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LINDA BERUBE
Biography:
Linda Berube is an
American-born and educated librarian and educator who came to the
UK in 1996 on a Fulbright Fellowship. Her experience in the
US ranged from administrative positions in academic engineering
and law libraries to information services management in public libraries.
In addition, she was a university lecturer in literature, rhetoric,
critical analysis.
Her experience
in the UK has been primarily with public library technology services
development, with the exception of a position with Amnesty International
as an Information Officer for the Americas. After the Fulbright
Fellowship, located at the Norfolk American Library and the English
and American Studies School at the University of East Anglia, she
was the Research and Development Co-ordinator at EARL: the
national public library networking consortium. She assumed
her current post at Co-East when EARL ceased operation in 2001.
Current areas of development and services include:
interoperability of LMS ("library catalogues as portals");
digital reference services (Co-East maintains the national service,
Ask A Librarian, and is managing and developing, for England's Museums,
Libraries, and Archives Council (MLA), 'the People's Network real-time
online enquiry service: Enquire; Co-East also developed and manages
a cross-library service, Ask Wales ); e-books and mobile technology;
joint e-procurement of electronic resources. She has published
articles and presented papers in the above areas
Title:
The Digital Divide - Who gets to participate
in the virtual community
Summary:
Linda will discuss the following
points in her session :-
1.
Overview of where the current 'divide' is
2. Free vs
Fee web
3. Public
Libraries role in access, extending access (examples, such as Enquire,
Essex e-books etc)
4. Public
Libraries role as mediator between rights of author/publisher and
rights of public: i.e. e-commons
5. Digital Divide and prison libraries (just an overview
of issues)
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