Dean of Drexel Libraries, Danuta Nitecki shares an encore performance of a presentation made at the
IFLA [International Federation of Library Associations] Conference this
summer in Wroclaw Poland as part of its Library Theory and Research Open
Session. The presentation highlighted work these two administrators
together and independently undertook to understand
the challenges that research data pose for librarians and the
opportunities to assume leadership roles to help academic institutions
manage research data output.
“Changing Landscapes: New Roles for Academic Librarians” addresses three broad insights they
gained:
1. Research
data landscape poses new challenges
2. Libraries
respond in different ways
3. Librarians
help transform organizational structures and partnerships to strengthen research capacity.
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MEMES Learning, Literacy & Lulz Mariya (Masha) Zharova
Internet Memes. Why are they so effective, who makes them, and what can we do
with them? Mariya
Zharova is a Westphal undergraduate student in the graphic design
program who has considered these questions based on her involvement as a
content-creator and editor of “The Philosophers Meme,” an educational
“Weird Facebook” meme-page with
over 200,000 followers, and as a Learning Innovation Fellow at Drexel’s
ExCITe Center. Ms Zharova researches the meme subculture on Facebook,
which spans diverse topics and involves millions of participants. Her
focus is on the educational niche, where a rising
new generation of punk academics experiment with public education
through pop-cultural meme remix as part of a discourse with the broader
internet community. She has written articles analyzing memes, as well as
given workshops on meme-making. Ms Zharova will
share an introduction to this unique cultural phenomenon as well as
outline her longer meme-making workshop that is being considered for a
subsequent staff development event.
