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Participatory Culture: Video from Salzburg Global Seminar

Special thanks to  Robert  Fish, Associate Director of  Communication, Salzburg Global Seminar for his expertise and editing!

This post is a reflection/response to questions posed at the Salzburg Global Seminar program Libraries and Museums in an Era of Participatory Culture, exploring the challenges, solutions and potential for participatory services within libraries and museums.

Join the conversation: http://tametheweb.com/2011/10/19/join-the-conversation-libraries-museums-in-an-era/

Special Thanks to [...]

Participatory Culture: Demonstrating Public Value

Camelos levam livros para crianças no Quênia, originally uploaded by 365 Dias que Acalmaram o Mundo. The last thematic area started our morning. Each panelist shared success stories and insights about demonstrating public value for libraries and museums.

Gary Vikan, Director, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, United States, detailed the history of the Walters [...]

Participatory Culture: Photos from the Seminar

For more: http://www.salzburgglobal.org/current/sessions.cfm?nav=photos&IDSPECIAL_EVENT=2961

 

This post is a reflection/response to questions posed at the Salzburg Global Seminar program Libraries and Museums in an Era of Participatory Culture, exploring the challenges, solutions and potential for participatory services within libraries and museums.

Join the conversation: http://tametheweb.com/2011/10/19/join-the-conversation-libraries-museums-in-an-era/

Special Thanks to the Salzburg Global Seminar  and IMLS for the invitation to participate in this event.

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Participatory Culture: Building the Skills of Library & Museum Professionals

I’ve been looking forward to this session – focused on how we teach future library and museum professionals.

First up, David Lankes, Professor, Director, Masters in Library and Information Science, Syracuse University, School of Information Studies, Syracuse, New York, explored  this statement: The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their [...]

Participatory Culture: Communication & Technology

Noha Adly, Deputy Head, ICT Sector, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt, explored various technologies in use at her library as well as by some insights about the way people are interacting with technology and information. Key areas of importance: search beyond text, user interaction with devices and data, and new representations of data. She also [...]

Challenges and Opportunities of Participatory Culture for Museums and Libraries (part II)

http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2011/10/21/the-challenges-and-opportunities-of-participatory-culture-for-museums-and-libraries-part-ii/

 

Rob Stein blogs from the Seminar three questions for consideration:

1. How can museums aid in addressing the socio-economic consequences of a widening technology gap?

A number of participants spoke eloquently about the social and economic consequences that impact marginalized communities who lack the same easy-access to technology that many of us take [...]

Participatory Culture: Communication & Technology – My Presentation

 

I’m part of the Communication & Technology plenary this morning. My slides are here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/239835/SalzburgStephens.pdf 

I’m planning to talk briefly about the four areas of technology/trends and how participation from community of users can enhance information environments, library service and our interactions with each other.

This post is a reflection/response to questions posed [...]

Participatory Culture: Fireside Chat

Highlights from case studies from around the globe during this evening’s fireside chat:

Catalina Escobar, Director of Makaia, a non profit working with libraries, Medelli?n, Colombia:

Implementing SMS notifications for circulation messages and general messages has been useful, but has presented some challenges. These include the perception that emails from the library are like [...]

Happy Birthday Luis Herrera

Amidst all the dynamic discussion and work, it’s a pleasant surprise to wish San Francisco City Librarian Luis Herrera a Happy Birthday during our evening meal in the Schloss.

Happy Birthday, Luis!

Special Thanks to the Salzburg Global Seminar  and IMLS for the invitation to participate in this event.

Revisiting Participatory Service in Trying Times – a TTW Guest Post by Michael Casey

Note from Michael : I am honored to have written over two years of The Transparent Library with Michael Casey. I am pleased he took me up on an offer to do a guest post about participatory service for the Salzburg Global Seminar week. I asked him to explore where we’ve come from 2005 and [...]