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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

Michael Buckland
Belief and Misbelief in Context
Apr 19, 2024, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Michael Buckland explores the genesis and spread of belief and misbelief.
Clifford Lynch
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

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Two Reports: Deepfakes and Self-Driving Cars
Nov 22, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child, by Morgan G. Ames
Author Conversation on “The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child”
Nov 15, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Morgan Ames and LA Review of Books editor Michele Pridmore-Brown discuss the legacy of the One Laptop per Child project and our refusal to learn from its failure.
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Two Talks: Incorporating Sense-making Into Descriptions of Information Systems and Scenarios and Issues in “Send Computation to the Data” Repository Models
Nov 8, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Michael Buckland
ABCs of Information: Content, Context, Relevance, and other Challenges
Nov 1, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
How could we evolve a more satisfactory tool-kit of concepts and terms as a stronger basis for information studies?
Niloufar Salehi
Intimate and Accountable Reconfigurations of Social Platforms
Oct 25, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
How might online spaces be reconfigured against harassment and abuse?
Aditya Parameswaran
Simplifying and Accelerating Data Exploration
Oct 18, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
How could interactive data exploration tools be redesigned to give deeper insights more easily and quickly?
Howard Besser (photo by Dan Streible: http://flic.kr/p/7Wbqr8)
CANCELED: Archiving the Non-Organizational Born-Digital: The Challenges Posed by Material from Individuals, Communities, Social Movements, and Events
Oct 11, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
How archives and special collections can address the transition from analog to digital creation and the digital deluge.
Michael Buckland
This School’s Social Mission: The Early Days
Oct 4, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
This School was founded in 1918 on a strong social agenda; Professor Buckland will review the past 101 years of its mission.
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101st Birthday Celebration
Sep 27, 2019, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 101st birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.
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Scaling Cybersecurity Support for Civil Society
Sep 20, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
How the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity’s Citizen Clinic is combating sophisticated attacks from governments, hate groups, terrorists, and multinational corporations.
Clifford Lynch
Public Policy Initiatives That Might Improve Digital Stewardship
Sep 13, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Alternate policy approaches for stewardship of some classes of cultural materials in the current world.
Clifford Lynch
Machine Learning, Archives and Special Collections
Sep 6, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
The most significant near-term applications for machine learning in archives and special collections.
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Machine Learning for the Developing World using Mobile Communication Metadata
May 17, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Clifford Lynch
Changing Production and Distribution Systems for Mass-Market Cultural Materials and Implications for Stewardship: The Case of Video Materials
May 10, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
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The Concept of Context
May 3, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
AnnaLee Saxenian
The I School in 2019: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
Apr 26, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Dean AnnaLee Saxenian looks back at her 15 years as dean and discusses scenarios for the future.
Jeffrey MacKie-Mason
Moving Towards Open Scholarship: UC, Elsevier and All the Rest
Apr 19, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Jeff MacKie-Mason is the university librarian and co-chair of UC’s publisher negotiations team, which carried out the recent negotiations with Elsevier.
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In DOCAM’s Footsteps
Apr 12, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm
North American premiere of In DOCAM’s Footsteps, a new documentary film with scenes shot in South Hall.
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Augmented Reality and The Public
Apr 12, 2019, 3:10 pm to 4:00 pm
Instagram filters, Google Map’s live directions, and Pokémon Go demonstrate how augmented reality enhances “real life.”
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Basic Needs, Access, and Marketplace Structures
Apr 5, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

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