I’m happy to be writing today in support of your attendance at upcoming ACRL roadshow – Scholarly Communication: From Understanding to Engagement. We are so excited to be able to host this workshop locally, and I truly believe it is going to be a unique deep dive into issues of scholarly communications, particularly accessibility and Open Educational Resources. Both workshop facilitators bring their unique experience and expertise to us:
Carla Myers
Carla Myers serves as Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Scholarly Communications for the Miami University Libraries. Her professional presentations and publications focus on fair use, copyright in the classroom, and library copyright issues.
Will Cross
Will Cross is the Director of the Copyright & Digital Scholarship Center in the NCSU Libraries, an instructor in the UNC SILS, a Mozilla Open Leader, and an OER Research Fellow. Trained as a lawyer and librarian, he guides policy, speaks, and writes on open culture and navigating legal uncertainty. His current research is centered around three IMLS-funded projects focused using OER and open pedagogy to teach copyright and scholarly communication.
Carla and Will are highly invested in making this workshop beneficial to attendees – they are flexible and ready to do a deep dive and answer questions that are directly applicable to your work. They will share with us the way that they use design thinking to center the user in creative, collaborative projects.
Following the program, attendees will also have the opportunity to join a DVC scholarly communications working group, where the conversations, support, and growth will continue.
I sincerely hope to see you on April 26th! Register today.
-Jess Denke
ACRL DVC President 2018-2019