Maybe you weren’t able to attend last Friday’s workshop “Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask . . . About CUNY’s New Institutional Repository Platform.” Or maybe you attended but lost the handouts on the subway or in the snow. Either way, here are the handouts distributed and discussed at the event:

• Academic Works Overview (by Megan Wacha)
• Open Access Glossary (by Megan Wacha, with credit to Peter Suber)
• Graduate Center Academic Works: The First Few Projects (by Jill Cirasella)

Please take a look, share with your colleagues (and Chief Librarians!) and let us know if you have any questions!

The LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable (SCRT) invites you to a presentation on Academic Works, CUNY’s new institutional repository, with speakers Megan Wacha and Jill Cirasella. Hear about exciting plans and progress made by CUNY’s new Scholarly Communications Librarian, and learn about the Graduate Center’s implementation of their local instance. Leave with ideas about how to rock your campus with Academic Works.

Friday, February 20
3pm-5pm
Graduate Center, Room 9205
RSVP requested by Thursday, February 12
Snacks provided

SPEAKER BIOS

Jill Cirasella is the Associate Librarian for Public Services and Scholarly Communication at the Graduate Center CUNY, where she leads numerous scholarly communications initiatives, including the GC’s new institutional repository, Academic Works. Jill is a vocal advocate of open access and seeks to promote understanding and adoption of open access at CUNY and beyond.

Megan Wacha is CUNY’s new Scholarly Communications Librarian. Prior to joining CUNY in January 2015, Megan was a research and instruction librarian at Barnard College, where she instigated for information access by promoting Columbia’s institutional repository, organizing Wikipedia edit-a-thons, among other activities.

For further information please contact the LACUNY SCRT co-chairs Jean Amaral (jamaral@bmcc.cuny.edu) and Karen Okamoto (kokamoto@jjay.cuny.edu).

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!