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Why Library Catalog Design is Obsolete

Friday, January 20, 2017, 3:10 pm - 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

Friday, December 2, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Stewardship IV: Stewardship Failures and Transitions

Friday, November 18, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

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

Friday, November 4, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

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

Friday, October 28, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Stewardship III: Legal and Policy Issues.

Friday, October 21, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

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

Friday, October 7, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

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

Friday, September 30, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

From Scholars' Notes to New Forms of Scholarly Communication

Friday, September 23, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Marcia J. Bates

The Nature of the Information Professions

Friday, September 16, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Stewardship I: Stewardship as a Discipline and a Research Area

Friday, September 9, 2016, 3:10 pm - 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

Friday, August 26, 2016, 3:10 pm - 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

Friday, May 13, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:10 pm

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

Friday, April 22, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Jeffrey MacKie-Mason

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

Friday, April 15, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Jim Michalko

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

Friday, April 8, 2016, 3:10 pm - 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

Friday, April 1, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

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

Friday, March 18, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

The Human Sciences in STEM Worlds

Friday, March 11, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

The Practice of Stewardship as a Scholarly Discipline

Friday, March 4, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm