News, thoughts, ideas, and more from Virtual Dave Lankes
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 well as mentoring by Cornell science librarians, money for travel, and a paid summer internship.
Take a look!
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.
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 can you tell?” asks Dr Watson.
“Elementary my dear Watson. First the murderer not only alphabetized the victims books, but shelved them by genre.
“There is the fact that the murder itself was clearly inspired by a rare Victor Hugo novel recently acquired by the branch library down the street.
“However the real give away is that after the victim was killed the murderer dragged his body over to the toilet and wrote on the body ‘can you find the bathroom now?! can you find the bathroom now?!”
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 (meaning the audio and slides are ready earlier). I’ve decided to post them all together, simply adding the embedded screencast to the presentation post once it is done.
Not a big deal, and hopefully easier, just wanted to let you know. I’ve gone back and made the format changes to previous presentation as well. Hopefully it will make it easier to find everything.
Here you go:
“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 now at risk from missing the larger forest of opportunities. This talk will present a view of a new librarianship, one focused on knowledge and action instead of artifacts and collection. The presentation will look beyond the trends of today’s technologies to a durable new librarianship that focuses on innovation, leadership, and service.
Slides: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Presentations/2009/Charleston.pdf
Audio: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/pod/2009/charleston09.mp3
Screencast:
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:
"Virtual Dave" Lankes is an associate professor at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies. Click here for biographical information.
