Information Science Student Association
Please join us for our next upcoming event: an Information Session with Denise Corey from the Cumberland Public Libraries, presented by the Nova Scotia Library Association!
RSVP here for free pizza! We look forward to seeing you!
The storm has let up just in time for Valentine’s Day Candy Grams! We will be in the Rowe Atrium TODAY from 10:30 am until 5:30 pm. Send a sweet treat to someone special! $2 each or 3 for $5.
Campus is closed due to stormy weather today, so we will see you tomorrow in the Rowe Atrium from 10:30 am til 5:30 pm for all your Valentine’s Day Candy Gram needs!
This Valentine’s Day, send something sweet to someone special! SIMSA will be selling Valentine’s Day Candy Grams at a table in the Rowe Atrium this Wednesday February 13th and Thursday February 14th, from 10:30 am til 5:30 pm, and Candy Grams are $2 each or 3 for $5! Come show some love!
SIMSA is selling hoodies, and accepting orders until February 5! If you like feeling cozy, announcing your institutional affiliation AND supporting our student association, please consider buying one of these custom branded hoodies (pictured in attached order form). The hoodies are available in unisex sizing. Instructions for ordering are included in the attachment, but if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact Nicole Slipp, SIMSA Special Projects Chair (nicole.slipp@dal.ca)
Lecture Details
Monday, October 23rd, 2017
4:00pm
Great Hall, University Club, 6259 Alumni Crescent
The Information Management Public Lectures give attention to exciting advances in research and professional practice. The topics are diverse reflecting the importance and global extent of Information Management in today’s society. The lectures are open to all members of the Dalhousie campus and surrounding community. Click here for the full schedule. We encourage you to attend in person, but if that is not possible you can access a recording on the SIM website following the lecture. Live streaming is not currently available.
Dr. John Willinsky
Stanford University
Abstract: This talk will set the current state of open access in scholarly publishing within a larger history of access to learning that reaches back to the medieval period in the West. It will consider the role of the intellectual properties of learning played in the rise of both the university and modern copyright law. This history suggests a number of principles that might be kept in mind when considering today’s various initiatives for pursuing universal open access to research and scholarship, now that such access is being increasingly accepted as the longterm goal for scholarly publishing.
Biography: John Willinsky holds a PhD from Dalhousie University and is Khosla Family Professor of Education at Stanford University, as well as Professor (Part-Time) of Publishing Studies at Simon Fraser University. He directs the Public Knowledge Project, which develops open source scholarly publishing software and his forthcoming book is entitled The Intellectual Properties of Learning: A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke (University of Chicago Press).