Conversants Conference/Conversation Keynote
Here is the Keynote I did for the Conversants Conference/Conversation back in April. It is the same one that has been available through the Ning site, I’m just posting it here since that site is now wrapping up.
They Named the Building After Us: The Library as Conversation from R. David Lankes on Vimeo.
PCC Screencast Now Available
SUNYLA Screencast
NYSLAA Screencast now Available
Beta Phi Mu Screencast
Screencast from the Connecticut Library Association
Conversants Conference now Open
The Conversants Confernce/Conversation is now open to all at http://conversants.ning.com. You can already see the keynote, start conversations, watch tutorials, read papers, and see cases. We’ll be adding more presentations over the next two months…including hopefully yours.
Conversants Keynote Title and Abstract
Here are the title and abstract for the keynote:
They Named the Building After Us: The Library as Conversation
The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities. Through service, innovation, and leadership librarians facilitate conversations in schools, communities, colleges, government, businesses, and beyond. It is this act of facilitation of knowledge in partnership with communities that makes a library – not collections, blogs, catalogs, or ivy on walls. This is the central premise of participatory librarianship. This keynote will explore the new role of librarians as a passionate and powerful force focused on the social good. It will present a unifying approach to librarianship that seeks to make sense of Library 2.0 and information commons alike.
Texas Library Association Presentation Streaming