Dear cni-announce subscribers:

This conference, offered by the University of San Diego Copley Library, offers a great line up of speakers on a range of digital content topics. Registration information is below. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

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2016 University of San Diego Digital Initiatives Symposium

Half-day preconference: Wednesday, April 27, 2016, 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Full-day conference: Thursday, April 28, 2016, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, University of San Diego

Join University of San Diego's Copley Library for the third annual Digital Initiative Symposium. Extended to a day and a half and featuring workshops and user group meetings for a variety of institutional repository platforms, the conference focuses on the digital elements of library ecosystems and institutional repositories. Please see the conference program here.

For registration and program information, please visit: http://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium. $75 registration includes both the preconference and full-day conference $65 registration includes full-day conference $30 registration includes preconference workshops Please register by March 24, 2016 but open until filled.

Featured Keynote Speakers for Thursday, April 28: Charles Henry | President, CLIR James Neal | University Librarian Emeritus, Columbia University

Preconference Workshops (Wednesday, April 27) Open Educational Resources Workshop Nicole Allen | SPARC

Memorandum of Understanding Workshop: Creating a Process for Successful Digital Collaboration Brett Currier, Rafia Mirza, and Peace Ossom Williamson | University of Texas at Arlington

Building Capacity for DH Work in the Library and Beyond Ashley Sanders | Claremont University Consortium

Panels (Thursday, April 28) So many things are possible when you don’t know they’re impossible: Building Collaborative Tools & Workflows for Digitization Alyssa V. Lorea, Heather Briston, Claudia Horning, and Jillian Cuellar | UCLA

Manipulation, Multiplicity, and Metadata: Piloting Linked Open Data with Artists’ Books Kelly Spring, Emilee Matthews, and Laura J. Smart | University of California, Irvine

Roles and Responsibilities of Deans and Directors in Digital Initiatives and Campus IRs W. Lee Hisle | Connecticut College Christopher Cox | University of Northern Iowa Jennifer Nutefall | Santa Clara University

Concurrent Sessions An Online Hub for Undergraduate Research: Leveraging an Institutional Repository to Engage Students & Disseminate Research Suzanna Conrad | California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Catholic, Crowdfunded and Collaborative: A Unique Approach to Newspaper Digitization Patricia Lawton | Catholic Research Resources Alliance Jeff Moyer | Reveal Digital Frederick Zarndt | Digital Divide Data, IFLA Governing Board

The Initiative for Digital IDEAS (Innovations in Digital Expression, Access and Scholarship) at Cal Poly Anna Gold | Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Credible Journal Working Group in Action!: Collaborating to Create Positive Change in Scholarly Publishing Shilpa Rele, Nataly Blas, and Marie Kennedy | Loyola Marymount University

Surveying the Landscape of Undergraduate Education in the Digital Humanities Lydia Zvyagintseva | University of Toronto

The Cycle of User-Responsive Collection Development in Digital Libraries Genevieve Podleski and Jane Davis | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

The Library as Host, Rather than Publisher, of Open Access Journals John Novak and Andrea Wirth | University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Lifting All Boats: A Collaborative Approach to Support Student-Created Digital Publishing Kate Dohe and Laura Leichum | Georgetown University

Giving the Digital Humanities Life: Community Partnerships that Extend a Digital Humanities Project’s Relevance Kathryn Otto | Indiana University Bloomington

Creating a Wesleyan-Holiness Digital Library: Developing a Shared Open Access Collection with Constituent Institutional Repositories Frank Quinn | Point Loma Nazarene University Katie King | Southern Nazarene University

Sustainable Library Publishing: Opportunities and Challenges in Creating an Open Textbook Publishing Program Karen Bjork | Portland State University

Digital Repository Futures at Caltech Stephen Davison | Caltech

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