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Board of Advisors PresentationPosted: Nov 23 2008 18:20:59This is a streaming screencast of a presentation I did to the Syracuse University's School of Information Studies Board of Advisors. Nothing new for folks in the library world.Comments: 2 see or add comment IMLS State Conference Talk now StreamingPosted: Nov 20 2008 00:02:38Comments: 1 see or add comment Obligations and OpportunitiesPosted: Nov 19 2008 14:11:33"Obligations and Opportunities" IMLS Grants to States Conference, Washington, DCAbstract: A discussion of how library service should match how people build knowledge. It also discusses the obligation and power of libraries participating in their communities and society as a whole.Screencast: Comments: 0 see or add comment Reference Extract and Participatory LibrarianshipPosted: Nov 15 2008 00:13:37Special thanks to Julie over at strangelibrarian.org for prompting this discussion of how Reference Extract fits into the participatory librarianship umbrella. For more information on Scapes: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=460Comments: 8 see or add comment NMRLS Annual Meeting Presentation now StreamingPosted: Nov 14 2008 08:06:17Comments: 0 see or add comment Joint Metrowest and SEMLS Annual Council of Members Now StreamingPosted: Nov 14 2008 08:04:36My talk for the Joint Metrowest and SEMLS Annual Council of Members meetigns are now streaming. Those interested in how Reference Extract fits into the world of participatory librarianship will be especially interested in it.Comments: 0 see or add comment The Times They are a-Changin’Posted: Nov 13 2008 23:53:32"The Times They are a-Changin'" NMRLS Annual Meeting, North Andover, MAAbstract: A discussion of how library service should match how people build knowledge. It also discusses the obligation and power of libraries participating in their communities and society as a whole.Screencast: Comments: 0 see or add comment Conversations: 2 Grand Pianos on a StagePosted: Nov 13 2008 13:26:51"Conversations: 2 Grand Pianos on a Stage" Joint Metrowest and SEMLS Annual Council of Members, Ashland, MA.Abstract: An integration of how the concepts of participatory librarianship integrate into real tools and changes.Screencast: Comments: 0 see or add comment Smithsonian Presentation Now StreamingPosted: Nov 04 2008 08:12:22 You can also see it streaming at the Smithsonian site: http://www.sil.si.edu/lectures_40th_Lankes.html or download it at: http://ptbed.org/downloads/Smithsonian.mp4Comments: 0 see or add comment Not Done Yet: Charting a New Course for LibrarianshipPosted: Nov 03 2008 12:29:41"Not Done Yet: Charting a New Course for Librarianship" 40th Anniversary Speakers Series, Smithsonian Libraries, Washington, D.C.Abstract: A look into the past and future of libraries through the lens of participatory librarianship.Screencast: Comments: 0 see or add comment WNYLRC Talk Now StreamingPosted: Oct 29 2008 21:04:18 Hi quality can be downloaded at: http://ptbed.org/downloads/buff.mp4Comments: 0 see or add comment The Library as ConversationPosted: Oct 29 2008 08:21:32"The Library as Conversation" Library Adaptation: Expose Yourself, WNYLRC Conference, Buffalo, NY.Abstract: Every librarian has "the story." That story about linking a patron to a needed social service or helping someone get a job, or simply find the perfect book. These stories lie at the heart of the library. Books, videos, web pages, these are simply artifacts – tools to aid in the libraries true mission of building knowledge. The keynote will outline a vision of libraries as true and participatory knowledge organizations. Organizations that facilitate the conversations of their communities, not simply provide access to a collection.Screencast: Comments: 1 see or add comment LITA Screencast now Streaming on Blip.tvPosted: Oct 19 2008 18:54:26 Slides, downloadable version, and podcast at: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=566Comments: 1 see or add comment The Obligation of LeadershipPosted: Oct 19 2008 09:22:23"The Obligation of Leadership" 2008 LITA Forum, Cincinnati, OH.Abstract: No matter how many users one talks to in designing a system, there will be a gulf between what a user wants and what a system can do. The belief that users even know what they want, or that somehow a library can correctly interpret the needs of users is at best presumptuous. To truly build systems that met the needs of users, we must let them build these systems directly. By transforming our library systems into participatory systems, not only do we better meet the needs of our patrons, we also build systems that reflect the core principles of librarianship -- getting away from simply adopting new technologiesdeveloped in other fields. This presentation will explore the concept of participatory systems, and talk about what from the Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 world is durable, and how to avoid the latest fads.Screencast: Comments: 2 see or add comment 2008 Oregon Virtual Reference Summit VideosPosted: Oct 16 2008 15:16:37Videos from this year's Oregon Virtual Reference Summit are now available. There are some really great session. I really recommend Laural Winter's session on what remote users want.Comments: 0 see or add comment Oxford Presentation Now StreamingPosted: Sep 13 2008 02:58:24Comments: 0 see or add comment Cyberinfrastructure facilitators: new approaches to information professionals for e-ResearchPosted: Sep 12 2008 11:32:21Cyberinfrastructure facilitators: new approaches to information professionals for e-Research. Lankes, R. D, Cogburn, D., Oakleaf, M., Stanton, J. (2008). Oxford e-Research Conference. http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:392876bd-5d9f-40b0-822f-269332643e6bComments: 0 see or add comment Cyberinfrastructure FacilitatorsPosted: Sep 12 2008 09:27:19"Cyberinfrastructure Facilitators: New Approaches to Information Professionals for E-Research" Oxford e-Research'08 Conference, Oxford, UK.Abstract: This paper introduces the concept of a CI-Facilitator defined as a vital member of the research enterprise who works closely with researchers to identify extant tools, data sets, and other resources that can be integrated into the process of pursuing a research objective. In order to prepare CI-Facilitators to evolve with e-Research endeavors they must be grounded in deep conceptual frameworks that do not go out of date as quickly as any given cyberinfrastructure technology. One such framework, that of participatory librarianship, is presented here and explored in terms of tackling the issue of massive scale data in research. Participatory librarianship is grounded in conversation theory and seeks to organize information as a knowledge process rather than as discreet objects in some taxonomy. Slides: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Presentations/2008/Oxford.pdfScreencast: Comments: 0 see or add comment Interview with The Netherlands Public Library AssociationPosted: Aug 29 2008 09:00:49The Netherlands Public Library Association has put an interview I did with them online (YouTube). The interview was conducted at ALA Annual. There are also some other great interviews.Comments: 0 see or add comment Reference Renaissance: CALL FOR PRINT PROCEEDINGSPosted: Aug 26 2008 16:30:06CALL FOR PRINT PROCEEDINGSCreating a Reference Renaissance: Current & Future Trends (title tentative) Edited by Marie L. Radford & R. David Lankes To be published in 2009 by: Neal-Schuman Publishers This book will include the best research papers and reports from the field which have originated in presentations from the Reference Renaissance: Current & Future Trends conference, held August 4-5, 2008 in Denver, CO (http://www.bcr.org/referencerenaissance/). All conference presenters are invited to submit research papers and reports from the field which will be peer reviewed for selection by the book’s two editors (Radford and Lankes) with the help of a selection committee recruited from members of the conference program planning committee. Contributed papers of two types are sought.
Comments: 0 see or add comment Reference Renaissance Panel now on BlipPosted: Aug 18 2008 10:36:07I've uploaded the audio of the Reference Renaissance panel to Blip.tv so folks can stream it, rather than having to download it.Comments: 0 see or add comment IFLA Presentation Now StreamingPosted: Aug 08 2008 00:14:01Comments: 0 see or add comment If They Build It They Will ComePosted: Aug 07 2008 12:01:28"If They Build It They Will Come" Rethinking Access to Information IFLA Satellite Conference, Boston, MA.Abstract: No matter how many users one talks to in designing a system, there will be a gulf between what a user wants and what a system can do. The belief that users even know what they want, or that somehow a library can correctly interpret the needs of users is at best presumptuous. To truly build systems that met the needs of users, we must let them build these systems directly. By transforming our library systems into participatory systems, not only do we better meet the needs of our patrons, we also build systems that reflect the core principles of librarianship -- getting away from simply adopting new technologies developed in other fields. This presentation will explore the concept of participatory systems, and talk about what from the Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 world is durable, and how to avoid the latest fads. Slides: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Presentations/2008/NewBoston.pdfScreencast: Comments: 4 see or add comment Theory Meets Practice: Educators and Directors TalkPosted: Aug 05 2008 22:03:30"Theory Meets Practice: Educators and Directors Talk" Reference Renaissance Conference, Denver, CO.Abstract: Audio from a panel moderated by Gillian Harrison Panel members were Comments: 0 see or add comment Reference RenaissancePosted: Aug 05 2008 09:43:02I'm in Denver at the Reference Renaissance Conference (hopefully the first of many). They have great attendance with over 500 attendees. That's right at the levels of VRD at its biggest (in Chicago). The conference started out with a great keynote. Hopefully the presentation will be available online, because it is well worth a listen. While a bit on the utopian social side, it is rich with ideas to think about (and books to read). It is great to see the return of a national reference conference. I think these kinds of events are still important to create cohorts, and push ahead the field as a whole. Good job BCR and everyone!Comments: 0 see or add comment WiLSWorld Presentation Now StreamingPosted: Jul 26 2008 08:52:05Comments: 0 see or add comment The Dewey-Level ShiftPosted: Jul 24 2008 08:54:36"The Dewey-Level Shift" WiLSWorld Conference, Madison, WI.Abstract: The world is changing radically — just like it always has. It does no good to pretend that the field of librarianship has never encountered change at the magnitude offered by the current Internet age. Nor does it help to believe that past success in meeting the demands of a changing society was automatic or did not involve radical change. Lankes will present a discussion of current forces precipitating radical change in the field, and what shape that change might look like. Slides: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Presentations/2008/WiLS.pdfScreencast: Comments: 0 see or add comment America's Libraries in the 21st Century Video Now OnlinePosted: Jul 06 2008 22:35:22Here's a video of the entire ALA OITP panel on the Future of American Libraries in the 21st Century. The panel was Stephen Abrahm, Jose-Marie Griffith, and Joan Frye Williams. I ended the session with an update on participatory librarianship.Comments: 6 see or add comment Futures Video Now StreamingPosted: Jun 29 2008 09:43:15 Download High Quality Video at: http://ptbed.org/downloads/Futures-OITP.mp4Comments: 0 see or add comment Participatory Librarianship UpdatePosted: Jun 28 2008 16:42:55"Participatory Librarianship Update" ALA Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA.Abstract: Update on OITP efforts in Participatory Librarianship.Screencast: Comments: 4 see or add comment Social Networking and ReferencePosted: Jun 28 2008 01:24:38"Social Networking and Reference" Reinvented Reference 4: Emerging Technologies for Reference Services (an ALA pre-conference), Anaheim, CA.Abstract: Exploring the "why" behind social networking, and librarianship in general.Screencast: Comments: 0 see or add comment University of Maryland Library Talk now StreamingPosted: Jun 20 2008 15:13:37 Downloadable high-quality version at: http://ptbed.org/downloads/UMD-Record.movComments: 0 see or add comment You Are the Future of Libraries: No PressurePosted: Jun 18 2008 21:56:22"You Are the Future of Libraries: No Pressure" Path to the Future, a University of Maryland Libraries Speaker Series, College Park, MD.Abstract: If libraries are obsolete in 10 years, it's your fault. It's my fault too. As Alan Kay once said "the best way to predict the future is to invent it." So since we are the people ultimately responsible for creating the future, we are the future of the library. Assume for a moment "they" are right ... you know, them. The ones who say that the Internet/ Mass Digitalization /Search Engines/ Wikipedia/Document Right Management/ Whatever is going to put libraries out of business. Assume that the stacks are bare, the coffee bars are empty, and the ivy is left to run riot over the columns. Is there still a library? If that strikes you as an odd question, let me ask you another one. Is the future of the library a question of stacks, coffee bars or ivy?Screencast: Comments: 1 see or add comment Metro Presentation now StreamingPosted: Jun 06 2008 08:09:19 High quality movie available for download: http://ptbed.org/downloads/Metro-Record.mp4Comments: 0 see or add comment Same Old Story: Everything is DifferentPosted: Jun 04 2008 16:56:04"Same Old Story: Everything is Different" Metro Spring Conference, Brooklyn, NY.Abstract: A discussion of the need for innovation in reference and throughout the library profession. Comments: 0 see or add comment Cornell Presentation now StreamingPosted: May 21 2008 07:40:46A webcast of my presentation to the Cornell Libraries is now streaming from Google Video: High quality downloadable version is available at: http://ptbed.org/downloads/Cornell.mp4Comments: 3 see or add comment ENY ACRL Webcast Now OnlinePosted: May 20 2008 16:26:30A webcast of my presentation to the Eastern New York ACRL chapter is now streaming from Google Video: High quality downloadable version is available at: http://ptbed.org/downloads/NewEastern-Record.mp4Comments: 0 see or add comment Library Science and the Ivy LeaguePosted: May 19 2008 19:26:22"Library Science and the Ivy League" Cornell Libraries, Ithaca, NYAbstract: A discussion of the intellectual contributions libraries make to the academy. Comments: 0 see or add comment Participatory Librarianship and Radical Change AgentsPosted: May 19 2008 11:08:25"Participatory Librarianship and Radical Change Agents" Eastern New York ACRL Chapter, Syracuse, NY.Abstract: A discussion of the need for innovation in reference and throughout the library profession. Comments: 0 see or add comment Video of the Innovation Imperative Now AvailablePosted: May 11 2008 17:46:53Streamed below or download from http://ptbed.org/downloads/Innovate.mp4Comments: 1 see or add comment The Innovation ImperativePosted: May 09 2008 14:21:36"The Innovation Imperative" Oregon Virtual Reference Summit 2008, Salem, OR.Abstract: A discussion of the need for innovation in reference and throughout the library profession. Comments: 0 see or add comment Connecticut Video now OnlinePosted: Apr 30 2008 15:34:05Google video from the Connecticut Library Association Annual Conference. If you want, you can download a higher quality version at: http://ptbed.org/downloads/Conn-CD.movComments: 0 see or add comment The Library as ConversationPosted: Apr 29 2008 07:45:11"The Library as Conversation" Connecticut Library Association Annual Conference, Groton, CT.Abstract: Knowledge is generated through conversation. Libraries are in the knowledge business; hence, in the conversation business as well. Books, videos, and web pages are artifacts, the pale afterglow of active knowledge creation. The essential power of the library is found in facilitating knowledge creation in our communities. Slides: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Presentations/2008/Conn.pdf Audio: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/pod/Conn.mp3 Comments: 1 see or add comment The Dewey-Level ShiftPosted: Apr 12 2008 19:02:16"The Dewey-Level Shift" Information Futures Institute, Berkman Center, Cambridge, MA.Abstract: A discussion of how the future of libraries is shaped by participatory concepts and the theory that knowledge is created through conversation. Slides: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Presentations/2008/IFIExport.pdf Comments: 0 see or add comment Information Technology, Participatory Librarianship, and Educating LIS ProfessionalsPosted: Mar 29 2008 08:10:43"Information Technology, Participatory Librarianship, and Educating LIS Professionals" Rutgers MLIS Colloquium, New Brunswick, NJ.Abstract: The American Library Association's Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) has named its first Fellow: R. David Lankes of the Syracuse School of Information Studies. Professor Lankes will speak about how the concept of participatory librarianship can build on Web 2.0, Libraries 2.0, and similar trends to give direction to the future of the profession. Comments: 1 see or add comment Systems, Conversations and ParticipationPosted: Mar 14 2008 09:59:49"Systems, Conversations and Participation" Innovative Interface's Academic Library Director's Conference, Berkeley, CA.Abstract: Social is the rage across the Internet. Social bookmarking, social tagging, social networks. But what is social and why does it matter? Can we just make something, like a library social? How can concepts such as community conversations clarify the mission of the library and help direct us in how we build systems for today and tomorrow? David's presentation will explore aspects of social computing and present underlying concepts of, what he terms, "participatory librarianship". He will seek to go beyond today's Web 2.0 buzz words and explore ways that today's librarian can be effective and necessary in today's "social" world. Comments: 1 see or add comment Conversations, Participation and LibrariesPosted: Feb 14 2008 11:51:57"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. Comments: 1 see or add comment Participatory LibrariesPosted: Jan 30 2008 13:35:13"Participatory Libraries" Drexel University School of Information and Technology College Colloquium Series, Philadelphia, PA.Abstract: The library landscape is constantly in flux. New technologies, new practices, and new theories are the sign of an active field. However, these dynamic forces also lead to confusion and conflict. It also leads to a spate of new services and functions that are sometimes awkward to integrate into existing research, operations and curricula. In today's world of Web 2.0, Library 2.0, social networks, blogs and wiki's what concepts are durable and what is new that must be imparted to the next generation of professionals? Thinking through this issue - its technological and professional implications and legislative and policy overlaps - is an example of the type of work conducted at the American Library Association's (ALA's) Washington Office. ALA's Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP), a part of the Washington Office, and Syracuse University's Information Institute of Syracuse have initiated a project to examine this issue under the rubric of participatory librarianship (http://ptbed.org). Simply put, participatory librarianship recasts library and library practice from the fundamental concept that knowledge is created through conversation. Since libraries are in the knowledge business they are, therefore, in the conversation business - in both the digital and physical worlds. Participatory librarians approach their work as facilitators of conversation. Be it in practice, policies, programs and/or tools, participatory librarians seek to enrich, capture, store and disseminate the conversations of their communities. As part of this effort, project researchers are seeking input from library and information science (LIS) faculty and students on how participatory concepts can be integrated into curricula and to identify ongoing related research. The input of the LIS research and education community will be incorporated into a Participatory Library Starter Kit. This starter kit will present case studies from a wide variety of settings including: public, federal, and academic libraries; library vendors; and, of course, the LIS research and education community. Comments: 0 see or add comment ScapesPosted: Jan 12 2008 15:55:29"Scapes" OCLC Symposium on Reference and Social Networking, Philadelphia, PA.Abstract: Who said reference has to be one person, one librarian, one question? Can reference be a social activity? How can we truly put the user at the center of reference? How can we re-imagine reference as a learning activity where the reference librarian facilitates learning? David Lankes will focus on reference as a truly participatory process and how such a process can take advantage in the latest in web technologies. Comments: 1 see or add comment Participatory Librarianship and Web 2.0 in the CurriculumPosted: Jan 09 2008 10:23:45"Participatory Librarianship and Web 2.0 in the Curriculum" Presentation at the ALA/ALISE Meeting, Washington, DC.Slides: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Presentations/2008/ALISE.pdf Comments: 0 see or add comment The following materials should help you get out the word on Participatory Librarianship Materials and Files
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Videos and Self Running Presentations
Lankes' presentation to the Free Library of Philadelphia
David Lankes demonstrates a sample reference application based on participatory concepts(MP4, 20.2 mb)
Presentation to Drexel's iSchool on Particiaptory Concepts with an emphasis on LIS implications (MP4, 65.6 mb)
Presentation to Catholic University's Library School on Particiaptory Concepts with an emphasis on LIS education (MP4, 431 mb)
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