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Library hosts visitor from Czech Academy of Sciences
"Sheets and Streets: The Daily Paper in 19th Century Urban America" - Morrison Lecture Series, March 3
Inauguration of Chancellor Robert M. Berhdahl
"HighWire Press: the Academy fights back" - Digital Library Seminar, March 2
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From February 24 to March 15, Katie Frohmberg, Associate University Librarian for Sciences, will be hosting a visiting geophysicist from the Czech Academy of Sciences, Dr. Jan Kozak. They will be working on a project funded by the Czech-American Scientific Granting Agency to digitize 1000 pre-photographic images of earthquakes and mount them on the EERC web site (www.eerc.berkeley.edu).
Dr. Kozak's office will be in Doe 385 although we will be spending much time at EERC. If you see Dr. Kozak, please welcome him to Berkeley and invite him to lunch. He has extensive knowlege of rare books and maps, being a collector himself. This is his second trip to Berkeley, the first being under a Fulbright grant about 3 years ago.
The Bancroft Library Presents David Henkin, Department of History, in the Morrison Library Inaugural Lecture Series
"Sheets and Streets: The Daily Paper in Nineteenth Century Urban America"
Tuesday, March 3, 1998
4-6 p.m.Maude Fife Room
315 Wheeler HallReception to follow.
- Co-sponsored by Humanities and Area Studies and the Department of History
Robert M. Berdahl will be inaugurated as Berkeley's eighth Chancellor on Friday, April 24, 1998 at 10:30 am in Zellerbach Auditorium. A reception will follow the inauguration on Lower Sproul Plaza. Free tickets to the inauguration will be available to the general public beginning on April 1 at Zellerbach Hall.
Other festivities will surround the inauguration:
An Opening Ceremony concert in honor of Chancellor and Mrs. Berdahl will be held at Hertz Hall on Thursday, April 23 at 12 noon. An Ice Cream Social for Students will follow the concert at 1:00 pm on Faculty Glade.
A Faculty Symposium on "Higher Education in the 21st Century: The Future of Scholarly Communication" will be held on Thursday, April 23 from 2:00 - 4:00 pm in the Maude Fife Room in Wheeler Hall.
Faculty and staff are invited to attend a reception for the Chancellor and Mrs. Berdahl on Thursday, April 23 from 4:30 to 6:00 pm in the Great Hall, Men's Faculty Club.
Following the inauguration ceremony, William Oldham, Chair of the Academic Senate, will moderate a "Higher Education in the 21st Century" forum featuring a panel including Donald Kennedy, Chancellor Berdahl, Richard Atkinson, Gerhard Casper and Clark Kerr. The forum will be held from 2:30 to 4;00 pm in the Zellerbach Playhouse on Friday, April 24.
Up to 2 hours of administrative leave may be granted to staff to attend the inauguration only, and up to half an hour of administrative may be granted to attend the reception for faculty and staff. All employees should follow normal procedures to request administrative leave for these two events.
- Janice Dost
Library Human Resources Department
Stanford University's HighWire Press: the Academy fights back
Digital Information SystemVicky Reich, Stanford University
Monday, March 2, 1998
310 Soda Hall, 4:00-5:30pmAbstract, from HighWire Press:
HighWire Press (http://highwire.stanford.edu), a unit of the Stanford University Libraries, partners with primarily non-profit scientific societies to transform scholarly communication from the print to the networked world. HighWire has 30 journals online and will have about 100 titles online within the year.HighWire's goal is to enable scientists and their societies to self-publish full content on the web and to encourage them not to "give" their intellectual property to large commercial publishers. HighWire hopes to break the well known cycle: researchers create new knowledge --> they sign away copyright to commercial publishing firms --> universities pay millions of dollars to buy back the information.
This talk will weave together issues from the Digital Library research effort and HighWire's real world production experience.
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