The Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory at the University of Victoria
(http://etcl.uvic.ca/) invites you to attend the seventh meeting of the
2013-14 Brown Bag Speaker Series. This is a series of informal lunchtime
seminars for faculty and graduate students in the Faculty of Humanities
and across the university to discuss issues in digital literacy, digital
humanities, and the changing face of research, scholarship, and teaching
in our increasingly digital world. For an hour once per month, we meet
to hear from an invited speaker, share ideas, and build knowledge.
On Thursday February 20th, from 12 until 1 p.m., Inba Kehoe (Copyright Officer and Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Victoria) will be presenting a talk entitled, “Rethinking the Library’s Role in Digital Scholarship.”
Details are below. Please share this announcement with anyone who might be interested in attending.
Thursday 20th February—12 – 1 p.m.
Cornett Building B135, University of Victoria
Abstract: Libraries bring strengths in the area of pedagogical support, content development and creation, project management, research assistance and tools, metadata, preservation and data curation services, and publication support – brokering that will not only benefit the DH community, but all disciplinary areas across campus. I will discuss the role of libraries in DH research and current projects underway to support researchers from a number of disciplines at UVic.
Bio: Inba Kehoe is the Copyright Officer and Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Victoria. She is responsible for overseeing and advising the university community on copyright issues and establishing best practice guidelines for using copyright protected material for teaching purposes. Five years ago, she established the library’s e-publishing services which currently hosts a number of undergraduate, graduate, faculty and association journals. The success of this venture led to the creation of a monograph/book publishing pilot program for the university.
Please also mark your calendars for our future speaker:
On March 13th at noon in Cornett B135, Joel Legassie (PhD Student in the Department of History and Migration Program Assistant at the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives at the University of Victoria) will present his geospatial research on the process of Japan’s colonization of Hokkaido in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Bring your lunch and join us to discuss digital technologies and research in our community!