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Location: InfoLit@LACUNY Discussion
Discussion: Reactions and Comments on Keynote
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 mr.librarian |
Reactions and Comments on Keynote
Mar 3 2008, 11:17 AM EST Please feel free to post comments to the wiki as a follow-up to the discussions at the conference. Do you find this valuable? |
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RE: Reactions and Comments on Keynote
Mar 21 2008, 9:18 PM EDT Hi Tom, I really liked your presentation, as well as the others. And as I was listenig I had some thoughts and a question, and maybe anyone who presented to add to this if they like. I've just started reading Susan Gibbon's book The Academic Library and the Net Gen Student: Making the Connections. Chapter one speaks to a lot of what everyone presented on, specifically the role the librarian plays between faculty and students. Gibbons focuses on bridging that divide on a discipline specific basis, but I like the fact that you took it a step further to stress that the divides have to be across the curriculum, something that faculty may have trouble doing, and may not care so much about, but it is essential for any student. Beyond this though, you spoke a lot about information and knowledge and often seemed to refer to them as one in the same, but then at other points you hinted that there was a slight distinction by the way you referred to knowledge. The other presenters did the same, and it made me think of a paragraph in Gibbon's first chapter (p. 9) where she speaks to the distiction Brown and Duguid make between information and knowledge in their book Social Life of Information. Unfortunately I cannot quote the entire paragraph, due to space constraints here, but do you see any distiction between information and knowledge? How do you define them? The way Brown and Duguid describe them could add something very interesting to this conversation, Gibbons quotes heavily from pages 120-121 of their book. Any thoughts? And thank you very much for your contributions to today's presentation. Do you find this valuable? |
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mr.librarian |
RE: Reactions and Comments on Keynote
Mar 27 2008, 5:16 PM EDT "Please feel free to post comments to the wiki as a follow-up to the discussions at the conference."I am glad you enjoyed the presentation, I enjoyed my time a CUNY. The words information and knowledge are often used interchangeably these days, but I do make a distinction, though I don't always follow it when I talk about information and knowledge. I consider information as something less reflected upon or developed. Knowledge is information that has been studied and reflected upon by a human being. The concept of knowledge is also linked to epistemology--one's way of knowing. One takes in information and reflects upon it and considers other information and knowledge that one has acquired. This leads to new insight and new knowledge. This is not the clearest definition, and it probably leaves out a lot, but it captures some of what I think about the differences between information and knowledge. Tom 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |