From Guerilla Innovation to Institutional Transformation:
Information Professionals as Change Agents
Thursday,
November 15, 2007, 8:30a - 3:45p
Providence College, Providence, RI
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Embedded libraries... usability and findability... hacking your OPAC... agile development... metadata aggregators... Web 2.0 and social software... user-centered design... library as experience. In the past few years we continue to see an explosion of visionary new strategies for organizing and providing access to information products and services. The forward-thinking problem-solvers among us have eagerly educated ourselves and developed plans to apply this next generation of theoretical and practical approaches to the toughest dilemmas in our information environments. And then we hit the wall...
No matter how brilliant the idea or solution, only organizations with an established "culture of transformation" seem to even listen to our cutting edge solutions, never mind providing the resources and leadership support to explore these potential innovations.
So how do we cultivate "cultures of transformation" in our institutions? How do we carve out time and space for exploration and experimentation? How do we encourage the kind of unrestrained creativity from which the most revolutionary and lasting improvements have emerged? How do we craft guerilla innovation strategies that can prove their worth at the grass roots level?
The New England chapter of ASIST explores the answers to these questions in another dynamic full-day program. Join...
Jill Stover
Undergraduate Services Librarian at Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, contributing author to Designing Better Libraries- http://dbl.lishost.org/blog/ and author of Library Marketing-Thinking Outside the Book- http://librarymarketing.blogspot.com/John Blyberg
Head of Technology and Digital Initiatives at Darien Library in Connecticut, and author of blyberg.net: http://www.blyberg.net/Jessamyn West
Community Technology Librarian, Randolph, Vermont, and author of librarian.net: http://www.librarian.net/
SCHEDULE:
8:30-9:15 ---- Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:15-9:30 ---- Welcome & Introduction
9:30-10:30 --- Jill Stover
10:30-11:00 -- Networking break
11:00-12:00 -- John Blyberg
12:00-1:30 --- Lunch (at Providence Dining Hall)
1:30-2:30 ---- Jessamyn West
2:45-3:45 ---- Panel
REGISTRATION:
Details:
- Online registration or pre-registration must be received by Friday November 9, 2007.
- Registration fee includes lunch and refreshments.
- Registrations will be processed on a first come, first served basis. Online registration is encouraged.
- JOIN ASIS&T now and save $81! (see COMBINED REGISTRATION below).
REGULAR REGISTRATION
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Register by mail and pay with a check:
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COMBINED REGISTRATION
NEASIS&T is offering a special deal for new members. When you join ASIS&T now and register for this event at the same time, we will pay 29% of the membership fee! (a $140 value for $99)
You will then receive the member rate for the event (a 50% discount) and receive the same discount at NEASIS&T events throughout the year. You will also receive all the benefits of ASIS&T membership.
Click here first to complete ASIST Membership registration
You will then have the option to pay by credit card, via PayPal, or by check.
Questions? Email: Christine Quirion, cquirion[at]mit.edu
Sally LeGore
28 September, 2007