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2014

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Library News for the Friends of the UMass Amherst Libraries

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Umass Amherst Friends Of The Library Newsletter - Spring/Summer 2014 (No. 47), Jay Schafer Jul 2014

Umass Amherst Friends Of The Library Newsletter - Spring/Summer 2014 (No. 47), Jay Schafer

Library News for the Friends of the UMass Amherst Libraries

In this edition of the News for the Friends of the UMass Amherst Libraries, you will notice an unusually large number of new staff and staff promotions. Over the past year, the Libraries have had an accelerated rate of retirements. This is both a challenge and an opportunity for the organization. It is always challenging to lose staff that have been with us for many years. Their institutional memory and connection to the campus community is priceless and something that cannot easily be replaced.

UMass Amherst Libraries and all research libraries (as I have mentioned so many times before) are …


Umass Amherst Friends Of The Library Newsletter - Fall/Winter 2014 (No. 48), Jay Schafer Jan 2014

Umass Amherst Friends Of The Library Newsletter - Fall/Winter 2014 (No. 48), Jay Schafer

Library News for the Friends of the UMass Amherst Libraries

The Libraries recently celebrated the seventh annual Open Access Week. This global event is an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn about the potential benefits of open access – the free, immediate, online access to the peer-reviewed results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results.

This year Peter Suber, Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication and Faculty Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, was the Library’s keynote speaker. Author of the book, Open Access, published by MIT Press in 2012 and now available openly online, Dr. Suber …