congrats to all. this is seriously awesome. <br>
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tvol<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 11, 2007 4:31 PM, Gavin Baker <<a href="mailto:gavin@gavinbaker.com">gavin@gavinbaker.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Not to toot our own horns, but..<br><br><a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/07-1211.html" target="_blank">http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/07-1211.html</a><br><a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/innovator/" target="_blank">
http://www.arl.org/sparc/innovator/</a><br><br>SPARC highlights five students for leadership and activism on open access<br><br>Washington, DC -- December 11, 2007 -- SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing<br>and Academic Resources Coalition) has recognized five student leaders as
<br>the new SPARC Innovators. Hailed as "Agents of Change," students point<br>to the promise of a more open system for information sharing.<br><br>December's SPARC Innovators include:<br><br>* "The Technologist," Benjamin Mako Hill, Graduate of the MIT Media Lab,
<br>current Researcher at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, Fellow in<br>the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, and engineer of the 2007<br>"Overprice Tags" project at the MIT library.<br><br>* "The Professional," Gavin Baker. Political Studies graduate of the
<br>University of Florida, Open Access Director for Students for Free<br>Culture, and co-mastermind of the National Day of Action for Open<br>Access, February 2007.<br><br>* "The Politician," Nick Shockey. Current undergraduate and Student
<br>Senator at Trinity University in San Antonio and author of the<br>second-ever student senate resolution in favor of public access to<br>publicly funded research results.<br><br>* "The Diplomat," Elizabeth Stark. Student of Law at Harvard University,
<br>Affiliate of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, founder of<br>Harvard Free Culture, and architect of one of the first student free<br>thesis repositories.<br><br>* "The Evangelist," Nelson Pavlosky. Law student at George Mason
<br>University, co-founder of Students for Free Culture, and ally of the<br>Student Global AIDS Campaign and Universities Allied for Essential<br>Medicines.<br><br>"Despite different backgrounds and interests, these students share a
<br>common interest in ensuring ease of access and use of electronic<br>information," said SPARC Director Heather Joseph. "As members of a<br>generation raised with the Internet, sharing is second nature to them.
<br>When it comes to open access, they just get it."<br><br>The December SPARC Innovator profile is the first of several<br>student-centered initiatives from SPARC. The January SPARC-ACRL forum at<br>ALA will explore "Working with the Facebook Generation: Student
<br>Engagement on Access to Scholarship" and will feature the winners of the<br>first SPARKY awards for student videos illustrating the value of<br>sharing. The forum will also mark the introduction of a dedicated SPARC
<br>campaign to engage students on the topic of open access.<br><br>"The more we have the opportunity to work with students, the more we see<br>their creativity and commitment to opening access not only to research,<br>
but to textbooks, software, and information of all kinds," said Diane<br>Graves, University Librarian at Trinity University. "It's a pleasure as<br>well as a learning experience to collaborate with these Innovators and
<br>their peers on these issues."<br><br>The SPARC Innovator program recognizes advances in scholarly<br>communication realized by an individual, institution, or group.<br>Typically, these advances exemplify SPARC principles by challenging the
<br>status quo in scholarly communication for the benefit of researchers,<br>libraries, universities, and the public. SPARC Innovators are featured<br>on the SPARC Web site semi-annually and have included Ted and Carl<br>
Bergstrom; Melissa Hagemann of the Open Society Institute; the<br>University of California; and Herbert Van de Sompel of the Los Alamos<br>National Laboratory. SPARC Innovators are named by the SPARC staff in<br>consultation with the SPARC Steering Committee.
<br><br><br>- --<br>Gavin Baker<br><a href="http://www.gavinbaker.com/" target="_blank">http://www.gavinbaker.com/</a><br><a href="mailto:gavin@gavinbaker.com">gavin@gavinbaker.com</a><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>
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