MLibrary and Creative Commons Licenses

The University of Michigan Library has decided to adopt Creative Common Attribution-Non-Commercial licenses for all works created by the Library for which the Regents of the University of Michigan hold the copyrights. These works include bibliographies, research guides, lesson plans, and technology tutorials. We believe that the adoption of Creative Commons licenses is perfectly aligned with our mission, "to contribute to the common good by collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, and sharing the record of human knowledge."

University Librarian Paul Courant said, "Using Creative Commons licenses is another way the University Library can act on its commitment to the public good. By marking our copyrighted content as available for reuse, we offer the University community and the public a rich set of educational resources free from traditional permissions barriers."

What is Creative Commons?
Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization that created a set of simple, easy-to-understand copyright licenses. These licenses carve out a spectrum of options between the "all rights reserved" of traditional copyright and the rights-free public domain. The "Some Rights Reserved" model helps copyright holders to share their work easily without giving up all their rights, and it allows everyone to find work that is free to use without permission.

What is the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license?
The Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license allows anyone to use the work - to copy, distribute, display, or perform it, and derivative works based on it - as long as the user gives proper attribution to the University of Michigan Library, and as long as the use is non-commercial.

What resources will be available with Creative Commons licenses?
All original copyrighted material that is created by Library staff and in which the copyright belongs to the Regents of the University of Michigan will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial license. This includes bibliographies, research guides, lesson plans, and other resources. For some samples of the kinds of excellent resources that will now be available for adaptation and re-use, see our many Library Research Guides http://www.lib.umich.edu/guides/, the Usability Studies produced by the Library's Usability Working Group http://www.lib.umich.edu/usability/projects/projects.html, or the tutorials for using spatial and numeric data http://www.lib.umich.edu/nsds/spatial_tutorials/.

The Library has begun attaching Creative Commons licenses to content throughout its website, but some pages do not include the license code yet. The licenses will be fully integrated into the Library's new website design, scheduled for release in Fall 2008.

To learn more about Creative Commons, visit the Creative Commons website http://creativecommons.org or watch the Get Creative video http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/getcreative/

Informed Learning: New ACRL Publication

CHICAGO – The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has released a new publication, “Informed Learning.”

Written by noted Australian learning theorist Christine S. Bruce, it provides a unique perspective on helping students become successful learners in fluid and fast moving information environments. The work is essential reading across higher education for those interested in learning theory and the teaching of information use.

In answering the question “What should we teach and how, so that our students will use information successfully, creatively and responsibly in their journey as lifelong learners,” Bruce has created a powerful and extensive examination of how information literacy and disciplinary learning can coexist. The framework for what Bruce terms “informed learning” will enable professors, teachers, librarians, researchers and researcher-librarians to work together in a responsive way to help students discover, process and use information.

Bruce is professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and the author of numerous works on learning and information. Her previous titles include “The Seven Faces of Information Literacy” (1997), “Transforming IT Education: Promoting a Culture of Excellence” (with C. Mohay, G. Smith, G. Stoodley, and R. Tweedale, 2000) and “Information Literacy Around the World: Advances in Programs and Research” (with P.C. Candy, Charles Sturt, 2000).

“Informed Learning” is available for purchase through the ALA Online Store (http://www.alastore.ala.org) and by telephone order at (866) 746-7252 in the U.S. or (770) 442-8633 for international customers.

Contact: Kathryn J. Deiss, ACRL Content Strategist, (312) 280-2529, kdeiss@ala.org

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ACRL is a division of the American Library Association, representing nearly 13,000 academic and research librarians and interested individuals. ACRL is the only individual membership organization in North America that develops programs, products and services to meet the unique needs of academic and research librarians. Its initiatives enable the higher education community to understand the role that academic libraries play in the teaching, learning and research environments.

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Open @ccess Day, October 14, 2008

Washington, DC – August 28, 2008 – SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and Students for FreeCulture have jointly announced the first international Open Access Day. Building on the worldwide momentum toward Open Access to publicly funded research, Open Access Day will create a key opportunity for the higher education community and the general public to understand more clearly the opportunities of wider access and use of content.

Open Access Day will invite researchers, educators, librarians, students, and the public to participate in live, worldwide broadcasts of events. In North America, events will be held at 7:00 PM (Eastern) and 7:00 PM (Pacific) and feature appearances from:

Sir Richard Roberts, Ph.D., F.R.S.
Joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993 for discovering split genes and RNA splicing, one of 26 Nobel Prize-winners to sign the Open Letter to U.S. Congress in support of taxpayer access to publicly funded research, and currently at New England Biolabs, USA. [7PM Eastern]

Philip E. Bourne, Ph.D.
Philip E. Bourne is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Computational Biology and the author of the popular PLoS Computational Biology Ten Simple Rules Series. He is Professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego, Associate Director of the RCSB Protein Data Bank, Senior Advisor to the San Diego Supercomputer Center, an Adjunct Professor at the Burnham Institute, and Co-Founder of SciVee. [7PM Pacific]

Librarians and student organizers are invited to host meetings around the broadcast. To see a list of participating campuses and to sign up, visit the Open Access Day Web site athttp://www.openaccessday.org. Additional international events will be announced shortly.

The event will also mark the launch of the new “Voices of Open Access Video Series.” Key members of the research community, including a teacher, librarian, researcher, student, patient advocate, and a funder, will speak on why they are committed to Open Access.

“The momentum behind Open Access to research has been accelerating for some time now, even before the mandates at the U.S. National Institutes of Health and Harvard University,” said Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC. “Events beyond the U.S. especially underscore the higher education community’s commitment to having the access they need. Open Access Day will provide a perfect way for folks to come together, consider, and celebrate the ramifications of the global shift we’re experiencing.”

“Open Access Day is a great opportunity to inform everyone on campus about the nature and importance of Open Access,” added Nelson Pavlosky, Co-Founder of Students for FreeCulture. “It’s really an issue that impacts everyone in the university, whether they are professors who publish, students who research, or librarians who purchase journal subscriptions. Students for FreeCulture looks forward to working with SPARC and PLoS to inform our peers, as well as faculty, staff and administration, about how Open Access can help bring publishing into the 21st Century.”

“Making full use of the Internet to share and reuse content without restriction is pushing scientific communication into the future,” said Peter Jerram, CEO of PLoS. “Open Access Day acknowledges the enormous progress that’s been made towards comprehensive access to research. We are pleased to be partnering with the community on this special day. We would ask our supporters to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the commencement of our publishing activities in October by participating.”

Open Access Day was inspired by the National Day of Action on February 15, 2007, led by Students for FreeCulture with support from the Alliance for Taxpayer Access. This year, the same partners have joined forces with PLoS, the Open Access scientific and medical Web publisher. Open Access-supporting organizations are also invited to take part. For details, contact the organizers.

For details and to participate, visithttp://www.openaccessday.org.

For more information, contact:
Jennifer McLennan
SPARC
(202) 296-2296
jennifer@arl.org

SPARC
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan, is an international alliance of more than 800 academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication. SPARC’s advocacy, educational and publisher partnership programs encourage expanded dissemination of research. SPARC is a founder of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, representing taxpayers, patients, physicians, researchers, and institutions that support open public access to taxpayer-funded research. SPARC is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/sparc.

Students for FreeCulture (SFC)
Students for FreeCulture is a diverse, non-partisan group of students and young people who are working to get their peers involved in the free culture movement. Launched in April 2004 at Swarthmore College, it has helped establish student groups at colleges and universities across the United States. Today, chapters exist at over 30 colleges, from Maine to California, with many more getting started around the world. Students for FreeCulture was founded by two Swarthmore students after they sued voting-machine manufacturer Diebold for abusing copyright law in 2003. Named after the book Free Culture by Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessig, it is part of a growing movement, with roots in the free software/open source community, media activists, creative artists and writers, and civil libertarians. Groups with which it has collaborated include Creative Commons, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, and Downhill Battle. Students for Free Culture is on the Web at http://www.freeculture.org.

PLoS
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. PLoS publishes open access, peer-reviewed journals available online to anyone. PLoS celebrates their fifth anniversary on October 13, 2008. PLoS is on the Web at http://www.plos.org.

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EGCTI en Feria de Escuelas Graduadas de la Universidad de Puerto Rico

De camino a la celebración del 40mo Aniversario de la Escuela Graduada de Ciencias y Tecnologías de la Información (EGCTI), de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, en el 2010, y con el lema Apodérate del Mundo de las Ciencias y Tecnologías de la Información y del Conocimiento, la Escuela se encuentra participando en la Feria de Escuelas Graduadas, organizada por el Decanato de Estudios Graduados e Investigación < http://graduados.uprrp.edu> en el recinto riopedrense.

La Sra. Migdalia Dávila-Pérez, Oficial de Asuntos Estudiantiles, la estudiante de maestría Yumarys Polanco Almonte y el artista gráfico Neftalí Rodríguez-Pérez, todos integrantes de la comunidad egctiana, iniciaron las presentaciones junto a otros compañeros de programas académicos, durante la pasada semana, en el campus de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Humacao.

En su presentación entusiasta brindaron información a estudiantes, facultad y otros interesados sobre el programa de la EGCTI, tanto de Maestría como de la oferta de Certificados post-bachillerato y post-maestría.

La EGCTI es la Escuela líder en el campo de la información en Puerto Rico y el Caribe. Tiene como objetivo formar profesionales que se puedan desempeñar en diferentes contextos, de manera creativa y proactiva, con visión de futuro, en el ámbito de la información.

La Escuela promueve en sus estudiantes el deseo por llevar a cabo una práctica profesional de calidad, el interés por investigar y desarrollar nuevos productos y servicios, con valor agregado, en atención a los diversos requerimientos de los diferentes sectores de la comunidad. Con su oferta académica la Escuela responde a los retos y las exigencias de una sociedad que cambia vertiginosamente.

La oferta académica de la Escuela presenta un currículo de avanzada que se apoya en estrategias innovadoras de enseñanza-aprendizaje, con amplios recursos bibliográficos y tecnológicos, asegurando la pertinencia y excelencia académica de la Universidad de Puerto Rico.

El programa de Maestría recibió la certificación de reacreditación de la American Library Association http://www.pla.org/ala/educationcareers/education/accreditedprograms/directory/index.cfm , por siete años, en Julio de 2008, lo que honra a la Facultad, al Personal Administrativo, a los estudiantes y egresados de la Universidad .

Interesados en recibir información sobre los programas de la Escuela se pueden comunicar con la Sra. Migdalia Dávila-Pérez por medio del correo electrónico: < migdalia.davila@upr.edu >; comunicándose por los teléfonos 787-764-0000, x3530 ó 5029, ó 787-763-6199; o escribiendo a la Oficina de Asuntos Estudiantiles, Escuela Graduada de Ciencias y Tecnologías de la Información, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Apartado Postal 21906, San Juan, PR 00931-1906.

Para información adicional de la Escuela, recuerden visitar: http://egcti.upr.edu

Librarians on the Cat Walk: Communicating for Advocacy to Influence Policy and Practice; IFLA 2009, Call for Papers and Mentors

The World Library & Information Congress/ IFLA General Conference Milan, Italy, August 23-27, 2009

Call for Papers and Mentors

Management of Library Associations Section with Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section, and Action for Development through Libraries Programme (ALP)

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LIBRARIANS ON THE CAT WALK: COMMUNICATING FOR ADVOCACY TO INFLUENCE POLICY AND PRACTICE

This programme is a collaboration between the Management of Library Associations Section (MLAS), and the Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section (CPDWL), and Action for Development through Libraries Programme (ALP)

ALP will sponsor one participant from each of the three IFLA regions to become trainers in their regions. It is up to Regional Offices and Sections to select a person to become a trainer in the questions handled in our session.

GLOBAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM – (GLAD) was developed by MLAS and received the approval of the IFLA Governing Board in 2006 as a strategic initiative.

The objective of the GLAD Programme is to help to develop a set of skills relating to Library Association Management in order to strengthen the pool of qualified personnel who will potentially manage Library Associations at the local level. This in turn will help to strengthen the pool of potential candidates from which IFLA can draw for leadership positions within the association.

MLAS, and CPDWL share the mission of the GLAD Programme: to strengthen the management of library associations in order to make associations stronger players in the development of libraries and thus in the development of societies in all parts of the world. This is to be achieved through continuous training and development of information professionals, as one of the objectives of the CPDWL Section.

The World Library & Information Congress/ IFLA General Conference takes place in Milan, Italy, August 23-27, 2009. The overall conference theme is "Libraries create futures: Building on cultural heritage". As part of the conference program the MLAS and CPDWL will host a one-day session:

Part 1: Papers* will focus on topics including:

· Successful Advocacy Programmes

· Communication and Promotion

· Influencing the Political Agenda

· Identifying the Right Arena for Advocacy

· Working with Media

*Note: Invited speakers will be allocated 20 minutes presentation time after which there will be 10 minutes of discussion.

Part 2: Interactive practice in making presentations:

· Solicitation will be made for volunteers to submit their presentations of which two will be selected for review and evaluation

· The two selected presentations will be given by the volunteers

· After the volunteers have finished, a film on presentations will be shown

· The two selected volunteer presenters will be assigned mentors to assist with improving their presentations*

· To demonstrate lessons learned after working with their mentor, the same two presentations will be given again by the volunteers

*Note: While the selected presenters are working with their mentors the rest of the audience will have an opportunity to work with other mentors with any presentations they have with them.

LIS educators and practitioners are invited to submit:

Part 1) Papers for presentation on the topics listed above,

Part 2) Interactive practice presentations

a) Letters of qualification of expertise on presentation mentoring;

b) Volunteer presentations for review and presentation

Instructions and Process

Submissions should provide practical information that will enhance the ability of participants to become successful Library Association Managers and Leaders in the profession.

Part 1: To submit a paper please send a 1000 word abstract, that will allow us to evaluate the suitability of the paper for presentation, on one of the topics mentioned above or any other topic that is in keeping with the objective of the workshop. Include a short biography on the author and a digital photo if available.

Part 2: If interested in being a volunteer presenter, please send a 200 word statement on your presentation and the PowerPoint you have developed for your presentation. Include a short biography on the volunteer presenter and a digital photo if available.

If interested in being a mentor please send a letter of qualification of expertise on mentoring and a digital photo, if available.

All material must be submitted by 15 December 2008 to:
Sylvia Piggott, CPDWL Section;

E-mail: spiggott@sympatico.ca

All material will be reviewed by MLAS and CPDWL standing committee members. Successful applicants will be notified by end of February 2009. Full papers will be due 1 May 2009 to allow time for review of final papers and translations. Papers should not be longer than 20 pages. A maximum of 20 minutes will be allowed for a PowerPoint summary of the paper during the Sections’ program in the Conference.

All submitted material must be in English. Papers can be presented at the Conference in any IFLA working language (English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic). The Interactive practice in making presentations sessions in Part 2 should be conducted in English.

Information on the author, volunteer presenter, or mentor should include name, contact details, affiliations (home institution, professional memberships, etc.) Please note that the expenses of attending the Milan conference will be the responsibility of the author(s) /presenter(s) of accepted papers.

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