Next Generation Information Commons: Retooling and Refining the Vision
Live Webcast
October 13, 2009
11 a.m Pacific | 12:00 p.m. Mountain | 1:00 p.m. Central | 2:00 p.m. Eastern
1.5 hours
Registration is now open!
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Webcast Description:
Some information commons are now more than ten years old and are in need of refreshing in terms of conception, configuration, technologies, and services. Others are so popular that additions are planned, either adjacent to the existing commons, on other floors, or in other buildings on campus. Through the use of principles and practical examples, participants will learn about trends in information and learning commons. A wide variety of photos will be used to illustrate the presentation.
This session will explore:
- New goals and rationales for information/learning commons
- Special purpose spaces
- New service collaborations
- New technologies
- Links between physical and virtual spaces
- Design and aesthetics
- Assessment
Intended audience:
This session is intended for librarians and other involved in planning the next phase of an institution’s existing information or learning commons program. This could involve revamping spaces or services in a commons, planning for additional spaces to supplement an existing commons or planning for specialized spaces within the library or in other buildings to supplement a commons.
About the Instructor:
Joan K. Lippincott
Joan K. Lippincott is the Associate Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), a joint project of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and EDUCAUSE. CNI, based in Washington, DC, is an institutional membership organization that advances the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. She has been with CNI since 1990.
At CNI, Joan has provided leadership for programs such as New Learning Communities, Assessment of the Networked Environment, Working Together, and collaborative facilities and learning spaces. She has written articles and made presentations on such topics as networked information, learning spaces, collaboration among professional groups, assessment, and teaching and learning in the networked environment. Her chapter on “Net Generation Students and Libraries” in an EDUCAUSE book on Educating the Net Gen www.educause.edu/educatingthenetgen/ has received wide distribution. She is past chair of the editorial board of College & Research Libraries News and is on the board of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).
Joan previously held positions at the libraries of Cornell University, George Washington University, Georgetown University and SUNY at Brockport. In addition, she worked at the Research and Policy Analysis Division of the American Council on Education and the National Center for Postsecondary Governance and Finance at the University of Maryland.
Additional information is available at:
http://www.cni.org/staff/joan_index.html
Registration
ACRL member: $50
ALA member: $75
CACUL member: Can$90 (charges will be made in U.S. dollars)
Nonmember: $90
Student: $40
Group*: $295
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Class size is limited to 60 participants. Full refunds will be granted up to 14 days prior to the start of the seminar.