Finalist for new Western Libraries position to speak April 4 on open-access publishing

Annie Gaines, a finalist for Western Libraries' new position of scholarly communications librarian, will give a presentation to faculty and staff from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. April 4 in Haggard Hall Room 153 on the topic “How can open access publishing advance scholarship at an institution like Western Washington University?”

As a member of the Libraries faculty, the successful candidate for the new position will build and promote the Institutional Repository at Western. The scholarly communications librarian will work closely with the university community to promote open access publishing by encouraging and supporting faculty, staff and students to share their research and scholarship in the digital repository that the Libraries is hosting.