Anyone interested in participating in an early morning run/walk should meet in the lobby of the Sheraton at 7am on Thursday morning. A free map will be provided if you’d like to repeat the run/walk on your own later in the week. The map will also be available at the registration desk.
We’re looking forward to welcoming you to Access 2008 later this week! Here’s some useful information we wanted to pass on to you before you arrive:
See you at Access!
The CARL Institutional Repository meeting will be held in the Ballroom South, on the 2nd floor of the Sheraton in Hamilton October 1, 2008, from 9 am – 4 pm.
Coffee and a light breakfast will be served before the meeting (starting at 8:30) and lunch will also be provided.
The main purpose of the meeting is to enable IR managers to network with each other. Thus, we will try to make things as informal as possible.
The focus will be on a roundtable at which everyone will have a chance to talk about their IR project, and discuss some of the challenges they face. Then, if time allows after the round table, we can address some specific topics of interest in more depth.
–Submitted by Kathleen Shearer, CARL
There are only a few spaces remaining for Access 2008! Please register this week to ensure your space.
We’ll be closing registration this Friday, September 26th at 5pm, unless of course we hit our max earlier than that, in which case registration will close immediately.
We had an overwhelming response to our travel grants — thank you to everyone who applied! And now for the winners:
Congratulations to Warren Layton, MLIS Candidate from the University of Western Ontario. Warren won the ProQuest Student Travel Grant.
Congratulations to Kathleen Peters, CEO/Librarian at Beausoleil First Nation. Kathleen won the Equinox-Evergreen First-Timer Grant.
Thank you once again to ProQuest and our opening keynote speaker, Karen Schneider, for their generosity. Without them, these travel grants would not have been possible!
Just a quick reminder: if you haven’t yet booked your room at the conference hotel, today is the last day you can get the conference rate! Check the accommodation page for all the details.
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is holding a meeting on institutional repositories in conjunction with the Access 2008 conference. The meeting will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on October 1st at the Sheraton Hotel in Hamilton, Ontario
The purpose of the meeting is to provide an opportunity for those working with IRs to network with colleagues.
The meeting will be fairly informal and involve a high level of participation by attendees.
The morning session will be a round table, in which participants describe the activities and challenges of their institution in regards to institutional repositories. The afternoon session will be a discussion of “hot topics”, one of which will be an update on Canadian funding agency open access policies. Other hot topics will be determined by participants.
The meeting is free, and open to all those interested in attending. Please email Kathleen Shearer (mkshearer AT videotron.ca) by September 19th if you plan to attend.