Lippincott to Speak on Digital Humanities at UH Libraries

Joan K. Lippincott will speak at UH Libraries on February 15.

Joan K. Lippincott will speak at UH Libraries on February 15.

The University of Houston Libraries is pleased to announce an upcoming talk on February 15 featuring Joan K. Lippincott, PhD, associate executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI).

CNI is a joint program of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and EDUCAUSE. The Washington, DC-based organization advances the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.

Lippincott will discuss supporting digital humanities and digital scholarship. At CNI, Lippincott has provided leadership for programs in teaching and learning, assessment, learning spaces, and collaboration among professional groups. She is a widely published author and frequent conference speaker. She is chair of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) New Publications committee, past chair of the editorial board of College & Research Libraries News and is on the boards of portal and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). She serves on the Advisory Board of the Horizon Report, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Seeking Evidence of Impact project, and the Academic Commons. She has served as a consultant to many academic libraries for their information/learning commons projects.

The talk is part of Libraries Rising: Enriching Conversations, a series of thought leaders from diverse disciplines discussing bold ideas in teaching, learning, and discovery. The event will be held on Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. in the MD Anderson Library Elizabeth D. Rockwell Pavilion, and is free and open to all members of the campus and scholarly community.

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Posted on January 24th, 2017 by Esmeralda Fisher and filed under Announcements | Comments Off on Lippincott to Speak on Digital Humanities at UH Libraries