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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

Friday, October 11, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

How the economics of trademarks contributed to the spread of modern notions of “information”.

Friday, October 18, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Deirdre K. Mulligan served in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy for the past 18 months as deputy U.S. chief technology officer for policy.

Friday, October 25, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

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

Friday, November 1, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Do economies of scale render cloud services inherently monopolistic? Nick Merrill’s new research suggests otherwise.

Friday, November 8, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Günter Waibel is associate vice provost & executive director of the California Digital Library.

Friday, November 15, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Cathy Marshall is an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. 

Friday, November 22, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Previous events

Friday, October 4, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

The recent discovery of hundreds of letters from our alumnus Robert Gitler ’31 sheds new light on his experiences in founding the Japan Library School in 1951.

Friday, September 27, 2024, 3:10 pm - 4:30 pm

In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 106th birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.

Friday, September 20, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Digital technologies have reshaped the movie industry. What are the implications for the industry’s future?

Friday, September 13, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Eric T. Meyer is dean of the UC Berkeley School of Information

Friday, September 6, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Michael Buckland extends last semester’s seminar with an complementary model of the contexts of items deemed to be relevant.

Friday, April 26, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

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

Friday, April 19, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Michael Buckland explores the genesis and spread of belief and misbelief.

Friday, April 12, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

The world has been on a decades-long series of experiments trying to build successful decentralized systems marked almost entirely by failure.

Friday, April 5, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Anushah Hossain considers what values and scripts were privileged in today’s core standards for multilingual digital communication — Unicode, OpenType, and more.

Friday, March 22, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

“Preserving Digital Images and Data” and “Rethinking Antitrust for the Cloud Era”

Friday, March 15, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Christine Borgman is a distinguished research professor in information studies at UCLA.

Friday, March 8, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Javier Cha is a medievalist, digital historian, and technologist and principal investigator of the Big Data Studies Lab.

Friday, March 1, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Rob Sanderson is senior director for digital cultural heritage at Yale University, where he works to harmonize and provide access to research quality data, in a human-oriented way.

Friday, February 23, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Coye Cheshire explores the trustworthiness of health information in online environments.

Friday, February 16, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Jevin West studies misinformation and how it spreads in science and society.

Friday, February 9, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

The Open Book Collective is a partnership of open access publishers, infrastructure providers, libraries, and other non-profit organizations.

Friday, February 2, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

The concept of relevance is central to information studies but has resisted clear analysis.

Friday, January 26, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Ron Day explores a new philosophy of information and documents based on Robert Pagès, Bernd Frohmann, and Suzanne Briet.

Friday, January 19, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Clifford Lynch summarizes recent report releases and other publications and conference reports.

Friday, December 1, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Clifford Lynch outlines emerging trends and issues in networked information and related technologies.