Joy Kirchner, UBC Library’s Scholarly Communications Coordinator, has been appointed as a Visiting Program Officer to the Association of Research Libraries (ACRL). The 12-month appointment was made to support the ACRL’s scholarly communications initiatives.
“We are very pleased that Joy has been asked to work closely with ACRL to support evolving approaches to scholarly communication,” said Allan Bell, Director of Library Digital Initiatives at UBC. “Joy’s work with ACRL will have a direct connection to our institutional and Library strategic plans. Her work with ACRL will dovetail with UBC’s goals to increase the impact of UBC research by making it widely available in open access digital repositories and promote open access and open source methods and tools.”
More information is available at http://ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pr.cfm?id=7398.
