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Events of Interest
05/11/05
The Open Access Movement: A Digital Media Working Group Interdisciplinary Panel
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Reception: 3:30pm, Mary Gates Hall 420
Panel: 4:30, Mary Gates Hall 389
The Internet has enabled new forms of communication, allowing scholars to publish in journals that choose to make scholarly analysis freely available, skirting the high costs associated with subscribing to academic journals. This new model is changing the publishing industry. UW scholars and an invited guest from one of these journals will discuss this phenomenon.
Panelists:
Carl Bergstrom, Biology, UW
Gail Dykstra, Tech Transfer Digital Ventures, UW
Joyce Ogburn, UW Libraries
Barbara Cohen, Public Library of Science
The Digital Media Working Group is a three-year-old interdisciplinary organization devoted to the study of new media in a variety of forms. The DMWG sponsors a lecture series, reading groups, and other events.
Presented by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Digital Media Working Group, and the Center for Internet Studies at the University of Washington.
05/10/2005
Please take a short survey about the Libraries' web site and enter for a chance to win one of three gift cards to the University Bookstore.
02/18/05
The School of Drama and Department of Germanics are co-sponsoring the following lecture by Michael Roloff, visiting scholar, playwright, and translator of German drama:
Title: "Peter Handke's Trajectory as a Playwright: From Modernism to the Mytho-Poetic." (Lecture available online)
Time: Friday, February 18, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Place: Hutchinson Hall 154.
Slides and recorded excerpts from productions of Handke's plays will accompany the lecture.
Suggested reading for those unfamiliar with Handke's work:
"Offending the Audience" or "Self-Accusation", in anthology Kaspar and Other Plays
PT2668.A5 A27 Drama General Stacks
Either play in the anthology, Voyage to the sonorous land, or the art of asking ; and, The hour we knew nothing of each other
PT2668.A5 A23 1996 Drama General Stacks
The play, Walk About the Villages
PT2668.A5 U2413 1996 Suzzallo/Allen Stacks
Relevant websites to consult:
02/14/05
The University of Washington Libraries, Educational Partnerships and Learning Technologies, Computing & Communications, Educational Outreach, and the Information School invite you to:
A CONVERSATION WITH CLIFFORD LYNCH
A Conversation with Clifford Lynch
Monday, February 14, 2005
3:30 pm - 5 pm
Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall
How does convergence in the digital age impact teaching, learning, and scholarship? What new types of knowledge will be created as a result? What does this mean for the world of Scholarship? Come to this public seminar and find out.
Join Clifford Lynch, the Director of the Coalition for Networked
Information, as he shares his perspective on these issues. Professor
Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the
President, the last ten years as Director of Library Automation, and is
an adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of Information Management and
Systems. He is a past president of the American Society for Information
Science and a fellow of the American Association for the advancement of
Science and the National Information Standards Organization. He
currently serves on the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory
Board of the Library of Congress, the National Research Council's
committee on digital archiving, and the National Archives and Records
Administration.