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News Release2002-15 Visiting Fellow at the National Library of CanadaOttawa, July 19, 2002 - Dr. Roch Carrier, National Librarian, is pleased to announce that Dr. R. David Lankes, assistant professor and director of the Information Institute of Syracuse at Syracuse University, is a visiting fellow at the National Library of Canada for a period of six months beginning July 2, 2002. Dr. Lankes will use the fellowship to continue his research in the area of digital reference networks. Dr. Lankes’s research will involve observing and analyzing reference networking in Canada, including Virtual Reference Canada (a collaborative reference network of Canadian libraries being developed by the National Library), as well as several regional and provincial cooperative reference services. "I am very excited and honoured to be working with the National Library of Canada and the Virtual Reference Canada team," said Dr. Lankes. "It is clear that the National Library and much of the Canadian library community is at the forefront of digital reference service, and I look forward to learning and sharing together." A graduate of Syracuse University, in 1992 Lankes co-founded the AskERIC project, an Internet service for educators that offers resources and personal assistance to thousands of teachers each week. He also founded the Virtual Reference Desk project, which is building a national network of expertise in education; and he is one of the architects of GEM, a standards-based system for describing and finding educational materials on the Internet. The National Library of Canada is a federal cultural institution whose main role is to acquire, protect and promote Canada’s published heritage. As well as being a leader in innovation in the application of digital technologies to library services, the National Library is the richest resource of Canadian information published in electronic format. The National Library of Canada actively participates at the international level in advancing the use of digital technologies in libraries in order to serve Canadians better in an information society. - 30 - Information: Pauline M. Portelance |