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NISO Webinar, Wednesday, March 13
1:00 – 2:30 (Eastern Daylight, US & Canada)
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Webinar: Defining The Library: The Mission, Role and Community
Confirmed Speakers include:
Nearly twenty years into the 21st century, how exactly do we define the word, library?
This is hardly a frivolous question. Neither is it a settled one. If a library
is less defined by its information resources or access services than by foot
traffic or usage stats, then appropriate assessment of its contribution to the
institution -- through either quantitative or qualitative metrics -- becomes
demonstrably more difficult. The question has implications for administrators
with budgetary concerns as much as for educators in the field. Should libraries
be focused on decentralization in order to better serve specialized research
communities? Or should they be more centralized as the central organ of an
educational organism?
Here’s what two of those speakers will be addressing during the event
Title: The Urgent Necessity of Identity for an Academic Library
The widespread assumption that academic libraries must be obsolete has moved consideration of library identity from a theoretical level to one of day-to-day urgency. This presentation will describe how I approach formulating and conveying library identity in a variety of situations. I conclude with a short case study of how I’ve adapted my generalized “vision” for the local environment (LSU) I now inhabit.
Title: Prospects for Digital Libraries Serving Human Readers and Web-scale Computational Insight
The Internet Archive’s mission is Universal Access To All Knowledge. I will share some practical models for how that exceedingly ambitious goal might be approached. I’ll offer some examples of how uncommon insight might be derived when media are treated as data and are available for public interest oriented computational research. In this era when disinformation is poisoning our information commons, I’d like to encourage webinar participants to consider how significant public interest could be served by library resources being available to digital services for dynamic contextualization.
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