The Scholarly Communication Committee of Academic Libraries of Indiana is pleased to announce a call for papers and panel presentations for the 2019 ALI Scholarly Communication Librarianship Conference. The conference will be held on Friday, October 25, 2019 at the University Library at IUPUI in Indianapolis, Indiana. We are excited to welcome keynote speakers Leslie Chan, Associate Professor in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media and the Centre for Critical Development Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and founding signatory of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and Sara Benson, Copyright Librarian and Assistant Professor at the Library at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and host of the Podcast ©hat (“Copyright Chat”).
To date, this is the only annual conference devoted entirely to Scholarly Communication Librarianship. We invite submissions from all areas of academia and the public sector for this growing conference. Any topics relating to scholarly communication in academic librarianship will be considered. We welcome proposals and presentations on both theory and practice, as well as individual and panel presentations. This is not an ALI-specific or Indiana-specific conference and all are encouraged to submit – including international presenters. We look forward to hearing from you!
Welcomed submissions include:
• Individual presentations on research, theory or practice related to scholarly communication librarianship.
• Panels on topics related to scholarly communication librarianship.
• 5-10 minute quick hits presentations
Please send submissions consisting of a title and a brief description of around 200 words, along the names and affiliations of all presenters to Stephen Craig Finlay at scfinlay@iusb.edu. The deadline for submissions is September 1. Registration is now open as well!
2019 Keynote Speakers:
Leslie Chan, University of Toronto at Scarborough.
Leslie Chan is Associate Professor in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media and the Centre for Critical Development Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough, where he serves as the Associate Director. An early practitioner of the Web for scholarly exchange and online learning, Leslie is particularly interested in the role and design of network in the flow of knowledge and their impact on local and international development. As one of the original signatories of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, a historical and defining event of the global open access movement, Leslie has been active in the experimentation and implementation of scholarly communication initiatives of varying scales around the world. The Director of Bioline International, Chair of the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development, Leslie is a long-time advocate for knowledge equity and inclusive development. Leslie has served as advisor to numerous projects and organizations, including the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, the American Anthropological Association, the International Development Research Centre, UNESCO, and the Open Society Foundation. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network, funded jointly by the IDRC and DIFD.
Sara Rachel Benson, UIUC University Library
Sara Benson is the Copyright Librarian and an Assistant Professor at the Library at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She holds a JD from the University of Houston Law Center, an LLM from Boalt Hall School of Law at Berkeley, and an MSLIS from the School of Information Science at the University of Illinois. Prior to joining the Library, Sara was a Lecturer at the University of Illinois College Of Law for ten years. Sara is the host of the Podcast ©hat (“Copyright Chat”) available on iTunes. Her recent research interests include working a large-scale project studying how to effectively teach fair use doctrine to librarians. This study was published in the spring issue of the Journal of Academic Librarianship.
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