2009
Invited Keynote Speaker, The NetGen Disconnect for Teaching and Learning. Lindenwood University Faculty Symposium, August 18, 2009, St. Charles, MO.
Invited Keynote Speaker, Uncovering our Digital Cultural Heritage for the Millennial Generation. Missouri Digitization Conference, March 10, 2009, Independence, MO.
2008
Poster Session, Cyberinfrastructure Collaboration for Distributed Digital Preservation, 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science, December 10, 2008, Indianapolis, IN.
Co-Presenter, Cyberinfrastructure Collaboration for Distributed Digital Preservation. 2008 Microsoft E-Science Workshop, December 8 , 2008, Indianapolis, IN.
Co-Presenter, Disconnects Between Learning Management Systems and Millennial Generation User Expectations, Educause Annual Conference, October 31, 2008, Orlando, FL.
Co-Presenter, Perspectives on Collaborative Data Cyberinfrastructure: A Role for Libraries in Data Curation and Long-Lived Preservation Services, Educause Annual Conference, October 29, 2008, Orlando, FL.
Co-Presenter, Cross-Institutional Repository Assessment: A Standardized Model for Institutional Research Assessment, ARL Library Assessment Conference, August 5, 2008, Seattle, WA.
Co-Presenter, DataGrid Technologies in Libraries, LITA Pre-Conference, American Library Association 2008 Annual Conference, June 27, 2008, Anaheim, CA.
Invited Speaker, NISO Spring Forum on Digital Preservation, March 14, 2008, Washington, DC.
2007
Co-Presenter, Data-Cyberinfrastructure Collaboration at the University of California, San Diego, CNI Fall 2007 Task Force Meeting, December 11, 2007, Washington, DC.
Co-Presenter, Enabling Innovation in Your Library: Identifying and Building the New within Your Current Environment, November 10, 2007, XXVII Annual Charleston Conference, Charleston, SC.
Co-Presenter, Electronic Resources Management: The Future of Library Technical Services and Other Ideas on How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, November 8, 2007, XXVII Annual Charleston Conference, Charleston, SC.
Co-Presenter, A Discussion on Disconnects Between Library Culture and Millennial Generation Values, Educause 2007 Annual Conference, October 24, 2007, Seattle, WA.
Invited Speaker, Is Library 1.0 Ready for Web 2.0?, North Carolina Library Association 57th Biennial Conference, October 18, 2007, Hickory, NC.
Co-Presenter, Data-Cyberinfrastructure Collaboration at the University of California, San Diego, Access 2007 Conference, October 12, 2007, Victoria, British Columbia.
Co-Presenter, Internet2 and NDIIPP: Internet2 Infrastructure in Support of the National Digital Preservation Agenda, Internet Fall 2007 Members Meeting, October 11, 2007, San Diego, CA.
Presenter, The Chronopolis Demonstration Project: A Grid-Based Digital Preservation Environment, Proceedings of iPres2007: International Conference on the Preservation of Digital Objects, October 11, 2007, Beijing, China.
(http://ipres.las.ac.cn/program.jsp)
Co-Author, Archival Storage Lifecycle Management in High Performance Computing Data Centers, Proceedings of the Archival Storage Lifecycle Management Workshop a Pre-Conference of the 24th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, MSST, September 24, 2007, San Diego, CA.
Co-Presenter, The NDIIPP/SDSC Partnership: Chronopolis, NDIIPP Summer 2007 Partners Meeting, June 27, 2007, College Park, MD.
Co-Author, Disk and Tape Storage Cost Models, Proceedings of the IS&T Archiving 2007 Conference, May 21-24, 2007, Arlington, VA.
(http://www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2007/program.cfm)
Poster Session, Replication Policies for Distributed Digital Preservation Federations, Proceedings of Science Archives in the 21st Century, April 26, 2007, College Park, MD.
(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nost/conf/archive21st/titles.html#posters)
Co-Author, Sustainability Models for Digital Preservation Federations, Proceedings of DigCCurr 2007: An International Symposium in Digital Curation, April 19, 2007, Chapel-Hill, NC.
(http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2007/papers/McDonaldWalters_paper_6-4.pdf)
Co-Presenter, Using MediaWiki Open-Source Software as Infrastructure for Electronic Resources Outreach, February 26, 2007. Five Weeks to a Social Library 2007.
(http://www.sociallibraries.com/course/week3)
Co-Presenter, Discussing the Disconnects Between Library Culture and Millennial Generation User Values, February 6, 2007, Blended Librarians Webcast.
Poster Session, Who is Contributing to E-Print Archives, Open Repositories Conference 2007, January 24, 2007, San Antonio, TX.
2006
Co-Presenter, Low Threshold Strategies for Libraries to Support “Other” Types of Digital Publishing, LITA National Forum 2006, October 29, 2006, Nashville, TN.
Co-Presenter, MetaArchive NDIIPP Partnership, Proceedings of iPres2006: International Conference on the Preservation of Digital Objects, October 9, 2006, Ithaca, NY.
(http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3681)
Co-Presenter, Establishing Technical, Administrative and Legal Consolidation of Non-Published & Near-Published Research via DigiTool: The Florida State University Experience, ELUNA Annual Meeting, June 4-7, 2006, Knoxville, TN.
Co-Presenter, Establishing Technical, Administrative and Legal Consolidation of Non-Published & Near-Published Research: The Florida State University Experience, 9th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, June 7-10, 2006, Quebec City, Canada.
Co-Presenter, A Performance Support Systems Approach to Digital Publishing in Libraries, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, June 12-14, 2006, Chapel Hill, NC.
Co-Author, Turing Silos Into Bridges: Optimizing Local Digital Library Programs, Archiving 2006, May 23-26, 2006, Ottowa, Canada.
Co-Author, Cut and Paste Libraries: The Transformation of Information Services for the Millennials and Beyond, ACRL/CNI/Educause Joint Virtual Conference, Innovate and Motivate: Next Generation Libraries, April 20-21, 2006.
Invited Keynote Speaker, Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference 2006, Atlanta, GA, March 23-25, 2006. http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/conf2006/conf2006.htm
Co-Presenter, Who Moved My eJournal: Electronic Resources and Organizational Change, Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference 2006, Atlanta, GA, March 23-25, 2006.
2005
Co-Presenter, The ASERL LOCKSS-ETD Initiative: Developing Preservation Strategies for Libraries that publish E-Scholarship, CNI Fall 2005 Task Force Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, December 5-6, 2005.
Presenter, LOCKSS@FSU, CSUL Joint Meeting, Gainesville, FL, Nov. 8, 2005.
Presenter, Digital Collections@FSU, CSUL Joint Meeting, Gainesville, FL, Nov. 8,
2005.
Co-Presenter, Building a Collaborative Digital Preservation Network, Educause Annual
Conference, Orlando, FL, October 20, 2005.
(http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/powerpoint/EDU05199.pps)(Powerpoint)
Co-Presenter, Millenial Net Value(s): Disconnects Between Libraries and the Information
Age Mindset, Symposium on Free Culture and the Digital Library, Atlanta, GA, October
14, 2005.
Co-Presenter, A Practical, Working, and Replicable Approach to ETD Preservation,
Eighth International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Sydney,
Australia, September 29, 2005.
(http://adt.caul.edu.au/etd2005/papers/092McMillan.pdf)(Paper)
(http://adt.caul.edu.au/etd2005/pres/Ritchie02Thu/03%20B1%201030-
1200%20Gail%20McMillian,%20Catherine%20Jannik,%20Robert%20McDonald.ppt)(Powerpoint)
Presenter, Improving, Expanding, and Maintaining Momentum in an Established ETD
Program, Eighth International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations,
Sydney, Australia, September 28, 2005.
(http://adt.caul.edu.au/etd2005/papers/069McDonald.pdf)(Paper)
(http://adt.caul.edu.au/etd2005/pres/GalleryOne01Wed/03%20B2%201030-
1230%20Robert%20McDonald.ppt)(Powerpoint)
Presenter, The MetaArchive of Southern Digital Culture: Technical Architecture for a
Collaborative Digital Preservation Network, National Digital Information Infrastructure
and Preservation Program Bi-Annual Partners Meeting, Warrenton, VA, July 13, 2005.
Co-Presenter, Policies and Practices of Institutional Repositories, D-Scholarship: Florida
State University’s Institutional Repository, ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, June
27, 2005.
Co-Presenter, Southeastern Digital Libraries: An Overview of Current Projects and a
Look at Future Trends, Educause Southeast Regional Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 8,
2005.
(http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=SER0566)
2004
Co-Presenter, The MetaArchive of Southern Digital Culture: Building a Collaborative Digital Preservation Network, CNI Fall 2004 Task Force Meeting, Portland, OR, December 6-7, 2004.
Presenter, Creative Commons Licensing and Institutional Repositories: The FSU Experience, SPARC Workshop - Institutional Repositories: The Next Stage, Washington, DC, Nov. 18-19, 2004.
Co-Presenter, The New Frontier of Institutional Repositories: Three Libraries, Three Plans, One Goal, EDUCAUSE 2004 Annual Conference, October 19-22, 2004, Denver, CO.
Co-Presenter, Leadership Opportunities in Academic Libraries, NMRT President’s Program, ALA Annual Meeting 2004, Orlando, FL, June 26, 2004.
(http://rmcdonald.info/presentations/nmrt2004)
Co-Presenter, Portals in Libraries Symposium, LITA Pre-Conference, ALA Annual Meeting 2004, Orlando, FL, June 25, 2004.
D-Scholarship and DigiTool: An IR Perspective, SMUG (SFX Metalib Users Group) 2004, Cambridge, MA, June 16-18, 2004.
Co-Presenter, ETD Programs as Building Blocks for Institutional Repositories: Laying the Foundation One Graduate Student at a Time, 7th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Lexington, KY, June 3-5, 2004.
Co-Presenter, ETD Implementation in Six Months: Five Principles, 7th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Lexington, KY, June 3-5, 2004.
Co-Presenter, The New Frontier of Institutional Repositories, CNI Fall 2003 Task Force Meeting, Portland, OR, December 8-9, 2003.
Co-Presenter, Video Streaming Cookbook – Intellectual Property and Digital Access Management Systems, Internet2 Fall 2003 Members Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, October 13-16, 2004.
(http://events.internet2.edu/2003/fall-mm/sessionDetails.cfm?session=1208)
2003
Co-Presenter, Managing Digital Repositories, Southeastern University Research Association/ViDe 5th Annual Digital Video Workshop, Atlanta, GA, March 26, 2003.
(http://www.vide.net/conferences/spr2003/presentations/day_two/hodge_estler/streaming_revised.ppt)
2002
Conference Session, Moderator for Building the MyPortal Experience, American Library Association Annual Conference – LITA Human Machine Interface Interest Group, Atlanta, GA June 17, 2002.
Conference Session, Utilizing Descriptive Meta-data and XML to Create a Subject Based Cross-Institutional Research Portal, Coalition for Networked Information Spring Task Force Meeting, Washington, DC April 16, 2002.
Conference Session, Demonstration and Discussion of a New Digital Slide Management, Presentation, and Instruction Tool. Association of Architecture School Librarians Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 12, 2002.
Conference Session, Utilizing Descriptive Meta-data and XML to Create a Subject Based Cross-Institutional Research Portal, Alabama Library Association Annual Conference, Huntsville, AL, April 10, 2002.
Conference Session, Transforming America: Alabama’s Role in the Civil Rights Movement, American Association for History and Computing, Nashville, TN March 7, 2002.
2001
Conference Session, MYLibrary@ Auburn University, American Library Association Annual Conference – LITA Human Machine Interface Interest Group, San Francisco, CA June 16, 2001.
Co-Coordinator and Presenter, And Access for All…, Alabama Library Association Annual Convention – Technical Services and Systems Round Table Pre-Conference, Montgomery, AL, April 10, 2001.
2000
Invited Presentation, Weaving a Web for Everyone, Alabama Association of College and Research Libraries College and University Section Workshop, Montgomery, AL, December 8, 2000.
Conference Session Co-Coordinator, Proactive Library Services in a High Tech Environment, SELA Bi-Annual Conference, Jekyll Island, GA October 12, 2000.
Poster Session, Understanding Patron Web Based Access, ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL July 9, 2000.
Poster Session, Marketing Your Library, They know your name but can they find the URL?, ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, July 10, 2000.
1999
Co-Instructor, NAAL (Network of Alabama Academic Libraries) Internet Workshop: Resources for Literature, Presentation of materials concerning English and American Literature resources via the World Wide Web, Auburn University Libraries, Auburn, Alabama, August 27, 1999.
1998
Paper Presentation, Richard T. Greener, Conference on the History of Library and Information Science, 25th Anniversary of the College of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, April 4, 1998.
