Information Access Seminar

Short reports on various topics, including JCDL, SNAC, information science history, relevance theory, and more.

In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 103rd birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.

Leonardo Bursztyn is an economist at the University of Chicago whose research uses field experiments to understand people’s decision-making.

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

Wayne de Fremery and Michael Buckland explore the idea that relevance can be understood as creative opportunity.

Vast amounts of video are being produced by colleges and universities today. What management and preservation challenges should institutions be addressing?

On the web’s 30th birthday, Clifford Lynch describes how the concept of “web archiving” has outlived its usefulness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Information access seminar, with Wayne de Fremery and Michael Buckland

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

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.

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

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