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National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
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NISO Two Day Virtual Conference: Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution Platform: Challenges and Opportunities Oct 21-22, 2014 
 R. David Lankes, Dean’s Scholar for the New Librarianship at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies; Director of the Information Institute of Syracuse

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Publisher of the Community We’re All Doomed R. David Lankes Professor and Dean’s Scholar for New Librarianship Syracuse University http://www.DavidLankes.org
Death of Documents • Print Becomes Digital • Editions • Digital Becomes Flexible • Death of Editions • Terms Become Metaphors • eJournal, eBook…Neither Books nor Journals
Terms Become Metaphors • eJournal, eBook…Neither Books nor Journals • Instant Updates • Embedded Functionality • Accounting Books that Count • Flexible Containers • PDF-HTML-Text • We’re All Doomed
When eBooks Become Apps • Document Like Objects Dissolve into a Sea of Services • Embedded Apps, Distributed Metadata, Visualizations, Annotations • We’re All Doomed
Footnote • Footnotes are Annotations • Annotations Are Context • What Happens When Annotations Become the Primary Document? • How Can You Tell Context from Content? • We’re All Doomed
Unless We See the Sea Change Collection Focused Service Focused Conversatio n Focused
The Conversation Approach Perhaps it is an overstatement to say that academic librarians are drifting in a vast sea of information and technological advances, searching for an appropriate course of action. Nevertheless, we appear to have lost the stabilizing rudder of confidence in who we are and what we are to do. As a more powerful alternative to the images of librarianship already available or proposed, I suggest that we begin to think of libraries as centers for conversation and of ourselves as mediators of and participants in the conversations of the world. Joan Bechtel In 1986! Bechtel, J. M. (1986). Conversation, a New Paradigm for Librarianship? College and Research Libraries. 47 (3), 219-24.
Conversations Conversation Theory • Conversants • Language • Agreements • Memory
The Mission of Librarians is to Improve Society through Facilitating Knowledge Creation in their Communities Knowledge is Created through Conversation Conversants Agreements Language Memory Entailment Mesh Cataloging Relationships Scapes The Mission of Librarians is to Improve Society through Facilitating Knowledge Creation in their Communities as seen inas seen in Importance of Theory and Deep Concepts Information Organization Administration Reference Extract Artifacts Source Amnesia L1 L0 Pressure for Participation Boundary Issues Free Library of Philadelphia Department of Justice Importance of a Worldview Importance of Theory and Deep Concepts Longitude Example Agreement Relationship Agreement Core Skills Importance of a Worldview Ambiguity is Essential for Professional Work Facilitating Knowledge Creation Communities Librarians Improve Society T H R E A D S LIS Education Importance of Action and Activism Service Leadership Obligation of Leadership Innovation versus Entrepreneurship Means of Facilitation Knowledge Access Environment Motivation Intrinsic Extrinsic Massive Scale Evolution of Systems System View helps define User-Based Design Information Seeking User Systems Gaming Service is not Invisibility Core Values Ethics Openness Learning Intellectual Freedom and Safety Intellectually Honest not Unbiased Internet Model Example User Credibility Information Services Web 2.0 Application Builders Open Source Infrastructure Providers Music Center Writing Center Entrepreneurium TCP-IP Publisher of Community True Facilitation means Shared Ownership Invest in Tools of Creation over Collection of Artifacts Shift in Innovation from Academy to Ubiquity Recognize a School as a Participatory Network From School to School of Thought Co-Learning Mission Increase Friction in the Process Every Course has Symposia and Practica Curriculum of Communication and Change over Traditional Ideas of Leadership Need to Expand the Educational Ladder Bachelor of Information and Instructional Design Need for an Executive Doctorate Institute for Advanced Librarianship Idea Avoiding the Florentine Dilemma Vital Roles of Mentors Evolution of Integrated Library Systems Democracy and Openness Overshadowed by Technology Different Communities Librarians Serve Public Academic Government Special School Growing Importance of Two Way Infrastructure School Information Management Systems Archives Conversation Theory Sense-Making Motivation Theories Dialectic Theories Learning Theory Transition of Traditional Skills Reference Collection Development Community as Collection Issues of Institutional Repositories Scholarly Communications Go to the Conversation Embedded Librarians Digital Environments Physical Environments Hybrid Environments Policy Assessment Mapping Conversations Annotations Limitations of Tagging Library Instruction Selective Dissemination of Information Meeting Spaces Topical Centers with Curriculum Conversation Theory Postmodernism Constructivism Public Service Members not Patrons or Users Shared Shelves with the Community From Authority to Reliability Authoritative vs Authoritarian Truly Distributed Digital Library Need for an Expanded Definition of Literacy Social Literacy Libraries are in the Knowledge Business therefore the Conversation Business Creating an Agenda Risks of Data Death of Documents Ability to Work in Interdisciplinary Teams Relation to other Domains Communications Computer Science Humanities Information Science Getting Past the L v I Debate Creating a New Social Compact Evolution of the Social Compact Social Justice Issues Innovation Warehousing Functions Circulation Shelving Para-professionals Importance of Technical Skills Social Network Sites exemplified as Education A B C D E F G H 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 mission librarians improve society facilitating knowledge creation communities such as is composed of is composed of is composed ofis composed of is composed of is composed of conversants are equal, therefore a danger is managing two-way information flows becomes complex needs a method highlights the importance of an example case is an example case is an example case is a key issue in schools is this has an impact in deals with demonstrated the concept of created concept for created concept for will be influenced by a strategy is such as such as such as such as are served by such as created concept for as seen inas seen in has an example case is is composed of is composed of is composed of is composed of results in results in results in results in results inhas an aspect of demonstrates a key theory is a relevant theory is a relevant theory is a relevant area is a relevant area is a relevant area is therefore defines Systems are going to have to allow multiple L1's demonstrate need system to capture meshes Now can search on meshes The nature means susceptible to influenced by will influence will influence can be represented in leads to means knowledge of redefines therefore will be translated as however, must avoid such as comes with an is part of a relevant area is a relevant area is will influence is composed of is composed of is composed of is composed of is seen in such as such as to from to influenced by influenced by can become results in as seen in has a type has a type is composed of is composed of is composed of is composed of results in can be done through redefines can be done through can be done through such as such as such as such as such as such as such as such as such as requires knowledge of includes includes requires requires includesrequires changes because requires requires leads to includes involves involves requires requires an example is an example is an example is an example is means knowledge of involves means knowledge of results in is influenced by will influence will influence must change the field must must comes from example is will be influenced by includes includes is related to can be achieved by influences includesincludes includes explains includes explained in helps define is enabled by based on might become Example is further defined by such as The Atlas of New LIBRARIANSHIP R. David Lankes Longitude Example Motivation Credibility Sense-Making Motivation Theories Dialectic Theories Learning Theory Postmodernism Constructivism Creating a New Social Compact Evolution of the Social Compact mission a key theory is a relevant theory is a relevant theory is a relevant area is a relevant area is a relevant area is a relevant area is results in leads to comes from example is explains helps define
Advantages • True Graph in Publications • Citations Become Weighted Links • Corpora Become Maps of Conversation/Thought • Move Beyond Metadata • We Can Publish Beyond Scholarship
Future of Publishing and Libraries and • PlatformPs uof Cbolnivsershateionr –sN…OT Content Delivery • Platform • Delivers Content AND Context • Geared Towards Learning NOT Consumption • Geared Towards Production NOT Distribution
The Future • Reading, Citing, Organizing, Sharing • Acts of Learning and Conversation • Reading is Making (Sense Making) • Focus on Communities and Members • Not Buyers and Users
The Future • Beyond Linked Metadata to Linked Ideas and People • Beyond Content to Context and Meaning • Beyond Information to Knowledge and Action • Beyond Discovery to Epiphanies

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Publisher of the Community: We're All Doomed

  • 1. Publisher of the Community We’re All Doomed R. David Lankes Professor and Dean’s Scholar for New Librarianship Syracuse University http://www.DavidLankes.org
  • 2. Death of Documents • Print Becomes Digital • Editions • Digital Becomes Flexible • Death of Editions • Terms Become Metaphors • eJournal, eBook…Neither Books nor Journals
  • 3. Terms Become Metaphors • eJournal, eBook…Neither Books nor Journals • Instant Updates • Embedded Functionality • Accounting Books that Count • Flexible Containers • PDF-HTML-Text • We’re All Doomed
  • 4. When eBooks Become Apps • Document Like Objects Dissolve into a Sea of Services • Embedded Apps, Distributed Metadata, Visualizations, Annotations • We’re All Doomed
  • 5. Footnote • Footnotes are Annotations • Annotations Are Context • What Happens When Annotations Become the Primary Document? • How Can You Tell Context from Content? • We’re All Doomed
  • 6. Unless We See the Sea Change Collection Focused Service Focused Conversatio n Focused
  • 7. The Conversation Approach Perhaps it is an overstatement to say that academic librarians are drifting in a vast sea of information and technological advances, searching for an appropriate course of action. Nevertheless, we appear to have lost the stabilizing rudder of confidence in who we are and what we are to do. As a more powerful alternative to the images of librarianship already available or proposed, I suggest that we begin to think of libraries as centers for conversation and of ourselves as mediators of and participants in the conversations of the world. Joan Bechtel In 1986! Bechtel, J. M. (1986). Conversation, a New Paradigm for Librarianship? College and Research Libraries. 47 (3), 219-24.
  • 8. Conversations Conversation Theory • Conversants • Language • Agreements • Memory
  • 9. The Mission of Librarians is to Improve Society through Facilitating Knowledge Creation in their Communities Knowledge is Created through Conversation Conversants Agreements Language Memory Entailment Mesh Cataloging Relationships Scapes The Mission of Librarians is to Improve Society through Facilitating Knowledge Creation in their Communities as seen inas seen in Importance of Theory and Deep Concepts Information Organization Administration Reference Extract Artifacts Source Amnesia L1 L0 Pressure for Participation Boundary Issues Free Library of Philadelphia Department of Justice Importance of a Worldview Importance of Theory and Deep Concepts Longitude Example Agreement Relationship Agreement Core Skills Importance of a Worldview Ambiguity is Essential for Professional Work Facilitating Knowledge Creation Communities Librarians Improve Society T H R E A D S LIS Education Importance of Action and Activism Service Leadership Obligation of Leadership Innovation versus Entrepreneurship Means of Facilitation Knowledge Access Environment Motivation Intrinsic Extrinsic Massive Scale Evolution of Systems System View helps define User-Based Design Information Seeking User Systems Gaming Service is not Invisibility Core Values Ethics Openness Learning Intellectual Freedom and Safety Intellectually Honest not Unbiased Internet Model Example User Credibility Information Services Web 2.0 Application Builders Open Source Infrastructure Providers Music Center Writing Center Entrepreneurium TCP-IP Publisher of Community True Facilitation means Shared Ownership Invest in Tools of Creation over Collection of Artifacts Shift in Innovation from Academy to Ubiquity Recognize a School as a Participatory Network From School to School of Thought Co-Learning Mission Increase Friction in the Process Every Course has Symposia and Practica Curriculum of Communication and Change over Traditional Ideas of Leadership Need to Expand the Educational Ladder Bachelor of Information and Instructional Design Need for an Executive Doctorate Institute for Advanced Librarianship Idea Avoiding the Florentine Dilemma Vital Roles of Mentors Evolution of Integrated Library Systems Democracy and Openness Overshadowed by Technology Different Communities Librarians Serve Public Academic Government Special School Growing Importance of Two Way Infrastructure School Information Management Systems Archives Conversation Theory Sense-Making Motivation Theories Dialectic Theories Learning Theory Transition of Traditional Skills Reference Collection Development Community as Collection Issues of Institutional Repositories Scholarly Communications Go to the Conversation Embedded Librarians Digital Environments Physical Environments Hybrid Environments Policy Assessment Mapping Conversations Annotations Limitations of Tagging Library Instruction Selective Dissemination of Information Meeting Spaces Topical Centers with Curriculum Conversation Theory Postmodernism Constructivism Public Service Members not Patrons or Users Shared Shelves with the Community From Authority to Reliability Authoritative vs Authoritarian Truly Distributed Digital Library Need for an Expanded Definition of Literacy Social Literacy Libraries are in the Knowledge Business therefore the Conversation Business Creating an Agenda Risks of Data Death of Documents Ability to Work in Interdisciplinary Teams Relation to other Domains Communications Computer Science Humanities Information Science Getting Past the L v I Debate Creating a New Social Compact Evolution of the Social Compact Social Justice Issues Innovation Warehousing Functions Circulation Shelving Para-professionals Importance of Technical Skills Social Network Sites exemplified as Education A B C D E F G H 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 mission librarians improve society facilitating knowledge creation communities such as is composed of is composed of is composed ofis composed of is composed of is composed of conversants are equal, therefore a danger is managing two-way information flows becomes complex needs a method highlights the importance of an example case is an example case is an example case is a key issue in schools is this has an impact in deals with demonstrated the concept of created concept for created concept for will be influenced by a strategy is such as such as such as such as are served by such as created concept for as seen inas seen in has an example case is is composed of is composed of is composed of is composed of results in results in results in results in results inhas an aspect of demonstrates a key theory is a relevant theory is a relevant theory is a relevant area is a relevant area is a relevant area is therefore defines Systems are going to have to allow multiple L1's demonstrate need system to capture meshes Now can search on meshes The nature means susceptible to influenced by will influence will influence can be represented in leads to means knowledge of redefines therefore will be translated as however, must avoid such as comes with an is part of a relevant area is a relevant area is will influence is composed of is composed of is composed of is composed of is seen in such as such as to from to influenced by influenced by can become results in as seen in has a type has a type is composed of is composed of is composed of is composed of results in can be done through redefines can be done through can be done through such as such as such as such as such as such as such as such as such as requires knowledge of includes includes requires requires includesrequires changes because requires requires leads to includes involves involves requires requires an example is an example is an example is an example is means knowledge of involves means knowledge of results in is influenced by will influence will influence must change the field must must comes from example is will be influenced by includes includes is related to can be achieved by influences includesincludes includes explains includes explained in helps define is enabled by based on might become Example is further defined by such as The Atlas of New LIBRARIANSHIP R. David Lankes Longitude Example Motivation Credibility Sense-Making Motivation Theories Dialectic Theories Learning Theory Postmodernism Constructivism Creating a New Social Compact Evolution of the Social Compact mission a key theory is a relevant theory is a relevant theory is a relevant area is a relevant area is a relevant area is a relevant area is results in leads to comes from example is explains helps define
  • 10. Advantages • True Graph in Publications • Citations Become Weighted Links • Corpora Become Maps of Conversation/Thought • Move Beyond Metadata • We Can Publish Beyond Scholarship
  • 11. Future of Publishing and Libraries and • PlatformPs uof Cbolnivsershateionr –sN…OT Content Delivery • Platform • Delivers Content AND Context • Geared Towards Learning NOT Consumption • Geared Towards Production NOT Distribution
  • 12. The Future • Reading, Citing, Organizing, Sharing • Acts of Learning and Conversation • Reading is Making (Sense Making) • Focus on Communities and Members • Not Buyers and Users
  • 13. The Future • Beyond Linked Metadata to Linked Ideas and People • Beyond Content to Context and Meaning • Beyond Information to Knowledge and Action • Beyond Discovery to Epiphanies