Jill's October & November Speaker Schedule

I'll be "on the move" over the next month and speaking at:

• Oct. 8, PRSA Northeast District Conference, Rochester, NY - Establishing Your Social Image to Enhance Your Public Image (Presentation with Alison Miller)
• Oct. 15, NYLA Annual Conference, Niagara Falls, NY - Meeting on the Lines: Teleconferencing & Webinars (presentation with Kevin Vebesey)
• Nov. 9, Assoc. of International Librarians & Info. Specialists(AILIS), Geneva, Switzerland - Planning & Management of Digitization Programs (Workshop)

The October 15 event is a nearly last minute addition to my calendar. I'm taking Karen Schneider's place, who is now in the middle of a move from Florida to California. Congrats Karen!

If you and I happen to be at the same event, I hope you'll tap me on the shoulder and say "hi"!

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Technorati tags: Digitization, Social Networking Tools

Ch-Ch-Changes (or "Changes in Attitude, Changes in Latitude")

How do you impact your industry? We generally think about just doing our jobs, but really we should be thinking about making an impact -- not only in the place where we work, but also in a larger community. We can influence the "larger community" (however you want to define that) by writing books and articles, by speaking and giving presentations, and by teaching. Not only is it important to teach those who are already "in the field", but equally important to teach those who are the "next generation."

While I have been influencing my "community" through writing, speaking and project work, I have decided to do something that allows me to influence the next generation of information professionals even more. In January, I'll be joining the School of Information Studies (iSchool) at Syracuse University (SU). Some of you may know that I have been associated with SU since 2001. This year, I decided that teaching full-time would move me towards my goal of influencing the industry more, and SU decided that adding me to their faculty would be a good thing! As a Professor of Practice, I will be charged with connecting the iSchool to "the practice" (that which occurs outside of academia). That means that the things that you know me for -- writing, speaking, consulting, and committee work -- will continue. It also means that I'll be looking for ways to connect students to you (the industry) in ways that are beneficial for them and you. And -- yes -- I'll be teaching. I'll be teaching three classes a semester (spring and fall). How will I continue to write, speak and consult with that course load? Carefully!

If you know nothing about the iSchool at Syracuse University, I hope that, through me, you'll learn more about it -- about the faculty, the research centers, its degree & certificates programs, and its students. The 40+ member full-time faculty includes people such as:

• Dave Lankes (digital libraries and participatory librarianship)
• Scott Nicholson (gaming and data mining)
  
• Ken Lavender (preservation and digital preservation)
  
• Derrick Cogburn (socio-technical infrastructure for geographically distributed collaboration in knowledge work)
  
• Ruth Small (school media)
• Carsten Osterlund (organizational implications of information systems)
• Liz Liddy (application of linguistic theory to information retrieval)

The full-time and adjunct faculty members are a wonderful group and I am looking forward to working more closely with all of them! (BTW the adjuncts are primarily practitioners who are bringing their practice into the classroom. One adjunct is a former FBI unit director!)

Now I suspect that a few students will see this blog post and wonder who is this "new" faculty member, so let me give them a few pieces of information:

• What will I be teaching in spring 2009? IST 677 (Creating, Managing and Preserving Digital Assets), IST 626 (Business Information Resources & Strategic Intelligence) and one other course (to be named).
• Where can you find me on campus besides the iSchool? Wherever there is good coffee. (Honest, I'm not a coffee-aholic!)
  
• Where do I hang out online? Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed.
• Do I "bleed orange"? Not exactly, but I do enjoy sports and listen to ESPN every day (especially Mike & Mike in the Morning).
• Seriously, how can you learn more about me? Google.
  

Okay...let the happy dance commence!

Jill's September schedule

As summer winds down, my schedule is heating up. I will be giving the following presentations in September:

• Sept. 9: Practical Digitizing Series: Planning & Management of Digitization Projects (workshop), South Central Regional Library Council, Ithaca, NY -- SCRLC is conducting another series of workshops on digitization. This series will occur in the fall in Ithaca and is geared specifically towards their members and the direction that SCRLC is taking. I am pleased that SCRLC again has asked me to kick-off a digitization series for them.
  


• Sept. 10: Using Digital Collections to Expand Your Audience (panel), 2008 American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY -- Myself and three others will present during this session. Each of us will address this topic from a very different point of view.
  


• Sept. 12: Web 3D & Virtual Worlds (presentation), Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) Forum on Federal Information Policies, Washington, D.C. -- I'll be talking about the work that government entities are doing in Second Life and what libraries need to be considering/doing. My co-presenter in this session will be talking specifically about the Swedish embassy in Second Life. Yes, governments are among those investing time and resources in virtual worlds.
  

For more information on any of the events on my calendar, please contact the sponsoring organization or me. If you would me to speak at your event, please give me a shout.

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Technorati tags: Digitization, Second Life, Social Networking Tools

Meme: Passion Quilt

This meme has been circulating around the Internet. The (almost) Bald Trainer did a general tagging of people, and I decided to participate.

I truly believe that kids of all ages need to exercise their imaginations. When you imagine, you wonder what and why, as well as where and how. You imagine how it could be as well as how it once was. Your imagination leads to you ask questions and seek out answers. It pulls you into new directions and helps you grow.

3 Simple Meme Rules:

• Post a picture from a source like FlickrCC or Flickr Creative Commons or make/take your own that captures what YOU are most passionate about for kids to learn about…and give your picture a short title.
• Title your blog post “Meme: Passion Quilt” and link back to this blog entry. (Known origin of the meme is here.)
• Include links to 5 folks in your professional learning network or whom you follow on Twitter/Pownce.

Tag! You Are It: Although this meme has been circulating among librarians, I'm including a couple non-libraries in my "tag" because I think they will have an interesting perspective.

• David Fulton
• Mitch Mitchell
• Kelvin Ringold
• Polly Farrington
• SLA IT Division bloggers

If you are curious, feel free to read other responses to the meme.

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Technorati tags:Meme, Passion Quilt