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This is what one does with sabbaticals I suppose. Publish like crazy. My latest article has just been published online:
“Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation” Lankes, R. David, Silverstein, J. L., Nicholson, S., Marshall, T. (2007) 12(4). Information Research. [Available at http://informationr.net/ir/12-4/colis/colis05.html]
It is a variant of the tech brief geared more towards an academic audience.
I’ve also put a few more recent and older publications online. Added to:
“Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation” Lankes, R. David, Silverstein, J. L., Nicholson, S., Marshall, T. (2007) 12(4). Information Research. [Available at http://informationr.net/ir/12-4/colis/colis05.html]
I forgot, I have an article in the current issue of Searcher Magazine:
Library Association 2.0:
“Will That Be a Name Badge or a Wiki?”Building on the concepts from a technology brief on the subject for ALA, David Lankes further explores the idea of collegial librarianship, defining what the phrase “participatory librarianship” means and how it connects to librarians and even patrons.
So things on the blog have been a bit slow because I have been pushing out a raft of articles related to participatory librarianship. Within the next few months the following articles should start changing from “forthcoming” to actual dates and issue numbers:
“Virtual Reference to Participatory Librarianship: Expanding the Conversation” Lankes, R. David (forthcoming). ASIS&T Bulletin
“Collecting Conversations in a Massive Scale World” Lankes, R. David (forthcoming). Library Resources & Technical Services
“The Ethics of Participatory Librarianship” Lankes, R. David (forthcoming). Journal of Library Administration
“Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation” Lankes, R. David, Silverstein, J. L., Nicholson, S., Marshall, T. (forthcoming). Information Research
“Credibility on the Internet: Shifting From Authority to Reliability” Lankes, R. David (forthcoming). Journal of Documentation.
“Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation.” Lankes, R. David, Silverstein, J. L., Nicholson, S. (forthcoming). Information Technology and Libraries.
Also, the last VRD book should hit the presses very soon.
Not bad for two months into a sabbatical.
“Library Association 2.0.” Lankes, R. D. (September 2007). Searcher Magazine. Medford, NJ; Information today.
My article “Credibility on the Internet: Shifting From Authority to Reliability” was accepted to the Journal of Documentation with minor edits!
Received a nice e-mail from the RUSQ folks today:
Dear Journal Editor or Publisher,
The Informed Librarian Online, every librarian’s favorite service for keeping up with their professional reading, has selected an article from your journal as Editor’s Picks. Each of our monthly issues, in addition to linking directly to the latest tables of contents of 280 journals (yours included), with links to full-text as available, selects a few journal articles to highlight for our many thousands of readers.
Our June issue highlighted your article:The Digital Reference Electronic Warehouse Project: Creating the Infrastructure for Digital Reference Research through a Multidisciplinary Knowledge Base by Scott Nicholson and R. David Lankes
For more information about The Informed Librarian Online, go to http://www.informedlibrarian.com
To see the list of titles we cover, go to http://www.informedlibrarian.com/ilojnltitles.cfm
And the publication news just keeps rolling in (and you thought all I did was preach at library conventions). Looks like MIT Press will be publishing the MacArthur series on digital media and youth, including my chapter in the volume on Credibility. They are hoping to get the series out by the end of the year.
I forgot to post that the DREW paper has finally been published in RUSQ:
Nicholson, S. & Lankes, R. D. (2007) “The Digital Reference Electronic Warehouse Project: Creating the Infrastructure for Digital Reference Research through a Multidisciplinary Knowledge Base.” Reference & User Services Quarterly 46(3). pp. 45-59.
The paper provides an outline for a digital reference knowledge base and some excellent data and theories on how to build one. However, the DREW project itself has never really materialized. I would hope that folks (Paula) could take this data and put up a repository and research service.
The Journal Information Technology and Libraries has accepted the technology Brief “Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation” for publication in the December Issue. This will provide quick entry of the brief into the various databases and provide folks with a solid citation. For now it can be cited as:
Lankes, R.D., Silverstein, J.L., & Nicholson, S. (forthcoming). “Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation.” Information Technology and Libraries.
Special thanks to John Webb and the editors of ITAL for working with a paper from a non-traditional origin. Also thanks to all who have (and continue to) provide input on the paper.