2015 University of San Diego Digital Initiatives Symposium

Wednesday, April 29, 2015, 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, University of San Diego

Join University of San Diego's Copley Library for a day-long event focused on the digital elements of library ecosystems and institutional repositories as well as a bepress Digital Commons user group meeting. Please see the conference program at http://www.sandiego.edu/library/documents/dis2015.pdf.

For registration and program information, please visit: http://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium $50 registration includes lunch and afternoon refreshments Please register by March 23, 2015 but open until filled

Featured keynote speakers will be: Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC Kenneth D. Crews, Attorney, Gipson Hoffman & Pancione Faculty, Columbia Law School

Panel Sessions: Matthew Gilchrist, Tom Keegan and Paul Soderdahl | University of Iowa DIY History: Building Digital Connections between Special Collections and the Undergraduate Classroom

Shannon Davis and Joel Minor | Washington University The James Merrill Digital Archive: Channeling the Collaborative Spirit(s) Andreas Kratky, Virginia Kuhn and Michaela Ullmann | University of Southern California The Architectural Touch: Gestural Approaches to Library Search

Concurrent Sessions: Wendy Fall, Rose Fortier and Heather James | Marquette University Between Subject and Tech Expertise: Collaborating with Faculty for Digital Humanities Projects

Lopez D. Matthews, Jr. and Andrew Sulavik | Howard University Kenvi C. Phillips | Moorland-Spingarn Research Center Digitizing the Black Experience: The Building of 'Digital Howard' and the 'Portal to the Black Experience'

Julia Gelfand and Mitchell Brown | UC Irvine Bethany Harris | UC San Diego UC Open Access Policy: Not Always the Field of Dreams, But the Field of Hope

Amy Hunsaker | University of Nevada, Reno Turning Back the Clock: Retrofitting Metadata in Legacy Digital Collections

Keven Jeffery, Kathryn Houk, Jordan Nielsen and Jenny Wong-Welch | San Diego State University Creating and Sustaining a Digital Syllabus Collection

Kristin Laughtin-Dunker | Chapman University Annie Knight | Santa Ana College Librarian Collaboration and Teaching Undergraduates about Open Access

Alex Gil and Simone Sacchi | Columbia University Arden Kirkland | Syracuse University Long-Term Preservation of Digital Humanities Projects

Abbie Weinberg and Meaghan J. Brown | Folger Shakespeare Library 'O wiki'd wit and gifts, that have the power / So to seduce!': Creating a Public Collaborative Digital Space for a Special Collections Environment

Jeff Rubin | Tulane University BAMBOULA/NOLA: A Community Sound Repository and Experience

Melanie Hubbard | Loyola Marymount University Materializing Hypertexts: Bridging the 'Gap' Between Digital and Analog

Marcia McIntosh | University of North Texas Rescuing Texas History: Institutional Repository Development at The University of North Texas

Rebecca Hirsch and Kevin L. Glick | Yale University Restricted Access to Digitized Archival Collections: Copyright, Privacy and Donor Restrictions in 20th Century Archival Collections

For further information contact Kelly Riddle at kriddle@sandiego.edu or 619-260-6850.

Dr. Theresa S. Byrd Dean of the University Library Helen K. and James S. Copley Library University of San Diego 5998 Alcalá Park San Diego, CA 92110-2492 Phone: (619) 260-7522 Fax: (619) 849-8301 tsbyrd@sandiego.edu www.sandiego.edu/library