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Spring 2008 Lecture Opportunities

Committed to “Educating Library Leaders,” Dominican GSLIS hosts engaging programs and lectures year-round for students and professionals. Call (708) 524-6845 or gslis@dom.edu your RSVP for these free programs, today.

• Emerging Library Leaders for the 21st Century Seminar Series
  March 17, 2008, 4-6 pm
  “Get a Voice: Why Writing, Blogging and Speaking Out are Crucial to Advancing Your LIS Career” presented by John Berry, III, Editor-at-Large, Library Journal.

• Emerging Library Leaders for the 21st Century Seminar Series
  March 31, 2008, 4-6 pm
  “Libraries: What It Takes to Lead--An Interactive Workshop for Managers and Aspiring Managers” presented by Kathryn J. Deiss, Content Strategist, Association of College and Research Libraries.

• Emerging Library Leaders for the 21st Century Seminar Series
  April 14, 2008, 4-6 pm
  “Libraries, Advocacy, and the Power of Personal Connection” presented by Emily Sheketoff, Associate Executive Director of the American Library Association (ALA), and Manager of the Washington Office.

• 2008 LAZEROW LECTURE: "From Tin Man to Cyborg: Technology and Emotional Intelligence" Rosalind W. Picard
  Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 6 pm (a reception will follow the lecture)
  Eloise Martin Recital Hall, Fine Arts Build
  Why make technology "with a heart"--the ability to look or act like it cares or feels? Why use it to augment human emotional intelligence, when everyone knows computers do not have emotion or the capacity to feel like we do?  In this talk Rosalind Picard founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory and co-director of the Things That Think Consortium reflects on her experimentation with instilling 'emotional intelligence'--the ability to recognize and respond appropriately to another person's emotion and the ability to know when (and when not) to display emotion--into technology, including robots, wearable and traditional computers and mobile devices.  Picard will demonstrate a new system equipped with the ability to recognize complex cognitive states in real time based on a person's head and facial movements. The system can discern when a person looks like he or she is concentrating, interested, agreeing, disagreeing, confused or thinking. A wearable version of this system is under development for helping people with autism that have trouble reading social-emotional cues. In addition to her discussion of emotionally intelligent technology, Picard whose work has been featured in the New York Times, Time Magazine, Vogue, Wired, and the BBC, will reflect on the important social and ethical questions they raise.

• 2008 FOLLETT LECTURE: "Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Importance of Libraries in the Lives of Young Children" Steven Herb, Follett Chair
  Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 6 pm (a reception will follow the lecture)
  Eloise Martin Recital Hall, Fine Arts Building
  In this compelling address Steven Herb, past president of the Association for Library Service to Children and a three-term chair of the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee, presents a snap shot of our nation's less-than-stellar support of literacy in the lives of young children and the important role that public libraries can play to develop a fully literate generation.  After nourishment and shelter there are no more basic needs for our children than language and literacy development.  According to Herb, our educational preoccupation with testing in public schools would become a historical artifact if only our national obsession focused on children entering school already reading and writing.  Currently head of the education and behavioral sciences library at Pennsylvania State University and director of the Pennsylvania Center for the Book, Dr. Herb was appointed to the Follett Chair in Library Science at Dominican University in August, 2007.

All ELL-21 Lectures will take place in the Springer Suites, located on the lower level of the Rebecca Crown Library, 7900 West Division Street, River Forest, Illinois, 60305.  Call (708) 524-6845 or gslis@dom.edu to RSVP your attendance.