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Scholarly Communication
Andy Keck, Committee Chair

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

• Andrew Keck, Perkins School of Theology – SMU, Chair
• Sabahat Adil, University of Colorado – Boulder (Jan–Jul 2019) 
• Clifford B. Anderson, Vanderbilt University
• Michael Hemenway, Iliff School of Theology
• Jérémie LeBlanc, Saint Paul University
• Christine Fruin, Atla, Staff Liason

While originally defined as a task force, the group was converted into 
the Scholarly Communication Committee this year with a regular rota-
tion of committee members with terms. 

Our first in-person meeting as a committee occurred on October 
17–18 in connection with a broader strategic alignment meeting that 
included the Atla Board and other committees. In addition to contrib-
uting to a strategic planning discussion, we reflected on our “charge,” 
talked about opportunities in open educational resources (OER) devel-
opment, network analysis, and Wikicite, and did planning toward the 
ACRL Roadshow and annual conference.  

A major effort of the committee and Atla staff was sponsoring 
the ACRL Scholarly Communication Roadshow on Friday, Febru-
ary 22, 2019. The event served almost 40 attendees, including the 
Atla Board, and offered a number of generous travel scholarships for 
those outside of the greater Chicago area. This day-long interactive 
workshop guided participants through scholarly communication 
fundamentals including publishing, copyright, and library outreach, 
as well as providing deep dives into text and data mining issues for 
humanities research and open access and open education topics that 
are most relevant to the institutions served by Atla member libraries. 
The workshop was led by Carla Myers, Assistant Professor and Coordi-
nator of Scholarly Communications at Miami University Libraries, and 
Rachael Samberg, Scholarly Communication Officer at the University 
of California – Berkeley. 



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The committee was pleased that the 2019 Atla Annual in Vancouver 
featured a number of plenary and program sessions focused around 
scholarly communication. Members of the committee provided 
particular leadership to a Wikidata editathon, a Python workshop, 
and a panel of those contributing to an open access volume on digital 
humanities.


