On Thursday, October 27, Academic Commons, the digital research repository of Columbia and its affiliates, will be co-sponsoring two deposit parties. These are events where students, faculty, and staff can bring their work and, with the assistance of repository staff, add it to the burgeoning collections of Academic Commons. These deposit parties are part of Open Access Week 2011 at Columbia.
The first deposit party will be hosted by the Digital Humanities Center (Room 305 in Butler Library), and will run from 3:30 to 5:00 PM. The target audience is graduate and undergraduate students, particularly those who take part in the previous day’s workshop on copyright and other issues in filing electronic theses and dissertations. Refreshments will be served.
The second, which begins at 5:00 PM, is being hosted by the Monell Engineering Library as part of the monthly “Cordial," an event where librarians mingle with faculty and enjoy wine, cheese, and other refreshments.
Participants in either event should come prepared: whether you bring a flash drive crammed to the gills with your articles, presentation slides, and other work, or simply a copy of your CV that can be used to track down digital copies of your work on the Web, you will need to have your files to hand in order to deposit them.
If you have any questions about Academic Commons in general, or the deposit parties in particular, please direct them to Robert Hilliker, the Digital Repository Manager, at rhilliker [at] columbia.edu.
