Two Recaps from Two Presentations I Missed
Elizabeth Pyatt offered up a nice recap of Lawrence Lessig's TLT Symposium Keynote, stating:
"Interestingly this merger of the channels (professional and amateur) has led to another common academic complaint - the need for students to develop the information literacy skills to distinguish the good stuff from the schlock. Sometimes it all connects in ways we never expected..."
And over at ACRLog, Melissa Mallon recapped the very first ACRL Springboard Event, noting that:
"Jenkins stressed the need for librarians to act as information facilitators rather than curators of collections (we ought to market ourselves, as a cartoon he displayed so aptly put it, as “human search engines”)."
I wish I hadn't missed these. Lots of food for thought about the future of content creation and the role of libraries and librarians in this process.
And, as the Science Librarian pointed out, both of these presentations (which he, unlike me, managed to get to) incorporated Soulja Boy. Yet another reason to be sad I wasn't there!
"Interestingly this merger of the channels (professional and amateur) has led to another common academic complaint - the need for students to develop the information literacy skills to distinguish the good stuff from the schlock. Sometimes it all connects in ways we never expected..."
And over at ACRLog, Melissa Mallon recapped the very first ACRL Springboard Event, noting that:
"Jenkins stressed the need for librarians to act as information facilitators rather than curators of collections (we ought to market ourselves, as a cartoon he displayed so aptly put it, as “human search engines”)."
I wish I hadn't missed these. Lots of food for thought about the future of content creation and the role of libraries and librarians in this process.
And, as the Science Librarian pointed out, both of these presentations (which he, unlike me, managed to get to) incorporated Soulja Boy. Yet another reason to be sad I wasn't there!
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You can catch the Lessig presentation at the Symposium site ... http://symposium.tlt.psu.edu ... we wish you could have been there!
I must admit that Jenkins focused too much on libraries in general for the ACRL audience (C = College and R = Research), but he did have some very good points about Visual Literacy that made the talk "multitaskable" (as one colleague was writing a book chapter, IMing and watching)