[MNASIS-L] ALA's ACRL meeting in Minneapolis this week

[Janet M. Arth]

fyi, Janet

The ALA ACRL meeting is in Minneapolis this week.  One of the interesting 
things that ACRL is doing is testing 'virtual' conference attendance, 
including live webcasts and blogging.  As a precursor to this a live (and 
now archived) webcast was done for anyone (registrants or not), that was an 
interview with Cliff Lynch of CNI and Michael Keller of Stanford 
University, ffi:  http://www.learningtimes.net/acrlarchive.html


And here is a specific announcement about a specific ACRL program this  week:
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Colleagues/

If you have not yet made plans to attend the ACRL 12th National Conference 
in Minneapolis beginning later this week [ 
http://www.ala.org/acrlconftemplate1.html ], you still have time to do so!

In addition to many opportunities to Listen-and-Learn from a variety of 
pre-conferences, presentations and poster sessions

[ http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/12thnatconf/acrlprogram/program.htm ],

you could be among the select few to attend MySession in which I will 
elaborate on my wiki-based vision/version of Scholarly Communication known 
as Disruptive Scholarship

[ http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0502/0003.html ]

Sooooo** Please mark you ConferenceCalendar:

Pair Two |
Saturday, April 9, 4:30 - 5:45 p.m.; 200AB

Quality Assurance in the Age of Author Self-Archiving. In the age of author 
self-archiving, there are forces, factors, and influences other than 
pending classical peer review that can assure the quality of scholarship 
before formal publication. Among these alternative approaches are 
institutional review, 'critical peer response', 'action learning', and 
Total Quality Scholarship. Gain an understanding of the strengths and 
weaknesses of conventional peer review process and develop an awareness of 
current and emerging alternative models to traditional peer review.
Presenter(s): Gerry McKiernan, Iowa State University

[ 
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/12thnatconf/acrlprogram/contributedpapers/contributedpapers.htm 
]

NOTE: The emphasis will be on EMERGING!

BTW: If you are unable to attend the entire session, please don't hesistate 
to stop by at the end  to offer to buy me a beer [:-)

Be Prepared For A MIND SHIFT !!!

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck at iastate.edu

http://theoretical-librarian.blogspot.com
http://disruptivescholarship.blogspot.com