SPARC-ACRL Forum to focus on student engagement
CHICAGO & WASHINGTON, DC - The 16th SPARC-ACRL Forum,
"Working
with the Facebook Generation: Engaging Student Views on
Access to
Scholarship," will be held at the ALA Midwinter Meeting
in
Philadelphia on January 12. Co-sponsored by SPARC (Scholarly
Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and ACRL
(Association of College and Research Libraries), the
semiannual
forum focuses on emerging issues in scholarly
communication.
Appreciating, if not understanding, student perspectives on
information sharing and access to research will advance
library
outreach programs. Librarians and students have the power to
build valuable bridges of collaboration and guide the larger
academic community to reshape scholarly communication.
Tech-savvy students, who live and breathe information
sharing,
are critical to changing the way scholarly communication is
conducted. Not bound by traditional modes of research
exchange,
students are using all the technologies at their disposal to
engage in scholarly discourse - including blogs, wikis and
tagging tools. What will they do next? How do they view the
future of scholarly exchange?
At the next SPARC-ACRL Forum, graduate students from an
array of
disciplines, institutions and engaged perspectives will
share
their approaches to scholarly communication issues. Joined
by
librarians whose scholarly communication programs have
explicit
student-focused components, they will explore the importance
of
outreach and the potential impact of students as current and
future key stakeholders. The forum will also showcase the
winners
of the first Sparky Award for the best short videos on the
value
of information sharing.
The SPARC-ACRL Forum will be held:
Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008
4:00 - 6:00PM
Pennsylvania Convention Center, room 204 A/B
The event will be also available via SPARC Podcast at a
later date.
Speakers include:
* Andre Brown, PhD student in Physics and Astronomy at the
University of Pennsylvania and co-blogger for Biocurious
* Kimberly Douglas, University Librarian, California
Institute of
Technology
* Nelson Pavlosky, Law student at George Mason University
and
co-founder of Students for Freeculture
* Stephanie Wang, graduate student in Economics at Princeton
University and former National Coordinating Committee
member,
Universities Allied for Essential Medicines
The forum is followed by the ACRL Scholarly Communication
Discussion Group, where there will be an open discussion of
key
issues that surface at the forum. The Discussion Group will
be
held Sunday, Jan. 13, from 4:00 - 6:00PM at the Marriott
Philadelphia, room Franklin 11.
For more information, visit the SPARC Web site at
http://www.arl.org/sp
arc/forum.
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