Tenure Package Submitted

And what goes into a tenure package you ask? About 1000 pages in a binder (60 of them I wrote as personal statements…the rest are articles, teaching evaluations, and my curriculum vitae); a box full of copies of my writings, syllabi, and teaching evaluations; and a second box full of original books, journals, research grants and proceedings.

So what now? In November the personnel committee will ask former students, external reviewers and other faculty to comment on my materials. Then all the tenured faculty get together in December and make a recommendation to my dean. The dean looks at their recommendation and my materials, and makes a recommendation to the provost, who makes a recommendation to the board of trustees, who makes the final decision. So by May I should know if I got it.

Lankes Part of IMLS Study Team

The Institute of Museum and Library Services has announced an award of $994,369 to a team of researchers at University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, Syracuse University, SLA, ARL and ASIS&T for a national research study on the future of librarians in the workforce. The two-year study will identify the nature of anticipated labor shortages in the library and information science (LIS) field over the next decade; assess the number and types of library and information science jobs that will become available in the U.S. either through retirement or new job creation; determine the skills that will be required to fill such vacancies; and recommend effective approaches to recruiting and retaining workers to fill them.

Reenergizing the Academic Library

“Reenergizing the Academic Library” Lunch presentation to the Pennsylvania Academic Library Association, Valley Forge, PA.

Abstract: We live in an information age. Access to information is an ever-decreasing problem. Making sense of information is an ever-increasing issue. How can academic libraries embrace the tools of the information age and become true knowledge organizations, and not simply information gatekeepers? How can libraries re-center themselves in the academy saturated with information and full-text? This presentation will present a vision and mission for academic libraries as an evolving and central unit in the pursuit of education and knowledge.
Slides: https://davidlankes.org/rdlankes/Presentations/2004/PALunch.pdf

Reenergizing the Academic Library

Lunch presentation to the Pennsylvania Academic Library Association, Valley Forge, PA.

Body: We live in an information age. Access to information is an ever-decreasing problem. Making sense of information is an ever-increasing issue. How can academic libraries embrace the tools of the information age and become true knowledge organizations, and not simply information gatekeepers? How can libraries re-center themselves in the academy saturated with information and full-text? This presentation will present a vision and mission for academic libraries as an evolving and central unit in the pursuit of education and knowledge.

Lankes to be a provisional member of a TRB study into transportation information infrastructure.

The Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Science has invited Lankes to be a provisional member of a TRB study into transportation information infrastructure. The study will:

“…provide strategic advice to the federal government and the states regarding a sustainable administrative structure and funding mechanism for meeting the information services needs of the transportation sector. The committee will define the core services that need to be provided, identify how they should be provided, and suggest options for funding.”