Thanks to everyone that shared ideas for Open Access Week events. Below I've listed all the ideas I got from responding librarians as well as the librarian who sent them and their institution.
If you didn't get a chance to send in ideas, then let's continue the conversation in the comments section!
Remember Open Access Week is October 24-30, 2011. You can learn more at
http://www.openaccessweek.org/____________________________________________________________________________
From Bruce Neville @
Texas A&M:
We're in year two of
Open Access Week here at Texas A&M. Our Scholarly Communications
group has a bunch of activities. The info is athttp://digital.library.tamu.edu/services/scholarly-communication/open-access/OA%20Week%202011.
- The "Open Access Cafe" is a
"booth" that they had last year in the lobbies of our various
branches (it moved as the week progressed) staffed by the Scholarly
Communication folks and other sympathetic folks like me. Candy, handouts,
"Aggies for Open Access" buttons in our colors, which I still wear on
my lanyard, etc.
- The Fair Use Film Festival is new this year and
sounds like great fun, but it's past my bedtime. ;-) The mashup
that I was going to nominate has been pulled by Disney, despite it being fair
use. :-(
From Mel DeSart @
Washington:
We've done OA Day/Week
stuff for the last few years, but this time we're taking a completely different
approach. In the past we've done almost exclusively programming of one
kind or another - generally three or four programs over the course of the
week. But we never did get very good attendance at most of them (even
after spending a small fortune on advertizing last year), so this year we're
abandoning programming completely and doing an exhibit in a high traffic lobby
area of the main library and then using as many communication channels as we
can to let people know it's there.
From Anne Rauh @
Syracuse:
- 10/19 Author talk with Amy Sonnie where she will cover "common
cause" politics, and the role of coalitions in visionary social
change. Drawing inspiration from the solidarity organizing of five little-known
community groups from the 1960s-70s, Amy will share historical lessons of
racial, economic and gender justice activism and discuss her own organizing for
LGBTQ rights, antiracism, juvenile justice and media democracy over the last 15
years. This is being co-sponsored by other departments on campus but we
are asking her to touch on the importance of access to all kinds of
information.
- 10/25 OA Brownbag sponsored by ENY-ACRL at
SUNY-ESF. Panelists Michael Poulin (Colgate), Yuan Li (Syracuse
University), Steve Weiter (ESF) and others as we discuss Discovery of Open
Access Materials, SHERPA/Romeo Standards, Costs of Publication and other
related topics of interest.
- 10/16 E-Science Expo. E-Science fellows from the Syracuse
University Information School will present the findings of their research
projects and internships.
- 10/27 Copyright webinar with Dorothea Salo in conjunction
with the SU Information School.
- We will also have a table staffed by librarians in our
Learning Commons to promote OA and our Institutional Repository, Surface,
that week.
From Christine Drew @ Worcester
Polytechic Institute
At WPI we are tossing ideas around.
So we are planning to offer a workshop on Creative Commons & The Public
Domain: Finding Free Images, Audio, & Video to Use but since
our term doesn't start until the 25th, we will offer the following week. We are
tossing around the idea of a panel with WPI faculty who edit and publish within
open access journals, but it's so busy not sure we'll be able to pull this off.
From Ursula Ellis @ University of British
Columbia
Here's the preliminary
schedule of events for UBC: http://scholcomm.ubc.ca/events-awards/oaweek/
From Jon
Jeffryes @ Minnesota:
This year we changing
our focus from faculty-centered to a more graduate student-focused event calendar. So far we have...
- Information
Tables with library staff at high traffic libraries. We'll have Open Access posters and freebies
(pens and the like). The goal of this
event is largely just to raise awareness.
- Grad Student panel
talking about different aspects of open access.
I believe of the two students we currently have signed on to speak one
will talk about working with an open access journal and another is going to
have more of a focus on open course materials.
- A workshop from
our data management folks focused on open data
- A workshop on
making your research open (author's rights, the role of the university's
digital conversancy, etc)
