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FOR IMMEDIATE
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March 17, 2010
It’s Wiki Wednesday! Are you UpNext?
Two New Themes Launch Today on the Future of
Museums and Libraries Wiki
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) invites you
to help invent the future of museums and libraries through your participation
in UpNext: The Future
of Museums and Libraries Wiki. IMLS’s first-ever wiki is a platform where
individuals inside and outside of museums, libraries, and related fields can
discuss, dissect, expand, and inform the issues outlined in the Future of Museums and Libraries: A Discussion Guide. IMLS will use the knowledge shared in the wiki to help shape the agency’s strategic plan, research directions, publications, convenings, and grant making.
Two new themes launch today on the wiki and will be featured
for wiki discussion from March 17th- March 30th.
Theme #3, Museums and Libraries as the “Third Place” will
be led by Discussion Leader Susan Hildreth, City Librarian, Seattle Public
Library. This theme discusses museums and libraries as gathering spaces for
social interaction and engagement and invites wiki members to imagine what the
“third place” will look like in the future and how museums and
libraries can enhance their positions as forces for civic engagement and social
cohesion.
Theme #4, Technology & Policy Development, will be led by
Discussion Leader, John Wilkin, Associate University Librarian for Library
Information Technology (LIT), University of Michigan, Executive Director of
HathiTrust. This theme discusses how rapid advances in technology have a profound
effect on the ways in which people access and use information. It invites wiki
members to identify the role of museums and libraries in policy developments
for intellectual property, digitization, preservation, and content access.
Whether you work in, partner with, study, volunteer, visit or
are just plain interested in museums and libraries and passionate about how
they can continue to thrive in their service to the public—you have an opinion
to be shared!
The UpNext wiki is an opportunity to share resources, examples
of what works, and vexing questions. We hope that it will be a thought provoking
ten weeks for all participants and provide food for thought for your career, your
institution, and the choices you face.
The full schedule of wiki themes and discussion leaders
is below:
March 3-16 |
1. Changing Definitions & Roles of Museums and Libraries
Martín Gómez, City Librarian, Los Angeles Public Library
2. Shifts in Power & Authority
Cassie Chinn, Deputy Executive Director, Wing Luke Asian Museum
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March 17-30 |
3. Museums & Libraries as the “Third Place”
Susan Hildreth, City Librarian, Seattle Public Library
4. Technology & Policy Development
John Wilkin, Associate University Librarian for Library Information
Technology (LIT), University of Michigan, Executive Director of HathiTrust
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March 31-April 13 |
5. 21st Century Learning & Information Use
Tom Scheinfeldt, Managing Director for Center for History and New
Media at George Mason University, OMEKA Project Director
6. New Models & Structures for Collaboration
Mark Wright, Director of Partnerships, National Children's Museum
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April 14-27 |
7. Planning for a Sustainable Future
Emlyn Koster, President & CEO, Liberty Science Center
8. Metrics for Evaluating Service & Impact
John Fraser, Director, Institute for Learning Innovation-New York
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April 28-May 12 |
9. The 21st Century Museum & Library Workforce
Joanne Marshall, Alumni Distinguished Professor, School of Information
and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10. UpNext: Where Do We Go From Here?
Larry Johnson, CEO, The New Media Consortium
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May 19 |
Last official “Wiki Wednesday” IMLS will
post wiki final summary. |
If you have any questions or comments regarding the wiki or
the Discussion Guide, please feel free to contact Mamie
Bittner, mbittner@imls.gov or
Erica Pastore, epastore@imls.gov.
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