“Creating a Multi-Disciplinary Knowledge Base to Preserve Human Intermediation: The Digital Reference Electronic Warehouse (DREW) Project.” Presentation at the 6th Annual Virtual Reference Desk Conference. The goal of the DREW project is to create a warehouse for digital reference transactions to aid researchers in the exploration of digital reference. The first stage in this process is to determine the standard for the digital reference archive through a study of current services. The results of this study will be presented and the future of the DREW project will be explored.
Standardizing your Website
“Standardizing your Website” Preconference Presentation VRD2004, Cincinnati, OH. Discussed the importance of technical standards in reference librarianship with Donna Dinberg.
Slides: https://davidlankes.org/rdlankes/Presentations/2004/preconference.pdf
Refrences on the web
Discussion of important standards for reference on the web including NetRef. Click here for presentation.
Lankes Launches New Website
My old homepage was about 4 or 5 years old. A lot has changed in that time, both on the web and in my life. This new site takes advantages of these changes, and hopefully, makes it easier to get to the information you need.
The Virtual Reference Experience: Integrating Theory into Practice
The Virtual Reference Experience: Integrating Theory into Practice. Lankes, R. David, Janes, Joseph, Smith, Linda C., and Finneran, Christina M. (Eds.). (2004). New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers.
The Current State of Digital Reference: Validation of a General Digital Reference Model through a Survey of Digital Reference Services
Closing Session of the Virtual Refernce Desk Conference
Closing Session of the Virtual Refernce Desk Conference. Cincinnati, OH.
Abstract: Slides from the closing session of the 6th Annual Virtual Reference Desk Conference
Slides: https://davidlankes.org/rdlankes/Presentations/2004/Closing.pdf
Closing Session of the Virtual Refernce Desk Conference. Cincinnati, OH.
Slides from the closing session of the 6th Annual Virtual Reference Desk Conference
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.