning Excellence (Parmer 115)

Open access (OA) journals are free to view, print and download; no subscription required. Many of the several thousand OA journals are scholarly, peer-reviewed publications. Dominican University is unique in offering a graduate library science class in open access journal construction, aka Internet Publishing. Come hear Dominican University faculty and students discuss their experiences creating and working on 3 OA journals: First Monday, The Journal of Global Social Work Practice and World Libraries. Through their presentations, you’ll also learn about the history and sustainability of OA journals, important OA issues such as author rights, costs, and impact factors, and why and how to publish in an OA journal.