Resiliency Networks: emerging roles for librarians
| Date: | 10/20/2011 |
| Start Time: | 5:00 PM |
| End Time: | 6:30 PM |
| Location: | Rush Building, room 014 (basement) |
The Power of the 21st Century Librarian
Michael D. McDonald, Dr.P.H.
Thursday October 20th, 5-6:30pm
The iSchool at Drexel, Rush Building Room 014, Philadelphia PA
In the context of increasing real-time information abundance, librarians as a profession face new opportunities to contribute to a more resilient public health by applying long-held skills and values to social media content and intelligent social networks. Dr. Michael D. McDonald will engage in a discourse as to how the strategically oriented librarian can invest a new dimension of power and responsibility in their professional role by contributing to the management of this new information sharing environment in the prevention and management of large-scale social crises (e.g., disease outbreaks, terrorism, natural disasters, economic and social discontinuities) at the global, national, regional, and local levels.
Discussion Points:
The Role of Knowledge in the Third Industrial Revolution
Information Sharing Environments
Social Media and Governance
Web 2.0 Social Networks vs. Web 3.0 Intelligent Social Networks
Knowledge Management Systems
Knowledge Management in High Severity Crises
Knowledge as Power
Social Media, Riots, Civil Insurrections, Social Crises, and Revolutions
Smart Swarms and Fifth Generation Command and Control Systems
Environments in which to Test the Power of Library Science
Strategic Challenges
Points of Intervention
Engaging Data Stewards in Health Capacity Zones
You are invited to attend in person or by way of interactive simulcast as a panel comprised of Philadelphia Special Libraries Association professional and student chapter members engage Dr. McDonald on Thursday October 20th, 5-6:30pm at The iSchool at Drexel University, Rush Building Room 014, Philadelphia PA.
This event is free and open to the Drexel community.
Pizza & Refreshments will be served.
In person RSVP’s: www.ischool.drexel.edu/mcdonald
Simulcast webinar link: http://bit.ly/DUSLAtalk
In addition, you can join the discourse before, during, and after via the Knowledge Science Collaboratory within the U.S. Resilience System: http://us.resiliencesystem.org/power-21st-century-librarian
Bio Sketch:
Dr. Michael D. McDonald is director of the National Sustainable Security Infrastructure Initiative and the chief architect of the U.S. Resilience System. Dr. McDonald has led several large PanFlu exercises and provided testimony to the Congressional Budget Office on key weaknesses of current U.S. pandemic flu policy. He has been an early voice for global, real-time, transparent biosurveillance systems and building infrastructures supporting situational awareness and verifiable resilience at the household, neighborhood and community levels. Dr. McDonald chaired the Genomics and Bioinformatics working group and was co-founder of the Bioterrorism working group of IEEE. Dr. McDonald does research in memetics and biosecurity in association with several universities and government agencies and has been co-principal investigator with the Centers for Disease Control on the Psychosocial Dimensions of BioSecurity Initiative. He is Principal Investigator on the Global Resilience System testbed and is currently the President and CEO of Global Health Initiatives, Inc. He is deeply involved in the prevention and management of large-scale social crises, such as through his work in Haiti, Japan, Vietnam, and the United States.
Michael D. McDonald, Dr.P.H.
Thursday October 20th, 5-6:30pm
The iSchool at Drexel, Rush Building Room 014, Philadelphia PA
In the context of increasing real-time information abundance, librarians as a profession face new opportunities to contribute to a more resilient public health by applying long-held skills and values to social media content and intelligent social networks. Dr. Michael D. McDonald will engage in a discourse as to how the strategically oriented librarian can invest a new dimension of power and responsibility in their professional role by contributing to the management of this new information sharing environment in the prevention and management of large-scale social crises (e.g., disease outbreaks, terrorism, natural disasters, economic and social discontinuities) at the global, national, regional, and local levels.
Discussion Points:
The Role of Knowledge in the Third Industrial Revolution
Information Sharing Environments
Social Media and Governance
Web 2.0 Social Networks vs. Web 3.0 Intelligent Social Networks
Knowledge Management Systems
Knowledge Management in High Severity Crises
Knowledge as Power
Social Media, Riots, Civil Insurrections, Social Crises, and Revolutions
Smart Swarms and Fifth Generation Command and Control Systems
Environments in which to Test the Power of Library Science
Strategic Challenges
Points of Intervention
Engaging Data Stewards in Health Capacity Zones
You are invited to attend in person or by way of interactive simulcast as a panel comprised of Philadelphia Special Libraries Association professional and student chapter members engage Dr. McDonald on Thursday October 20th, 5-6:30pm at The iSchool at Drexel University, Rush Building Room 014, Philadelphia PA.
This event is free and open to the Drexel community.
Pizza & Refreshments will be served.
In person RSVP’s: www.ischool.drexel.edu/mcdonald
Simulcast webinar link: http://bit.ly/DUSLAtalk
In addition, you can join the discourse before, during, and after via the Knowledge Science Collaboratory within the U.S. Resilience System: http://us.resiliencesystem.org/power-21st-century-librarian
Bio Sketch:
Dr. Michael D. McDonald is director of the National Sustainable Security Infrastructure Initiative and the chief architect of the U.S. Resilience System. Dr. McDonald has led several large PanFlu exercises and provided testimony to the Congressional Budget Office on key weaknesses of current U.S. pandemic flu policy. He has been an early voice for global, real-time, transparent biosurveillance systems and building infrastructures supporting situational awareness and verifiable resilience at the household, neighborhood and community levels. Dr. McDonald chaired the Genomics and Bioinformatics working group and was co-founder of the Bioterrorism working group of IEEE. Dr. McDonald does research in memetics and biosecurity in association with several universities and government agencies and has been co-principal investigator with the Centers for Disease Control on the Psychosocial Dimensions of BioSecurity Initiative. He is Principal Investigator on the Global Resilience System testbed and is currently the President and CEO of Global Health Initiatives, Inc. He is deeply involved in the prevention and management of large-scale social crises, such as through his work in Haiti, Japan, Vietnam, and the United States.
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