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

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

“Living Document”: from Mimesis to Indexicality, from Documentation to Documentality

Apr 23, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Rob Day explores the concept of the “living document” as joining knowledge and experience, science and literature.

Two Talks: The Elsevier Agreement and Stewardship of the Cultural Record

Apr 16, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Cliff Lynch discusses cultural stewardship & “cancel culture” and Ivy Anderson of CDL discusses UC’s landmark open access contract with Elsevier.

Local to Global: E-Reserves at UC Berkeley

Apr 9, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

How Berkeley’s University Library rose to the challenge of providing course materials to all students in a fully virtual global environment.

How to Care About Information

Apr 2, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Ryan Shaw is an associate professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Applied Trustworthy Digital Repositories and Risk Assessment

Mar 19, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Leslie Johnston is director of digital preservation at the U.S. National Archives.

Post-Covid Issues

Mar 12, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Information Seeking Research: A State of the Art

Mar 5, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

An overview of the last 50 years of information science research on information seeking and transfer.

Context and Relevance

Feb 26, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Information access seminar, with Wayne de Fremery and Michael Buckland

Prediction Games: Using Evidence and Data-based Forecasting to Pique Interest in Complex Topics and Real-world Events

Feb 19, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Prediction games pit players against one another as they use open data and news stories to forecast the outcome of real-world events.

Information: A Historical Companion. Edited by Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton

Historicizing Information

Feb 12, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Paul Duguid discusses his new book, Information: A Historical Companion, a landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuries.

Securing the Digital Supply Chain

Feb 5, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

David S. H. Rosenthal is the co-founder of the LOCKSS program at Stanford University.

Science Nationalism

Jan 29, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Emerging science nationalism and its implications for the research enterprise and the global system of scholarly communication.

Understanding the ‘Splinternet’

Jan 22, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Recent moral panic around Internet fragmentation hides the uncomfortable truth: the Internet has always been affected by political realities. Our measurements reveal a multi-polar Internet.

Networked Information Landscape Survey and Prospect, 2020–2021

Dec 4, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm