Copley Connects _ Spring 2023

SYMPOSIUM

9TH ANNUAL DIGITAL INITIATIVES

SAVE THE DATE! The Digital Initiatives Symposium will celebrate its 10th Anniversary April 29-30, 2024

Photos by Catherine Paolillo

By Jennifer Bidwell, Business Librarian The 9th annual Digital Initiatives Symposium took place on April 17-18, 2023, at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies. This year’s Symposium was a return to in-person sessions with invited speakers from across the country. The two-day event began with workshops on digital exhibits, managing digital projects, copyright in the digital era, participatory archiving, and open access agreements. The second day opened with Greg Eow’s keynote presentation on postcolonial knowledge commons. Eow's talk centered on addressing existential challenges for libraries, stemming from the digital revolution of the last half-century. Eow related these challenges to those felt over 400 years ago

at the advent of the printing press. Eow also noted the importance of maintaining a sense of humor as we strive to build an open, inclusive community of learners. The other topics throughout the day included advancing primary sources and special collections in research, building a U.S. repository network, digital initiatives from the perspective of library deans, truly open scholarship, digital access to copyrighted material (with an update on the just launched Project LEND), and matching medieval manuscript fragments with the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). For more information about DIS, and to view the full program with presentation abstracts, visit https:// digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/2023/

Top left: Opening keynote speaker, Dr. Greg Eow, President of the Center for Research Libraries, reframed narratives of crisis in librarianship in terms of postcoloniality, and identified opportunities for libraries to adapt and thrive in this knowledge ecosystem Top right: Vicki Coleman, Dean of Library Services, and Netta Cox, Librarian and Associate Professor, at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, introduced the U.S. Repository Network (USRN) and benefits of open repositories worldwide Bottom left: Featured speaker, Sayeed Choudhury, Director of the Open Source Programs Office at Carnegie Mellon University, spoke about empowering individuals around the world through open scholarship Bottom right: Closing keynote speaker, Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis, presented her work digitally reuniting fragmented medieval manuscripts

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