CDL: Association/Organizational Virtual Communities of Practice?

From:  Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck_at_iastate.edu>


Subject: Association/Organizational Virtual Communities of Practice?


***APOLOGIES FOR RECEIPT OF DUPLICATE POSTINGS***

Colleagues/

As many may be aware, there are several changes being considered in 
the Public Library Association (PLA)  Bylaws.

A major proposed change is the creation of various Communities of 
Practice to replace PLA committees:

 > >Communities of Practice will replace many of the PLA Committees. 
Communities of Practice will be virtual groups that are interest-
 > >focused and member-driven. Members will have the power to create 
groups, as well as morph and/or disband them at their
 > >discretion. This will allow all 11,000+ members, many who are not 
able to travel to in-person committee meetings, to get involved
 > >with the organization and the public library issues they care 
about most. Communities of Practice, should the members choose, will
 > >still be able to meet in-person at ALA Annual Conference and 
Midwinter.

[ http://www.pla.org/ala/pla/bylawsannouncement.cfm ]

For a forthcoming presentation, I am greatly interest in learning of 
Any and All Past, Present and/Future Association/Organizational 
Virtual Communities of Practice, particularly those of the Online 
Social Networking Kind.

Note: At this time, I am only interested in *Virtual* >>Association / 
Organizational<< Communities of Practice.

I am also interested in Any and All relevant literature, Web sites, 
blogs, wikis, etc.

Please respond to this list and ** if at all possible, also submit as 
a comment on my _Friends_ blog posting***

Association/Organizational Virtual Communities of Practice?

[ 
http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/2008/02/associationorganizational-virtual.html 
]

I will post a summary to the e-List(s) of Any and All submissions to 
The Blog.

Thanks!

 >From a Snowing Central Iowa ...

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck_at_iastate.edu

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