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DREW in Informed Librarian Online

Received a nice e-mail from the RUSQ folks today:

Dear Journal Editor or Publisher,

The Informed Librarian Online, every librarian’s favorite service for keeping up with their professional reading, has selected an article from your journal as Editor’s Picks. Each of our monthly issues, in addition to linking directly to the latest tables of contents of 280 journals (yours included), with links to full-text as available, selects a few journal articles to highlight for our many thousands of readers.
Our June issue highlighted your article:

The Digital Reference Electronic Warehouse Project: Creating the Infrastructure for Digital Reference Research through a Multidisciplinary Knowledge Base by Scott Nicholson and R. David Lankes

For more information about The Informed Librarian Online, go to http://www.informedlibrarian.com
To see the list of titles we cover, go to http://www.informedlibrarian.com/ilojnltitles.cfm

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MIT Press to Publish Credibility Volume

And the publication news just keeps rolling in (and you thought all I did was preach at library conventions). Looks like MIT Press will be publishing the MacArthur series on digital media and youth, including my chapter in the volume on Credibility. They are hoping to get the series out by the end of the year.

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The Digital Reference Electronic Warehouse Project

I forgot to post that the DREW paper has finally been published in RUSQ:

Nicholson, S. & Lankes, R. D. (2007) “The Digital Reference Electronic Warehouse Project: Creating the Infrastructure for Digital Reference Research through a Multidisciplinary Knowledge Base.” Reference & User Services Quarterly 46(3). pp. 45-59.

The paper provides an outline for a digital reference knowledge base and some excellent data and theories on how to build one. However, the DREW project itself has never really materialized. I would hope that folks (Paula) could take this data and put up a repository and research service.

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Participatory Networks Paper to be Published in ITAL

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The Journal Information Technology and Libraries has accepted the technology Brief “Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation” for publication in the December Issue. This will provide quick entry of the brief into the various databases and provide folks with a solid citation. For now it can be cited as:

Lankes, R.D., Silverstein, J.L., & Nicholson, S. (forthcoming). “Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation.” Information Technology and Libraries.

Special thanks to John Webb and the editors of ITAL for working with a paper from a non-traditional origin. Also thanks to all who have (and continue to) provide input on the paper.

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Lankes on Sabbatical

I just received official word that I have been granted a sabbatical for the 2007-2008 academic year. The purpose of the sabbatical is to further develop the concept of participatory librarianship and the recommendations that came out of the Participatory Networks technology brief. I’ll have some more details on my planned activities for the year soon (waiting to nail a few details down).

In the meantime if you are looking to host a wandering academic for a while (anyone read this in Scotland) let me know.

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Lankes Attends ALA/OITP “The Future of Technology and Libraries” Meeting

I just got back from an all day retreat on the future, technology and libraries sponsored by ALA’s Office for Information Technology Policy. Lots of good people sharing ideas. Also I had the distinct pleasure of meeting the Shifted Librarian herself, Jenny Levine. She is blogging about the event if you’d like to check it out http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/. I also think ALA might stream parts of it on the web.

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Participatory Paper Accepted for CoLIS 2007

Joanne Silverstein, Scott Nicholson, Todd Marshall and I have had a paper accepted to CoLIS entitled “Participatory networks: the library as conversation.”

Here’s more on the conference:

“Featuring the Future”
http://www.hb.se/colis/
will take place in Borås, Sweden,
August 13-16, in 2007,
and is organised by the Swedish School of Library and Information Science.

CoLIS is a series of international conferences for which the general aim is to provide a broad forum for the exploration and exchange of ideas in the field of library and information science (LIS). To be examined at CoLIS 6 are theoretical and empirical research trends in LIS, together with sociocultural and technical issues relating to our understanding of the various roles, natures, uses and associated relationships of information, information systems, information processes, and information networks. As in previous conferences in the series, this one, too, promotes an interdisciplinary approach to research.