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Thought Provoking Video

This video has been making the rounds. I have a very split reaction to it. Part of me really likes the message and I think it is a very apt statement on why we must constantly innovate. It’s not that what we are doing currently is wrong, but the world shifts, so we must constantly re-evaluate and innovate to keep up. Yea!

It would be easy to leave it at that. However, the academic in me is constantly bugged by the lack of any form of citation…who says this? Where can I go for more information on these topics? Great I want to take action…but I need more than a video clip to motivate my community.

So a great little think piece, but it could be so much more with a simple link to a set of supporting documents.

Anyway, here it is.

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Lankes to Speak in Florence

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The Regione Toscana- Servizi Bibliografici, the Regional Office in Tuscany, has invited Lankes to speak on “Library as Conversation: How to face the Challenge.” The talk will take place as part of a workshop which will be held in Florence on April 12th.

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ALA/WO Second Life Lecture Series: R. David Lankes

On February 15, 2006 at 6 p.m. SL (9 EST) the ALA Washington Office will hold it’s first event in Second Life, a 3-D virtual world. R. David Lankes from Syracuse University will give a presentation on a paper commissioned by the Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) entitled “Participatory Networks: Libraries as Conversation”. OITP commissioned this paper from the Information Institute at Syracuse in an effort to provide an understanding of intersection of libraries and Web 2.0. This lecture will be an opportunity for everyone to hear what web 2.0 is and how they can use this new technology to engage their patrons.

The ALA Washington Office is pleased to be able to reach out to members, librarians and library supporters via this new communications medium. Represented by avatars, librarians from around the world will be able to view this presentation from the comfort of their homes or offices. The presentation will be held at the Info Island Amphitheater. Please let OITP’s Mark Bard (AKA Galen Noltenius in SL) know if you need a teleport to the amphitheater.

To create a free Second Life account to view this event, please go to http://www.secondlife.com

David’s paper can be found at http://iis.syr.edu/projects/PNOpen/

For more information on the ALA Washington Office in Second Life, please consult an earlier blog entry here.