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“Managing Services in the Digital Library: Future of Reference Services” National library of China, Beijing, China. Presented a lecture on digital reference and how it can be incorporated into digital libraries.
Slides: https://davidlankes.org/rdlankes/Presentations/2004/NLChinaKN.pdf
Digital reference has become a significant movement in the world of traditional libraries and, increasingly, in the digital library arena. This white paper seeks to provide a background in the digital reference movement, highlight current work and research in the area, and some examples of how digital reference can be integrated into digital libraries.
The National Library of China has translated my biography into Chinese.
“The Reference Revival” Keynote to WiLS World Annual Conference, Madison, WI.
Abstract: 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.
Slides: https://davidlankes.org/rdlankes/Presentations/2004/WiLSKeynote.pdf
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.
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 Roles of Digital Reference in a Digital Library Environment, Lankes, R.D. (2004). In Zhan Furui (Ed), The Proceedings of Digital Library – Advance the Efficiency of Knowledge Utilization (pp. 262-274). Scientific and Technical Documents Publishing House, Beijing, China.
The article, entitled “Digital Reference Research: Fusing Research and Practice” presents the Digital Reference Research agenda developed as a result of a three-day symposium at Harvard University. It shows how the research agenda ties directly to digital reference and library practice and argues that research and practice must connect on a meaningful level in order to prevent unusable research and untestable practice.
There is a long tradition of scientists â??going to the benchâ?? to conduct hands on experiments to flesh out a theory and gain invaluable empirical evidence. In that light, Lankes launches a new feature on his website, the Research Workbench. This section of the site will provide access to ongoing experiments and ideas in their very earliest stages.
This area is part of Lankesâ?? â??open effortâ?? initiative. The workbench, in conjunction with â??Ideaâ?? postings to his blog are attempts to share ideas at their earliest stages of development with the research and practice communities. The hope is to spur ongoing conversations about digital library and digital reference research and development.
Currently â??on the benchâ?? are the Bibliomancer, a digital reference based search engine, and information on the Bibliocasting podcasting listserv.
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.