Outreach Strategies: a Panel Discussion on Promoting the Digital Repository to the Campus Community

Presenter Information

Marisa Ramirez, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis ObispoFollow
Isaac Gilman, Pacific UniversityFollow

Location

King Library 225/229

Start Date

25-5-2011 10:45 AM

End Date

25-5-2011 12:15 PM

Description

Isaac Gilman and Marisa Ramirez discuss strategies for building repository collections, connecting with faculty, and partnering with units on campus through digital services. In presentation and conversation Marisa and Isaac will share tips, strategies and ideas for framing the discussion with the various stakeholders of the campus community and maintaining those relationships over time.

Speaker Biography

Isaac Gilman is the Scholarly Communications and Research Services Librarian at Pacific University in Oregon. In addition to managing Pacific’s institutional repository, CommonKnowledge, Isaac has taught courses in scholarly publishing and research methods and is responsible for library instruction in the College of Health Professions.

Marisa Ramirez is primarily responsible for the development and implementation of the DigitalCommons@CalPoly, a digital repository that provides online open access to scholarship and research produced by Cal Poly faculty and students. She collaborates with academic departments and administrative units across campus to bring new visibility to Cal Poly scholarly, intellectual and creative work.

Prior to joining Cal Poly, she was the digital repository coordinator for the Arizona Memory Project (http://azmemory.lib.az.us), a statewide digital library initiative based out of the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records Department. In this position, she led the initiative in developing, implementing, monitoring and promoting the digital archive. She has also been active with digital library projects at University of North Carolina –Chapel Hill and Smithsonian Institution Libraries.

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