Automovilismo Cubano – Cuban Motorsports: A Brief 20th and 21st Century Cultural and Political History

Since 1959, diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States have been challenging. During that time, both countries have continued to be greatly involved in auto racing / motorsports and have experienced respective rich and eventful histories. Since the days of Henry Ford and Ernesto Carricaburo in the early 1900s, auto racing in the U.S and Cuba has thrived and prospered. Along the river bottoms and high ridges in the U.S. and in the tropical enclaves of the island of Cuba, Americans and Cubans have expressed a long- abiding and enduring interest and enthusiasm for auto racing on short tracks, dirt tracks and asphalt tracks. Lore and legend associated with Cuban auto racing is plentiful. Families used grit, creativity, chemistry, and physics to generate racing opportunities in the early days and to keep pre-1959 vehicles running for the past 57 years since the overthrow of Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista by longtime Cuban leader Fidel Castro. When examining Cuban auto racing history, one has a greater understanding of Cuba’s rich culture and its geography. This paper will highlight significant Cuban auto racing events and individuals from the early 20th century to the present. Special emphasis will be placed on the following topics: Havana Cup - 1905 Marcelino Amador – early Cuban race car driver - 1915 Gran Premio de Cuba - Cuban Grand Prix (history and notable events) – 1950s TailLight Diplomacy and Cuban auto restoration / motorsports – Rick Shnitzler and John Dowlin 1960 – 2000 and beyond Havana Motor Club – Cuban drag racing – today and beyond Political concepts (i.e. diplomatic relations in motorsports context, etc.) and future trends in Cuban motorsports (in relation to U.S motorsports, etc.) will also be featured

"I'm Prepared for IP Rights Governance": Creative Commons Licensing, Media Assets Management, and the Role of Technical Services as IP Rights Administrator

Intellectual Property Rights Governance (IPRG) is fast becoming an important part of both education and enterprise-based activities (i.e. multimedia-based student portfolios, library learning commons, media assets development/production/management). Creative Commons (CC) is a nonprofit corporation which provides free licenses and legal tools to allow a creator of a media asset to “mark [the media asset] with the freedom the [media asset] creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof.” (Creative Commons - About, 2010). This session will discuss IPRG and Creative Commons licensing as it is currently being used (or has the potential to be used) to manage media assets primarily in K-20 educational settings which serve students ages 6 and above – with an emphasis on how K-12 school and higher education-based libraries serving students of these ages have the unique opportunity to serve as the school’s IPRG/CC policy and information center

Lending OER\u27s and Learning Objects

Open Educational Resources (OERs) can be defined as static and/or interactive learning objects – such as born-digital texts, documents, and visual/audio media. OERs can be accessed, adapted, and distributed for instructional use in a variety of educational settings. We, as technical services librarians, have become key contributors to OER/learning object development/ integration/distribution processes. First, we help locate existing OERs/learning objects, curating and repurposing as needed. Second, we assist in identifying optimal OER/learning object access and instructional inclusion practices. Third, we coordinate the evaluation of current OER/learning object use data to highlight important trends for strategic planning purposes. Finally, we work collaboratively with stakeholders (students, faculty, administration) to review OER/learning object specifications/access/use/IP rights information, including OER metadata. The goal of this session is to look at where OER collection management is today and where it is going -- both short and long-term. We will highlight existing OER/ learning object content curation and management best practices, with a focus on OER/learning object metadata acquisition, evaluation, and distribution workflows and strategies. We will explore how OER best practices and technologies, as well as emphasizing semantic web/library linked data solutions, can optimize OER/learning object utilization -- at the lesson, unit, and/or course delivery levels. We will also better understand the power of OER versioning and encourage additional OER/learning object modification — creating new versions of the original OER/learning objects that have the potential to be curated and widely distributed in their new, modified forms

Q&A (LIVE): OER Collection Management- 21st Century Strategies

Q&A session for OER Collection Management- 21st Century Strategies. Moderator: Stephanie Dawson-Everet

TechKNOW Volume 16, Issue 1

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