Rutgers SC&I has announced its Spring MLIS Colloquium programs. The public is invited.
All events are in SC&I Room 212, 7:00 to 9:00pm.
February 16 “Future Roads to Discovery: Goodbye AACR2?” Yuji Tosako, Cataloging/ Metadata Librarian at The College of New Jersey, will bring us up to date on coming changes [e.g., Resource Description and Access (RDA)] and what those will mean to you, regardless of the type of information organization in which you will work. Jane Otto, Media and Music Metadata Librarian at Rutgers, will demonstrate how current practice in metadata applies to providing access to institutional digital collections, such as the Rutgers Equine Science Center’s videos. Jeffrey Bayer, Assistant Director for Cataloging at the New York Public Library, will present an example of how one very complex organization that comprises a branch system and diverse research libraries copes with change and accommodates the very different access needs of its users.
March 30 “Outside the Mainstream: Connecting with the Disconnected” Even though many libraries are seeing an influx of visitors to their buildings, they are overlooking potential users who are best approached in non-traditional ways. The first step is to regularly do a community scan and check your assumptions about who your potential users are and what their information needs are (putting 510 Human Information Behavior into practice!).
Denise Agosto (Rutgers LIS PhD), Associate Professor at the Drexel iSchool, will describe what she found out about teens in Philadelphia. Vikki Katz, Communication Assistant Professor at SC&I, will share her research on the children of immigrants who serve as information intermediaries for their parents. Brooklyn librarian Sandra Sajonas, an LJ “Mover and Shaker,” will share her experience working with “disconnected youth”-17- to 24-year-olds who are not in school nor in jobs; and (tentatively) a Queens librarian will tell how to create a learning community in cyberspace.
April 20 “E-Books, Impact on Publishing, and Implications for Libraries” After much hype, the e-book seems to have arrived–even textbooks are going digital, and Nicholson Baker is reading on the Kindle (The New Yorker, 8/3/09). Dan Tonkery, President and CEO of Content Strategies, has been a library automation pioneer, an entrepreneur, and an EBSCO VP. He sees mobile computing and the changes in publishing leading to a new era in access (see Searcher 18,8). Marlie Wasserman, director of Rutgers University Press, has been concerned about the decline in institutional support for scholarly publishing, and will focus on the educational context, the evolution of digital publishing, and the relationship with libraries.