Registration now open!

LACUNY Institute 2009: “Library Leadership: The Next Generation.”

When and Where? Friday, October 23, 2009 at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.

Academic libraries are undergoing a significant demographic shift that is dramatically changing the make-up of the profession. At the heart of this transformation is the large proportion of veteran librarians nearing retirement age. This development has prompted an examination of the attitudes and characteristics of the new generation of librarians poised to assume leadership. In an effort to contribute to the ongoing dialogue regarding the future of academic library leadership, this conference will address the following questions:

Program highlights

Keynote: “Demographic Change in a Turbulent Era: Librarians in the 21st Century.”
Stanley Wilder, University Librarian, University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
Wilder is a prominent authority and commentator on the demographic shift in the academic library workforce.

Panels: with academic librarians from the NYC region and beyond representing different generations and perspectives.
Moderator: Marie L. Radford, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Rutgers University School of Information and Communication.

“The Graying of the Profession”: Intergenerational Collaboration & Succession Planning
Panelists:
Shelly Warwick, Director, Touro-Harlem Medical Library
Jenna Freedman, Coordinator of Reference Services/Zine Librarian, Barnard College
Erik Estep, Co-editor, Gen-X Perspectives on Librarianship (forthcoming, Library Juice Press) & Assistant Professor and North Carolina Collection Librarian

“Issues in Next Generation Librarianship”
Panelists:
Jason Kucsma, Emerging Technologies Manager, Metropolitan New York Library Council
Emily Drabinksi, Electronic Resources and Instruction Librarian, Long Island University
Erin Dorney, Outreach Librarian, Millersville University, Pennsylvania

Poster sessions

Register online:
http://library.citytech.cuny.edu/LACUNYInst2009/registration.html

$35 for LACUNY members
$40 non-LACUNY registrants

Lunch and morning refreshments included.

Further info: http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/lacunyinst2009.html

Joseph Deodato
Co-Chair, LACUNY Institute 2009
College of Staten Island, CUNY
718.982.4008
deodato [at] mail.csi.cuny.edu

Brian Lym
Co-Chair, LACUNY Institute 2009
Hunter College, CUNY
212.772.4191
blym [at] hunter.cuny.edu

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An Online Conference about Stakeholder Engagement – in Second Life

Using Virtual Reality for Stakeholder Engagement
Thursday, July 16, 2009
11am-5pm Eastern

Presented by PublicDecisions
Co-sponsored by:

• Learning Times
• NY University Law School/Institute for Information Law and Policy
• Public Agenda
• Involve
• National Issues Forums Institute

Don’t Just Tell Them, Show Them
Why just talk with stakeholders about environmental management (or any other subject)? Let them experience it.

Conducted entirely in the virtual world Second Life, this one-day conference will provide you with the opportunity to experience and learn about the possibilities of hosting stakeholder learning events using virtual reality.

You’ll participate in presentations, discussions . . . even “field trips” that demonstrate how virtual reality is being used for stakeholder learning today.

Did You Know?  The highest percentage of Second Life users are ages 25-34 (35%), followed by those ages 18-25 (26%) and ages 35-44 (23%).

What You’ll Learn:
- The benefits and drawbacks of working with stakeholders in Second Life, including when it’s appropriate, efficient and effective—and when it’s not
- How Second Life differs from other technologies used for stakeholder engagement
- How Second Life can be used for a range of subject areas, including—but not limited to—environmental management
- Tips for using Second Life effectively, including how to access existing “islands” or spaces within Second Life’s virtual world and how to create your own space

No Experience Needed
You don’t need prior experience with Second Life to attend, but you will need to create a Second Life account (it’s free) in order to participate.

An orientation for registrants new to Second Life (and those who want a refresher) will be provided prior to the conference.

WHERE
Online, in Second Life

FEE
Seats are Limited to the First 75 Registrants
$75 USD for Circle Club members, $85 USD for nonmembers

Registration includes the PublicDecisions post-event report, “Using Virtual Reality for Stakeholder Engagement”

Not a Circle Club member? Join now. Membership is free and you can unsubscribe at any time.

QUESTIONS? Contact Paul Coelus (paul@publicdecisions.com)

LACUNY Members, Please join us on Friday, June 19, 2009 (2:00-4:00 PM) at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 899 Tenth Avenue, between 58th & 59th Streets in Room 630 for our annual spring membership meeting. Following a short business meeting, we will be hosting a panel on “Libraries, Librarians and Oral History.” Panelists include LACUNY librarians Austin Duffy (John Jay) and Dorothea Coiffe (BMCC), as well as Kristy Raffensberger from the New York Public Library and Dr.Benjamin Alexander from Queens College, CUNY, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. Austin and Dorothea have spent the past year working on oral histories of senior and retired CUNY librarians. Kristy has interviewed librarians for the ALA “Capturing Our Stories” project. Benjamin teaches archives and manuscripts at Queens College and has written extensively on oral history.

Please R.S.V.P. to Daisy Dominguez, ddominguez at ccny dot cuny dot edu

Heather Morrison of OA Librarian reports that ACRL has redone its scholarly communications website.

Tim Berners-Lee recently gave a talk at TED that offers a great, easy-to-understand explanation of why we should be looking for ways to put raw data on the web to created a world of linked data.

Recipients of the 2009 LACUNY Professional Development Grants have been announced. This year, two $500 awards were made to support conference travel for 2 LACUNY members to attend a library-related meeting or conference.

Karen Okamoto, Reference/Instruction Librarian at John Jay College, has been awarded the grant to attend and present at the Workshop for Instruction on Library use, to be held in Montreal in May.

Jay Bernstein, Reader Services Librarian at Kingsborough Community College, has been awarded the grant to attend and present at the North American Symposium for Knowledge Organization, to be held in Syracuse in June.

Since 2005, the LACUNY Professional Development Committee has admininstered this grant to fund travel to library-related meetings or conferences.  Summaries of past grantees’ conference experiences can be read here.

The innovative Darien Library (host to Library Camp East 2006) is sponsoring a free one-day event called In the Foothills: A Not-Quite-Summit on the Future of Libraries, which the organizers are billing this way:

At many Library conferences these days, we focus on technology so intensely that often we forget to consider the larger work for which technology is just a tool. And perhaps not the most important tool.

Yet, information technology has proliferated and become “humanized” over the last dozen years to the extent that we are now in the midst of revolutionary change. Some even see that change as a threat to the existence of libraries.

As information professionals, we occupy a significant amount of space at the epicenter of that change–but how are we really doing? Are we helping to direct that change or merely responding to it? Are we leveraging change, or simply managing it? As the world of information production and consumption undergoes a complete transformation, how is our place in society affected and what are our responsibilities? How do we justify our existence?

John Berry from Library Journal and Kathryn Greenhill from Murdoch University (in Australia!) will be the guest speakers.

If you’re interested in attending (and checking out the library’s beautiful new building), more details can be found on the futurelibs09 wiki that has been set up for the event (there is also a registration page where you can sign yourself up).

For more information, see: http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/pdf/2009UXFlyer-3.pdf

To register, see: http://tinyurl.com/Registration-April-24

SAVE THE DATE!!

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Library
presents:

From Transaction to Interaction: Transforming the User Experience

Friday, April 24, 2009, 9 am to 3 pm

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Library Rockefeller Research Laboratories (RRL) Building (Auditorium)

430 East 67th Street NY NY 10065

An engaging dialogue about User Experience (UX) and its relevance within the information profession. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. William Gribbons, reknown UX expert and Director, Master of Science in Human Factors Information Design Program, Bentley College, MA.

Co-sponsored by Rockefeller University Library, Cornell-Weill Medical Library, and the Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY)

Registration information to follow. For more information contact Donna Gibson (gibsonD@mskcc.org); Brian Lym (blym@hunter.cuny.edu); or Valeda Dent Goodman
(vdent@rutgers.edu)