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Brooklyn College Library, METRO and the Brooklyn Museum
Present

Conversing in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities

Inviting users to contribute, communicate and collaborate.

June 4, 2008 @ The Brooklyn College Library
9:30am-2:00pm

Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation

Professor David Lankes is Director of the Information Institute of Syracuse (IIS) and an Associate Professor at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies. His current focus is on reconceptualizing the library field through the lens of “participatory librarianship.” Simply put participatory librarianship recasts library and library practice using the fundamental concept that knowledge is created through conversation. Libraries are in the knowledge business; therefore libraries are in the conversation business. https://davidlankes.org/rdlankes/

Social Networking Initiatives at OCLC

Jasmine de Gaia, Director, Social Networking, OCLC
Jasmine de Gaia is responsible for leading OCLC’s efforts to investigate and develop the potential of social networking (e.g. the application of online communities, blogs, wikis, tagging, social software, etc.) for the benefit of libraries worldwide. Prior to joining OCLC, Jasmine led the product management of a portfolio of web-based software products at Lucent Technologies and various Silicon Valley startups. www.oclc.org

The Brooklyn Museum’s Innovative Electronic Community

Shelley Bernstein, Information Systems, and Deidre Lawrence, Principal Librarian/Coordinator of Research Services, Brooklyn Museum http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/

I’ve uploaded a video of my presentation at Catholic University to Google video.

Lankes will be part of a RUSA pre-confernece event at the ALA Conference organized by RSS and MARS (and they say libraries have too many acronyms):

Reference and User Services Association: Reference Services Section
(RSS) and Machine-Assisted Reference Services Section (MARS) 2008
Pre-conference, Reinvented Reference 4: Emerging Technologies for
Reference Service. The pre-conference will be held during the ALA
2008 Annual Conference on Friday, June 27, 2008, in Anaheim, CA.

The topic will be on social networking in reference.

Lankes will speak on the topic of participatory librarianship and LIS education at:

Catholic University’s School of Library and Information Science February 13th https://home.cua.edu/index.cfm?main=myannouncements&Detail=5871

and

Rutgers University’s School of Communication, Information and Library Studies March 26th http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/events/index.html

Another upcoming event will be:

Lankes will be part of a discussion on Credibility and participation at the iSchool Conference February 29th http://credibilitycommons.org/index.php/iconference2008_cfp_wildcard

Here is a video cast of a presentation from Drexel’s iSchool Speaker Series. It covers some of the same ground of Scapes (if you’ve seen Scapes, you might just want to skip over that part), but with an emphasis on the implications of participatory concepts to LIS education.

For those who want a higher quality version, you can go to http://ptbed.org/downloads/BigIdeas.mp4

I’ve uploaded a video of the presentation I gave at the OCLC Symposium on Reference and Social Networking. Part of the demonstration is a mock up of a new participatory reference application called Scapes:

Scapes from R. David Lankes on Vimeo.

A video/slideshow of a presentation given to OCLC on participatory librarianship and how it applies to credibility, library catalogs and reference is now online.