VALA2016 Plenary 2 Rainie

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Lee Rainie
Lee Rainie

The Puzzles Librarians Need to Solve

VALA2016 PLENARY SESSION 2
Tuesday 9 February 2016, 16:20 – 17:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2016-proceedings/vala2016-plenary-2-rainie

Lee Rainie

Pew Research Centre

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Abstract

In order to thrive in the future, librarians will need to be great forecasters and innovators. There are key puzzles they need to figure out. Among them: What’s the future of personal enrichment and entertainment? What’s the future of people’s pathways to knowledge and reference expertise? What’s the future of public technology and community anchor institutions? What’s the future of learning “spaces”? What’s the future of attention and its structural holes? Lee Rainie of the Pew Research Center will describe how his organization’s research provides guideposts for librarians along three dimensions of library activity: the people, the place, and the platform.

 

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Lee Rainie VALA2010 Announcement

 

Lee RainieDue to severe blizzards in the Washington DC area Lee Rainie (Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project) is unable to come to Melbourne to give his VALA2010 keynote address. The VALA2010 Committee would like to express its concerns for Lee and his family. Due to electrical outages Lee was also unable to be broadcast into the VALA2010 conference.

Washington Blizzard 2010While the VALA Committee are disappointed Lee can’t be in Melbourne this summer, we would like to inform delegates that an alternative Keynote event has being organised with the co-operation of other Keynotes and speakers.

Details on this alternate event will be announced during the conference, and made available on the VALA web site.

VALA2010 Plenary 5 Rainie

VALA20120Networked creators: how users of social media have changed the ecology of information and created new roles for librarians to play in people’s lives

VALA 2010 PLENARY 5: Lee Rainie
Thursday 11 February 2010 08:45 – 09:55
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-plenary-5-rainie

VALA2010 Keynote SpeakerLee Rainie

Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, USA
http://www.pewinternet.org

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Abstract

The rise of bloggers, social networkers, Twitterers, and other social media participants has created an explosion of information and new forms of cultural contributions. As assessors and curators of media – old and new – librarians are especially confronted by the new challenges these changes march through their communities. This paper will document the changes, discuss the new kinds of communities that social media users create, and point out several fresh roles that librarians can play in serving people in the new information ecology.