Update to Digital Media Commons

As we've been discussing and presenting information about the Digital Media Commons, things are moving forward thanks to the help of many of you.  The following slides are part of a presentation packet for use in promoting the DMC:



Shift Happens

Next week we move into March and a lot will be happening in the basement to get ready for the April 1st deadline for renovation.  Ann and her crew have done an outstanding job of moving and shift materials and we've gotten some help lined up during spring break.  Mary Jane and the folks in the catalog department have also been a great help in getting materials directed, sorted and staged.

We filled up the surplus truck today and be making another run late next week as well as moving the microfiche cabinets and thinning out the shelving so that we have some room to maneuver.

Early next week I will publish details on what to expect when over the next several weeks, in the meantime, thanks for your patience and thanks to all those working on this project for their efforts.
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Liaison Collections Responsibilities Task Force

A new Task Force looking at Liaison Collections Responsibilities has been formed with Steve Cramer agreeing to be chair.  Libraries are talking about how collection development has changed, and about the need for a re-examination of how they are organized to handle collection development along with the multitude of other liaison responsibilities. It's a critical issue that needs to be investigated and given some attention.

This task force is charged to:

·         Define the collection development, instruction, outreach and newly defined and enhanced responsibilities of our liaisons.

·         Define the ways that collection development has changed over the years.

·         Benchmark with other libraries to see how they are handling the complexities of liaison responsibilities in new, creative and innovative ways.

·         Recommend an organizational model for collection development and other liaison responsibilities that will allow us to give the proper attention to both areas in a sleek and efficient way. More than one organizational model should be recommended providing alternatives to choose from.

Other members include:  Beth Bernhardt, Mike Crumpton, Amy Harris, Nancy Ryckman and the report is due to Rosann on September 30th.

Open Access Publishing Support Fund

The University Libraries and the Office of Research & Economic Development recently created an Open Access Publishing Support Fund in order to support faculty, EPA employees, and graduate students who are becoming increasingly involved in open access publishing.  Currently, there are more than 30,000 open access journals published worldwide, and in lieu of a subscription-based business model, many open access journals require that authors pay an article processing fee.  To reduce barriers to open access publishing and to support faculty, EPA employees, and graduate students who choose open access publishing as the best venue for their work, the University Libraries and the Office of Research & Economic Development established this pilot project, which is funded at $11,500. 

The primary guidelines for the fund are that the author/applicant must be a member of the full-time faculty, a full-time EPA employee, or an enrolled graduate student; the article must be published in a peer-reviewed open-access journal; the article processing fee must have been paid no more than three months prior to submission of the application; reimbursement will not exceed $1,000 per published article; reimbursement will be limited to one award per fiscal-year per author; and authors are expected to exhaust all other grant or contract funding sources available to them before applying for support from the Open Access fund.

Information about the guidelines and the application process, as well as a link to an online application form, can be found at:

http://library.uncg.edu/services/scholarly_communication/OAPSF.aspx

If you have questions about the fund or process, please contact Stephen Dew (shdew@uncg.edu), Collections & Scholarly Resources Coordinator