(via Clara Tran, Stony Brook University)
Please join the ACRL STS Scholarly Communication Committee for its virtual panel discussion “Evaluating Transformative Agreements”. It will take place on Wednesday, March 27, from 1:00 to 2:00 PM CDT. Please see below for more information, including the link to registration.
Format: There will be a 5-minute brief introduction to the topic by the moderator before a facilitated discussion. The panelists will talk about themselves, their institution, and their experience with transformative agreements. There will be some time left for audience questions.
Panelists Bios:
- Joy has spent most of her library career at the Caltech Library. She works as the Physics, Math & Astronomy Librarian at Caltech and also has a functional role with collections. Part of this collections role has involved working with subject librarians and our University Librarian to evaluate potential TAs for our campus. When Joy isn’t working, she enjoys weaving, sewing, and thrifting.
- Joelle Pitts is the Senior Associate Dean for Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. In that role she is responsible for library finances, access services, technical services including cataloging and acquisitions, operations, human resources, assessment, and reporting. Previously she served as the head of the Content Development and Academic Services departments of the Kansas State University Libraries. Joelle holds master’s degrees in library science and business administration. She is a founder and board member of the award-winning New Literacies Alliance, an inter-institutional information literacy consortium dedicated to creating institutional, technological, and vendor-agnostic online lessons. Integrating her instructional design, collections, and management experience, Joelle’s research areas include distance education and e-learning theory, design, and assessment; inter-institutional collaboration; collection assessment; as well as the intersections of scholarly communication and information literacy. She has published and presented on these topics at the local, national, and international level.
- Angie Ohler is the Associate University Librarian for Collections and Content Strategy at the University of Minnesota Libraries, where she provides vision and leadership for library enterprise systems, copyright and scholarly communications, collection development, technical services, and resource sharing. A library leader with twenty years of professional experience in research libraries, she excels at strategic relationship building, empowering teams and individuals to make big changes, practice authentic inclusion, and build transformative library programs and services. Ohler has also served as the Associate Dean for Content and Digital Initiatives at the University of Arkansas Libraries and Head of Acquisitions and later Director of Collection Services at the University of Maryland Libraries. A 2023-2024 ARL Leadership Fellow, Angie is also the President-Elect for the American Library Association’s Core Division, representing library professionals engaged in library leadership and management, collections and technical services, and library IT. Ohler earned a MLIS from Catholic University and a Masters in Anthropology from American University in Washington DC. A first-generation college graduate, she is a native of Oklahoma and grew up in a working-class family with Indigenous roots. Her research focuses on scholarly communication, collection development, library leadership, IT, and organizational change management.
Moderator Bio:
- Christopher Hollister is the Head of Scholarly Communication with the University at Buffalo Libraries. In that role, he advances initiatives related to scholarly publishing, open access, and open education. A longtime advocate and activist for transforming the current system of scholarly communication into an open one, Chris is co-founder and co-editor of the awarding winning open access journal, Communications in Information Literacy. He also teaches the Scholarly Communication and International Librarianship courses for the University at Buffalo’s Department of Information Science. His current research interests include scholarly publishing and open-educational practices.
Register here.
Registration is required. After registering, you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing information about joining the event.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Haoyong Lan (haoyonglan@cmu.edu) or Clara Tran (clara.tran@stonybrook.edu), co-chairs of the Scholarly Communication Committee.