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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Upcoming Events

Early Thoughts on AI-based Systems and Stewardship of the Evolving Cultural Record

Apr 26, 2024, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Clifford Lynch explores the problems and questions generative AI poses for preserving the digital cultural record.

Previous Events

Basic Needs, Access, and Marketplace Structures

Apr 5, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

AI, Professionals, and Professional Work: The Practice of Law with Automated Decision Support Technologies

Mar 22, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

How technical systems employing algorithms are shaping and displacing human decision-making.

University of California - California Digital Library

Community-Owned Data Publishing: California Digital Library’s new partnership with Dryad

Mar 15, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Hany Farid

The Accuracy, Fairness, and Limits of Predicting Recidivism

Mar 8, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

When algorithms are used for predicting recidivism, do they make the criminal justice system more fair and accurate, or do they perpetuate racial bias?

Computational Bibliography and the Sociology of Data

Mar 1, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Rosalie Lack

UCLA Library’s International Partnerships and Projects

Feb 22, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

What’s New with the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine?

Feb 15, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Mark Graham is the director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive.

Michael Buckland

Information Flows and Cultural Disruption

Feb 8, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

A change to a society’s pattern of communication, coordination, trust, and coercion is culturally disruptive.

The Times They Are A-Changin’: The Influence of Scandal and Experience on Users’ Attitudes to Social Media Data Control

Feb 1, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Has widespread news of abuse made people more protective of their personal data?

Clifford Lynch

Climate Change and Some Possible Surprises

Jan 25, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Developments in 2018 and Prospects for 2019 and Facilitating Diverse Collection and Curation in Web Crawling and Indexing

Nov 30, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Cathryn Carson

Data in the Higher Education Curriculum

Nov 9, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Facilitating Diverse Collection and Curation in Web Crawling and Indexing and Blockchain: What's Not To Like?

Nov 2, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Florilegia: Organizing Scholarly Annotations in PDFs

Oct 26, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Howard Besser (photo by Dan Streible: http://flic.kr/p/7Wbqr8)

Digital Privacy for Librarians (and Others)

Oct 19, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

How librarians can support digital privacy practices in their communities.

“I don't want to be a publisher!” Regulating liability for the sticky parts: An exploration of CDA Section 230, sex work, and user content

Oct 12, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Threats to information sharing, users, and free speech

Zachary Bleemer

Analyzing Our Past

Oct 5, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Zachary Bleemer is director of the University of California ClioMetric History Project.

Marcia J. Bates

Designing Search Interfaces for our Inner Hunter-Gatherer: Getting Serious about Browsing

Sep 28, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Marcia J. Bates is professor emerita in the UCLA Department of Information Studies.

Michael Buckland

Information Access: Its Scope and its Limitations

Sep 21, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

The University of California campus viewed from the southwest with a one horse carriage or buggy in the foreground.

The School’s First 50 Years: 1918–1968

Sep 14, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

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