[Sig-l] Leading by Using Social Networks - Leadership Development Program at ASIS&T Annual, Sunday, 10/21, 5:30 p.m.

[Beata Panagopoulos]

If you're going to Milwaukee, please attend this great program!  If you 
haven't already registered for the conference, there is a box to check off 
on the registration form to say you're attending.  If you've already 
registered, no problem--  just show up!

Beata Panagopoulos
ASIS&T Chapter Assembly Director
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LEADING BY USING SOCIAL NETWORKS: 
FACEBOOK AND SECOND LIFE
 
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
ASIS&T 2007 Annual Meeting
Sunday, October 21, 2007 5:30-6:30 pm
 
Moderator: Trudi Bellardo Hahn, Professor of Practice, University of 
Maryland College of Information Studies
Speakers: Pascal Calarco, Head, Library Systems, University of Notre Dame 
and Allison Brueckner, (SL alias:  Teofila Matova), cAliCo Information 
Consulting, Principal, and Dexter District Library, Technology Librarian 
 
Second Life and Facebook offer different opportunities for group leaders. 
Facebook is great for building a community presence that can be referenced 
at anytime and provides more familiar forms of interaction such as 
messaging and email. It only requires a computer with minimal 
capabilities. Second Life is a 3D virtual world that offers, among many 
other things, real-time meeting capability and exciting new forms of 
interaction, though the technological demands are higher. Attend this 
session for an overview about how each of these social networking tools 
facilitates leadership.
 
Though only a few years old, Facebook is the largest social networking 
community, with over 30 million members worldwide. Originating in academe, 
many from the information professions are active on Facebook, and this 
holds potential to help growth and interest of millennial-age and other 
new professionals to become involved in professional organizations, should 
we reach out to them and try to build virtual community. Pascal Calarco 
has set up an ASIS&T group on Facebook, now over 130 members throughout 
the world. He will talk about this group and some of the virtual 
communities of interest to library and information science, and how we can 
possibly leverage this community to identify and grow future ASIS&T 
leaders.
 
Allison Brueckner will present on the various leadership styles which she 
has observed and practiced for nine months in Second Life (SL), a 3D 
virtual world.  Social networks inherently evolve and the evolution of 
leadership styles used in SL has varied in degrees of success.  Ms. 
Brueckner will discuss the technological challenges SL leadership faces, 
when executing various projects and tasks.  She will also present the 
social impact this virtual environment makes on leadership styles.  A 
demonstration in-world, in Second Life, will also be given.
 
Trudi Bellardo Hahn is Professor of the Practice at the University of 
Maryland, College of Information Studies. She formerly was the Executive 
Director of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information 
Science. Earlier in her career, she managed a library instruction program, 
directed educational programs for the Special Libraries Association, and 
was on the faculties of Catholic University of America and the University 
of Kentucky. She is a former president of ASIST and has been active in 
numerous ASIST special interest groups, chapters, committees, conferences, 
and juries. She won the ASIST Watson Davis Award and the Best Information 
Science Book of 2003.
 
Allison Brueckner is the sole proprietor of cAliCo Information Consulting 
and is a technology librarian for the Dexter District Library in Michigan. 
 She has three years work experience with non-for-profit research and 
development organizations, five years academic library experience, five 
years state government experience and eight years military experience. 
Allison is an active member of the American Society for Information 
Science & Technology (ASIS&T).  She has been a member since 1997 and has 
served in several capacities such as Director-at-Large on the Board of 
Directors, Board Liaison for the Leadership Development Committee, Chair 
of the Strategic Marketing and Branding Task Force, and 
Secretary/Treasurer for the Michigan Chapter.  Allison co-founded the 
Special Interest Group (SIG) on Digital Libraries and served as its first 
SIG-DL Chair in 2000. She is also the 2001 recipient of the James M. 
Cretsos Leadership Award.
 
Pascal Calarco is Head, Library Systems, University of Notre Dame. Pascal 
has been active in ASIS&T since joining in 1996, and has served the 
Society in several governance capacities over the years, including 
technical sessions and panels chair for this meeting. He considers ASIS&T 
to be his primary professional association. He is also a leader with the 
Ex Libris Users of North America, and International Group of Ex Libris 
Users. He enjoys campus radio volunteering, online gaming, tent camping, 
music, and playing with his two kids when not working.