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Lora Livingston

Judge Lora J. Livingston was sworn in as an Associate Judge for the District Courts of Travis County, Texas in 1995. After her successful election, Judge Livingston was sworn in as Judge of the 261st District Court in 1999. She is the first African-American woman to serve on a district court in Travis County, Texas. Since 2011, she has served as the Local Administrative Judge for the Travis County Courts. She began her legal career as a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellow assigned to the Legal Aid Society of Central Texas in Austin, Texas.

Yvonne Chandler

Yvonne J. Chandler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Science (DIS) in the College of Information at the University of North Texas where she is the Director of the Law Librarianship program. Dr. Chandler has experienced significant success receiving more than $5.5 million dollars in grants awarded by the Institute of Museums and Library Services (IMLS) - Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program.

Yolanda Patrice Jones

Yolanda Patrice Jones is the Law Library Director and Associate Professor of Law at the Florida A&M University College of Law, where she teaches Advanced Legal Research and Legal Bibliography.

Lunch and poster presentation

Our lunch break will include a presentation of the following poster:

Building Better Relations with the Community and Law Enforcement through Open Data Access

Schenita Floyd, Graduate Student, Department of Information Science, University of North Texas

Coffee break

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Open Access to Primary Legal Materials and Their Impact on Access to Justice in Texas

Becky Moseley

As a Civil Justice Attorney in the State Bar of Texas’ Legal Access Division, Becky works support legal aid and non-profit legal services organizations, as well as the broader legal community’s pro bono advocacy, in order to increase access to justice for all Texans, regardless of wealth.

Open Access to Scholarship: The Impact of Platform Purchases by Major Vendors

Kyle Courtney & Sarah Wipperman

Universities have seen an increasing number of vendors purchasing platforms across the research and scholarly communication lifecycle, from content creation to publishing, data management to analysis, research collaboration to evaluation. In this model, university libraries “rent” products rather than owning and controlling their own research infrastructure, which intensifies the question of what control universities have over their the scholarship they create and steward.

Kyle Courtney

Kyle K. Courtney is the Copyright Advisor for Harvard University, working out of the Office for Scholarly Communication. He works closely with Harvard Library to establish a culture of shared understanding of copyright issues among Harvard staff, faculty, and students. His work at Harvard also includes a role as the copyright and information policy advisor for HarvardX/edX.

Sarah Wipperman

Sarah heads the Scholarly Communication & Research Infrastructure Project (SCRIP), which is rethinking Penn Libraries' scholarly communication infrastructure - the services, tools, and platforms we provide to help the Penn community create and disseminate their scholarly works - and the Scholarly Communication UnBoxed Activity (SCUBA), a blueprint for hosting events where communities work through collaborative activities designed to build a shared understanding of scholarly communications and to think together about their practices.