Seit einigen Jahren bietet die internationale Ning-Community bibliothekarische Onlinekonferenzen und so auch dieses Jahr mit der Library 2.015 am 20. und 21. Oktober. Themen:
Strand 1: Digital Services, Preservation, Curation, and Access
Strand Tag: 2.015Data
Example topics (but not limited to the following)
- Building sustainable digital collections
- Challenges and examples of data curation
- Creating ontologies and metadata schemes
- Digital Humanities
- New forms of scholarly publishing
- Organizing and managing electronic records including reliability and authenticity issues
Strand 2: Emerging Technologies and Trends
Strand Tag: 2.015Trend
Example topics (but not limited to the following)
- 3-D Printing
- Internet of things, smart objects, and wearable technologies
- E-books and e-book devices
- Mobile access to services
- New forms of delivery and emerging models of literacies such as game-based learning
- MOOCS
Strand 3: The User Experience
Strand Tag: 2.015UX
Example topics (but not limited to the following)
- Social networking trends and implications
- Usability techniques and website improvements
- Effective techniques for instructing users in the retrieval and evaluation of information
- The relationship between design thinking and the user experience and interaction
- Reaching out to diverse communities
- Innovative delivery techniques in storytelling
Strand 4: Management of Libraries and Information Centers in the 21st Century
Strand Tag: 2.015Leader
Example topics (but not limited to the following)
- Advocacy and building influence
- Analytics (reporting value to organizational stakeholders)
- Grant writing
- Green libraries
- Managing people
- Funding models
- Marketing/PR
- Outsourcing/privatization
Hier ist der Zeitplan. Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos.