Re: Watson - IBM's "question-answering" machine (potential implications for libraries?)

Yes Joe you need to work some of this material into
the training for the librarian-replacements.  But you
wouldn't use up a whole Masters degree on it.

At my university they get some of this by immersion -
being confronted by the requirment to work with end-users
and know about the machinery of scholarship.

It is not only IT people learning about service provision 
and scholarship.  It is also teachers and journalists 
learning a bit about IT. They're already up to speed on 
much of the library culture, leaving out cataloguing.
The new people are IT replacements AND librarian-replacements.

regards

Mark

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries 
> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Joseph P. Montibello
> Sent: Monday, 21 February 2011 11:36 PM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Watson - IBM's "question-answering" 
> machine (potential implications for libraries?)
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> This sounds an awful lot like an MLS program (not a bad place 
> to start!).
> I'd add a course in an anthropological or sociological method 
> of studying
> human behavior and culture, with a project that requires some 
> real study of
> library users' behavior.
> 
> Have a good one,
> 
> Joe Montibello, MLIS
> Library Systems Manager
> Dartmouth College
> 603.646.9394
> joseph.montibello_at_dartmouth.edu
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Huppert [mailto:Mark.Huppert_at_ANU.EDU.AU] 
> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 7:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Watson - IBM's "question-answering" machine (potential
> implications for libraries?)
> 
> Thomas
> 
> >   Do you have anything specific in mind?
> 
> The reason why young people "know it all", as the cliche 
> goes, is that they
> lack awareness of the scope of the universe. It doesn't end 
> there of course
> - people don't know what they don't know throughout life and 
> grow humble as
> they keep re-discovering it.
> 
> Technical types working in info services need to become aware 
> of the world
> of knowledge creation and service provision.
> The world beyond the algorithm and LCD screen. These may help:
> 
> -A required course in the history of libraries/publishing.
>  You could remove the dreaded "L" word and extend it to cover 
>  'History of
> Information Services Organizations'
> 
> -A lab component where the students get some experience,  
> real or simulated,
> of serving end-users. I know - what  a concept!  You don't 
> get this in IT
> school, except in  the context of business analysis. This 
> would include
> some training in what we librarians quaintly call the  "reference
> interview".  That too could be re-labelled of  course for the 
> squeamish.
> 
> -A unit where students are required to think about the  
> categorization and
> management of knowledge - go through some  exercises and reading.
> Provenance, intellectual property,  privacy, stratifying a 
> subject area by
> the way the  knowledge is used - a proper philosopher - or 
> cataloguer -
> will come up with better topics.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Mark Huppert
> Library Systems and Web Coordinator
> Division of Information
> R.G. Menzies Building (#2)
> The Australian National University
> ACTON ACT 0200
> 
> T: +61 02 6125 2752
> F: +61 02 6125 4063
> W: http://anulib.anu.edu.au/about/
> 
> CRICOS Provider #00120C
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>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Next generation catalogs for libraries 
> > [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Thomas Krichel
> > Sent: Saturday, 19 February 2011 1:42 PM
> > To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> > Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Watson - IBM's "question-answering" 
> > machine (potential implications for libraries?)
> > 
> > 
> >   Mark Huppert writes
> > 
> > > The challenge is educate these new information services workers
> > > in a new way - bring something of librarianship to system 
> > > administrators and online education specialists.
> > 
> >   Do you have anything specific in mind?
> > 
> > 
> >   Cheers,
> > 
> >   Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
> >                                 http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1
> >                                                skype: thomaskrichel
> > 
>