Activities
Forum for Information Professionals
February 5, 2010
The Forum for Information Professionals (formerly Professional Development Day) is an annual one-day event of presentations and discussions on current topics facing librarianship. The event is hosted by the students of the School and organized by the Forum for Information Professionals committee. FIP is an opportunity for librarians and information professionals from all parts of Alberta to exchange ideas with library students and academics. Classes are canceled during the event to allow SLIS students and faculty to attend. Speakers will include professional librarians, current and past students.
This year's keynote speaker is Rory Litwin - reference librarian, author of the Library Juice blog and editor and founder of Library Juice Press. Mr. Litwin's topic will be Disintermediation 2.0: Librarians and Systemsi. It's going to be about the person-to-person service role of information professionals versus our role within computer-mediated information systems, with attention to what happens when we use computers to do intellectual work.
For more information about Forum for Information Professionals, please contact Rodney Al [rmal@ualberta.ca] or Hanne Nowak [hanne.nowak@ualberta.ca], or visit the website.