eChicago at Dominican University Sept 8-9, 2011
The 5th Dominican University eChicago Annual Community Informatics symposium
³Information, Innovation & Inclusion: Building Community Cohesion² is a
practice/policy/research symposium organized and sponsored by the Graduate
School of Library & Information Science, Dominican University.
As most organizations are feeling the economic pinch and are looking for
ways to streamline budgets, this year at eChicago@Dominican, we focus on how
practitioners, policymakers and researchers in a variety of communities e.g.
academic, corporate and non-profit can share resources, exchange ideas and
find new ways to work together.
Thursday September 8 : 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Friday September 9 : 8.30 a.m.- 5 p.m.
Register Today: dom.edu/echicago
Registration $30
Free for Dominican University students, faculty, and speakers
Registration includes evening buffet on Thursday and refreshments on Friday.
(For participants paying the $30 registration fee, this also includes lunch
on Friday.)
Dominican University
7900 West Division Street
River Forest, Illinois 60305
dom.edu/echicago
Key Speakers
Licia Knight serves as the Midwest Community Impact Officer for the One
Economy Corporation, a global non-profit organization that leverages the
power of technology and connects underserved communities around the world to
vital information that will improve their lives. This includes community
outreach and development activities such as broadband access, multimedia
properties, and youth services. She has 10 years of experience working with
marginalized communities and non-profit organizations in the areas of
strategic planning, community development, and information technology.
Pat Lawton is Digital Projects Librarian for the Catholic Research Resources
Alliance (CRRA) and is involved with all aspects of implementing the
Catholic portal, a collaborative digital library of rare and unique Catholic
scholarly materials. Prior to joining the CRRA, she was a faculty member of
the School of Information Studies at the University of Pittsburgh where she
taught courses in the organization of information and cataloging and
classification. In addition to metadata and digitization, Patıs interests
include online pedagogy; having taught online courses in cataloging and
classification beginning in 1997. She has an MLS from Indiana University and
a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Joel Mambretti is Director of the International Center for Advanced Internet
Research (www.icair.org) at Northwestern University which focuses on
developing digital communications for the 21st Century. The Center was
created in partnership with a number of major high tech corporations: it
designs and implements large scale infrastructure and applications (metro,
regional, national, and global). He is also Director of the Metropolitan
Research and Education Network, an advanced high-performance network
interlinking organization providing services in seven upper-Midwest states.
Panels Include
Community Technology Associates, One Economy Corporation
For Paying Customers Only? Community Access at Urban Academic Libraries
Visual Literacy and Data Representation
Archives and Community Building 1 & 2
Voices from the Field: Doctoral Student Perspectives on Information,
Communication, and Technology
Further information contact
Dr Chris Hagar,
Graduate School of Library & Information Science,
Dominican University, River Forest, IL
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