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Are you participating in OAWeek 2021? (You can update this later): Yes--definitely!

First name: Melissa

Last name: Cardenas-Dow

Organization/institution name: University of Redlands

Type of institution: Academic Institution

What's your position?: Librarian

What's the level of OA awareness where you are?: Low

What are your goals for OA Week?: Build awareness and partnerships across campus.

How did you hear of the OA Week site?: Through past years of OA Week.

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OA, Free Culture and (hopefully) a campus-wide conversation

I've been having conversations with various people about Open Access. As an academic librarian, OA is an issue that resonates strongly with me. As an academic librarian at a liberal arts university with the traditional-aged undergraduate population as the majority user community, I've also been spending quite a bit of time thinking about how the values stressed within the OA movement can be best communicated and made… Continue

Posted on August 12, 2010 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

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At 10:23am on August 12, 2010, Donna Okubo said…: hmmmmmmmm okay i just approved the post. was going to add my comment and then it said no comment was available

did you do something?

At 10:16am on August 12, 2010, Shana Higgins said…: Thanks for the ribbon!

At 10:16am on August 12, 2010, Donna Okubo said…: okay think it worked :) whew!

At 9:55am on August 12, 2010, Donna Okubo said…: Hi Melissa,

Thanks for the ribbon! I also accepted your blog post but don't know where it went. Did you post it to the general site? Can't seem to open it up.

As you can tell I'm still learning how to navigate this site a bit.