<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><strong>***PLEASE EXCUSE CROSS-POSTING***</strong></div><div style="text-align:left;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><strong><br></strong></div><div style="text-align:left;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><strong><font color="#0000ff"><a href="https://2020-dis.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank">Registration</a></font> for the Seventh Annual Digital Initiatives Symposium is now open!</strong></div><div><div style="margin:5px 0px"></div><div><div style="text-align:left;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">Check out the program at:</font><font color="#500050"> </font><a href="https://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/2020/" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font color="#0000ff">https://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/2020/</font></a></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left;font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="text-align:left;font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><u>Monday, April 27:</u></span></strong></div><div style="text-align:left;font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#0000ff">Five pre-conference workshops:</font></b><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><div style="text-align:left"> - <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Cataloging in the Age of RDA: Latest Trends, Issues, and Challenges</font></span></div></font></div><span id="gmail-m_-7210417514032818044gmail-docs-internal-guid-f6dcfafb-7fff-18b2-19aa-38555c64b823"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><div style="text-align:left"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">Murtha Baca PhD,</span><i style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"> Getty Research Institute (emerita) and UCLA (emerita);</i><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="text-align:left"><span style="background-color:transparent">Luiz H. Mendes, </span><i style="background-color:transparent">California State University, Northridge and UCLA</i></div></span><p></p><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><div style="text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap">- Developing and Articulating Open Access Policies, Principles, and Guidelines: </span></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="text-align:left">a Hands-On Workshop</div></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="text-align:left">Ellen Finnie, <i>MIT</i></div></span><p></p><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap">- Lessons from SPARC’s Journal Negotiation Community of Practice: </span></div><span style="font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="text-align:left">A Workshop on Aligning Negotiations With Making Scholarship Open By Default</div></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nick Shockey, Caitlin Carter, and Greg Tananbaum, <i>SPARC</i></span></p><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Copyright Intersections for Academic Librarians</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sara Benson, <i>University of Illinois</i></span></p><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Planning and Managing a Digital Collections Project</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dinah Handel, <i>Stanford University</i></span></p></font></span><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style=""><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;text-align:left"><strong><font color="#0000ff">Outdoor Wine and Cheese Welcome Reception </font></strong></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-weight:700"><br></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align:left;font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><b><u>Tuesday, April 28</u></b></font></div><p style="text-align:left;font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><font color="#0000ff">Keynote speakers:</font></strong></span></p><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><strong>"</strong></span><span style="font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">What is Open about Closed: an Ubuntu Perspective of Open Access"</font></span></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><div style="text-align:left"><span id="gmail-m_-7210417514032818044gmail-docs-internal-guid-d8c5cf51-7fff-7fb2-d5e3-eddac6d10c24"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Reggie Raju, <i>University of Cape Town</i></span></span>  </div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap">"Academy-Owned Non-Profit Open Access Publishing: </span></div></font><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span id="gmail-m_-7210417514032818044gmail-docs-internal-guid-6afc9256-7fff-b05e-2f53-43ec8e88d1cc"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-7210417514032818044gmail-docs-internal-guid-6cfbf210-7fff-0013-7c10-0b99cac23f3d"></span></p><div style="text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap">an Approach to Achieve Participatory and Sustainable Scholarly Communications"</span></div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="text-align:left"><span id="gmail-m_-7210417514032818044gmail-docs-internal-guid-6cfbf210-7fff-0013-7c10-0b99cac23f3d" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Arianna Becerril García, <i>Redalyc</i></span></span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">  </span></div><div style="text-align:left"><strong><font color="#0000ff"><br></font></strong></div><div style="text-align:left"><strong><font color="#0000ff">Featured speaker:</font></strong></div></span></span><p></p></font></div><div style=""><span id="gmail-m_-7210417514032818044gmail-docs-internal-guid-6afc9256-7fff-b05e-2f53-43ec8e88d1cc" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><div style="text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial,sans-serif">"Facilitating OA Transformation through Publisher Engagement: The UC Experience"</span></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><div style="text-align:left"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ivy Anderson, </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i>California Digital Library</i></span></div></font><p></p></span><div style="text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></span></div></div><div style="text-align:left;font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><strong style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#0000ff">Deans' Panel:</font></strong><br></div><div><div style="text-align:left;font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jennifer Fabbi</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Dean, University Library; California State University, San Marcos</span><br></div><div style=""><span id="gmail-m_-7210417514032818044gmail-docs-internal-guid-caff7f0f-7fff-2d58-e0a3-01a2c2b190a1" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Maggie Farrell</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Dean of Libraries; University of Nevada, Las Vegas</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Larry Alford</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, University Chief Librarian; University of Toronto </span></font></p></span><div style="text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></span></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><strong style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#0000ff">Plus:</font></strong><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><strong><div style="text-align:left"><strong><font color="#000000"> 5 Lightning Talks</font></strong></div></strong></div><div style="text-align:left;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><strong><font color="#000000">12 Concurrent Sessions</font></strong></div><div style="text-align:left;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><strong><font color="#000000">4 User Groups</font></strong><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></div></div></div><div style="text-align:left;font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:left;font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><strong><font color="#0000ff">WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN SAN DIEGO!</font></strong></div></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b>_____________________</b></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Laura Turner</b><div><i>Head of Collections, Access, and Discovery</i></div><div>Helen K. and James S. Copley Library / University of San Diego</div><div>5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA  92110-2492</div><div>Phone:  (619) 260-2365 | <a href="mailto:lauraturner@sandiego.edu" target="_blank">lauraturner@sandiego.edu</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>