Category: Presentations News

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.