This Symposium, being held for the 7th year at University of San Diego, has an outstanding line-up of pre-conferences and speakers; I think many of you would find attending the program a very enriching experience. —Joan Lippincott, Associate Director Emerita, CNI

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Registration for the Seventh Annual Digital Initiatives Symposium is now open! Check out the program at: https://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/2020/ Monday, April 27:

Five pre-conference workshops:

• Cataloging in the Age of RDA: Latest Trends, Issues, and Challenges

Murtha Baca PhD, Getty Research Institute (emerita) and UCLA (emerita);

Luiz H. Mendes, California State University, Northridge and UCLA

• Developing and Articulating Open Access Policies, Principles, and Guidelines:

a Hands-On Workshop

Ellen Finnie, MIT

• Lessons from SPARC’s Journal Negotiation Community of Practice:

A Workshop on Aligning Negotiations With Making Scholarship Open By Default

Nick Shockey, Caitlin Carter, and Greg Tananbaum, SPARC

• Copyright Intersections for Academic Librarians Sara Benson, University of Illinois

• Planning and Managing a Digital Collections Project Dinah Handel, Stanford University

Outdoor Wine and Cheese Welcome Reception

Tuesday, April 28

Keynote speakers:

"What is Open about Closed: an Ubuntu Perspective of Open Access"

Reggie Raju, University of Cape Town

"Academy-Owned Non-Profit Open Access Publishing:

an Approach to Achieve Participatory and Sustainable Scholarly Communications"

Arianna Becerril García, Redalyc

Featured speaker:

"Facilitating OA Transformation through Publisher Engagement: The UC Experience"

Ivy Anderson, California Digital Library

Deans' Panel:

Jennifer Fabbi, Dean, University Library; California State University, San Marcos

Maggie Farrell, Dean of Libraries; University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Larry Alford, University Chief Librarian; University of Toronto Plus:

5 Lightning Talks 12 Concurrent Sessions 4 User Groups

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN SAN DIEGO!