[Web4lib] Re: Libraries and Open Everything or Free Culture

[H Frank Cervone]

Alnisa,

As the director of a library science program within a college of education,
I can say with some assurance that libraries are not just a subset of
education. While there are many areas of common concern between the
education and library communities (especially when addressing the issues of
academic and school libraries), a substantial portion of what libraries are
dealing with in relationship to open/free culture lie outside the domain of
education. It would probably be a disservice to both communities to not
consider them separately.

H. Frank Cervone, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director, Department of Library, Information, and
Media Studies
Chicago State University
College of Education
9501 S. King Dr, ED 200B
Chicago, IL 60628-1598
773.995.2503 (w) | 773.821.2203 (f)


-----Original Message-----
From: Alnisa Allgood [mailto:alnisa at nonprofit-tech.org] 
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 9:54 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] Re: Libraries and Open Everything or Free Culture

Hi-

I've have a very vague question. In Madison, WI we are just starting
to plan two (2) Open Everything events [ see:
http://www.openeverything.net/ or http://freeculture.org/ ]. I know
that there is a lot of activity in libraries around openness,
transparency, creative commons, and even open source software. I have
organizations like SPARC and PLoS on my list to contact, but haven't
decide if 'Libraries' should be treated as separately from the real of
'education'.

The gist, is that we are targeting people currently from 10 different
sectors=97some which overlap: software/technology (oss), education,
media/news, government, philanthropy, nonprofit sector, arts,
neighborhoods, workplaces, and society. The goal is to identify about
3 individuals per sector/interest to invite to participate in a
'conversation' a roundtable like event to talk about how 'open' can
and has effected their work arena, what things are being done, maybe
set some annual goals, etc.

In this regard, are the issues facing libraries different enough from
those facing the general realm of education, so that they should be a
separate target, or is inviting one library representative out of 3
seats for education, sufficient?

Any thoughts, ideas?

Alnisa