Title

But it's our stuff! The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication: the roles of the faculty and the librarian

Document Type

Video

Duration

ca. 67 minutes

Publication Date

10-31-2011

Abstract

James Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University, addresses the changes taking place in scholarly communication, the ways in which scholars create, organize, distribute, use, and preserve their work. He discusses the new partnerships between faculty and librarians that have arisen to capture, promote, share, and archive the intellectual work of the university community through the use of open access institutional repositories.

Comments

"Library 10th Anniversary Lecture Series" -- Lecture by James Neal ; Introductory remarks by Joan Overfield, University Librarian, DiMenna-Nyselius Library ; recorded by the Fairfield University Media Center in the Multi-media Room at DiMenna-Nyselius Library

Presenter’s Bio

Jim Neal is the Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University, providing leadership for university academic computing and a system of twenty-two libraries. His responsibilities include the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, the Copyright Advisory Office, and the Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research. Previously, he served as the Dean of University Libraries at Indiana University and Johns Hopkins University, and held administrative positions in the libraries at Penn State, Notre Dame, and the City University of New York.

Neal is a member of the OCLC Board of Trustees. He is the elected Treasurer of the American Library Association, also serving on the ALA Council and Executive Board. He has served on the Board and as President of the Association of Research Libraries, on the Board and as Chair of the Research Libraries Group (RLG), on the Board and as Chair of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), and is on the Board of the Freedom to Read Foundation. He has also participated on numerous international, national, and state professional committees, and is an active member of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA).

Neal is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, consultant and published author, with focuses in the areas of scholarly communication, intellectual property, digital library programs, and library cooperation. He has served on the Scholarly Communication committees of ARL and ACRL and as Chair of the Steering Committee of SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, and is on the Board of the Columbia University Press. He has represented the American library community in testimony on copyright matters before Congressional committees, was an advisor to the U.S. delegation at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) diplomatic conference on copyright, has worked on copyright policy and advisory groups for universities and for professional and higher education associations, and during 2005-08 was a member of the U.S. Copyright Office Section 108 Study Group.

He was selected the 1997 Academic Librarian of the Year by the Association of College and Research Libraries and was the 2007 recipient of ALA’s Hugh Atkinson Memorial Award and the 2009 ALA Melvil Dewey Medal Award. And in 2010, he received the honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Alberta.

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