For an updated look at the world we may face in reference and user services ten years from now, I hope you will join us in Washington, D.C., for the 2007 RUSA President’s program, “Time Odyssey: Visions of the Future for Reference and User Services.” Speakers will include:
- Allen Renear, professor of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and expert in knowledge representation;
- Michael Cornfield, George Washington University Political Scientist and director of research for the PEW Democracy Online Project;
- Genevieve Bell, director of User Experience at Intel and an anthropologist;
- William J. Mitchell, professor of architecture at MIT; and
- Stephen Bell, the “blended librarian,” who will provide his vision and a response to other speakers.
As always, I look forward to hearing your thoughts and, eventually, your reactions to this program.
References
- Francine Fialkoff, “Retail Reference,” Library Journal 131, no. 5 (Mar. 15, 2006): 8.
- Kaetrena Davis, “Mind the Retail Reference Gap,” Library Journal 131, no. 9 (May 15, 2006): 66.
- Fialkoff, “Retail Reference,” 8.
- ALA, “Toward a National Agenda for Libraries: A Discussion Draft,” Jan. 2007. The draft can be found in a wiki at http://wikis.ala.org/nationallibraryagenda (accessed Jan. 15, 2007).
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- Davis, “Mind the Retail,” 66.
- Dave Tyckoson, “Facts Go Online: Are Print Reference Collections Still Relevant?” Across the Grain 16, no. 4 (Spring 2004): 34, 36, 38.
- Fialkoff, “Retail Reference,” 8.
- Joseph Janes, Introduction to Reference Work in the Digital Age (New York: Neal-Schuman, 2003), 31.
- Eugene P. Sheehy, Guide to Reference Books, 10th ed. (Chicago: ALA, 1986).
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