On May 25, 2011 a one-day conference on Digital Repositories was held at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library.  This engaging program includes speakers who presented on issues in scholarly communication, such as author rights, electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), marketing digital repositories, and the potential of open access repositories as a publishing venue.

 This segment of the program features Isaac Gilman who is the Scholarly Communications and Research Services Librarian at Pacific University in Oregon. In addition to managing Pacific's Institutional repository, CommonKnowledge, Isaac has taught courses in scholarly publishing and research methods and is responsible for library instruction in the College of Health Professions.