Date: May 1st 2007

OCLC Guest Presentation

Participatory Digital Libraries -- Past and Futures: the ibiblio trends

Paul Jones
Director of ibiblio.org
Clinical Associate Professor
School of Information and Library Science and
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Monday, May 14, 2007
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Presentation and Q&A

OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Kilgour Auditorium
6565 Kilgour Place (formerly Frantz Road)
Dublin, OH 43017-3395

This presentation is free and open to the public

Paul Jones, founder of sunsite.unc.edu and director of ibiblio.org, will present "Participatory Digital Libraries - Past and Futures; the ibiblio trends." Paul will discuss experiences and futures of contributor-run digital libraries and digital repositories with particular focus on the ibiblio trends.

The presentation will be an update to his paper "Open(source)ing the Doors for Contributor-run Digital Libraries." Communications of the ACM, Volume 44 , issue 5 (May 2001). (E-print links appear in the "Background reading" section below.)

Paul will take an innovative approach to developing his talk by using his wiki [http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/wiki/index.php/OCLC_talk_for_May_2007]. The wiki is open to the public and anyone may add things to it. Alternatively, or in addition, interested readers are encouraged to leave comments to the post on his blog [http://ibiblio.org/pjones/wordpress/?p=2057] regarding what he might say during his talk in Dublin.

About the Speaker:

Paul Jones is the Director of ibiblio.org, "The Public's Library ," a large contributor-run digital library (ibiblio.org also includes the Site Formerly Known as MetaLab and SunSITE). Besides speaking at conferences world-wide, Paul teaches on the faculties of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the School of Information and Library Science at UNC Chapel Hill.

Paul was the original manager of SunSITE.unc.edu, one of the first WWW sites in North America, and he is co-author of The Web Server Book (Ventana, 1995) [http://worldcat.org/oclc/32313930] (rereleased as The Unix Web Server Book, Second Edition Ventana, 1997) [http://worldcat.org/oclc/35243488] and numerous articles on digital libraries. He has an additional, on-going research interest in Open Source, Sharing Communities and Information policy issues. An actively publishing poet, Paul is the editor of the Internet Poetry Archives [http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/] sponsored by the University of North Carolina Press and the North Carolina Arts Council.

Paul Jones is a member of the Board of Trustees of Chapel Hill Public Library [http://www.chapelhillpubliclibrary.org/] and a board member of the Linux Documentation Project [http://www.tldp.org/]. The recipient of the 2006 Wilson Knowledge Trust Innovation Award [http://www.theknowledgetrust.org/wordpress/?page_id=14], Paul is also very pleased to have been admitted into the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists [http://www.improbable.com/projects/hair/hair-club-top.html] and to have been selected in April 2003 as Best Geek in the Research Triangle by the Independent Weekly.

Background reading:

Jones, Paul. 2001. “Open(source)ing the Doors for Contributor-run Digital Libraries." Communications of the ACM, Volume 44, issue 5 (May). Available online at http://ibiblio.org/pjones/presskit/ACM-p45-jones.pdf (English) and http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/presskit/p45-jones.jp.pdf (Japanese).

Links:

Paul Jones

http://ibiblio.org/pjones/

http://sils.unc.edu/people/faculty.html#jones

http://www.jomc.unc.edu/faculty/paul_jones.html

Paul’s blog

http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/wordpress/

ibiblio

http://ibiblio.org/

UNC School of Information and Library Science

http://sils.unc.edu/

UNC-Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication

http://www.jomc.unc.edu/

We invite you to attend this presentation.

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