Virtual Dave…Real Blog

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. http://quartz.syr.edu/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: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Presentations/2008/Catholic.pdf
Audio: http://quartz.syr.edu/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.

http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=371

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