Scholar | Speaker | Writer | Teacher | Advocate
If the slides are boring and you really want to see the presenter (and either you are really bored or a stalker), Catholic has posted the video of my presentation here”
http://digitalmedia.cua.edu//events/video/asx_dsp.cfm?event=4005&stream=4305
This is the same presentation I posted before, but you get to see me (stop it, you’re scaring me).
They have some great presentations here:
http://slis.cua.edu/people/video.cfm
Apropos of nothing, I think this is a fabulous video that shows some of the startling possibilities in the future.
Brooklyn College Library, METRO and the Brooklyn Museum
Present
Conversing in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities
Inviting users to contribute, communicate and collaborate.
June 4, 2008 @ The Brooklyn College Library
9:30am-2:00pm
Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation
Professor David Lankes is Director of the Information Institute of Syracuse (IIS) and an Associate Professor at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies. His current focus is on reconceptualizing the library field through the lens of “participatory librarianship.” Simply put participatory librarianship recasts library and library practice using the fundamental concept that knowledge is created through conversation. Libraries are in the knowledge business; therefore libraries are in the conversation business. https://davidlankes.org/rdlankes/
Social Networking Initiatives at OCLC
Jasmine de Gaia, Director, Social Networking, OCLC
Jasmine de Gaia is responsible for leading OCLC’s efforts to investigate and develop the potential of social networking (e.g. the application of online communities, blogs, wikis, tagging, social software, etc.) for the benefit of libraries worldwide. Prior to joining OCLC, Jasmine led the product management of a portfolio of web-based software products at Lucent Technologies and various Silicon Valley startups. www.oclc.org
The Brooklyn Museum’s Innovative Electronic Community
Shelley Bernstein, Information Systems, and Deidre Lawrence, Principal Librarian/Coordinator of Research Services, Brooklyn Museum http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/
I’ve uploaded a video of my presentation at Catholic University to Google video.
“Conversations, Participation and Libraries” SILS Colloquium at the Catholic University of America, Washington DC.
Abstract: Too much technology? Too little technology? Certainly the past two decades have challenged our schools to not only prepare librarians for a new practice environment, but to constantly place these technologies in the larger contexts of our field and society. New technologies, both the fads and the fundamental, have filled our traditional cores and electives to their breaking points. How can we decide what is durable in these new technologies? What is the proper balance between concepts and technology features? What is the overall concept of librarianship that allows us to define cutting edge, obsolete, and irrelevant? It is hoped that this meeting and the larger series of conversations taking place in LIS programs around the country, can bring some consensus to these questions.
Slides: https://davidlankes.org/rdlankes/Presentations/2008/Catholic.pdf
Audio: https://davidlankes.org/rdlankes/pod/Catholic.mp3
Video: http://ptbed.org/downloads/Catholic.mp4
Rory Litwin writes a great capsule summary of competing “user-centered” paradigms. Well worth the read.
Lankes will be part of a RUSA pre-confernece event at the ALA Conference organized by RSS and MARS (and they say libraries have too many acronyms):
Reference and User Services Association: Reference Services Section
(RSS) and Machine-Assisted Reference Services Section (MARS) 2008
Pre-conference, Reinvented Reference 4: Emerging Technologies for
Reference Service. The pre-conference will be held during the ALA
2008 Annual Conference on Friday, June 27, 2008, in Anaheim, CA.
The topic will be on social networking in reference.
Lankes will speak on the topic of participatory librarianship and LIS education at:
Catholic University’s School of Library and Information Science February 13th https://home.cua.edu/index.cfm?main=myannouncements&Detail=5871
and
Rutgers University’s School of Communication, Information and Library Studies March 26th http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/events/index.html
Another upcoming event will be:
Lankes will be part of a discussion on Credibility and participation at the iSchool Conference February 29th http://credibilitycommons.org/index.php/iconference2008_cfp_wildcard
District Dispatch Podcast #26
R. David Lankes, Director, Information Institute of Syracuse; Associate Professor, Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies; Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) Fellow
Andy Bridges, Communications Director, ALA Washington Office
Subject
In his role as OITP Fellow, Dave Lankes (pictured) has been engaging library schools across the country in conversations about the importance of participatory librarianship. In this episode of the District Dispatch Podcast, he tells listeners a little bit about it.
For video of Dave’s presentation at Drexel, please visit his blog. And be sure to head over to ptbed.org to learn all about participatory librarianship and how you can take part.
Program Length
14 minutes, 19 seconds
Check it out:
Here is a video cast of a presentation from Drexel’s iSchool Speaker Series. It covers some of the same ground of Scapes (if you’ve seen Scapes, you might just want to skip over that part), but with an emphasis on the implications of participatory concepts to LIS education.
For those who want a higher quality version, you can go to http://ptbed.org/downloads/BigIdeas.mp4