http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog News, thoughts, ideas, and more from Virtual Dave Lankes Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:19:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Below you'll find a link to a flyer for new program getting started at Syracuse University's iSchool to prepare a new crop of eScience librarians. They are looking to build a cohort of students. Those selected will get a full ride at SU for the LIS program (including a stipend) as ... http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=908 A very funny and very insightful talk. I think it has a lot to say about how we need to change LIS education. Also, frighteningly true about professors. http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=905 Here's another joke I wrote for my presentation in Charleston. Enjoy the joke, or watch the Charleston screencast to find out what it says about language use in libraries: Sherlock Holmes is called in to investigate a murder. After examining the scene Holmes announces that the killer was a librarian. "How ... http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=857 Just a quick note on a minor format change for my presentations. For a while now I have been posting streaming screencasts of my presentations in addition to slides and audio. I have been posting them as separate files because they take a bit of time to upload and process ... http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=869 Here you go: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=858 "New Librarianship" Keynote Charleston Conference 2009, Charleston, SC. Abstract: The best days of librarianship are ahead of us. However, to get there the field must step back, refocus, and reexamine our core principles. We as a profession have become so focused on the trees of standards and process that we are ... http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=854 I wish I could hear the presentation that goes with the slides, because the slides are amazing. Check out the Unquiet Librarian's presentation at AASL 2009: Not Just Another Brick in the Wall: Engaging 21st Century Learning Through Participatory School LibrarianshipView more presentations from Buffy Hamilton. http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=852 The director of the university library called together her staff. “I’m afraid I have bad news. Tuition revenue is down, fewer parents are sending their kids to our university, and there will have to be budget cuts.” A few hours later the director decided to walk the building and get a ... http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=850 Here is a podcast I did with Sarah Long. Check it out. She also has a bunch of other great podcasts to check out as well: Sarah talks with Dr. R. David Lankes, Associate Professor and Director of the Information Institute of Syracuse School of Information Studies at Syracuse University about ... http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=848 http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=846 "Inventing the Future of Librarianship" Keynote Knutpunkt 2009, Linkoping, Sweden. Abstract: This presentation examines work to redefine librarianship not as a set of functions, or skills, but as a deeper mission rooted in how people learn and use knowledge. Slides: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Presentations/2009/RealSweden.pdf Audio: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/pod/2009/Sweden.mp3 Screencast: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=844 Here is a great story (thanks for the find Shifted Librarian) about the impact libraries can have. The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=837 OK, so you enjoyed the first joke so much, I've included another I made up for some earlier presentations: So Albert Einstein goes to a party. The host is keen to show off the world-famous physicist to his friends so he escorts Einstein around, introducing him. The first guest asks Einstein, ... http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=835 Here's a joke I opened my last two presentation I thought I'd share. Consider it an open source joke...take and use it, but if you make it better be sure to share. So God calls a meeting, and to this meeting he invites Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern classification (he's ... http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=833 http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=831 "They Named the Building after Us" Northern New York Library Network 2009 Conference, Potsdam, NY. Abstract: 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 ... http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=829 http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=826 "A Time of our Choosing" Keynote for the Michigan Library Consortium Annual Meeting, Lansing, MI. Abstract: An argument for taking a step back and reconceptualizing librarianship through conversation. Slides: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Presentations/2009/Lansing.pdf Audio: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/pod/2009/MichiganLansing.mp3 Lecture Notes: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Presentations/2009/LansingNotes.html Screencast: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=823 Below is an amazing video showing what a group out of Georgia Tech did by combining Google Maps with real time public CCTV data. Now you can see car going down the roads, clouds in the sky and people at play in real time. It is both really cool, and ... http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=820 So I noticed my last blog post was August 25th. The short answer to the title's question "Where's Dave" is: writing. I can't go into too many details (yet), but I'm working on my next book. It has been a pretty intensive experience and taken some quiet contemplation. Also, since ... http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=818 So it doesn't make sense to have two RSS feeds anymore, one for the all blog entries and one just for podcasts. I've consolidated everything into just one feed: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?feed=rss2. If you subscribe to this in iTunes or any podcasting tool you will still get all my presentations and screencasts. Please ... http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=816 "Change Management" Connecticut Library Association Leadership Institute, Hartford, Ct. Slides: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Presentations/2009/CTChange.pdf Audio: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/pod/2009/CtChange.mp3 Screencast: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=814 Here is the video presentation I did for the CLA/CLC Connecticut Leadership Institute. It is on change management. http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=812 While I am guessing this more about getting incoming links than "thanking the academy" it turns out it is a good list of library-related blogs. So: I've been listed on the Learn-gasm's 100 Best Blogs for Librarians of the Future http://www.bachelorsdegreeonline.com/blog/2009/100-best-blogs-for-librarians-of-the-future/ http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=810 Library council named to advise OCLC in development of Web-scale management services OCLC has named members of a Library Advisory Council that has been put in place to advise OCLC in developing the first Web-scale cooperative library management service. In April, OCLC announced plans to launch a new service for Web-scale, cooperative ... http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=791 In some of my presentations I talk about the danger of libraries ignoring massive scale information and the dangers of letting the commercial sector solve the problem. While not massive scale, the following story still highlights the danger and shows that using functions (providing reading materials) to define what you ... http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=781 "Conversants" Virtual Conference Presentation, ALA Annual Conference 2009, Chicago, IL. Abstract: The following presentation is a crossover between the Conversatns Converation/Confernece and the ALA Annual Conference. Slides: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Presentations/2009/ConversantsALAVirtual.pdf Audio: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/pod/2009/VirtualALA.mp3 Transcript: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Presentations/2009/ConvTrns.html Screencast: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=776 http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=778 "A Sparrow with a Machine Gun" Lankes, R. David (Spring 2009). netConnect: Data in Context supplement to Library Journal. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6650838.html http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=774 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 ... http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=772