AAUP 2010
June 17-20
Salt Lake City
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Welcome to AAUP 2010
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| You are receiving the premiere issue of the AAUP 2010
Registrants Newsletter. This newsletter will provide periodic updates, news,
and tips to help you make the most of your attendance at AAUP 2010. You can
expect notice of program changes, information about speakers, links to reports
and white papers relevant to session topics, and much more. We also encourage
all attendees to join the AAUP 2010 program committee on Facebook, where a
lively conversation is keeping us all in gear for the meeting!
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Program Updates
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| Since registration opened in March, the committee and
session chairs have continued to fill out the program. Below are a couple of
the updates and changes; keep an eye on the web program for new panelists and
revised session descriptions as the meeting nears.
New Session: Staffing for Digital Initiatives
For the small- and mid-sized press
the challenges of fewer staff and less flexible budgets play a significant role
in how they can move forward with digital publishing initiatives. What staffing
models work for achieving a press's digital publishing business goals? There is
no right answer to staffing for digital publishing--this discussion, led by
University of Minnesota Press Operations Manager Susan Doerr, is intended to
identify some best practices. Panelists Steve Yates, Marketing Director,
University Press of Mississippi, and Marjorie Fowler, Electronic Projects
Coordinator, University of North Carolina Press, will share their experiences during
the Saturday 3:30-4:45 session block.
Updated Session Description:
Academic Library Buying Patterns
This Friday 5:00-6:15 session
will explore how academic libraries are reacting to budget cuts in terms
of collection development. Three librarians representing libraries of different
sizes and profiles, as well as the UALC (Utah Academic Library Consortium) and CIC
(Committee on Institutional Cooperation) consortia, will discuss their
perspective and answer questions about shifting budgets and the challenges of
e-resource collection.
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Breakfast Interest Tables
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| On Friday and Saturday mornings, meeting attendees can choose to join interest groups at reserved tables during breakfast. We're recruiting "hosts" for each of the tables to help facilitate conversations, and invite volunteers for the following interest groups. On Friday, June 18, we need hosts for several "shoptalk" tables: Journals, XML, Fundraising, Managing Editors. On Saturday, June 19, two special topic tables are still in need of hosts: New Trends in Acquisitions and E-Reader Show and Tell. Please contact Susan Patton, spatton@aaupnet.org, if you are interested in volunteering. A complete list of breakfast interest tables will be posted to the online program before the meeting.
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Featured Speaker
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| Diane Harley will be speaking at the second AAUP 2010
plenary session: "The Future of the Past: Libraries in the
Digital Future." Dr. Harley is a biosocial anthropologist and directs
the Higher Education in the Digital Age (HEDA) project at the Center for
Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) at UC Berkeley. The work of HEDA examines
policy implications of emerging information and communication technologies for
higher education teaching, research, and administration, and Dr. Harley's research
approach emphasizes the concurrent analysis of social, economic, and academic
costs and benefits of new media in scholarship.
Two recent publications from Dr. Harley and her team at CSHE
are of great interest to the AAUP community:
Peer Review in Academic Promotion and Publishing: Its Meaning, Locus, and Future. This includes four working papers developed in preparation for an April 2010
workshop, part of CSHE's Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation-funded Future of
Scholarly Communication Project.
Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines, the final report of the Future of Scholarly
Communication project, published in January 2010.
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Essential Reading
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| The AAUP 2010 Facebook community has shared a number of
"Essential Reading" recommendations on topics relevant to issues covered in the
meeting program. We'll feature some of those recommended reports and white
papers in this space over the coming weeks. In this first issue, however, we
want to point attendees--and especially newcomers--to an article that answers the
question: "What can I get out of the AAUP Annual Meeting?"
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What's on in Salt Lake
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| Often one of the best parts of professional conferences is
getting the chance to see a bit of a new (or favorite) city. Salt Lake City is
renowned for the beauty of its environs and its unique history. You can find a
wealth of information on getting around, dining, and sight-seeing in Salt Lake
City on the AAUP 2010 web site,
but here are some other local tips to make your stay fun as well as
professionally rewarding.
Exhibition
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts hosts
Las Artes de Mexico: From the Collection of the Gilcrease Museum this summer. The exhibition will feature artifacts and
works from Mesoamerican cultures through twentieth-century Mexican artists such
as Diego Rivera. If you are traveling with family, they can take advantage of
an opportunity on June 19, from 2 to 4 PM, to create their own wall hanging at
the museum. (Though meeting attendees will not want to miss the final plenary,
"Digital Humanities is Not an Oxymoron," with Robert
Townsend of the American Historical Association and Alexander Halavais,
Associate Professor of Interactive Communications at Quinnipiac University.)
More information here.
Gold-Medal Brew
Squatters' Black Forest Schwarzbier won a gold medal in the
German-Style Schwarzbier Category against 38 entries in the 2010 World Beer Cup
held in Chicago. The pub has entered beers at the event since 1998 and this is
their 9th medal. Another Utah brewery, Wasatch, medaled for their "Polygamy
Porter." While the Wasatch brew pub is located in Park City, you can find a
draft of their gold-medal porter at the Squatters airport location for a last
(or first!) taste of Utah.
Find more information here.
What's Schwarzbier? It's a dark
lager, milder than a stout or porter. But don't take our word for it--in 2009,
two AAUP members published excellent additions to any beer-and-book lover's
shelves: Mark Denny's accessible and entertaining Froth! The Science of Beer (Johns Hopkins University Press, 9780801891328)
and the authoritatively engaging Beer: Tap into the Art and Science of Brewing by Charles Bamforth (Oxford
University Press, 9780195305425).
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