Information Access Seminar

In DOCAM’s Footsteps

Friday, April 12, 2019
4:10 pm to 5:00 pm

North American premiere of In DOCAM’s Footsteps, a new documentary film by Sabine Roux on the origins of the Document Academy, featuring scenes shot in South Hall.

The Document Academy is an informal international collaboration that has enlivened information studies by exploring the physical, cognitive, and social aspects dimensions of objects perceived as signifying. It began in 2001 when Niels W. Lund, founding director of the program in documentation studies at the University of Tromso, Norway, came to this School as a visiting professor. With narratives by Niels W. Lund, Roswitha Skare, and Michael Buckland. 

This is the second half of the April 12 Friday afternoon Information Access Seminar. This presentation will be preceded by Augmented Reality and The Public.

Sabine Roux is a film-maker and high school librarian living near Toulouse, France.

Last updated:

March 27, 2019