[LIS-Forum] Today's lecture stands canceled; Re: Lecture invitation

Dear Members, Dr. KN Prasad of SRELS had called to inform the LIS-Forum members that today's (Thursday 17 Feb 2011 Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Memorial Lectures (16) (2011) on PEOPLE, CULTURE, AND 21 CENTURY LIBRARIES by Dr. Gary Marchionini stands canceled as the speaker is held up in the delhi airport due to the inclement weather condition in delhi. Kindly inform your friends / colleagues about the cancellation of today's lecture. Please do note that the remaining two lectures on Friday (18 Feb) and Saturday (19 Feb) will be held as per the schedule. The original announcement of the lecture series is appended to this mail. With regards, - Francis NCSI, IISc On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Francis Jayakanth wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: SRELS Date: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:17 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Lecture invitation To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

Dear Moderator: Kindly arrange to announce the following invitation for the benefit of LIS-FORUM members.

Sincerely,

K.N. Prasad, SRELS

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Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS),

Bangalore

in association with

Informatics (India) Ltd., Bangalore

and

Ranganathan Centre for Information Studies,

Chennai & Bangalore

cordially invites you to the

Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Memorial Lectures (16) (2011)

on

PEOPLE, CULTURE, AND 21 CENTURY LIBRARIES

by

Dr. Gary Marchionini

Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Professor,

School of Information and Library Science,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

on

17 , 18 , and 19 February 2011, at 6.00 pm each day

at

SRELS, 702, 'Upstairs', 42 Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar,

Bangalore 560 010

Mr. N.V. Sathyanarayana

Chairman & Managing Director, Informatics (India) Ltd., Bangalore

Inaugurates

Tea: 5.30 pm

RSVP:1. K.N. Prasad-Ph: (080) 23305109 E-mail: srels@dataone.in

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Abstracts

Day 1.

The transformation of Libraries as Institutions: Physical-Digital Hybrids

Electronic technologies have brought great changes to information work, including libraries

   Library automation: classification, organizations, catalogs (e.g.,

   MARC, OCLC, ISI)

   Online searching, virtual reference

   Databases and IR techniques

Digital libraries

   Technology Drivers

   Digitization

   Indexing, Metadata

   Network transfer, interoperability

   Preservation

Human Drivers

    New skills, roles, adoptions

Culture Drivers

   Economies of scale and action

   Intellectual Property

   Cooperation, Policies

Hybrid Libraries

   Shared collections

   Local special collections

   lnteroperations

   High tech vs high touch decisions

Day 2.

Humans as information Creators, Collectors, Consumers, and Communicators

Human Memory and Institutional History

Creation, capture, and reuse revolutions in the information life cycle

   Capture: cameras, recorders, sensors, scanners

   Editors, mixers and mashups

Personal Collections

   Physical

   Digital

Information Consumption

   Learning: effectiveness, retention

   Working: flow, efficiency

   Entertaining: engagement, enjoyment

Communication

   Social networks

   Participatory Libraries: Institutional + Personal Libraries

Day 3.

Libraries of People and their State Changes: Saturday

Computational Agents and Social Media

   Agents as Assistants, Surrogates, Observers, and Adversaries

   Social media: individuals, groups, culture blur

Proflection Theory

   Projections of Self: Exoinformation

   Purposeful

   Unconscious

   Reflections of Self

   Human

   Machine

   Participatory Libraries of Proflections of Personal Identity

   Libraries as Reflections of Cyberspace Culture

Gary Marchionini, Brief Bio

Gary Marchionini is the Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He teaches courses in humaninformation interaction, interface design and testing, and digital libraries. He heads the Interaction Design Laboratory at SILS. His Ph.D. is from Wayne State University in mathematics education with an emphasis on educational computing. He has published over 200 articles, chapters and reports in a variety of books and journals. He is author of a book titled Information Seeking in Electronic Environments published by Cambridge University Press and a forthcoming book titled Information Concepts: From books to Personal Identities in Cybespace. Professor Marchionini has had grants or research awards from the National Science Foundation, Council on Library Resources, the National Library of Medicine, the Library of Congress, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Kellogg Foundation, and NASA, The Nationa!  l Cancer Institute, Microsoft, Google, and IBM among others. Professor Marchionini was Editorin- Chief for the ACM Transaction on Information Systems (2002- 2008) and is the editor for the Morgan-Claypool Lecture Series on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services. He has been program chair forACM SIGIR (2005) and ACM/IEEE JCDL (2002) as well as general chair ofACMDL96 and JCDL2006. He serves or has served on a dozen editorial boards and is the 2010 president of the American Society of Information Science and Technology. His current interests and projects are related to: interfaces that support information seeking and information retrieval; usability of personal health records; alternative representations for electronic documents; multimedia browsing strategies; digital libraries; and evaluation of interactive media, especially for learning and teaching. He currently has a 3-year grant from NSF on established a search results framework that supports searches over multip!  le sessions and in collaboration. He also has a one-year grant!  from NS F to investigate the viability of Second Life as an environment for promoting digital preservation.

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