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Claire R. McInerney's Blog
Accreditation - The seal of professional approval
August 29th, 2011 / 2:56 am
Professional groups sometimes give a “seal of approval” to an academic program when it meets high standards established by the professional field. In Library and Information Science, the gold standard is being accredited by the American Library Association (ALA), an organization with 62,000 members that promotes libraries, intellectual freedom, and library education. Since
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Is a Conference the Same as a Convention?
August 29th, 2011 / 1:49 am
Is a conference the same as a convention? Not really. A convention has the connotation of a holiday where conventioneers party the night away and may attend a meeting or two and visit exhibition booths to see the latest products on display. For academics, though, going to a conference is an opportunity to share ideas, research results and new ways of thinking about a discipline
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Rutgers SC&I faculty member and students win top prize at the I-conference
February 6th, 2010 / 12:38 pm
Congratulations to Prof. Joe Sanchez and PhD students Jessica Lingel, Nathan Graham, and Aaron Trammel who won the best poster award at the i-Schools conference held this week in Champaign-Urbana. The poster "The Jersey Punk Basement Scene: Exploring the Information Underground" presented elements of the Social Informatics/Information Seeking research the team has in progress.
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Lost Knowledge - What happens when workers leave an organization?
January 31st, 2010 / 4:23 pm
Social Media and Sharing Knowledge
January 27th, 2010 / 8:48 am
Digital Library Futures Discussed at IFLA Meeting in Milan
August 29th, 2009 / 8:17 pm
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Knowledge Cafes
We all have within ourselves deep understandings about which we may not be fully aware. A Knowledge Cafe brings us to a place of understanding through interaction with others.

    

     At the recent meetings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) in Columbus, Ohio, the Knowledge Management SIG (Special Interest Group) made good use of the “Knowledge Café” in order to help make explicit what participants were thinking, what they know, and what knowledge they wanted to share with others. The idea of a Knowledge Café is to bring together small groups of people from different generations or different walks of life and to let everyone make statements related to a specific question or topic. These statements are then recorded by a scribe and the cumulated text is summarized, synthesized and used in a document, a work of art, a performance piece or a report.

     What’s the difference between a regular discussion group and a Knowledge Café? First of all, coffee/tea and pastries are served at the café, so a friendly atmosphere is established. A facilitator is appointed ahead of time to keep things moving. Everyone has a say, and everyone’s voice is documented through notes taken by a scribe. The notes do not “disappear” but are used in a critical way in order to inform or make a decision. Usually in a Knowledge Café each group records notes on a laptop, so that the electronic text can easily be combined in order to make a lasting document or used in an artifact like a play or other form or a website.

     At ASIST and its sister meeting the International Conference on Knowledge Management (also held in Ohio), the K-Cafés were used to decide the agenda for the next ICKM meeting in Hong Kong (November 2009), and one was used as an introduction to participants at the conference (ASIST).

     We’ll be having our own Knowledge Café at SCILS on

Thursday, November 6, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM in the SCILS Faculty Lounge, 4 Huntington St., Room #323.

All are welcome. The agenda will include a brief introduction to Knowledge Management so that participants can be better informed about recent developments in KM. If you’re curious about KM, are thinking of taking a KM course in the spring 2009 semester, or you just want to get a handle on a Knowledge Café, please join us.

Learn More -----For a slide show that explains the Knowledge Cafe concept, please click here: http://www.slideshare.net/dgurteen/introduction-to-the-knowledge-cafe

 

 

 

                                                                                       

 

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