Event Title
Informed Systems at Pacific University Libraries: Information Exchange for Knowledge Creation
Location
Biology Building, Room 101
Start Date
7-9-2017 6:00 PM
End Date
7-9-2017 7:00 PM
Description
University of the Pacific Libraries initiated a workplace systems design initiative in 2016. The participatory action research project engaged co-workers in data collection, analysis, interpretation, and reflection. Results furthered understanding about using information to learn in job-related information use stories. These insights guided co-design of systems for information exchange and conditions for workplace learning. Now, information centered, technology enabled, and human mediated communication systems and professional practices support co-worker engagement in re-invention of library facilities, services, and resources.
Local results are presented within the theoretical framework of Informed Systems, in development for over a decade by a distributed international research team who aim to foster information exchange for knowledge creation through working together in contemporary organizations. Concluding reflections explore value added synergies created through information-centered, action-oriented, technology-enabled, and learning-focused systems design, which builds organizational capacity as colleagues use information to learn in ever expanding professional contexts.
Informed Systems at Pacific University Libraries: Information Exchange for Knowledge Creation
Biology Building, Room 101
University of the Pacific Libraries initiated a workplace systems design initiative in 2016. The participatory action research project engaged co-workers in data collection, analysis, interpretation, and reflection. Results furthered understanding about using information to learn in job-related information use stories. These insights guided co-design of systems for information exchange and conditions for workplace learning. Now, information centered, technology enabled, and human mediated communication systems and professional practices support co-worker engagement in re-invention of library facilities, services, and resources.
Local results are presented within the theoretical framework of Informed Systems, in development for over a decade by a distributed international research team who aim to foster information exchange for knowledge creation through working together in contemporary organizations. Concluding reflections explore value added synergies created through information-centered, action-oriented, technology-enabled, and learning-focused systems design, which builds organizational capacity as colleagues use information to learn in ever expanding professional contexts.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Somerville serves as University Librarian for University of the Pacific Libraries in Sacramento, San Francisco, and Stockton. Her leadership approach combines participatory design and action research to create workplace learning systems and professional information practices. Information sharing and knowledge creation activities foster informed action and reflective evaluation exercised within co-designed communications systems for using information to learn. Guiding theory and best practices for Informed Systems leadership and collaborative evidence processes are presented in Informed Systems: Organizational Design for Learning in Action , published in 2015 by Chandos Press, a subsidiary of Elsevier. Dr. Somerville also serves as Adjunct Professor in the School of Information Systems, in the Science and Engineering Faculty, at Queensland University of Technology, in Brisbane, Australia.
Robin Imhof is Academic Support Librarian/Associate Professor for the University Libraries, Stockton campus. She has written many encyclopedia articles related to LGBT history as well as book reviews for Library Journal and Reference and User Services Quarterly . She holds a master’s degree in Comparative Literature from San Francisco State University and a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University. She is a subject specialist in the areas of English and French Literature, Gender Studies and Film Studies.