Robert H. McDonald

UPCEA 2023 Annual Conference

Coming up tomorrow is #UPCEA2023 Looking forward to seeing many friends this week! I am excited to present with @amandabrantner @adamfein and @qmcandrew on “Building Learner Outcomes with Stackability: Stories from the Field” in concurrent session. https://t.co/v6j8atXFFg — Robert H. McDonald (@mcdonald) March 21, 2023

Chancellor's Annual Summit 2023

This week on March 14, the University Libraries did some outreach at the Chancellor's Annual Summit at History Colorado in Denver, CO. The Spring 2023 summit covered "Democratic Principles and Social Mobility in a Pluralistic Society." In our increasingly divided society, trust in American democracy is eroding at an alarming

SXSWEDU 2023 Panel

It was great being part of the panel with wonderful colleagues at SXSWEDU23. I really enjoyed the experience and the opportunity to work with Marni Baker-Stein from Coursera, Amy Kardel from CompTIA, and Deb Keyek-Franssen from the University of Utah. You can listen to our panel at the swswedu program

Ruth Simmons Keynote @SXSWEDU 2023

Great keynote from Ruth Simmons #SXSWEDU she said universities have to be the first to tell the truth about their histories so that everyone can believe our organizations as truth tellers pic.twitter.com/TBMrhzoB2p — Robert H. McDonald (@mcdonald) March 8, 2023

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SXSWEDU 2023

This week I am writing from #sxswedu in Austin, TX. I am here for the week to check the event out but am also presenting with colleagues from the University of Utah, CompTIA and Coursera. Looking forward to a fun event. Here are some fun shots Courtney took during the

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ARL Fall 2021 Board Meeting

So we managed to have our Fall 2021 ARL Board Meeting in DC with at least a few attendees in person and the rest online in a hybrid format. Things went well and we all had a good time. See my pic below from my morning at 21 Dupont Circle.

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ARL Spring 2021 Board Meeting

This week is the time for the ARL Spring 2021 Members Meeting. Today I am spending most of my day at the ARL Board Meeting. The great part is that many of the items I have been working on over the last few months have come to fruition. This includes

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Change is hard but the outcomes can be worth it

I have promised myself that I would write a bit more on this blog so that I can actually write something rather than just thinking about writing something. I just moved my entire professional blog over from wordpress to posthaven (seemlessly via the domain https://mcdonald.ly), mostly to avoid

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National Library Week 2021

Hard to believe but it is that time again for National Library Week 2021 (April 4-10, 2021). See below a pic of our team getting together on zoom to celebrate. #NationalLibraryWeek Checkout your local library or ours...

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University of Colorado Boulder Road Map to Fall 2020

I am really happy and proud of our entire team that worked on this road map to fall 2020 for the University of Colorado Boulder. To see the plan visit: https://www.colorado.edu/roadmap/ Next comes our implementation of the plan…stay tuned.

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Frye 09 Friends at Edu18

So glad I got to spend quality time with my Frye Leadership Institute 2009 friends (now Leading Change Institute). That includes Rae, Scott and Ellen. Had a great time at The Kitchen in Denver. Thanks Educause for getting us together.

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DU Presentation

On Oct 26, 2018 I am pleased to spend my afternoon with the University of Denver ASIS&T student chapter and the Department of Research Methods and Information Science and will give a talk entitled Collaborating for Student Success. The talk is in slides.com and can be viewed below:

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RDAP 2018

This week I am at The Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit in Chicago, IL. Great to see such a diverse group and to catch up with old friends. Looking forward to seeing which new logo gets the most votes. See more on twitter (@RDAPsummit).

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HTRC Data Capsule Appliance Panel at the CNI Fall 2017 Members Meeting

Just this week the good folks over at CNI posted our presentation from the December 2017 CNI Members Meeting on the HathiTrust Research Center Data Capsule APpliance Grant called Data Capsule Appliance for Research Analysis of Restricted and Sensitive Data in Academic Libraries. I am embedding the video here. Enjoy!

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IMLS 3D/VR Forum 1

This last week we held the first of three forums on 3D/VR in libraries sponsored by IMLS and held in Arlington, VA at the Virginia Tech Research Center. This was a fun event and was so good to work with my colleagues from VaTech, University of Oklahoma and many

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Educause 2017 Annual Conference

I am glad to be at #edu17 this week doing a poster today on @iulibraries#Imago specimen repository. That is today at 12:45 in Exhibit Hall A-C Level 200 in the Philadelphia Convention Center. See poster. See below where I am putting up my poster. Thanks to Kent from@

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IU Libraries Celebrates Open Access Week

Everyone in the IU Libraries Scholarly Communications Department is very excited about all of our events happening next week to celebrate International Open Access Week (Oct 23-29, 2017). We have a new press release (https://libraries.indiana.edu/iu-libraries-celebrates-open-access-week-2017) on the events and our workshops are listed below: * The Office

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HTRC CNI Fall 2016 Members Meeting Presentation

Just this week the good folks over at CNI posted our presentation from the December 2016 CNI Members Meeting on the HathiTrust Research Center called It Takes a Village. I am embedding the video here. Enjoy!

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APTrust Member Meeting 2016

This week I am in DC for the APTrust Member Meeting. We are being hosted by the Georgetown University Libraries in Lauinger Library. A great view of the potamac from our window. Lots of discussion and lots of talk about scaling services over time and possible new partnerships. Great discussions.

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WSSSPE4 Call for Papers

Many of you may have seen my latest posts about WSSSPE4 to be held Sept 12-14, 2016 at the University of Manchester. I am very excited to be involved in WSSSPE4 and encourage everyone to get their short (2pgs) or long (8pgs) papers in by the deadline of July 10,

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ALA Annual Conference 2016

Today I am at the ALA Annual Conference in Orlando. I am at a library services platform panel hosted by @mbreeding. At this panel most of the major library services platform vendors discussed the state of the market. There was actually a pretty good analysis of the consolidation happening in

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ALA Annual Conference 2016

Today I am at the ALA Annual Conference in Orlando. I am at a library services platform panel hosted by @mbreeding. At this panel most of the major library services platform vendors discussed the state of the market. There was actually a pretty good analysis of the consolidation happening in

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Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2016

This week am in Newark, NJ at the Rutgers University-Newark Campus with many old friends talking digital libraries. Am very excited about our proposal for next year in Toronto (go JCDL 2017). https://www.instagram.com/p/BG32d6kythL/?utm_source=ig_embed

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Keynote at Designing for Digital 2016

Having a good time this week at the Designing for Digital Conference. This great UX conference is part of the now famous ER&L Conference held annually in Austin. This year’s keynote was from Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path fame. He spoke a bit about UX themes but

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ER&L 2016

Today I got to speak on a panel with a great set of speakers Marshall Breeding, Neil Block and Curtis Thacker. We had a great time and really enjoyed the audience. Our slides from today are below. ER&L The Role of Choice in the Future of Discovery Evaluations Panel