Upcoming Lecture of Possible Interest - March 21 & 22

The BC Research Libraries Group is proud to present its inaugural lecture

Learning Spaces for a New Generation of Learners

Joan Lippincott
Associate Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information

Please join us in a first of a series of lectures that will bring awareness to our respective communities on emerging issues in the information landscape.

We are honoured to welcome Joan Lippincott, Associate Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information. Her talk will focus on learning spaces, information/learning commons, multi-media studios and other informal learning environments. Learning principles and the needs of today's Net Gen students and faculty will provide a framework for the presentation. There are two venues for this event:

Dates
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 1:30 to 3:30 pm, McPherson Library, Room 210, University of Victoria

Thursday, March 22, 2007 3:30 to 5:30 pm, SFU Vancouver, Room 1600, Simon Fraser University Vancouver Campus


RSVP: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/booking/description.cfm?sessionid=3772

About Joan Lippincott

Joan K. Lippincott is the Associate Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), a joint project of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and EDUCAUSE. CNI, an institutional membership organization, advances the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. She has been with CNI since 1990.

At CNI, Joan has provided leadership for programs such as New Learning Communities, Assessment of the Networked Environment, Working Together, and collaborative facilities and learning spaces. She has written articles and made presentations on such topics as networked information, learning spaces, collaboration among professional groups, assessment, and teaching and learning in the networked environment. Her chapter on "Net Generation Students and Libraries" in an EDUCAUSE book on Educating the Net Gen www.educause.edu/educatingthenetgen/ has received wide distribution. She is chair of the editorial board of College & Research Libraries News and on the board of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).

Additional information is available at:
http://www.cni.org/staff/joan_index.html