LIS students rock

Today was good. I gave a quickie guest lecture at my friend Laura Anderson’s Intro to Reference class at the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. I mentioned in the class that I felt like I was trapped in a weird personal time warp because the last time I was in a class at FIS I was thinking about a presentation I had to do at a job interview the following day at McMaster. The topic of the job talk? The future of academic reference. The topic of today’s talk? The future of reference. I got that job five years ago (yay) and today’s talk went pretty well too, I thought. My image-heavy, word-light slides are here (pdf, 3.6 mb). Thanks to Laura for having me, and to the students of 1310 for listening and asking really great questions!

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What an awesome power point! Thanks so much for sharing it with us. It really made me think about my own recent “attitude evolution” with regard to 2.0. Just two months ago, I was irritated at the idea of having yet one more (two, three, ? more) things to read…”just another way for people to talk about themselves…” I was thinking. Now, we’re using a private blog to communicate internally within our campus library, another private blog to communicate between our campus library and the main campus library, a public blog to deliver current & helpful information to our patrons, and I’ve even started developing a blog to frame an online library instruction game. Libraries (and librarians) certainly are changin’ with the times!