Open Access (OA) Initiatives in Scholarly Communication
Attend a lecture on open access (OA) initiatives in scholarly communication.
Carleton University Library invites you to attend a lecture by Andrew Waller on open access (OA) initiatives. Mr. Waller is the serials librarian in the Libraries and Cultural Resources at the University of Calgary
Date: Monday, May 25, 2009
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
(Coffee, tea and light refreshments will be served at 8:30 a.m.)
Place: Library Staff lounge (Room 153), Carleton University Library
Over the past few years, staff at the Libraries and Cultural Resources at the University of Calgary have been increasingly engaged in activities supporting open access (OA). These activities include installing and populating an institutional repository, now the second largest university repository in Canada; establishing an open access authors fund, which is designed to pay some submission fees for University of Calgary authors who publish in open access journals that charge such fees; and, most recently, creating a OA mandate for academic staff (librarians, archivists, and curators).
Mr. Waller will be discussing the background and implementation of open access projects at the university as well as the challenges associated with these initiatives.
Andrew Waller regularly writes and speaks on topics such as open access, licensing, e-journals, the effects of the U.S.A. Patriot Act and similar legislation on Canadian libraries and researchers, electronic resource management systems, and systematic downloading. He is the convener of the Canadian Library Association Collection Development and Management Interest Group, the Licensing & Access editor for the journal The Serials Librarian, and is part of the team that produces the OA Librarian blog.
For questions about this event, please contact Anita Hui, Head of Collection Development, Carleton University Library, at anita_hui@carleton.ca.
Student Distress Workshops for Faculty Members
In partnership with the Distress Centre of Ottawa, the Educational Development Centre (EDC) will be hosting a series of customized workshops geared towards faculty members, with a focus on the importance – and often underrated degree – of student distress. 
“For a small minority,” writes BBC columnist Melissa Jackson in response to a teen death in the UK, “the pressure of trying to succeed can become too much, with very serious, often fatal consequences”. University life is not always the advertised utopia. It can be enormously stressful for some, especially in exam season, and this is a problem that often goes unnoticed.
Receiving more than 37,000 calls a year, the Distress Centre of Ottawa is a non-profit organization dedicated to anyone in need of a shoulder to lean on, or simply someone at the end of the line to talk to. Life can present itself before you in turbulent ways, and the train can sometimes skip off the track. For those who need to reach out for help, the Distress Centre can help get you back on track.
The first of five workshops kick off Friday, October 24, and will focus on “forming connections with students”, building listening skills on an instructional level. They will help instructors develop a greater skill set to have a more receptive role to students, to help meet their needs and concerns whatever they may be.
A number of Friday workshops will follow with “Establishing Limits and Boundaries” (November 28), “Carleton Specific Policies and Cases” (January 9), “Stress and Distress” (February 6), and “Recognizing the Signs of Suicide” (February 27). For additional information including workshop times and locations, visit the EDC’s website. If you have any questions, please contact us at edc@carleton.ca, or drop us a line at 613-520-2600 ext. 4433.
