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Presentations, FAQ, etc. documenting key library initiatives

2007

• Authors' Rights and Wrongs VIDEOS ongoing lecture series
  
  
• Digital Libraries Colloquium VIDEOS ongoing lecture series
  
  

2006

• Qatar Heritage Rare Book Project VIDEO
  Gabrielle Michalek, head of Archives and Digital Initiatives. Digitization & Online Publication of Treasures from the Arabian Gulf. download player
  

• Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization for Everyone
  Fourth lecture of the Digital Libraries Colloquium series, 2006-07.
  

• Crossing a Minefield: Current Problems with Internet Technology and Policy
  Second lecture of the Digital Libraries Colloquium series, 2006-07.
  

• Muses in the Library II: The Reality of the Virtual
  

• Taking a stand on current legislation
    * Copyright - Orphan works
    * Copyright - Section 108 revision
    * Webcasting - WIPO Treaty
  
  
• FULLTEXT EXHIBIT: Envisioning Robotics
  Select items of the Takeo Kanade Collection (Carnegie Mellon University Archives). Dr. Kanade is a distinguished faculty member at Carnegie Mellon and a world-renowned pioneer in the field of robotics. His research on improved human/robotic interaction continues to advance computer vision, multimedia, autonomous mobile robotics, and sensors. Envisioning Robotics showcases Dr. Kanade's contributions to: Image Understanding & Computer Vision, Virtualized Reality & Eye Vision, Autonomous Robotics, Direct Drive Robotic Arms, and Medical Robotics.
  
  
• FULLTEXT ARCHIVE: Joseph F. Traub Collection
  Joseph F. Traub, former Head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University (1971-1979), is currently Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. In 1959 he began his pioneering work in what is now called information-based complexity. His current research focus is on quantum computing. Both his research and administrative work have had a major impact on the field of computer science.
  
  
• TALK: The Million Book Digital Library Project: Research Problems in Text Mining
  Dr. Raj Reddy will speak on Friday, April 21, at 4:45 pm, in McConomy Auditorium, University Center.
  ABSTRACT: Creating a universal, free to read, digital library containing all the books ever published is technically feasible today. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have all announced their intention to scan and make available books of interest to public. Unfortunately many of these will be in languages inaccessible to over 80% of the world's population. Even when books in non-native languages become available online, their content will remain incomprehensible to most people. Natural Language Processing Technology is not yet perfect but promises to provide a way out of this conundrum. In this talk, we will discuss some unique research problems in text mining and discovery that arise in large digital libraries and other online content, such as multi-lingual search, translation and summarization.
  
  
• FULLTEXT ARCHIVE: Clifford G. Shull Collection
  Dr. Clifford Glenwood Shull, a 1937 graduate of Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in the development of neutron diffraction with colleague Ernest Wollan. Dr. Shull's pioneering efforts in this field laid the groundwork for use of neutrons to study the structure and dynamics of matter. While best known as a Nobel Laureate, Dr. Shull also received the Buckley Prize from the American Physical Society in 1956, the Humboldt Senior Scientist Award in 1980, and was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

• Muses in the Library [video] [pdf poster]
  Environmental artist/poet and professor of art Lowry Burgess will speak Wednesday March 1, from noon-1 pm, in Rangos 3, University Center.
  
  
  
• Progress Towards the Digital Future [video] [ppt]
  Carnegie Mellon Dean of University Libraries Gloriana St. Clair spoke in the Digital Libraries Colloquium series on February 22.
  
  

2005

• LECTURE: Copyright in a Networked Society: Creative Commons and Machine-Readable Law [video]
  Michael Carroll, Associate Professor of Law at Villanova University and member of the Board of Directors of Creative Commons
  
  

• Rights, Registries, and Remedies: An Analysis of Responses to the Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry Regarding Orphan Works [PowerPoint]
  Talk presented by Denise Troll Covey at the Symposium on Free Culture and the Digital Library (Emory University, October 2005). Excerpts [PDF] from published paper.
  
  
• Digital Library Colloquium: [Verizon Perspectives on] The Emerging Telecommunications Environment and Implications for the User Experience [videorecording] [PowerPoint]
  Talk byTony DiMaso, Verizon Communications VP for Strategy and Development
  
  
• The Promise of Open Access [PowerPoint]
  Gloriana St. Clair gave the keynote address at the Western Pennsylvania/West Virginia Chapter ACRL Meeting in Pittsburgh (April 15, 2005). She discussed the recent National Institutes of Heath (NIH) Public Access Policy as a major first step toward solving dysfunction in scholarly communications. Her talk begins with a videoclip of provost Mark Kamlet summarizing his involvement with open access initiatives through the Association of American Universities (AAU).
  
  
• A Network Overlay Architecture for Contextualized Digital Libraries
  Carl Lagoze, Senior Research Associate, Cornell University
  
  
• Can We Avoid Catastrophic Failures of Computer Networks? [PowerPoint]
  Hermann Maurer, Graz University of Technology
  
• News about the Million Book Project Final Report of the Workshop [PDF]
  International news about the Million Book Project and other technology and development efforts: A team from Carnegie Mellon's Million Book Project and researchers from the School of Computer Science, working jointly with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations organized a consultative Workshop on Knowledge Networks, February 8-10, in Rome, Italy. Raj Reddy, Rahul Tongia, and Gloriana St. Clair led the university delegation, which included Jaime Carbonell, Robert Frederking, V. S. Arunachalam and others, including several leading academics and industry researchers. The workshop was hosted by FAO's Library and Documentation Systems Division (GIL), directed by Anton Mangstl.
  
  Reddy opened the workshop with a plenary address, "Lifeline: A Concept of Rural Knowledge Networks." In another address, "Google Print, Million Book Project, and Google Scholar," St. Clair contrasted the internationally supported free-to-read Million Book Project with the commercially-driven Google. The 3-day workshop concluded with participants framing a proposal to enhance and improve rural communities' access to critical agricultural and related information, independent of user skills or geographic location.
  
  Exchanging information on a global and local level to achieve sustainable development and food security, and keeping pace with changing technologies for information delivery are GIL's top priorities. Partnering with Carnegie Mellon to design and prototype the proposed "Lifeline" rural knowledge network will ensure, in Carbonell's words, the "Information Bill of Rights": getting the right information to the right people, in the right language, in the right timeframe, in the right level of detail.
  
  
• NIH Calls on Scientists to Speed Public Release of Research Publications
  National Institutes of Health press release (02/03/05).
  
  
• Google Print(TM), the Million Book Project, and Google Scholar(TM) [videorecording] [PowerPoint]
  Gloriana St. Clair gave the first lecture of the 2005 Digital Library Colloquium, on January 27. She compared objectives between Google Print (a partnership among Google, Stanford, New York Public, Michigan, Oxford, and Harvard to digitize books in and out of copyright) and Carnegie Mellon's existing Million Book Project.

2004

• Report to Digital Library Federation
  University Libraries' initiatives improve access and services (October 2004).
  
  
• Open Access Forum [videorecording]
  Held in conjunction with the University Libraries Advisory Board Visit, October 2004. Panel discussion about the NIH open access initiative and latest developments in access to scientific and scholarly information. PANEL: Carnegie Mellon's Mark Kamlet and Mary Jo Dively, with Clifford Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information) and Daviess Menefee (Elsevier Ltd.).
  
  
• Cross-Cultural Communication Online [PowerPoint]
  Dr. Charles Ess, Distinguished Research Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Drury University
  
  
• Project Updates: Posner and Million Book Projects
  Denise Troll Covey, to University Libraries' faculty and staff, July 26 and July 27, 2004.
  
  
• Government Information: Copy Rights for Content Use, Repurposing and Preservation
  Bonnie Klein, a librarian and Program Manager for Copyrighted Information at the Defense Technical Information Center
  

• Core Competencies and Their Application in Management [PDF]
  Bella Karr Gerlich, at the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS) 32nd Annual Conference, April 18, 2004.
  
  
• Town Meeting on Institutional Repositories
  According to a recent EDUCAUSE report, "institutional repositories will become a significant focus of most higher education institutions within three years." Building on the grass-roots practice among faculty of posting their research online - where it is likely to be cited five times as often as traditional print journal literature - institutional repositories are touted as a strategic response to opportunities afforded by a digital networked environment and to systemic problems in the scholarly journal system. Is this hype or hope? How would an institutional repository work at Carnegie Mellon? Carnegie Mellon Faculty Senate and the University Libraries will host a Town Meeting to discuss these questions: Tuesday, April 13, 4:30-6 p.m., Peter McKenna Room, UC.
  
  
• Million Book Project FAQ
  Project tackles key research issues.
  

2003

• Report to the Digital Library Federation
  University Libraries' initiatives improve access and services (Fall 2003).
  
  
• Understanding and Assessing the Million Book Project
  Denise Troll Covey, at Pennsylvania Library Association, October 5, 2003.
  
  
• Libraries Projects
  Focus on collections, software and human factors research.
  
  
• Million Book Project Today
  Gloriana St. Clair, at OCLC, October 21, 2003.
  
  
• A Study of Independent Access to Library Resources [PDF]
  Follow-up Study of LibQual+ Survey of Library Service Quality (Personal Control Domain), implemented and reported by Carole A. George (May 13, 2003).
  
  
• Copyright Permission: Turning to Dust or Digital
  Denise Troll Covey, at the International Conference on the Future of the Book, Cairns, Australia, April 22, 2003.
  
  
• Million Book Project in U. S. and India
  Gloriana St. Clair, at the International Conference on the Future of the Book, Cairns, Australia, April 22, 2003.
  
  
• Dysfunction in Scholarly Communications
  Gloriana St. Clair, at Carnegie Mellon University, March 10, 2003.
  
  
• Million Book Project (MBP)
  Gloriana St. Clair, at Johns Hopkins University, February 5, 2003.
  
  
• The Library: An Appeal for Every Donor
  Gloriana St. Clair, presented to University Advancement, Carnegie Mellon University, January 29, 2003 and February 2003.
  
  
• portal, Scholarly Journals and Library Digital Futures
  Gloriana St. Clair, lecture for SIS (Academic Library Management) at University of Pittsburgh, January 2003.
  

2002

• Million Book Project (MBP)
  Gloriana St. Clair, presented to the Coalition for Networked Information, San Antonio, Texas, December 5, 2002.
  
  
• Million Book Project: Dreams and Realities
  Gloriana St. Clair discussed MBP at PALCI (June and November 2002).
  
  
• Digital Archives: Into the Light
  Gabrielle Michalek spoke at the Computer History Museum (August 1, 2002).
  
  
• Million Book Project: Collections
  Gloriana St. Clair spoke to University of Pittsburgh librarians (May 2002).
  
  
• Accountability vs. Count-Ability
  Denise Troll Covey discussed data collection, assessment challenges, and the process of designing a new MIS at the NERCOMP Library/IT SIG Workshop (April 2002).
  
  
• Automated Reference Assistance: Reference for a New Generation
  Denise Troll Covey presented details about the University Libraries' developing ARA technology at CNI (April 2002).
  
  
• Creating a Free-to-Read International Digital Library
  Erika Linke and Denise A. Troll Covey propose to speak about the Million Books Project at the Beijing International Conference 2002, "Digital Library -- IT Opportunities and Challenges."
  
  
• Report to the Digital Library Federation
  Carnegie Mellon's current digital initiatives and future projects, reported to the Digital Library Federation in January 2002.
  

2001

• Smart Web Exhibit: Delivering Enhanced Library and Museum Collections Online, On Target, and On Time
  Gabrielle V. Michalek presented a project briefing to the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall 2001 Task Force Meeting, November 29, 2001.
  
  
• Tell a Vision: 3 Vignettes
  Denise A. Troll Covey concluded her one-year appointment as DLF Distinguished Fellow with a report to the Digital Libraries Federation (DLF) Forum in November 2001, summarizing the results of her study of assessment practices, issues, and trends among DLF institutions.
  
  
• Libraries in Transition: Changing Our Culture, Keeping Our Values
  Denise A. Troll Covey was the keynote speaker at the Charleston Preconference, "The Realities of Acquiring Electronic Collections: Conversations with Library Administrators about Priorities for Collection Development," on October 31, 2001.
  
  
• How and Why Are Libraries Changing?
  Denise A. Troll Covey's white paper, presented to the Digital Library Federation in January 2001.