ARL-ACRL ISC Information

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Program Overview

Key Dates:

1. Application Available – May 28, 2008
2. Application Deadline – October 6, 2008
3. Notifications of Status – October 2008
4. Institute Dates – December 1-3, 2008

Location: Portland, Oregon (Embassy Suites - Portland Downtown)

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) are pleased to announce a regional Institute for Scholarly Communication in Portland, Oregon sponsored by Orbis Cascade Alliance. The Institute is an immersive learning experience to prepare participants as local experts within their libraries and equip them with tools for developing campus outreach strategies. As a participant in this 2.5 day immersion program, you will become fluent with scholarly communication issues and trends so that you are positioned to educate others on your library staff, engage in campus communications programs and other advocacy efforts, and work collaboratively with other participants to begin developing an outreach plan for your campus.

Participants will work with experts in the field to understand how to better engage faculty at their institution around the crisis in the systems of scholarly communication. You will also learn about the emergence of new models for scholarly communication as well as strategies for creating systemic change. These will include:

• Faculty activism (e.g. editorial board control, author rights, copyright management, and self-archiving)
• New publishing models
• Digital repositories
• Legislative and policy advocacy

The goal is to help participants prepare a program plan that is customized for their institution. To achieve this goal you will prepare an environmental scan before the institute, engage in a series of active learning experiences during the event, and write an outreach program plan for implementation at your home institution.

Who Should Apply?

Institute planners are committed to creating an experience that allows people with varied expertise to explore scholarly communications issues together. The goal is to have the cohort represent a wide range of professional backgrounds, types and sizes of institutions, and roles within the institutions. Examples of institutional roles include:

• Librarians who work directly with faculty members on campus
• Library administrators
• College and university faculty and administrators
• Those responsible for digital repositories
• Librarians with collection development responsibilities

Institutions and participants who are members of Orbis Cascade Alliance will receive preferred consideration; however, space will also be reserved from those outside of the Alliance. The institute sponsor is seeking participation from a wide range of academic libraries from community colleges to large research institutions. Team applications are encouraged (up to three participants from a campus), particularly for larger institutions, although individual applications will also be considered. Recognizing the challenges smaller institutions face in participating in the institute and the value of their contributions to outreach efforts, small institutions will not be penalized in the selection process if they are able to fund only individual participants rather than teams.

Application

Apply online by October 6, 2008.

The Institute on Scholarly Communication uses a competitive application process. The number of total participants is limited to 100 and both earlier offerings of the Institute received more applicants than could be accommodated so careful preparation is a good strategy.

The application is brief but requires a statement of goals and a letter of support from an administrator showing organizational commitment to the development of a scholarly communication program. The selection committee reviews the applications to create a cohort representing a wide range of professional backgrounds, types and sizes of institutions, and roles within the institutions. Team applications are encouraged and teams that have included faculty have been especially successful. We recommend you review the report at http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/successful_apps06.pdf to help you prepare a strong application.

Registration and Fees

Accepted applicants will need to register for the Institute between October 1st and November 2nd.

Fees:

Institutions may send up to three individuals. The fee will include all Institute materials, lunches and breaks on each day and an evening reception on Monday. Participants are responsible for other meals, travel, and lodging expenses.

Participants that are members of Orbis Cascade Alliance:

• $650 per registrant
  

Participants not part of Orbis Cascade Alliance:

• $750 per registrant

Questions?

For questions about the Institute and/or the application process, please contact Elizabeth Duell at eduell@uoregon.edu or call her at (541) 346-1883.