Venue: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Future Civic Media, Bartos Atrium, Weisner Building (E-15), 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Wednesday April 6, 2011: Pre-conference activities (optional)
10 a.m. Gather in Kendall Hotel lobby: Socializing, organize MIT tour
11 a.m. Tour of MIT campus (maximum 10 people); or MIT Museum
(depart from Building 7 Lobby, 77 Massachusetts Avenue)
Noon Registration opens (Bartos Atrium)
1 p.m. Gather for café lunch at “Forbes Family Café,”
Stata Center (Building #32) for Computer Information
2 p.m. Films & briefings (Bartos Theatre) / “Information Stories”
3 p.m. Informal networking
Intro to MIT Center for Future Civic Media
Wednesday, April 6, 2011: Understanding the Context
4 p.m. Welcome & introductions: Who’s here and what do we need to know to have a productive time together?
5 p.m. Briefing: David Weinberger on “Knowledge as Transitional”
5:30 – 7:00 Reception & Buffet / Circulating dinner
Mix it up with new ideas
7 – 9 p.m. A Conversation on
What’s possible for our communities and democracy when journalists and librarians work together?
Conversation Catalysts:
- Joy Mayer, RJI Fellow: “Journalism and the meaning of engagement”
- Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell Museum:
“A dialogue about convening dialogue” - David Bollier, author, Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of their Own
Conversation of the room, cross-pollinating ideas among participants
Thursday, April 7: Innovate / Explore/design ideas/projects
Venue: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Future Civic Media, Bartos Atrium, Weisner Building (E-15), 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
What’s possible for our communities and democracy when journalists and librarians work together?
8:00 a.m. Continental breakfast and networking
8:30 Morning News / Agenda Creation
Setting the stage: Peter Levine, director, CIRCLE, Tufts University, Medford, Mass., on information and civic engagement
9:30 Breakout Sessions 1
10:30 Coffee/tea/discussion break
10:45 Breakout Sessions 2
11:45 – 12:30 Buffet or box lunch / informal session report-backs
12:30 Briefing: Libraries and Public Insight Network
1:00 p.m. Breakout Sessions 3
2:15 p.m. Coffee break
2:30 p.m. Plenary: What have we learned?
3:00 p.m. Next steps: Where do librarians & journalists go from here?
Wrap up
5:00 p.m. Adjourn program at MIT Center for Future Civic Media
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6:00 p.m. Hors d’oeuvres reception,
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway
7:00 p.m. FREE public panel and public discussion: “Beyond Books”
Moderator: John Nichols
Panelist: David Lankes, author, Participatory Librarianship
Other panelists, TBD
POST-PANEL break-out discussions: Common Missions? / Librarians & Journalists
Our agenda is evolving as collaborators and co-sponsors meet and identify key convening questions and critical participants.
