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| Building Academic Library 2.0 |
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Academic Library 2.0 Keynote Speaker:
Meredith Farkas, Distance Learning Librarian
Norwich University, Northfield
A Conference sponsored by the Librarians
Association of the University of California,
Berkeley Division
Once a symbolic bastion of traditional
accumulations of specialized knowledge,
today's academic library operates in an
information landscape grown increasingly
variegated and difficult to traverse.
Paradoxically, at the same time, data,
information, knowledge, cultural production,
and scholarship are far more accessible,
appropriable, and manipulable than ever
before. New media attract widespread
attention, more pliable technologies emerge
with increasing frequency, and--most
importantly--young generations of students
and faculty with aptitudes, skills, and
expectations borne of a world massively
defined by the Internet and its progeny are
populating the halls of academe.
The convergence of the once distinct
technological and social meanings of the term
"network" is evident in the rise of
communities of remote collaborations among
friends, acquaintances, students, and
researchers. These developments compel
academic libraries to consider how best to
apply new technologies to suit users' demands
and to satisfy their institutional and
educational missions.
The Academic Library 2.0 conference will
address the phenomenon of academic libraries
taking affirmative steps to deploy
technologies and services that facilitate
users' virtually instant connection to
diverse sources of knowledge and information,
as well as to help users directly contribute
form and substance to those sources.
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Durée : 4237 s |
| "Connected" Part 2: Academic Uses |
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What might a university look like with a
fully deployed program of converged devices
like the iPhone? Connected is one possible
vision. This fictional day-in-the-life
account highlights some of the potential
benefits in a higher education setting when
every student, faculty, and staff member is
"connected." Though the applications and
functions portrayed in the film are purely
speculative, they're based on needs and ideas
uncovered by our research - and we've already
been making strides to transform this vision
of mobile learning (mLearning) into reality.
http://www.acu.edu/mobilelearning
http://www.acu.edu/connected
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Durée : 553 s |
| The Academic Working Poor |
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Working in an airport gift shop, standing in
line for free cheese, sharing a bowl of soup
for dinner... these are the all-too-typical
coping strategies adopted by the working poor
among the contingent faculty who are now the
overwhelming majority of the professoriate.
In part 2 of our interview, Cary Nelson
discusses the abjection of the professoriate
and the role of the AAUP in pushing back
against the callous, systematic exploitation
of students and faculty by university
management.
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Durée : 400 s |
| Challenges and Opportunities in Academic Research Networking |
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Google Tech Talks
January, 28 2008
ABSTRACT
Topics include:
* New applications and apps
usage/deployment and the challenges they pose
for networks
* Network trends in the R&E community.
o towards network virtualisation
(circuits as a service/light paths
provisioned by users or applications on
demand) - "Articulated Private Networks"
o inter-network control, managing
QoS / lightpaths and other performance
attributes across network domains
o sustainability issues - reducing
the Carbon footprint of the network itself
and our users
Speaker: Donald Clark, Chief Executive,
REANNZ (Research & Education Advanced Network
NZ Ltd)
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Durée : 3598 s |
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