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2007/02/15: ETD dreams

9AM - met with thesis cataloging team re: workflows. Wished to myself for the umpteenth time that we had a formalized ETD program at MPOW. We do have a very small pilot program, but I must confess I haven't been working to populate the pilot because I have a more pressing need to work on our branded interface (no judgements please, it's still in development).

Several years ago the campus thesis coordinator mentioned that it would be a "cold day in hell" before this campus went with ETD due to the complexities of managing the workflow process and the academic governance issues (must run things by Graduate Councils and Academic Senate and other whatnot). Things are looking up, however. We now have a hip-to-it Vice President for Research on campus who is very interested in Scholarly Communication issues. He has tentatively invited me give a presentation to the university's system-wide research officers committee. This is high ranking folk. All are pretty much on the VP or Assistant VP level. Such an opportunity! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the proposed invitation will work out. My AVP is polling the members of the committee to gage interest. I would love to see some system-wide coordination on that front.

posted by Laura @ 12:06 PM