Keynote

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Dorothea Salo

Hot off the press is news that the organising committee has a commitment from Dorothea Salo to give the keynote speech to open the event. Her Innkeeper at the Roach Motel article is colourful, insightful and thought-provoking so we're very pleased to have her.

Title:

Le IR, c'est mort. Vive le IR!

Bio: Dorothea Salo has been running institutional repositories for three years, first at George Mason University and then at the University of Wisconsin. She has written and spoken internationally on scholarly communication and open access as well as design and usability. Her article "Innkeeper at the Roach Motel" on the situation of institutional repositories in the United States will appear in the fall issue of _Library Trends_ (preprint available). Dorothea holds a master's degree in Spanish and another in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Blurb:

The institutional repository is dead -- long live the institutional repository! Despite their rocky beginnings, IRs are finally finding their niche and surging forward. What were their initial mistakes, and how can further missteps be avoided? How do we best build on IRs' current momentum? What do IRs need to succeed? Let's get the conversation started!