MSLIS News

From the Chronicle - http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=1962

Brewster Kahle is the creator/funder of the Internet Archive and other cool projects. He’s been working on the Open Content Alliance -http://www.opencontentalliance.org/. They’ve just started a podcast series, and Brewster is the guest on the first show.

You can listen to this podcast at http://chronicle.com/media/audio/v53/i30/khale/ and learn more about this project.

Participatory librarianship and the whole “Library as Conversation” idea framed in the Lankes, Silverstein and Nicholson paper is certainly catching on. We’ve put together a list of presentations either given or are planned on the topic for 2007 at: http://iis.syr.edu/projects/PNOpen/2007Tour/

In case you’re curious, here’s what’s coming up:

“Participatory Librarianship” South Central Regional Library Council Library: Place Service or Both Series, Ithaca, NY March 16

“Library as Conversation: Facing the Challenge” The Regione Toscana- Servizi Bibliografici, Florence, Italy April 12

“Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation” Amigos Member Conference, Dallas, TX. May 2

“Participatory Networks” Nylink Annual Conference, Saratoga Springs, NY. May 9

“Collecting Conversations in a Massive Scale World” ALCTS National Conference, Washington, D.C. June 22

“Future of Information Search and Retrieval” ALA Panel, Washington D.C. June 25

There’s growing interest in doing research at the iSchool on the intersection of gaming and libraries. If you’d like to learn more about what’s going on with this topic in the field, SirsiDynix is hosted a Web seminar presented by Jenny Levine, the Shifted Librarian. You can watch the archived version at

http://www.sirsidynixinstitute.com/seminar_page.php?sid=81

Every year, NYLA picks a day to go to the Albany to lobby for library funding. This year, it is March 13th, and it would be a great way to get involved in the political side of libraries.

You can learn more about Library Day and register at http://www.nyla.org/index.php?page_id=148

The CLRC is organizing a bus to go to the event, and you can register to ride on this bus by March 6th. The form for doing this is at

http://www.clrc.org/downloads/library2007flyer.pdf