Paul Courant, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs and professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan, will give the keynote at a Symposium of Scholarly Communications at UNM on March 3, 2005 at the Student Union Building, Ballroom A. The symposium, scheduled from 1 to 3:30 p.m., will explore how the changes in publishing are affecting scholarship in the humanities, social sciences and other disciplines.
Courant will discuss publishing issues in the humanities, changes in scholarship in the academy due to technology and other influences and how to assure the academy is doing well as a result of those changes. He will also talk about the University of Michigan’s participation in the Google Project, dedicated to digitizing books from several major research libraries.
Daniel Greenstein, associate vice provost for scholarly information and university librarian for Systemwide Library Planning and the California Digital Library at the University of California, will explore the process for development of an institutional repository. He will discuss ways to build an infrastructure, create incentives and eliminate barriers.
Event and registration information for the symposium is available at http://hsc.unm.edu/library/sc/symposium.shtml
The event is sponsored by the UNM Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Office of the Executive Vice President for the Health Sciences Center, the Office of the Associate Vice President for Knowledge Management and IT and Director of HSLIC, the Office of the Dean of University Libraries and the UNM Law Library.
Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627