ASIS&T Annual Meeting Blog

Our Competing Realities

November 2nd, 2006 anita.coleman

Plan to join us at this SIG-DL sponsored panel at ASIS&T AM 2006, on Monday Nov. 6, 2006 from 1:30 - 3:30 pm. The panelists are Donald Kraft, Louisiana State University & Editor, JASIST; Edie Rasmussen, University of British Columbia, Samantha Hastings, University of South Carolina & Editor, ASIS&T Monograph Series; and Anita Coleman, University of Arizona and Editor, dLIST.

The goal of the panel is to explore the concept of the commons by framing it in the context of scholarly communication while also honing our understandings about digital libraries and repositories as technologies and socio-cultural artifacts. Panel members will uncover the pros and cons of the commons for LIS research and scholarly communication by describing the cognate and competing extant information realities. Edie Rasmussen will discuss the role of digital libraries in the commons. Anita Coleman, dLIST editor, the first open access archive for the information sciences will present her latest research about open access archives and the commons. Donald Kraft, Editor-in-chief of JASIST, will share his experiences editing a peer-reviewed ISI-ranked journal. Samantha Hastings, editor of ASIS&T monographs will share book publishing plans and concerns. Brief overviews together with the questions of each presenter for the audience/other panelists are already available, in case you want to peek ahead or perhaps even discuss online.

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