A brief presentation to discuss trends and thoughts on digital reference as it “grows up.”
Creating a Multi-Disciplinary Knowledge Base to Preserve Human Intermediation
“Creating a Multi-Disciplinary Knowledge Base to Preserve Human Intermediation: The Digital Reference Electronic Warehouse (DREW) Project.” Presentation at the 6th Annual Virtual Reference Desk Conference. The goal of the DREW project is to create a warehouse for digital reference transactions to aid researchers in the exploration of digital reference. The first stage in this process is to determine the standard for the digital reference archive through a study of current services. The results of this study will be presented and the future of the DREW project will be explored.
Refrences on the web
Discussion of important standards for reference on the web including NetRef. Click here for presentation.
Closing Session of the Virtual Refernce Desk Conference. Cincinnati, OH.
Slides from the closing session of the 6th Annual Virtual Reference Desk Conference
Reenergizing the Academic Library
Lunch presentation to the Pennsylvania Academic Library Association, Valley Forge, PA.
Body: We live in an information age. Access to information is an ever-decreasing problem. Making sense of information is an ever-increasing issue. How can academic libraries embrace the tools of the information age and become true knowledge organizations, and not simply information gatekeepers? How can libraries re-center themselves in the academy saturated with information and full-text? This presentation will present a vision and mission for academic libraries as an evolving and central unit in the pursuit of education and knowledge.
National Library of China Talk Streamed
See my talk to the National Library of China
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Remember, it was a small setting to non-native English Speakers…but here it is…
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The Roles of Digital Reference in a Digital Library Environment
Invited presentation to the International Conference of Digital Library-Advance the Efficiency of Knowledge Utilization, Beijing, China.
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An invited presentation on digital reference, integrating digital reference into digital libraries, and the evolution of digital reference knowledge bases.
The Reference Revival
Keynote to WiLS World Annual Conference, Madison, WI.
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From the program description of the presentation :
Digital or virtual reference has become an active community that has deployed digital reference widely across library types. Now the reference community is using the lessons learned to energize reference and the library as a whole. This talk will outline those lessons and how they can be used to energize the library community on a local, national and international level.
The Reference Revival
From the program description of the presentation :
Digital or virtual reference has become an active community that has deployed digital reference widely across library types. Now the reference community is using the lessons learned to energize reference and the library as a whole. This talk will outline those lessons and how they can be used to energize the library community on a local, national and international level.
Lankes Invited to China for Digital Library Conference
From the invitation:
On 6th-8th September 2004, the National Library of China will hold the international conference of ‘Digital Library-Advance the Efficiency of Knowledge Utilization’. The honorary director of the conference organizing committee is Mr. Zhou Heping, Deputy Cultural Minister of the People Republic of China, and the director is Mr. Ren Jiyu, Director of the National Library of China. We will invite about 30 experts in the field of digital library as the invited speakers.
Due to your outstanding achievement in the field of digital library, we are pleased to invite you as the invited speaker to make a 40 minutes speech about Digital Reference Service.
Click here to see the conference website.