Adelphi University Libraries
Written by kherold on Mon, 02/01/2016 – 19:48
Marcia Bates says “at the heart of all [information professions] are the key services and functions, which may or may not be associated with specific information institutions, and which all manage a body of [] information, in physical or digital form, using numerous information technologies, in order to make that [] information available for humanity to use.” So let’s put the METRO beat into our institutional hearts and serve our human network its information flows. We all have hidden gems of people, places, things, and ways of thinking in the mandate to create with our expert knowledge. Adelphi University, Garden City, has a brand new combined administrative and academic space opening in the Fall of 2016, housing the College of Nursing and Public Health and the Center for Health Innovation, as well as a Welcoming Center, all right next to Swirbul Library. How do we integrate medical robotics with theater and dance? A digital wall with layers of business, economic, health, environmental data visualization with quantified selves, onlife communities, mobile stores, and augmented identities? What treasures do you have deep in the body of your institution for fellows to tell each other? We can shape and share a concrete plan for executing the digital in terms of user-driven design and operations with best practice scholarly communications, preservation, interoperability, and a perpetual playspace for data. In recipe form, distill a consortium of changemakers, add a dash of edX, mix it up with OER, throw in the tech showcase listing de jur with state of the art facilities, and bake it in the library. -revised version of Dr. Bates’s paper, uploaded on 10th October, 2015, retrieved 1st February, 2016. Marcia J. Bates. The information professions: knowledge, memory, heritage. Information Research 20(1), March 2015.