Post on 21-Dec-2015
Eating your way to outreach
Scholarly Communication Lunch Series
University of California, San Diego
Susan Starr, AUL Sciences and Scholarly Communication
July 2006
Goal: Encourage faculty involvement
Objectives Raise awareness of scholarly
communication issues Build a core of knowledgeable faculty Reach the “thought leaders” Position Library in a leadership role
Action Plans
Bring in provocative speakers to attract listeners
Bring in faculty, since faculty listen to other faculty
Food is always good… Co sponsors will lend prestigeSo…. Let’s do a faculty lunch!
Menu planning
The Format Lunch time series Invited speakers Held at Faculty Club (not the Library) 5 lunches over 7 months Plenty of time (we hoped) for discussion
Menu planning
Topic Selection Consulted with our Library Committees Consulted with our colleagues Consulted with influential faculty and
administrators Advertising plan Handouts, giveaways, etc.
The Hor d’ouevre
Authorship & Attribution: Access & Attention: Trends in Scholarly Communication Blaise Cronin, Dean, School of Library
and Information Science, Indiana University
First plates
Electronic publication, changing the way you write Philip Bourne: Realizing the power of
online publishing Carl Stahmer: Scholarship in the Age of
Ephemerality: the A,V,C,D, and F’s of the Digital Humanities
First plates Electronic publication, changing the
way your work is disseminated and read Stephen Rhind-Tutt, President of
Alexander Street Press, "Libraries, Publishers, Authors - what's next?"
Lynne Withey, Director, University of California Press, "Digital Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Barriers and Opportunities"
Entree
Are we losing control? Scholarly publishing is a big business. Ted Bergstrom, Economics Professor,
UCSB. "Some Economics of Scholarly Publishing: To Have and Be Had?”
Dessert
Your copyright is worth something, don’t sign it away Michael Carroll, Villanova School of Law,
"Valuing and Managing Your Copyright in Scholarly Articles."
Reviewing the Dining Experience
234 participants 150 unique attendees
Average of 47 per session Average attendee came to 1.56 sessions
97 ladder rank professors
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What next?
Involve our “thought leaders” Continue to co sponsor Focus on a single issue And remember….