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The Open Education Initiative At Umass Amherst: Taking A Bite Out Of High Cost Textbooks, Marilyn S. Billings
The Open Education Initiative At Umass Amherst: Taking A Bite Out Of High Cost Textbooks, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
Breakout session of conference: To describe the Open Education Initiative that began at the University of Massachusetts in Spring 2011.
The Transformation Of Library Services In A Time Of Rapid Scholarly Communication Change, Marilyn S. Billings
The Transformation Of Library Services In A Time Of Rapid Scholarly Communication Change, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
Academic libraries of all sizes can and must strategically position themselves to capture, manage, and disseminate the digital scholarship of their respective institutions. There are many new opportunities and challenges that these roles are providing for librarians in their relationships with faculty and other members of the campus community. Our discussion topics will include how the liaisons are participating in engaged discussions with the faculty about how to manage rights to their scholarly articles and creative works, describe services provided by our institutional repository (ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst) and how this has facilitated new partnerships, describe librarians’ active role in creating data …
Transforming Library Services In A Time Of Rapid Scholarly Communication Change, Marilyn S. Billings
Transforming Library Services In A Time Of Rapid Scholarly Communication Change, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
Variation of sabbatical talks given at University of Washington, Indiana University, University of North Carolina, and Washington State University that discusses strategic scholarly communication and digital library developments, and open education initiatives at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.