Rethinking Organizational Structures to Support Digital Innovation

This paper presents a vision for supporting the growth and development of innovative digital services in research libraries. While libraries have been undergoing digital transformation for decades, we have seen a flowering of new digital services in recent years, from research support services related to data and digital publishing to learning support services that seek to make our pedagogy more accessible, engaging, and suited to the needs of 21st-century learners. The question of how best to support these services structurally within an organization remains an open one, however, and there is little consistency in how this is accomplished across different institutions. Our model seeks to foreground the importance of people and relationships, uniting the people in these new roles in a single division in order to cultivate an organizational culture that supports innovation and risk-taking. These qualities are not always present in more traditional library divisions, but they are essential to the goal of developing new, future-facing library services in a way that enables library employees to feel supported and empowered in their work. Our model also embraces co-leadership as a boon for inclusivity, creativity, and innovation. Co-leadership provides a platform for a larger number of individuals to assume leadership roles and an opportunity to reimagine how our library organizations could operate more equitably and inclusively, in line with anti-racist practices

Migrating to an Open Source Institutional Repository: Challenges and Lessons Learned

FSU Libraries is currently completing a migration from Digital Commons (a hosted proprietary IR platform) to Islandora (an open source digital collections platform based on Drupal and Fedora Commons). In implementing a mission-critical open source system, we have encountered a variety of challenges related to technical development, shared governance, communications, and user testing, and would like to share some of the lessons learned so that others can benefit from our experience

Library Publishing Competencies

This publication provides a list of skills and knowledge useful in the development and provision of publishing services in libraries, organized into three categories: publishing, program development and management, and teaching and consulting. It will support publishing programs in identifying essential skills and will help individuals in the field to identify their strengths and the areas in which they are interested in growing. The Competencies was authored by LPC’s Professional Development Committee with input from the LPC community. HTML versio

Bill C-11: A guide for academic instructors

Bill C-11 is poised to change Canadian copyright law in important ways, and these changes promise to have a significant impact on the copyright environment at academic institutions. This article is published as part of an IPC-SLAIS partnership

The Copyright Modernization Act: A Guide for Post-Secondary Instructors

In November 2012, the educational provisions of the Copyright Modernization Act were proclaimed in force, thereby introducing a number of significant changes to the Canadian Copyright Act. These changes include the expansion of fair dealing to include the purpose of education, the addition of new educational exceptions for the online transmission of lessons and the use of work freely available through the internet, and a number of amendments that make existing educational exceptions more technologically accommodating. This paper considers the significance of these changes for post-secondary instructors, first contextualizing the changes in relation to recent fair dealing jurisprudence, and then considering their significance for everyday instructional practice. Drawing on influential court decisions and the commentary of academics and lawyers, the paper not only describes how the changes to the Copyright Act have expanded the rights and exceptions available to instructors, but also identifies a number of unresolved questions about how the changes should be applied in practice. Despite these areas of uncertainty, the paper concludes that the changes bode well for post-secondary instructors, as they relax many long-standing restrictions around the use of copyrighted works for educational purposes. En novembre 2012, les dispositions éducatives de la Loi sur la modernisation du droit d’auteur ont été proclamées avec force. Elles apportaient un certain nombre de changements significatifs à la Loi du Canada sur le droit d’auteur. Ces changements comprennent l’élargissement de l’utilisation équitable pour y inclure le but de l’éducation, l’addition de nouvelles exceptions éducatives pour la transmission de leçons en ligne et l’utilisation de travaux disponibles à volonté sur internet, ainsi qu’un certain nombre de modifications aux exceptions éducatives existantes qui tiennent davantage compte de la technologie. Cet article examine la signification de ces changements pour les enseignants de niveau post-secondaire, tout d’abord en mettant en contexte les changements par rapport à la jurisprudence récente en matière d’élargissement de l’utilisation, ensuite en examinant leur signification pour la pratique de l’enseignement de tous les jours. L’article, qui met à profit les décisions de la cour et les commentaires d’universitaires et d’avocats, non seulement décrit la manière dont les changements apportés à la Loi du droit d’auteur ont élargi les droits et les exceptions à la disposition des enseignants, il identifie également un certain nombre de questions non résolues sur la manière dont les changements devraient être mis en pratique. Malgré ces zones d’incertitude, l’article en arrive à la conclusion que les changements sont de bon augure pour les enseignants de niveau post-secondaire car ils assouplissent de nombreuses restrictions qui existaient de longue date concernant l’utilisation de travaux protégés par le droit d’auteur pour les besoins éducatifs

Data/Publishing, Preservation and Curation Classroom Session

Template for a classroom integration including a bibliography, slides, discussion questions/prompts, and other materials

Recordings

Video recordings of symposium presentations stored here for archival purposes. Streaming versions of all recordings available at http://fla.st/2tOJs6