R. David Lankes

Lankes will be presenting:

Breaking the K-12 Crust: The Realities of Digital Libraries for Education

Building digital libraries for K-12 education is not a simple matter of great content. The K-12 environment has special needs for the content it uses in the classroom. From conformance to state performance standards, to linkage to lesson plans, the K-12 classroom sometimes can seem like a fortress with high walls, preventing libraries and museums from entering. This presentation will explore the realities and successful strategies for breaking into formal K-12 education. This presentation will seek to answer the question of why great content is not enough.

Slides from a panel presentation at a Harvard Symposium on the state of the education infromation commons. This presentation looked at major digital collections for education and the issues derived from how these services are made available to the education community.

Lankes has been invited to present at IMLS’ WebWise conference February 17, 2005 in Washington DC. He will present on digital libraries in a K-12 environment and the need for services in digital libraries.

“Archiving Human Intermediation: The Digital Reference Electronic Warehouse (DREW) Project” ASIS&T Annual Conference, Providence, RI

From the program:

Scott Nicholson and R. David Lankes will present their plans and status for the Development of the Digital Reference Electronic Warehouse (DREW), an NSF funded project for which will create archival standards for reference transactions, create anonymization tools, and apply bibliomining to create a management information system and create the collaborative infrastructure to make the DREW a reality.