Information Access Seminar

The Friday afternoon Information Access Seminar explores topics relating to digital libraries, with special emphasis on access to networked resources, use of two or more resources in conjunction, combined use of two or more retrieval systems (e.g., use of pre- or post-processing to enhance the capabilities), and the redesign of library services.

The seminar is hosted by Clifford Lynch and Michael Buckland and can be taken for credit as Info 296A. Information Access.

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Previous Events

Why Library Catalog Design is Obsolete

Jan 20, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Library and bibliographical practices for discovery and access are based on now-obsolete assumptions that pre-date digital networks. So we need to go back to basics and build more useful designs based on contemporary assumptions.

Clifford Lynch

Stewardship V: Stewardship Transitions & Failures, Conclusions, and Future Directions; and Max Boisot’s Information Space and Economic Systems

Dec 2, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Stewardship IV: Stewardship Failures and Transitions

Nov 18, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Information, Documentation or....? Do Paradigms (or Labels) Matter?

Nov 4, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Experience with Open Source Linguistic Data and Tools for Analysis of Chinese Text

Oct 28, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Stewardship III: Legal and Policy Issues.

Oct 21, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Stewardship II. The Cultural Record and Its evolution in the digital age

Oct 7, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Digitizing Archives of Local TV Stations in East Germany Documenting the Transition of Political Systems after the Reunification

Sep 30, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

From Scholars' Notes to New Forms of Scholarly Communication

Sep 23, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Marcia J. Bates

The Nature of the Information Professions

Sep 16, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Stewardship I: Stewardship as a Discipline and a Research Area

Sep 9, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Stewardship as a topic of research, including its relationship to other areas and disciplines, including information security and preservation.

Factual Biography as Insfrastructure

Aug 26, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Biographies in machine-parsable structures can provide vital infrastructure for historians, biographers, and other researchers.

Melanie Feinberg

Making Use of Interpretive Flexibility in Metadata Implementation

May 13, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:10 pm

Public Health NGOs and Open Science Politics: Rhetorics of Openness, Health Field Contestations, and the Elusiveness of Health Equity

Apr 22, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Jeffrey MacKie-Mason

Wasn't Digitization Supposed to be Easy? And Good for Us?

Apr 15, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Jim Michalko

Library Collaboration — Does it have a future? What kind?

Apr 8, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Jim Michalko recently retired from his position as VP of research libraries at OCLC.

Software Preservation and Attacks on the Cultural Record

Apr 1, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

“Update on the Center for Technology, Society & Policy” and “News and Notes about Enterprise Search”

Mar 18, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

The Human Sciences in STEM Worlds

Mar 11, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

The Practice of Stewardship as a Scholarly Discipline

Mar 4, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

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