LIR Annual Seminar

“Scholarly communication and the open distribution of knowledge"

The 2009 LIR Annual seminar will take place in Liberty Hall, Dublin on Friday 27th March 2009

The LIR seminar this year will be exploring the area of scholarly communication.  We intend to look at what is actually ‘free’ and how/if open source technology, enables us to deliver for free or at low cost, and if indeed this is a good and sustainable thing.  We have confirmed a number of speakers including Debby Shorley, Imperial College London, http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/d.shorley, David Prosser, Director SPARC Europe, http://www.sparceurope.org/about-us and Fred Friend, JISC Scholarly Communication Consultant, http://www.jisc.ac.uk/aboutus/committees/workinggroups/scholarlycomms.aspx.  As always a major emphasis at the seminar will be on developments in Irish libraries. Suggested areas for discussion are:  

·         Scholarly publication/communication models within your organisation.

·         Cheap or free sources employed in your organisation to share 'the knowledge'.

·         Experiences using/promoting the Institutional Repository/free sources that may be used to distribute knowledge.

·         How this has changed the role of the librarian.

Further information from http://lirgroup.heanet.ie/