Scholars Portal Days and Events

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Scholars Portal Days 2024: Collaborative Intelligence

As information landscapes and technologies continue to shift rapidly around us, we are taking the plunge into the ever-evolving world of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AIML). Along the way we’ve felt excitement, anticipation, and promise, alongside concern, frustration, and apprehension. How can we balance a range of positionalities with shared professional values to support strategic and mindful integrations of AI into our services and workflows?

We have always relied on collaboration, between people and between institutions, in order to create and support technologies and projects greater than what one person can do alone. This year for Scholars Portal Days we’re coming together to leverage our knowledge, insights, and skills as information professionals to invest in our collective, collaborative intelligence as we look to the future of AIML in libraries.

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Scholars Portal Days 2023: Refresh/Reframe/Renew

Library infrastructure is dynamic, and so are the collaborations that support it. Each moment of change represents an opportunity to reflect on what we do and how we do it, to learn from what’s come before and consider how we can improve going forward. We rethink the framing and structures that support our work, revitalize the user interfaces we rely on, and sunset software and service models to make room to sunrise something new. Nothing is set in stone. For Scholars Portal Days this year, we want to focus on the areas where we’re refreshing, reframing, or renewing our technologies, our service models, and our collaborations.

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Scholars Portal Days 2022: Currents of Change

The Scholars Portal Journals platform first launched as an OCUL service in 2002. In the intervening two decades, the landscapes of collections, scholarly publishing, library technology, and consortial collaboration have all evolved significantly. For this year’s Scholars Portal Days, we would like to explore the current environment, the currents of change that brought us to where we are today, and those that are pulling us ever forward.

How do our current realities stack up against the visions, or the fears, of the past? What new and unexpected challenges or triumphs have arisen in our present? How can we prepare ourselves for the future when the pace of change is too rapid for us to predict what the landscape will look like in another twenty years?

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Scholars Portal Day 2021: Unearthed Infrastructure

Social, physical, and technological changes over the past year have forced us to uproot our familiar ways of working and reconfigure them in ways we never before expected. This excavation work has exposed both hidden faults and buried strengths. Now that these hidden legacies have been unearthed, now that we’ve taken everything apart and put the pieces together in new ways, how can we ensure that we lay solid groundwork going forward?

Technology migrations, remote work and service provision, and rising social movements have all helped shine a light on areas that have been unseen, hidden, or otherwise invisible. For Scholars Portal Day this year, we want to reflect on the ways these disruptions have opened up new perspectives that can be used to strengthen our services and infrastructure as we move into an uncertain future.

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Scholars Portal Roadshow 2020

In 2020, we hit the road (first physically, then virtually) to talk about Scholars Portal services in the new Omni world.

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Scholars Portal Day 2018: Investing in Inclusiveness

Diversity, accessibility, and equity are more than buzzwords: as public institutions, they should be the cornerstones of all that we do. This year, the theme for Scholars Portal Day is Investing in Inclusiveness. Join the conversation about how we can sustainably design and build our services, collections, and spaces, both digital and in-person, with inclusion at the core.

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Scholars Portal Day 2017: Transforming Libraries

This year, the Ontario Council of University Libraries celebrated its 50th anniversary, and at Scholars Portal Day we want to reflect on the past and turn toward the future. Our theme is transformation: transforming library collections, services, spaces, and more in order to serve the changing needs of diverse user groups in a time of technological innovation.

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Scholars Portal Roadshow 2016

This year, we're putting Scholars Portal Day on hold, packing the tour bus and bringing the conversation to you!

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Scholars Portal Day 2015: Investigating Research Data Management and Scholarly Communication

This year Scholars Portal Day centered around a discussion of two evolving areas of library support - research data management and scholarly communication - and the roles that libraries and consortia can play there.

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