'Thoughts on the Beyond' Public Lecture Series

'Thoughts on the Beyond' is a public lecture series celebrating '50 years and Beyond' for Library and Information Studies (LIS) and Communication education and research at Charles Sturt University.

The speakers in the series include four distinguished researchers in information studies, school libraries, communication studies, and archives. Presentations will:

  • examine the importance of Communication and LIS education and research to communities
  • discuss insights and contributions added to society by the field
  • link the last 50 years to how we will progress into the next 50 years and beyond.

Details on further lectures from Communication and Archives scholars in August and November to be announced soon.

Lectures will be recorded onto the SICS YouTube Channel.

Information and Library Science at the First Quarter of the 21st Century

Distinguished Professor Gary Marchionini

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Information and Library
Science, USA

Event details

26 February 2025, 9am AEDT (check your local time)

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Summary

Library and Information Science is a dynamic field that continues to evolve as information continues to grow in importance and abundance to individuals and society. This talk will examine some of the trends in LIS over the past century and focus on the opportunities and challenges the field faces today and in the near future.

  • Recognition of the many contributions of librarians and information scientists to humanity’s progress and trend trends such as the broadening of our field in both theory and practice
  • attention to the human-information technology triad
  • new conceptions of information and information interaction, globalisation and the field’s identity
  • changes in educational practice will be considered.

Synergy Across the Pacific

Professor Emerita Dianne Oberg

University of Alberta, Library and
Information Science, Canada

Event details

21 May 2025, 9am AEST (check your local time)

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Summary

The 2024 IFLA Information Futures Summit focused on the theme of partnerships:

  • partnering with each other
  • partnering with communities
  • partnering with external stakeholders.

Faculty members in teacher librarianship at the Charles Sturt School of Information and Communication Studies (Australia) and faculty members at the University of Alberta (Canada) have been collaborating with each other, as partners and friends, for over thirty years.

The resulting information transfer and transformation has enriched and enhanced teacher librarianship in both countries in:

  • the theory and practice of teacher librarianship
  • the delivery of school library education
  • research into the role of principal in information literate school communities.

This talk describes the synergistic nature of that relationship and explores what it takes to build and maintain such a relationship.