Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Friday, March 16, 2007; 3:00-5:00pm Refreshments at 2:45pm ***NOTE: Location Change*** – Now in Maxwell Dworkin, Room G115, 33 Oxford Street Seminar Title: Digital Libraries and Information Collection and Repositories Moderator: Sidney Verba, Director of the Harvard University Library Panelists: Christine Borgman, Professor & Presidential Chair in Information Studies, UCLA Alexa McCray, Deputy Director of the Countway Library Michael Fisher, Editor-in-Chief of Harvard University Press Abstract This panel will address issues in scholarly communication from three differing, yet, interrelated perspectives. Christine Borgman will compare scholarly practices associated with publications and with data, discussing how incentives and disincentives to contribute and share them differ, and how much data loss is likely to occur due to the lack of institutional and policy initiatives. Michael Fisher will argue that, for the first time in the thirty years he's been engaged in the enterprise, cries of doom from scholarly book publishers may well be justified. Alexa McCray will contend that scientific information that is too expensive to afford or is otherwise inaccessible does not serve the basic goals of the scientific enterprise. Active audience participation will be encouraged. ***Parking is available in the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Please tell the attendant that you are attending the IIC Seminar. Upcoming IIC seminars Continue to stay up to date with our IIC Seminar Schedule. _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars