Session: How do we foster information literacy and media literacy in our libraries and in our communities?
- Use games to engage groups. Example of Jane McGonigal’s game for the New York Public Library: Find the Future: The Game
- http://www.Rheingold.com. Rheingold, a journalist, founder of Wired, prof. at Berkeley, Stanford, created a Wiki-based, asynchronous online classroom on “infotension.” How to control info overflow. Questions of transparency come up a lot in these classes.
How can we engage underserved communities to understand their information needs, create knowledge, increase social capital and strengthen the institutions committed to both?
- DOK in the Netherlands, http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/886170-264/whats_your_story_dutch_library.html.csp recognized as one of the most innovative libraries in the world, with community-focused technology, spackes where you could tell your story, touch screens to browse these, and a ‘heritage browser.’
- http://skokienet.org/ at the Skokie, IL public library, innovation example
- partnerships with local historical societies?
Breakout session: working together for community engagement
- September is Civic Awareness Month: The following link was emailed to me by Wilmington Memorial Library’s Reference Librarian. It answers one ways libraries can be a catalyst for civic engagement. http://www.programminglibrarian.org/library/planning/events-and-celebrations/civic-awareness-month.html
What would happen if Beyond Books forged a consensus statement on libraries, journalism and participatory democracy?
- read the consensus statementhttps://journalismthatmatters.org/biblionews/2011/06/07/link-forging-a-consensus-on-libraries-journalism-and-participatory-democracy
How can we TRUST community engagement, especially among teens, to build to civic engagement? And support that trust via our institutions?
- Library/Farmers market model. Example, Bellingham Alternative Library, they sell local crafts, silk screens shirts, kombucha brew, dehydrated fruit
- Here’s a picture of the main entrance to the Bellingham Alternative Library
https://journalismthatmatters.org/biblionewssessionnotes/wp-content/uploads/sites/497/2011/04/zach-alt-library-entrance.jpg And they can be visited online here:
http://www.sushitree.org/library.php for the library - http://neoglyphicmedia.com/ for the startup publishing company that library founder Future Man has begun
How should we redefine “public” and “access” to facilitate new media literacies?
- Another case / example
Remember the video about the I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse from Peter Shane’s “Information Stories” videos yesterday? (http://www.youtube.com/user/InfoStories#p/u/10/QuKyUCQdg8A)
In this example, the community journalists pulled in images from flickr: what do people think about this? For example as it relates to ownership? Posting images becomes point of source/record—library as public repository, host in a public way
persistence of access
wikimedia commons
Is it possible to create a global information network for investigative journalists?
- Perhaps by connecting members of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project with organizations such as: IRE, Global Journalist, RJI, Soros, SLA, European and Asian business librarians, we can begin to investigate the possibilities of building information networks. This group will begin to have conversations about connecting networks interested in coming together to investigate the feasibility of creating a global information network for journalists.
Digital Citizen 2012
- Digital Citizen 2012 is a converged media project that will seamlessly connect citizens online and via their mobile phones to televised election discussion programs, leveling the playing field between candidates and pundits, and the issues people care about. See http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21731895/Digital_Citizen_Illustrated_032711_copy.pdf
How can we build long-term engagement from crisis engagement?
- when deadly tornados ripped through Tuscaloosa, Ala., Joplin, Mo., and Minneapolis, libraries stepped up to provide something more basic: electricity. http://librarius.posterous.com/seeking-shelter-and-connectivity-after-the-st
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