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“The Future of Information Retrieval” Panel Presentation ALA Annual Conference, Washington, DC.

Here are my slides from the panel. Here (and on my Podcast) is the audio of the entire panel.

Ron Miller, Director of Product Management, HW Wilson, hosts a panel of industry leaders including:
Mike Buschman, Program Manager, Windows Live Academic, Microsoft.
R. David Lankes, PhD, Director of the Information Institute of Syracuse, and Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University.
Marydee Ojala, Editor, ONLINE, and contributing feature and news writer to Information Today, Searcher, EContent, Computers in Libraries, among other publications.
Jay Datema, Technology Editor, Library Journal

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“Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation” AMIGOS Members Meeting, Dallas, Tx.

Slides are now available at https://davidlankes.org/rdlankes/Presentations/2007/Dallas.pdf

Audio is available at https://davidlankes.org/rdlankes/pod/Dal.mp3 or on my Podcast. Please note I’m trying a new way of making the podcasts (using my iPod and a microphone) for better sound quality. Hope it makes a difference.

Thoughts on how libraries facilitate conversations. The idea is based on a simple theory: Knowledge is created through conversation; libraries are in the knowledge business; therefore, libraries are in the conversation business. Though libraries serve a vital role as community memory keeper, they often fall short of the ideal. Lankes will explain how by embracing the participatory online technologies from Web 2.0 libraries can advance not just their communities, but their positions within them. You’ll learn how adopting network concepts and software promotes the library’??s most fundamental mission: knowledge creation and dissemination.