A Skunk in the Library: UNL Visiting Scholars Lecture

The UNL Libraries' Academic Activities Committee invites interested librarians around the state to attend the Visiting Scholar lecture on April 21st, 2011 from 9:00-10:30 in Room 202 of the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center on the University of Nebraska – Lincoln campus. Bethany Nowviskie, Director of the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia Library, will give a talk entitled “A Skunk in the Library; the Path to Production for Scholarly R&D”. Nowviskie will use the example of the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia to talk about a possibly rosy future for “skunkworks” operations in academic research libraries. She will discuss their relationship to scholarly R&D, the digital humanities, and the wider open source community. Her address will illuminate a host of broader issues, including the challenges to open source engagement within higher education and the age-old struggle in library IT between development and operations.

For more information contact any of the persons on the committee:

Brett Barney (bbarney2@unl.edu)
Deb Pearson (dpearson1@unl.edu)
Kay Logan-Peters (klogan-peters1@unl.edu)

Sue Ann Gardner (sgardner2@unl.edu)