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Karen Williams on the Re-imagined Research Library
This morning I attended Karen Williams’ talk entitled “Subject Librarian 2.0: Preparing Liaison Librarians for 21st Century Academic Environments” put on by the BC Research Libraries Group Lecture Series. Williams’ basic thesis that the contemporary research library is undergoing a fundamental paradigm shift provides us with a useful framework through which to understand the changing role [...]
Conference Proceedings are out!
I am happy to announce that the conference proceedings of the Housing Memory conference are now up. The Faculty of Information Quarterly’s third issue presents the work of some of the best papers presented at the conference. Fellow organizer, Monica Rettig and I were very pleased to see the project of organizing this conference culminate [...]
Reflections on TRY
Ania Dymarz, Monica Rettig, Meghan Ecclestone, & Bruce Harpham present their poster entitled “Defining the Movement: Student Initiatives at the Faculty of Information” at the TRY conference, May 5th, 2009.
A week after the TRY conference at the University of Toronto, many of the themes brought up by the various conference sessions are still resonating for [...]
TRY Conference
I have the privilege of participating in the TRY Conference at the University of Toronto and I am looking forward to it! I appreciate the opportunity to learn from the many programs and initiatives being carried out by academic librarians in Toronto. I will be participating in a poster session entitled: “Defining the Movement: Student Initiatives at [...]
Welcome!
Welcome to my blog! This space is for reflections on the the field of information and sometimes something more. Having just finished up my MISt degree at the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto I am feeling particularly reflective. I have met a number of inspiring people along the way whom I have learned with [...]