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Hi:

My name is Carmen Kazakoff-Lane. I am a Distance Education and Inter-Library Loans Librarian at Brandon University (Canada).

I am long time advocate of increased inter-institutional collaboration/cooperation among libraries and have been involved in library consortia activities in western Canada for ten years now (most recently as one of the Chairs of the COPPUL DE Working Group - and as a member of the ANimated Tutorial Sharing Project’s Development and Working Group). I also believe that collaboration is more important than ever as changes in technology, higher education, student demographics, information, and society means that libraries – struggling with limited resources - need to work together if we are to offer our users the types of 24/7, Point of Need, Library 2.0 services that will position us as leaders in the Age of Information.

I found that my interests in collaboration, technology, multimedia, information litercy, distributed learning, open access and open source all have converged in my work with ANTS. It is a fascinating project that has benefited from Open Source, Social Software, and Creative Commons Licensing so that librarians – across institutions – can come together, share their work, and easily learn what work is taking place across institutions. Consequently, these advances in Collaborative Information Technologies mean that ANTS facilitates inter-institutional collaboration in a way that would have been inconceivable only five years ago.

For anyone curious to learn more about how ANTS facilitates sharing and why it is important to libraries, see:

Kazakoff-Lane, Carmen. (June 2006) ANTS: ANimated Tutorial Sharing Project. Feliciter. Vol. 52, No. 3. p. 109-110

Kazakoff-Lane, Carmen. (2007). Providing Innovative Services to "Our Users" in the World of Web 2.0: The ANTS Initiative. Proceedings of the 13th National ACRL Conference. Baltimore, MD. 70-78

Cheers,

Carmen Kazakoff-Lane
Kazakoff@brandonu.ca


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