Day 2 of Open Access Week

Today:

Tuesday, October 20th
Author Rights, Lauren Romeo & Tyler Works (GSLIS)
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Location: Bluhm Lecture Hall (Parmer 108)

When publishing the results of your research, you sign a publisher’s agreement that stipulates how the publisher and how you, the author, can use your research. The agreement may require you to give up some or all of your rights, limiting your research’s dissemination and use. But, you do not have to sign the agreement as is. You can change it so that you retain some or all of your rights, and so that you decide how your research will be disseminated. Learn about your options as an author, and will provide you with tools you can use to understand and amend publishers’ agreements and retain your rights. It will also inform you of emerging publishing methods, such as open access journals and repositories, you can use in addition to or in place of traditional journal and monograph publishing. It is not a primer on copyright law, but focuses on how you can protect your own copyright. This session is led by students in the Graduate School of Library & Information Science, and we especially welcome students from all of Dominican’s graduate schools.

It’s Open Access Week

Today’s Event:

Monday, October 19th
Institutional Repositories, Caroline Sietmann (Library)
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Location: Center for Teaching & Learning Excellence (Parmer 115)

An institutional repository (IR) is a digital collection of the scholarly and creative output of a university’s faculty, staff and students. It can hold and disseminate research publications, student work, audio and video and more. Hear about how an IR operates and how it can benefit individual scholars and the University as whole, and learn about Dominican’s plans for creating an IR.

For more info, please see: http://www.dom.edu/library/openaccessweek2009.html

Open Access Week is October 19-23, 2009

Free access to information. You know you want it.

Find out how open access can help you get it.

Open Access Week, October 19-23, 2009

All events are open to all Dominican faculty, staff and students. Refreshments provided. A t-shirt will be given away at every event.

Brought to you by Rebecca Crown Library, the GSLIS faculty and students, and DULISSA.

For more information on the week’s events, please contact Caroline Sietmann in the Library: csietmann@dom.edu, 708-524-6875.

For more information on open access, please see the Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS).

Monday, October 19th
Institutional Repositories, Caroline Sietmann (Library)
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Location: Center for Teaching & Learning Excellence (Parmer 115)

An institutional repository (IR) is a digital collection of the scholarly and creative output of a university’s faculty, staff and students. It can hold and disseminate research publications, student work, audio and video and more. Hear about how an IR operates and how it can benefit individual scholars and the University as whole, and learn about Dominican’s plans for creating and IR.

Tuesday, October 20th
Author Rights, Lauren Romeo & Tyler Works (GSLIS)
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Location: Bluhm Lecture Hall (Parmer 108) *changed from Springer Suite

When publishing the results of your research, you sign a publisher’s agreement that stipulates how the publisher and how you, the author, can use your research. The agreement may require you to give up some or all of your rights, limiting your research’s dissemination and use. But, you do not have to sign the agreement as is. You can change it so that you retain some or all of your rights, and so that you decide how your research will be disseminated. Learn about your options as an author, and will provide you with tools you can use to understand and amend publishers’ agreements and retain your rights. It will also inform you of emerging publishing methods, such as open access journals and repositories, you can use in addition to or in place of traditional journal and monograph publishing. It is not a primer on copyright law, but focuses on how you can protect your own copyright. This session is led by students in the Graduate School of Library & Information Science, and we especially welcome students from all of Dominican’s graduate schools.

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.

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.

October is Information Literacy Month

President Barack Obama declared October “National Information Literacy Awareness Month, 2009″ so we might “recognize the important role information plays in our daily lives, and appreciate the need for a greater understanding of its impact.”  Read more here.

Need information?  Ask your librarian!

Children’s Literature Conference

The Butler Children’s Literature Center, in cooperation with the Children’s Reading Round Table of Chicago, presents a day-long literature conference celebrating the illuminating power of books for children and teens:

The Truth About Beginnings

Friday, September 25th 8:30am-4:30pm

Dominican University
7900 West Division Street
(room to be announced)
River Forest, IL 60305

Sessions include:

Beginning Stories

Tim Tingle, renowned author, storyteller, and winner of the Jane Addams Award for Crossing Bok Chitto

The Truth about Beginnings Book Discussion

Thom Barthelmess, Lecturer and Curator Butler Children’s Literature Center, Dominican University

Teens in Transylvania: Young Adults and the Supernatural

Janice Del Negro, author and GSLIS Assistant Professor, Dominican University

Poetry: Beginnings and Innings

Michael Leonard, GSLIS Adjunct Faculty, Dominican University

My True Beginning , an interactive panel presentation on the first book that mattered

Jill Bambenek, Public Services Librarian Rebecca Crown Library, Dominican University, and;
Victoria (Vicki) Rakowski and Melanie M. Walski, current graduate students, Dominican University

Your registration includes:

6 (six) continuing education credits

Morning snacks, box lunch and afternoon snacks

Book sale and signing, courtesy of Anderson’s Bookshops

$100 after September 10, 2009

$40 Dominican University Students

register here:
http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=33127&schedule=list

or call the Dominican University Box Office at 708-488-5000

For more information, contact Thom Barthelmess:

708.524.6861 or butler@dom.edu

download .pdf form: here

Welcome our new Instruction Coordinator

Please welcome Crown Library’s newest faculty member, Instruction Coordinator, Ning Zou.

Ning Zou received her Dual Master’s of Library Science and Information Science – Human Computer Interaction from Indiana University Bloomington in 2004. She’s been working as an academic librarian in reference, instruction, collection development and information services for the past five years, holding positions at Miami University (Ohio), Eastern Kentucky University and most recently Trine University in Indiana. She is originally from Beijing, China. Ning loves travel, shopping, food, and being a librarian working on a variety of things.

In addition to coordinating library instruction, Ning will be the subject specialist for Business and Social Work disciplines. Stop by and say hello – Welcome, Ning!

Ning Zou (nzou@dom.edu), Crown 113, ext 6886

RefWorks workshop dates announced

 

 

If you’re not using RefWorks, you’re working too hard!

RefWorks is a resource management tool that allows you to save citations, create a bibliography in the style of your choice, format papers, and more.

Upcoming workshop dates:

• Wednesday, September 30
  
• Monday, October 5
• Tuesday, October 6
• Thursday, October 15
• Wednesday, October 21

All workshops are held in Crown 111, 4:15 pm -5:45 pm

Presented by Rebecca Crown Library.

Go Green, Print Lean

On Tuesday the Library began a new printing system.  After sending your documents to the printer, you must log in at the printer and select your print jobs.  You can log in to and print your documents from any printer on any floor of the library.  For more information, please see the FAQs on the Library web site: http://www.dom.edu/library/PrintingFAQ.html.

A few things to remember:

• Printing is still free for current Dominican students, faculty and staff.  Even though the printer screen shows costs of 10 cents/page, Dominican students, faculty and staff will not be charged.

• You log in to the printer with the same username and password as you use to log in to the library computers and to your email.  Remember to log off at the printer, too.

• When printing a PDF, be sure to use the print icon within Adobe.  Using the Adobe icon, rather than your browser’s File-Print option, will ensure that your entire document is sent to the printer.

Using this system helps us all be conscious of how much we’re printing, and helps eliminate unnecessary printing and unclaimed print jobs.  If you have questions about how to use the new system, please ask.

Fountains of Wayne

The fountain on the library patio was started up again over the summer.  Take time to eat your lunch or study out there before it’s turned off for the season and covered in snow.  No swimming.

Information for Copying Movies and Music in the Media Center

The following FAQs are intended to inform the faculty, staff and students at Dominican University about copyright and to provide guidelines for using and reproducing copyrighted audio visual (AV) materials.  This information is also available in the Media Center and on the Center’s web site: http://www.dom.edu/library/Services/mediacenter.html.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can the Media Center make a copy of a movie or sound recording from my personal collection?
We will make a copy if you are using the material for educational purposes and only if you have written permission from the copyright holder. Columbia University has detailed information on how to seek permission from the copyright holder.  They also offer a downloadable model permissions letter.

Can the Media Center make a copy of a movie or sound recording from the Center’s collection for my personal collection?
The Media Center does not copy movies or music for personal collections.

Can the Media Center copy a VHS from the Center’s collection onto DVD?
If the VHS is damaged, deteriorating, lost or stolen AND if we cannot purchase the DVD at a fair price, we can make a DVD copy for the Media Center collection.

Can the Media Center make a copy of a DVD so there are more available for my students?
If we cannot purchase another DVD(s) at a fair price, we can make up to 3 copies for the Media Center collection.

Can I show a movie from the Media Center collection in my class?
According to the Dominican University Film Policy, you may show a movie in class IF:

• The movie is an “integral part of a class session”
• The viewing is supervised by a teacher in a classroom.
• The viewing is attended only by students enrolled in a registered class of an accredited nonprofit educational institution.

Public viewing requires a license from the copyright holder.  For information, please contact the Office of Student Involvement at 708-524-6037.

Can the Media Center digitize sound recordings and put them online?
Yes.  The digital files will only be available through computers on the Dominican University campus.