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UNIVERSITY
LIBRARIES WELCOME JOHN UNSWORTH
With issues of open access,
ways academic libraries are
leading the direction for journal publishing models, and how digital
initiatives are provoking ideas for library resources, John Unsworth, Dean of
the Graduate School of Library & Information Science at the
University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will deliver two lectures and a panel
discussion on
Tuesday, March 23, in the Hesburgh Library Auditorium at the University
of
Notre Dame.
Morning Lecture
Who:
Dr. John Unsworth
What:
"Variations on Open Access."
This lecture will discuss different models of open access that are
being
proposed or have been used in scholarly journal publishing.
When:
Tuesday, March 23rd from 10 to 11:30AM
Where: Hesburgh
Library Auditorium
Afternoon Lecture
Who:
Dr. John Unsworth with panelists: Dr.
Daniel Sheerin, Professor,
Department of the Classics; Ms. Bonnie Mak, Ph.D. Candidate
and Teaching Fellow, Medieval Institute; Dr. Lou Jordan, Head of
Special
Collections, University Libraries. Moderated by Mr. Cameron Tuai,
Business
Reference Librarian.
What:
"Born-digital Scholarship: Some
Examples." This lecture and panel discussion will focus on
second-generation digital resources within the humanities and social
sciences.
When:
Tuesday, March 23rd from 4
to 5:30PM
Where:
Hesburgh
Library Auditorium
Following his
Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1988
and a year of appointment in the Department of English, Unsworth joined
the
English department at North Carolina State University, where in 1990 he
co-founded and began co-editing Postmodern Culture, the Internet's
first
peer-reviewed scholarly journal, now part of Johns Hopkins UP's Project
Muse.
In 1993, Unsworth returned to the University
of Virginia, as Director of
the
newly formed Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities and as
a
faculty member in the Department of English. As the institute's
director, he
has overseen research projects across disciplines in the humanities,
published
widely on the topic of electronic scholarship, supervised the
institute's
software development program, and helped to secure grants for institute
projects from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National
Science
Foundation, the Getty Grant Program, IBM, Sun, and others. He has also
won two
major grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, one for a project
with the University of Virginia
Library to explore
library collection and dissemination of born-digital scholarly
research, and
the other to create an electronic imprint at the University Press of
Virginia
to publish originally digital scholarship in the humanities. In August
of 2003
he was named Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information
Science at
the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with appointments as
Professor in
GSLIS, in the Department of English, and on the Library Faculty.
Unsworth’s
presentations are
being sponsored by the Professional Development Committee (PDC) of the
University Libraries of Notre Dame. For further information, please
contact
Hector Escobar, PDC Chair, at 631-6561.
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