{"id":62458,"date":"2011-10-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/forum-does-uri-need-a-library-nov-4\/"},"modified":"2011-10-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T00:00:00","slug":"forum-does-uri-need-a-library-nov-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/10\/forum-does-uri-need-a-library-nov-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Forum: Does äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Need a Library?, Nov. 4"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tAcademic Forum November 4, 2011<\/p>\n

When students are born and raised in the Information Age, do they really need help finding information? Does anyone need books anymore? Does the past matter? Exactly how are library services benefiting faculty and students, on campus and off? How could the library serve us better in the future?<\/p>\n


\n\tJoin a University conversation Friday, Nov. 4. That\u2019s when the Faculty Senate Library Committee is sponsoring an academic forum, 2020 Vision: The Future of äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ Library Services at 8:30 a.m. to noon, Atrium 1 and 2, Memorial Union. Faculty, staff, and students are invited to share their thoughts and ideas. A continental breakfast will be available at 8 a.m.<\/p>\n


\n\tJohn Palfrey, the Henry N. Ess Professor of Law and vice dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School, is the keynote speaker. His address at 8:30 a.m., Youth Media, and Libraries: Challenges for Tomorrow\u2019s Learning Community, will help get the conversation going.<\/p>\n


\n\t Palfrey co-authored Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives and Access Denied: The Practice and Politics of Internet Filtering. He is faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He serves as co-chair for strategy on the new Harvard Library Board.<\/p>\n


\n\tHere is the schedule for the morning sessions:<\/p>\n


\n\t9:30-10:20 a.m. Breakout sessions:<\/p>\n


\n1.\tJohnny Can\u2019t Research: Information Literacy In-Person and Online<\/p>\n


\n2.\tReading and Research in the Digital Age: Authenticity, Collections and the Future of the Book<\/p>\n


\n\t10:20-10:40 a.m. Break<\/p>\n


\n\t10:40-11:30 a.m. Breakout sessions<\/p>\n


\n3.\tWhere\u2019s My Journal? Subscriptions, Open Access and Digital Repositories<\/p>\n


\n4.\tCreating and Consuming Knowledge: Learning and Scholars\u2019 Commons<\/p>\n


\n\t11:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Group reports and closing discussion<\/p>\n


\n\tRSVP if possible to http:\/\/svy.mk\/urilib or Gale Eaton, geaton@mail.uri.edu, but if your schedule opens up at the last minute, please come anyhow. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Academic Forum November 4, 2011 When students are born and raised in the Information Age, do they really need help finding information? Does anyone need books anymore? Does the past matter? Exactly how are library services benefiting faculty and students, on campus and off? How could the library serve us better in the future? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}