Schedule

2 p.m.

Workshop: Digital Preservation for IRs
Elizabeth La Beaud, University of Southern Mississippi

9 a.m.

Workshop: Digital Accessibility for IRs
Jennie Vance, University of Southern Mississippi

11 a.m.

Preconference dismisses

12:00 p.m.

Check-in Opens

1:00 p.m.

Welcome and Introduction
Dr. John Eye, Dean of Libraries, University of Southern Mississippi

1:10 p.m.

Keynote
Jeanne Pavy, University of New Orleans

2:30 p.m.

Panel - Institutional Repositories: Looking Back and Moving Forward
Eleni Castro, Boston University
Sue Gardner, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Andii Johnson, University of West Florida
Colleen Lyon, University of Texas at Austin
Kaleena Rivera, Florida Gulf Coast University
Emily Stenberg, Washington University in St. Louis

4:00 p.m.

Lightning Talks

“Taking Control: Acquiring, Migrating, and Assessing the University's Institutional Repository”
Challen Wright, University of Nevada, Reno

“Using Configurable Entities in DSpace 7.2”
Anne Shelley, Iowa State University

“Balancing Open Access and Ethical Responsibility: The Sensitivity of Sharing Endangered Species Data”
Shavon Stewart, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

6:00 p.m.

Optional Dinner Meetup

8:30 a.m.

Check-in/Breakfast (Cook 209A)

9:00 a.m.

“Learning to Let Go: Weeding for Sustainability in a Mature Repository” (Cook 209A/Room A)
Jeffrey M. Mortimore, Georgia Southern University
Nathan Banks, Georgia Southern University

“Refocusing Open Access Marketing and Education Efforts In Response to Local Perceptions” (Cook 206Z/Room B)
Julie Shedd, Mississippi State University
Megan Bean, Mississippi State University

10:00 a.m.

“Breaking News: Adding Campus Newspapers to Your IR” (Cook 209A/Room A)
Michelle Emanuel, University of Mississippi

“The Long and Short of It: IR Considerations for Today and Tomorrow” (Cook 206Z/Room B)
Christopher Stewart, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Bonnie Bennet, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Donna Rose, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

11:00 a.m.

“Using IRs for CUREs: Collaborating with Educators to Preserve Undergraduate Projects on an Institutional Repository” (Cook 209A/Room A)
Zachary Stein, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Roxanne Bourque, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

“I Know what You Did Last Summer: A Look at New Administrative Features and Updates in the Figshare Platform” (Cook 206Z/Room B)
Andrew Mckenna-Foster, Figshare

12:00 p.m.

Lunch (Cook 209A)

1:00 p.m.

Special Tenth Anniversary Session: "A Decade of SMIRC: What Now and What Next?" (Cook 206Z/Room B)
Josh Cromwell, University of Southern Mississippi

2:00 p.m.

"One Search or One System? Weighing Cross-Platform Discovery Against All-in-One Repositories" (Cook 209A/Room A)
Elizabeth La Beaud, University of Southern Mississippi

“Showcasing Excellence with Digital Commons” (Cook 206Z/Room B)
Christa Johnson-Perkins, Elsevier Digital Commons

3:00 p.m.

“Empowering Student Voices: Expanding Inclusion and Faculty Engagement with Student Collections" (Cook 209A/Room A)
Cindy Gruwell, University of West Florida
Andii Johnson, University of West Florida

“Down With the Tyranny of Bean Counting: Setting Goals and Measuring Outcomes with USU's IR” (Cook 206Z/Room B)
Erica Finch, Northern Ontario School of Medicine
Connor Murphy, Utah State University

3:30 p.m.

“Building a Research Data Catalog" (Cook 209A/Room A)
Amy Reese, University of Alabama at Birmingham

"'I Don't Tend That Part of My Garden': The Self-Archiving Practices of Arts and Humanities Scholars (Cook 206Z/Room B)
Lindsey Skaggs, Illinois State University
Rachel Scott, Illinois State University
Colby Cilento, Illinois State University

4:00 p.m.

Closing Remarks/Dismissal (Cook 206Z/Room B)