[Baynet] Reminder of Infopeople's webcast on April 4

[Linda Rodenspiel]

A reminder of the next Infopeople webcast.  Please let your friends and
colleagues know about this event!

Title:  Challenging the Assumptions of Legacy Librarianship

Date and time: April 4, 2008, 10am - 12pm

This webcast will last approximately two hours. There is no charge for this
Infopeople webcast.  Pre-registration is not required.

For more information and to participate in the April 4 webcast, go to
http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/217/index.html 

 

Leg-a-cy - something handed down from an ancestor or a predecessor or from
the past. 

"Legacy librarianship" is a term coined by presenter Joan Frye Williams to
describe the fundamental truths that have been passed down through the
generations of librarians - in library school, on the job, and in our
professional literature. For example, we've always been told that one-on-one
assistance to patrons is our most valuable activity, and should be our top
priority. Have you ever wondered if these "truths" would hold up under
serious scrutiny? 

Most librarians simply take what they've always been told about patrons and
their needs for granted, but the world we serve has changed, and new
evidence confirms that some of our basic assumptions about library service
need to change, too. To stay relevant we must be in sync with the needs and
wants of our communities, but how can we implement change when the inertia
of "legacy librarianship" is a nearly irresistible force? 

In this extended version of their PLA presentation, library consultant Joan
Frye Williams and OCLC Vice-President George Needham will take a humorous,
no-holds-barred look at recent data that challenge traditional library
thinking, and will offer some surprising suggestions for re-imagining the
library. Participants will learn about: 

*	The most recent OCLC-commissioned research findings, including data
about social networking and about library advocacy. 
*	Suggestions about which library services align well with emerging
customer requirements, and which services might need to be discarded or
changed. 
*	Successful new service models, with practical implementation tips. 

This webcast is designed for librarians, public service and branch staff,
library workers with customer service responsibilities, friends, trustees
and commissioners, plus anyone with both a connection to the library
community and a sense of humor. 

Speakers:  Joan Frye Williams and George Needham.

 

Joan Frye Williams.  For more than 25 years Joan has been a successful
librarian, consultant, vendor, planner, trainer, evaluator and user of
library services, with a special emphasis on innovation, technology and
emerging library trends. She is the president of her own library and
information technology consulting firm. She received an MLS from the
University of California at Berkeley (1975) and in addition to her
consulting practice she has worked in both public and academic libraries,
for library automation vendors, as well as at the California State Library.
Her many clients include large and small public libraries, library
consortia, state library agencies, professional library associations,
library boards, library vendors and architects.

 

George Needham.  Before joining OCLC in 1999, George was State Librarian of
Michigan. From 1993 to 1996, he was Executive Director of the Public Library
Association, a division of the American Library Association. From 1990 to
1993, he was Director of Member Services of the Ohio Library Association.
>From 1984 to 1989, he served as Library Director of Fairfield County
District Library in Lancaster, Ohio. From 1977 to 1984, he held various
posts at the Charleston County Library in Charleston, South Carolina. George
received a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in library
science from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

 

Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webcasts to anyone in the
California library community.  If you are outside California, please do not
view the live event.

 

However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the
webcast.  Check our archive listing at:

 

http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived 

 

Please do not cross post this announcement to any national list.

 

Webcast:  Challenging the Assumptions of Legacy Librarianship

Date: April 4, 2008

Time:  10am - 12pm

Speakers: Joan Frye Williams and George Needham

 

 

 

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