Events

From Nicky Whitsed, Director of Library Services, The Open University

London, UK  The First European MOOCs and Libraries Conference, "MOOCs and Libraries: the good, the bad and the ugly", will be held on Friday July 12th, 2013 at the Pullman Hotel in Central London.

Valletta, Malta  A one-day workshop  on "Linking and Contextualizing Publications and Datasets" will be held in Valletta, Malta, on September 26, 2013. The workshop is sponsored by OpenAIREplus (www.openaire.eu) and EuroCRIS (www.eurocris.org) and is being offered In conjunction with TPDL 2013 (www.tpdl2013.info).

From Art Pasquinelli, Director Digital Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation, Oracle

Redwood City, CA  The next Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) webinar will be held on June 11 at 11:30am EST. The webinar is free for ASIS&T members and $20 for non-ASIS&T members. Register here:

http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-PASIG-6-11-2013-registe...

Title: Stewarding Research Data with Fedora and Islandora

Winchester, MA  Join the DuraCloud team online for the fourth brown bag session of 2013 TOMORROW, May 29th at 12:30pm ET.  May's brown bag session will detail the new integration between DuraCloud and Amazon Glacier, specifically discussing the unique qualities of Glacier cloud storage, use cases best suited for using Glacier, and also give a brief demonstration of how to backup content into Glacier via DuraCloud.
 

West Lafayette, IN  The Data Information Literacy Symposium at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN will be held on September 23-24, 2013.

Program

Ann Arbor, MI  The Digital Directions Conference will be held July 21-23, 2013 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. Join a faculty of national experts, experienced digital collections curators, and colleagues from institutions large and small as we come together to explore the challenges, considerations, and choices surrounding digital collections care.

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From Art Pasquinelli, Director Digital Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation, Oracle

Redwood City, CA  The next Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) webinar will be held on May 15 at 11:30am EST. The webinar is free for ASIS&T members and $20 for non-ASIS&T members.

To register, go to:

http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-PASIG-5-15-2013-register.html

From Alexander Garcia and Alex Garcia-Castro

Montpellier, France  The upcoming "Jailbreaking the PDF" hackathon (http://scholrev.org/hackathon) will be held Monday, May 27 in Montpellier, France at the Agence Bibliographique de l'enseignement Superieur (ABES):

http://www.abes.fr/Connaitre-l-ABES/Presentation-de-l-ABES.

Winchester, MA  Traveling to the CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication in Geneva June 19-21, 2013

From Louisa Kwasigroch, Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources

Washington, DC  The 2013 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum is seeking proposals for presentations, panel discussions, workshops, research updates, and hands-on, problem-solving sessions.