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Conference Session 84
Brave New World: Teaching and Learning Special Collections Librarianship
Rare Books and Manuscripts
18 Agosto 2014 09:00 - 17:30 | Off-site
- Welcome
- Session 1:
- Introduction: Brave New World: Special Collections in Transition
- What should we teach? (Competencies and curricula)
- Core competencies for a variety of specialist practitioners
- Collection-oriented approach
- Institution-oriented approach
- The view from the library director’s office
- Panel Discussion: What is the ideal curriculum?
- Session 2: How do we teach? (Modes of delivery, purpose and intent, audience)
- Continuing education programs
- Certificate programs
- On-line and distance learning
- Degree programs
- Session 3: Using special collections to support education
- Case study: Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon
- Case study: Uppsala University
- Educating the general public: Exhibitions, “laboratories,” storytelling, social media
- Leveraging collections for promotion and marketing
- Panel discussion
- Session 4: Future trends in leadership and management
- New types of physical collections
- Open content and the democratization of information
- Sharing collections and metadata; uniting collections virtually
- Managing digitized collections; Physical and digital: a complementary relationship
- Selecting, acquiring, managing, and preserving born digital collections
- Session 5: Responses from the audience: Future trends and educational requirements
- Summation and insights
Location: Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon
The presentations are followed by a tour of the Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon
4 groups of 15 (2 in English; 2 in French)
Last update: 10 July 2014