grace kempster director information services the british council knowledge sharing and communities...
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Grace KempsterDirector
Information Services
The British Council
Knowledge sharing and communities of interest…..Internet Librarians at the centre
“it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity”Charles Dickens
THE KEY QUESTIONTHE KEY QUESTION
A digital continuum
connected - but disparities of use
a revolution behind closed screens
a new literacy
illiterate - functional - advanced?
Mediacy - reading the texts, the images, the moving images and minds
Meshing the Morass
Negative motivations
Making the least of rather than making the most of
Exclusion by language
Melding books with technology driven by people
…where knowledge and learning connect because
people want it
a connected world
multilateralism
mutuality - futures together
economic realities
partnership imperatives
Dissolving the walls
The new public space (virtual and physical) through which the British Council interacts with its audience
Knowledge animateurs
understand the psychology of searching
see the person and their journeys in a lifetime
accelerate the impact
creatively connect
paint rich pictures, tell stories
Knowledge and Learning Services: ordering knowledge for the chaos of creativity
Combination of physical and virtual services
Appropriate use of IT
Valuing the individual
Room for social space
Building communities of interest
Access to multilateral discussion forums
Sharing and creating new knowledge
Making the most of our complex organisation
Partnership for content
Knowledge choreography
Understanding people
Just do it - launch and learn
Impact talk
Finessing people/power/politics
Faster, smarter, just more fun
Q IS the Internet Librarian at the centre?
A Only if we connect
“Even the most misfitting child
Who’s chanced upon the library’s world
Sits with the genius of the Earth
And turns the key to the whole world.”
Ted Hughes, Faber & Faber
Grace KempsterDirector
Information Services
The British Council www.britishcouncil.org