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Current Professional Committees of Cowles Library Faculty (doesn’t include Drake University Committees, go here for the most recent listing of those):

Sam Becker:

• ILA/ACRL Committee on Diversity and Inclusion

Hope Bibens:

• Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, Society of American Archivists Congressional Papers Section
• Chair, Electronic Records Committee, Society of American Archivists Congressional Papers Section
• Constituent Service System Task Force, Society of American Archivists Congressional Papers Section
• Steering Committee Member, Society of American Archivists Congressional Papers Section
• Chair, Membership Committee, Association of Centers for the Study of Congress
• Co-Chair, Communications Committee, Association of Centers for the Study of Congress
• Digital Exhibit Task Force Member, Association of Centers for the Study of Congress

Dan Chibnall:

• Member, ALA-STS Conference Planning Committee
• Member, ALA-LIRT Conference Planning Committee
• ILA Executive Board
• IPAL Steering Committee
• ILA/ACRL Professional Development Committee

Carrie Dunham-LaGree

• ACRL-WGSS, Webmaster
• ACRL-WGSS, Executive Board, ex-officio
• ACRL-WGSS, Publications Committee
• ACRL-WGSS, 2018 Conference Program Planning Committee
• ACRL Professional Development Committee
• Iowa ACRL, Spring Conference 2018 Chair
• Iowa ACRL, Executive Board
• College and Research Libraries, Peer Reviewer

Claudia Frazer:

• 2017 ILA/ACRL Fall Program Committee
• Editorial Board, Drake Community Press

Bruce Gilbert:

• All Iowa Reads Committee
• Iowa ACRL, Spring Conference 2018 Committee

Marcia Keyser:

• Copyright Education Committee of the OITP section of ALA
• Chair, Library Committee of Grace United Methodist Church, Des Moines

Priya Shenoy:

• American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Library and Information Science Section (LIS)
  • LIS Communications Committee
  • LIS Membership Committee
  • Standing for LIS “Secretary of Knowledge Management” in Fall 2017

Andrew Welch

• Grand View Library Advisory Committee

CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE:
Below is a partial listing of some of the regional and national conferences that Cowles Library faculty have attended in the past year.

ALA Annual:
Sam Becker, Dan Chibnall, Carrie Dunham-LaGree, Teri Koch

ACRL (Biennial)
Bricks and Clicks: Mark Stumme

Carrie Dunham-LaGree, Asst. Professor of Librarianship, recently accepted a national appointment to the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Professional Development committee. The Committee’s charge is to provide advice “on matters related to professional development needs assessment, program development and evaluation, and elearning.” Her term begins July 1, 2016 and ends June 30, 2017. She also currently chairs the Iowa ACRL Professional Development committee.

Bruce Gilbert, Professor of Librarianship, was recently appointed to the All Iowa Reads (AIR) Committee. Established in 2003, the All Iowa Reads program is one of the first projects to be provided by the Iowa Center for the Book. (For the current year, the All Iowa Reads selection is Lila by Marilynne Robinson).

The primary work of the committee is to choose the All Iowa Reads title each year and to promote the program.   Members also make suggestions at the beginning of the process and familiarize themselves with the titles on the nominee list. 

Each committee member contributes to a variety of promotional and maintenance type efforts throughout the year, such as working on other reading lists, reviewing the Iowa Center for the Book AIR website, helping people who are doing book talks, and preparing for and participating in the Webinar that is held each January to kick off the AIR new year.

The purpose of All Iowa Reads is to foster a sense of unity through reading. We encourage Iowans statewide to come together in their communities to read and talk about a single book title in the same year. Libraries, book clubs, schools and other local organizations are encouraged to sponsor discussions of the title.

Marcia Keyser, Associate Professor of Librarianship at Cowles Library, recently had a poster presentation approved for the 2016 Kraemer Copyright Conference at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. The Kraemer Copyright Conference offers public, academic, special, and school librarians the opportunity to learn about U.S. Copyright Law and how it impacts the services we offer our patrons. The presentation is titled, “The Google Books Case Settlements: Gone But Not Forgotten,” and will explore the potential long-term ramifications of the Google Books Case.

Teri Koch, Professor of Librarianship at Cowles Library, participated in a panel on “The Importance of Outreach in Shared Print Projects” at the Charleston Conference on Nov. 4, 2015. This conference, held in Charleston, South Carolina, is the preeminent gathering of librarians, publishers, resource managers, and vendors that focuses on issues in book and serials acquisitions. Teri discussed the Central Iowa Collaborative Collections Initiative, a ground-breaking shared collection among Drake University and five other Iowa colleges and universities.

The Faculty Senate of Drake University endorsed an Open Access Policy at its regular meeting on 17 April 2013 (the amended text follows).  It is one of the first such campus-wide Open Access academic policies to be adopted in Iowa. The Faculty of Cowles Library had originally endorsed the policy, and they hope to leverage this endorsement to raise awareness of Open Access in general, and the Drake Institutional Repository (eScholarShare) in particular.

Drake University Open Access Policy Text (as amended)

 The Faculty of Drake University is committed to disseminating its research and scholarship as widely as possible. The Faculty recognize the public benefit of such dissemination, including that providing greater access to scholarship promotes social justice. This policy is also intended to serve faculty interests by promoting greater reach and impact for scholarly publications, assisting authors’ retention of distribution rights, and ensuring long-term preservation of the scholarly output of the University.

In keeping with these commitments, the Drake Faculty Senate recognizes that Cowles Library has created an Open Access repository of the scholarly output of faculty (eScholarShare). Each faculty member grants to Drake University permission to make electronically available his or her scholarly works that the author has chosen to distribute as Open Access. Drake University will permanently store and index those works for the purpose of open dissemination. In legal terms, under this policy, Drake Faculty author(s) or copyright owner(s) grant to Drake University the non-exclusive, royalty-free right to reproduce, convert to an updated electronic format, publicly display/perform and/or distribute their submission (including the abstract) worldwide in any format or medium, including but not limited to print, photographic, electronic, audio and/or video. The Drake Faculty author(s) remain(s) the copyright owner unless that author chooses to transfer the copyright to a publisher.

Scholarly works authored or co-authored while anyone is a member of the Faculty would be eligible for deposit in the repository unless the Faculty member entered into an incompatible licensing or assignment agreement, such as transferring all rights to a publisher. If the faculty member grants to Drake University permission to make electronically available his or her scholarly works, he or she may embargo scholarly articles from distribution for a specified period of time if a publishing agreement made by the Faculty member is incompatible with immediate distribution in eScholarShare.

The Faculty Senate calls upon the Cowles Library Faculty Council to work with the Provost’s Office, in collaboration with the Faculty Senate, to develop and monitor an implementation plan for this policy. The Library Faculty Council, in consultation with the Provost’s Office, will submit annual reports to Faculty Senate. The policy and service model will be reviewed as needed and a recommendation on revisions to the policy presented to the Faculty Senate.

Abstract: In recent months, “Openness” (in the form of MOOCs, OAI, the “Academic Spring”) has moved from the relatively obscure concern of a few librarians and internet geeks to the subject of New York Times articles, daily updates in the Chronicle, and the radar screens of University faculty and administrators. All of which begs the question: Just what is (and ISN’T) “Open”? How is it defined? For all the reams written on “Open” topics, there is a paucity of theoretical support for “Openness”; the “Open” is generally assumed not to need a definition and even less to need a justification. Professor Gilbert will argue that this is a role that the Humanities should assume, and that the philosophical vacuum in this area is doing damage not just to Openness, but the academy itself. He will tilt towards provocative points of view: That the various Open initiatives would benefit from a “Grand Unified Theory,” and that Openness is either a new Humanity, or a force that may well subsume the Humanities. Finally, drawing from sources ranging from literature to librarianship to social theory, he will offer some preliminary thoughts on defining The Open, and seek to engage his audience in refining these notions. Note that these remarks will not be technical in nature, and all with a general interest are encouraged to attend!

Brief bio:
Bruce Gilbert grew up on an Iowa dairy farm and was a railroad worker before garnering degrees in history, library science, and public administration from Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, and Drake University, respectively.  He began his service at Drake in 1992 when he was hired as the institution’s first Systems Librarian, and is currently the Director of Library Instruction at Cowles Library; among his accomplishments is helping to establish eScholarShare, the University’s Institutional Repository for scholarly material.