The Value of Establishing an Institutional Repository

Please Join Us

A campus forum to discuss the value of institutional repositories
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Special Collections, Kennedy Library Room 409
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Reception Follows

Featured Speakers

Sayeed Choudhury
Sayeed Choudhury
Associate Director for Library Digital Programs
Hodson Director of the Digital Knowledge Center
Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University Repository
Michael D. Miller
Michael D. Miller
Dean of Library Services
Robert E. Kennedy Library
California Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo

About Sayeed Choudhury

G. Sayeed Choudhury is the Associate Director for Library Digital Programs and Hodson Director of the Digital Knowledge Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University. He serves as principal investigator for projects funded through the National Science Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Mellon Foundation. He has oversight for the digital library activities and services provided by the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University. Choudhury has served on program committees for Open Repositories, the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Web-Wise, the ISMIR music retrieval conference, Document Analysis for Image Libraries, and the IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries. He has provided presentations at the conferences or meetings: Digital Curation Centre, American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, the International Federation of Library Associations, Educause, Coalition for Networked Information, the Digital Library Federation, American Society for Information Science and Technology, Web-Wise. Choudhury has published papers in D-Lib, the Journal of Digital Information, and First Monday.