Join University of San Diego's Copley Library for the Fifth Annual Digital Initiative Symposium!

This day-and-a-half conference focuses on the digital elements of library ecosystems and features workshops and user group meetings for a variety of institutional repository platforms.

• $95 registration covers both the preconference (Monday, April 23) and full-day conference (Tuesday, April 24). Includes the Wine and Cheese Welcome Reception on Monday as well as breakfast and lunch on Tuesday.
  
  
• $85 registration covers the full-day conference (Tuesday, April 24, 2018). Includes the Wine and Cheese Welcome Reception on Monday as well as breakfast and lunch on Tuesday.
  
  
• $50 registration covers a preconference workshop (Monday, April 23, 2018). Includes the Wine and Cheese Welcome Reception on Monday.

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New This Year:

1. The outdoor Wine and Cheese welcome reception will be held from 4:00-5:30 PM on Monday, April 23
2. Fifteen-minute "TED-style" presentations on Tuesday, April 24
3. FIVE workshop choices:

• To Encourage is to Organize: Moving Higher Education Towards Open
• How to Develop a Faculty Open Access Policy as a Multi-stakeholder, Multi-year Cooperative Project
• Web Archiving for Academic Institutions
• Metadata for Digital Projects: An Overview of Practical Issues and Challenges
• Learning, Understanding, and Using Linked Data

Keynote Speakers for 2018:

• Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director of COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories)
• Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Scholarly Communications Librarian and Professor, Illinois Wesleyan University and Merinda Hensley, Digital Scholarship Liaison and Instruction Librarian, University of Illinois

View the full progam at: http://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/2018/

Hotel, travel, and local attraction information: https://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/hotel_and_travel.html

Registration closes on April 16, 2018.