Webcasts Home

Browse:

More Audio, Video Resources at the Library

LIS Education in North America

TITLE: Library and Information Science Education in North America: Bridging the Gulf Between Education and Practice

SPEAKER: R. David Lankes
EVENT DATE: 03/16/2004
RUNNING TIME: 117 minutes

DESCRIPTION:

R. David Lankes chairs a panel on the ongoing tension in the library and information science (LIS) field between the demands of preparing professionals and the forward-looking research mission of many of today's LIS programs.

Speaker Biography: David Lankes is executive director of the Information Institute of Syracuse (IIS) and an assistant professor at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies. He received his bachelor's degree in Multimedia Design, master's in Telecommunications and Ph.D. from Syracuse University. Lankes co-founded the award winning AskERIC project in 1992. Lankes is also one of the architects of GEM, a standards-based system for describing and finding educational materials on the Internet. He has authored, co-authored and edited eight books, and written numerous book chapters and journal articles on the Internet and digital reference. He was a visiting scholar to Harvard's Graduate School of Education and is currently a visiting fellow at the National Library of Canada. He has worked closely with the National Library of Education, Microsoft, the American Library Association, AT&T, OCLC, NEA, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and MCI WorldCom. He also serves on the boards of the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education, is the chair of the ERIC Executive Committee and is founding member and member of the executive committee of the National Education Network. He is also a member of the board for the Onondaga County Public Library.

Related Webcasts

SERIES: Luminary Lectures