[特邀演講1]講者介紹：Prof. Kevin Crowston
Biography
Prof. Kevin Crowston is a Distinguished Professor of Information Science at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies (aka the iSchool). He received his A.B. (1984) in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) from Harvard University and a Ph.D. (1991) in Information Technologies from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.He is most recently a PI on an NSF HCC project: "Intelligent support for non-experts to navigate large information spaces" (21-06865) and PI on an NSF FW-HTF grant, "The Future of News Work: Human-Technology Collaboration of Journalistic Research and Narrative Discovery" (21-29047). With colleagues, he heads a "Research Coordination Network" to develop a socio-technical perspective on work in the age of intelligent machines. He is co-editor-in-chief of the journal "Information, Technology and People" and editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Social Computing. Kevin Crowston was a founding member of the MIT Center for Coordination Science and the University of Michigan Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work. Prior to moving to Syracuse, he taught for five years at the University of Michigan Business School. He has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Zürich, Institute for Informatics, the University of Auckland, Department of Management Science and Information Systems, a researcher at the Centre for Technology and Innovation Management at the Universität der Bundeswehr München, a Shidler Visiting Fellow at the University of Hawai'i Shidler College of Business and a visiting scholar at the Centre for Work, Technology and Organizations, Stanford University. Professor Crowston is a former Chair for IFIP Working Group 8.2 (Information Systems and Organizations) and the Academy of Management Organizational Communications and Information Systems Division. He was a member of the socio-cultural working group for the DataONE project.
Research areas
- Design and empirical evaluation of new kinds of computer systems
- Free/libre open source software development projects
- Citizen science projects
- Research data management
Topic
Challenges and opportunities for open collaboration
Abstract
The most generally impactful development in computing in the last decade has been social computing, that is, systems in which users interact, directly or indirectly, with what they believe to be other users or other users’ contributions. Of particular note is the growth of user-generated content systems such as Wikipedia or YouTube, crowdsourcing, such as Free/Libre Open Source Software development and citizen science systems such as the Zooniverse. However, the growth of these systems has revealed problems in how people can work together. In this talk, I will discuss two challenges to open working that we have encountered in our research--development of shared language and ability of contributors to assess the usefulness of their contributions--and discuss how future research might address these problems.
[特邀演講2]講者介紹：Dr. Carrie Forbes
Biography
Dr. Carrie Forbes is the University Librarian at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon, USA. Previously, she worked at the University of Denver Libraries, in Denver, Colorado, where she was the Associate Dean for Student and Scholar Services and a Professor of Library Sciences. She has a Master of Library Science, a Master of Arts in Higher Education, and a Ph.D. in Education (Curriculum and Instruction). She has worked as an academic librarian for 20 years and has published several articles and edited volumes on the changing nature of public services in libraries. She coedited Rethinking Reference for Academic Libraries: Innovative Developments and Future Trends, published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2014, Successful Campus Outreach for Academic Libraries: Building Community Through Collaboration also published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2018, and Academic Library Services for Graduate Students: Supporting Future Academics and Professionals, published by Libraries Unlimited in 2020. Her most recent edited monograph, Academic Libraries and Collaborative Research Services, focuses on changing academic library roles, and how the nature of collaborative work in libraries is helping to reshape institutional research practices.
Research areas
- Public services in libraries
- Co-teaching relationships between academic librarians and faculty
- Assessment of library services
- Critical information literacy
Topic
The Association of College and Research Libraries’ Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education: Lessons for Library Services
Abstract
After several years of development, the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education was officially adopted in January 2016 by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Librarian Association dedicated to professional development and services for academic and research librarians in the United States. The Framework represents a radical departure from the skills-based approach of the previous Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. The Framework is organized into six frames, each consisting of a concept central to information literacy, a set of knowledge practices, and a set of dispositions. The Framework also draws significantly upon the concept of metaliteracy, which offers a renewed vision of information literacy as an overarching set of abilities in which students are not only consumers, but also creators of information.
Although the Framework has been widely adopted for use in teaching in academic libraries, librarians are still grappling with how best to use the Framework to design effective research and academic support services for students and other library users. Reference services are at a cross-roads. While many academic libraries continue to offer reference services from behind a desk, others have moved to only offering virtual or embedded reference models. Libraries are also engaged in the development of collaborative learning spaces—often rich with technology, such as makerspaces and learning labs—but these spaces are often disconnected from other library services. This keynote presentation will provide an overview of the ACRL Framework and provide tips for reconceptualizing library services so that all library resources and services support the transformative vision of information literacy presented in the Framework.