The next Library Association of CUNY (LACUNY) Scholarly Communications Roundtable Meeting is scheduled for Friday January 23, 2015, 2pm-4pm in the John Jay College Library Conference Room. Agenda items will include:
– planning the institutional repository event in February
– planning an alt-metrics presentation later in the spring
– your suggestions
Please send agenda items to Jean (jamaral@bmcc.cuny.edu) or me (kokamoto@jjay.cuny.edu). Thank you!
Open Access Week 2014 Screening of “The Internet’s Own Boy”
In honor of Open Access Week, the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable and JustPublics@365 invites you to a screening and discussion of The Internet’s Own Boy.
Friday, October 24, 2014
3-5pm
Borough of Manhattan Community College, Rm N780
Snacks will be served. RSVP not required. Open to all.
This documentary examines the life and contribution of internet and information activist Aaron Swartz. Swartz penned the Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto in 2008, two years after he freed the Library of Congress’s bibliographic data by posting it on OpenLibrary (LoC charges for access to this data) and the same year he liberated public court documents from expensive fee-based access through PACER (there are now Chrome and Firefox plugins called RECAP that provide a means for free downloading from the database). Come honor the life of Swartz and discuss ways that his work might be built upon and continued by those of us in the library and higher education communities.
For more information, please contact the co-chairs of the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable: Jean Amaral (jamaral@bmcc.cuny.edu) and Karen Okamoto (kokamoto@jjay.cuny.edu).
