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FOR IMMEDIATE
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March 31, 2010
It’s Wiki Wednesday! Are you UpNext?
Two New Themes Launch Today on the Future of
Museums and Libraries Wiki
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) invites you
to help invent the future of museums and libraries through your participation
in UpNext: The Future
of Museums and Libraries Wiki. IMLS’s first-ever wiki is a platform where
individuals inside and outside of museums, libraries, and related fields can
discuss, dissect, expand, and inform the issues outlined in the Future of Museums and Libraries: A Discussion Guide. IMLS will use the knowledge shared in the wiki to help shape the agency’s strategic plan, research directions, publications, convenings, and grant making.
Two new themes launch today on the wiki and will be featured
for wiki discussion from March 31st-April 13th.
Theme #5, 21st Century Learning & Information
Use, will be led by Discussion Leader, Tom Scheinfeldt, Managing
Director for Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, and
OMEKA Project Director. This theme discusses how museums and libraries can
continue to enrich the education and knowledge building of society by
consciously adapting their services to evolving ways in which people
want to seek, gather, interpret and use information.
Theme #6, New Models & Structures for
Collaboration, will be led by Discussion Leader, Mark Wright,
Director of Partnerships, National Children's Museum. This theme
discusses new models and structures for collaboration among museums,
libraries and other organizations which can bolster organizational
sustainability and growth and help communities develop effective
solutions to economic, social and environmental challenges in the 21st
century.
In these tough economic times, strategic thinking is a wise investment
in the future. Whether you work in, partner with, study, volunteer, visit
or are just plain interested in museums and libraries and passionate
about how they can continue to thrive in their service to the public—you
have an opinion to be shared!
The UpNext wiki is an opportunity to share resources, examples
of what works, and vexing questions. We hope that it will be a thought provoking
ten weeks for all participants and provide food for thought for your career, your
institution, and the choices you face.
The full schedule of wiki themes and discussion leaders
is below:
March 3-16 |
1. Changing Definitions & Roles of Museums and Libraries
Martín Gómez, City Librarian, Los Angeles Public Library
2. Shifts in Power & Authority
Cassie Chinn, Deputy Executive Director, Wing Luke Asian Museum
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March 17-30 |
3. Museums & Libraries as the “Third Place”
Susan Hildreth, City Librarian, Seattle Public Library
4. Technology & Policy Development
John Wilkin, Associate University Librarian for Library Information
Technology (LIT), University of Michigan, Executive Director of HathiTrust
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March 31-April 13 |
5. 21st Century Learning & Information Use
Tom Scheinfeldt, Managing Director for Center for History and New
Media at George Mason University, OMEKA Project Director
6. New Models & Structures for Collaboration
Mark Wright, Director of Partnerships, National Children's Museum
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April 14-27 |
7. Planning for a Sustainable Future
Emlyn Koster, President & CEO, Liberty Science Center
8. Metrics for Evaluating Service & Impact
John Fraser, Director, Institute for Learning Innovation-New York
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April 28-May 12 |
9. The 21st Century Museum & Library Workforce
Joanne Marshall, Alumni Distinguished Professor, School of Information
and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10. UpNext: Where Do We Go From Here?
Larry Johnson, CEO, The New Media Consortium
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May 19 |
Last official “Wiki Wednesday” IMLS will
post wiki final summary. |
If you have any questions or comments regarding the wiki or
the Discussion Guide, please feel free to contact Mamie
Bittner, mbittner@imls.gov or
Erica Pastore, epastore@imls.gov.
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