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.

Upcoming events

New Directions in Tech Governance

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.

Stewardship and Developments in AI

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.

Competition “Inside” the Cloud?

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.

AI and Open Access

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

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

Information Access Seminar: Catherine Marshall

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.

Information Access Seminar: Suzanne Wones, University Librarian

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

Previous events

New Infrastructure and Instruments for the Human Sciences, and Implications for the Locus of Research and the Evolution of Disciplines in the Academy

Friday, August 27, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Carrots, Sticks, and Web Publishing of Scientific Data: Open Context in Context

Friday, April 30, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Citizen Science and Citizen Humanities in the Age of Cyberinfrastructure

Friday, April 23, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Knowledge management in the times of the IT revolution

Friday, April 16, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Information Policy and Politics in the Obama Administration

Friday, April 9, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Search Tools Consulting: The Average Lifespan of a Web Page

Friday, April 2, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Stepping Twice Into the Same River: Digital Preservation

Friday, March 19, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Information, Knowledge, and I-Studies

Friday, March 12, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Bringing Lives to Light: The Biography Project

Friday, February 26, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

E-Ris (E-Resources for Industry Studies)

Friday, February 12, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Very Large Scale Preservation; Free Speech and Access to Knowledge

Friday, November 6, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The Future of Sharism: Social Media's Impact in China

Friday, October 30, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Isaac Mao is a venture capitalist, social entrepreneur, and blogger and the co-founder of CNBlog.org

Berkeley Prosopography Services and CollectionSpace

Friday, October 23, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Web Search and Information Credibility Analysis

Friday, October 16, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Design for Future Reference Service

Friday, October 2, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

No Bull, No Spin: Comparing Public Tags with other Descriptive User Metadata

Friday, September 25, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Creativity in Feist

Friday, September 18, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Julian Warner, of Queen's University, Belfast, presents an information science perspective on the famous Feist vs. Rural ruling.

Finding Things You Can't Read: Interactive Cross-Language Search for Monolingual Users

Friday, September 11, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

A discussion of new multilingual, cross-lingual, speech recognition, and machine translation applications, including a user-centered evaluation of cross-language information retrieval.

Building Computational Instruments for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Friday, August 28, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Mining Events from Wikipedia

Friday, May 1, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm