Focus of Presentation
Sheila Creth will provide the keynote address for the symposium. As the
creator of one of the earliest examples of an Information Commons on a
university campus, the focus of her presentation will be on the history
and development of the idea, which emerged in the early 1990s as an effort
to integrate emerging technologies into library information services. Sheila will define the key components of
an Information Commons, provide some examples of variation on the
Information Commons theme. She will conclude with remarks about the
challenges as Information Commons increasingly become catalysts for
organizational change.
Speaker Bio
Sheila D. Creth, as the principal consultant of
Progressive Solutions, has provided professional consultation and training
programs to organizations for over twenty-five years specializing in human
resources and organization development. She also brings considerable
practical experience to her consulting and training work having held
senior administrative positions in four universities (Iowa, Michigan,
Connecticut and Columbia). She has administered multi-million dollar
budgets and a staff of several hundred including union and civil service
staff and she has managed downsizing, reallocation and reorganization
along with significant changes within the organization most particularly
integrating information technology into jobs and services.
Her publications, consisting of books and articles, are extensive and
address issues of job training, staff recruitment and retention,
diversity, teamwork, strategic planning, organization change and
organization design, the integration of new technologies, and building
organizational partnerships. Sheila is a frequent keynote speaker at
national and international conferences, has conducted hundreds of
workshops for a variety of organizations, and has served on the boards of
national organizations. In summer 1999, Sheila received the prestigious
Library Information Technology Association/Gaylord national award for
innovation in the application of information technology.
Sheila received her Bachelor of Arts degree in cultural anthropology with
honors from Columbia University in New York City and a Masters of Arts in
Communication from the University of Connecticut.
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