[Asis-l] FW: Aaron Schmidt to speak on "Libraries and the Read/Write Web"...

[Junus, Ranti]

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Ranti Junus, Systems Librarian
 Web Services/Electronic Resources 
 Michigan State University Libraries
 East Lansing, MI 48824
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Reca Washington [mailto:reca at u.washington.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:39 PM

To RSVP, please visit the UW Alumni Association site
<https://go.washington.edu/uwaa/events/200804ischool_chisholm/details.tc
l> .

This Friday, April 4, 2008, Aaron Schmidt will speak as part of the
University of Washington Information School's "Margaret Chisholm
Motivate, Inspire, Lead" lecture series on how libraries can use Web 2.0
to engage their communities and create a user-centered institution.
Schmidt is well-renowned in the field of librarianship for his work as
director of the North Plains Public Library and as author of
walkingpaper.org, a technology and usability weblog.

Dr. Margaret Chisholm was an outstanding library educator and former
director of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at
the University of Washington. She served as president of the American
Library Association, where her theme was "Motivate, Inspire and Lead."
Dr. Chisholm believed in the responsibility and power of librarians and
librarianship to do all three. The "Margaret Chisholm Motivate, Inspire
and Lead Fund" was established in her honor by her daughters, Nancy Lane
and Janice Bonnet, to bring important leaders in the field of library
and information science to the School to inspire future generations of
librarians.

Schmidt argues the Read/Write web has changed the way information is
created and distributed. Schmidt will address the issues of library
usability, signage, and Online Public Access Catalogs and will share his
sense of the most important issues on which libraries should be working.

"Aaron is one of this terrific breed of young librarians who bring a
fresh perspective on what libraries can do and be in the digital age.
He's got great ideas and tremendous passion, and I learn something every
time I read or hear him," said Joe Janes, associate professor at the
iSchool.

Schmidt has presented internationally on the subjects of weblogs,
instant messaging, library website usability and other social software
applications. Additionally, he consults for individual libraries such as
the Washington, D.C. Public Library, helping them integrate social
software into their services. He currently writes the column "Living in
the Browser" for Internet Reference Services Quarterly and has had
articles published in Library Journal, School Library Journal, Library
High Tech News and others. In 2005 Schmidt was named a Library Journal
"Mover & Shaker." He is a firm believer in libraries being user
centered, and thinks they must use the Read/Write web to remain relevant
in the 21st century.

Margaret Chisholm Motivate, Inspire, Lead Lecture with speaker Aaron
Schmidt

April 4, 2008
Kane Hall 210
6:00-7:30 pm

To RSVP, please visit the UW Alumni Association site
<https://go.washington.edu/uwaa/events/200804ischool_chisholm/details.tc
l> .

 

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Information School
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