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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

Paul Duguid
From Whitewashing to Greenwashing: PR’s Approach to Climate Science
Oct 6, 2023, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Greenpeace recently declared that we are living in “the golden age of greenwashing.” Paul Duguid looks at how we got there.
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Text, Glyph, Inscription, Chart: Knowledge Production in the Origin of the Alphabet
Oct 13, 2023, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Johanna Drucker is a Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at UCLA and is internationally known for her work in digital humanities.
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105th Birthday Celebration
Oct 20, 2023, 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 105th birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.
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Cybersecurity Futures 2030: Global Insights to Anticipate and Address Tomorrow’s Cybersecurity Challenges
Oct 27, 2023, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Cybersecurity Futures 2030 is a foresight-focused scenario-planning exercise considering how cybersecurity is set to transform over the next five to seven years.

Previous Events

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A Hermeneutical Metatheory for Information Science
Sep 7, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Clifford Lynch
The Cultural Record in the Information War Era
Aug 24, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
How recent developments that are rapidly destabilizing the cultural record, and what we can do.
Sebastian Benthall
Context, Causality, and Information Flow: Implications for Privacy Engineering, Security, and Data Economics
May 4, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Sebastian Benthall is a security scientist working at the intersection of computer science, economics, law, and philosophy.
Michael Buckland
Search Support for All Kinds of Evidence
Apr 27, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
How might we develop a unified framework for the description, indexing, and discovery of all kinds of evidence resources?
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Reasons and Rights to be Brave: Rescripting Search to Respect the Right to Truth
Apr 20, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
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Two Presentations: PrivSec-F1: Compliance Focused Toolkit and Using CAPTCHAs to Measure Internet Fragmentation
Apr 13, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
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Consumer Law for the 21st Century
Mar 16, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
The Internet of Things will be tethered, blurring the lines between physical goods, digital goods, and digital services.
Stephen Abrams
The Means Don’t Quantify the Ends: Criteria and Metrics for Evaluating Digital Preservation Success
Mar 9, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Cultural preservation is a form of communication with the future. So how can we measure its success?
Clifford Lynch
Stewardship of the Cultural Record: How do we approximate cultural “production”?
Mar 9, 2018, 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
The challenge of cultural stewardship when everyone is a content producer.
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Three Progress Reports
Mar 2, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Josh Blumenstock
Migration and the Value of Social Networks
Feb 23, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Joshua Blumenstock uses novel data and methods to understand the economic lives of the poor.
Elaine Sedenberg
Study of Private Sector Research and Data Sharing Practices
Feb 16, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Preliminary research results about companies’s internal research practices in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and behavioral analytics.
Marcia J. Bates
Information and Embodiment
Feb 9, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
AnnaLee Saxenian
Issues and Opportunities Facing the School of Information
Feb 2, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Dean Saxenian will comment on some of the challenges and opportunities facing the campus and the School.
Wayne de Fremery
Documenting the 99%
Jan 26, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Wayne de Fremery develops new technologies for investigating Korean literature and documentary traditions
Howard Besser (photo by Dan Streible: http://flic.kr/p/7Wbqr8)
Making Web Archiving Work for Streaming Media: Archiving the Websites of Contemporary Young Composers
Jan 19, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Howard Besser is a professor of cinema studies and senior scientist for digital initiatives at New York University.
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Bibliographical Access to Anything and Year in Review and Preview
Dec 1, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Christine Borgman
If Data Sharing is the Answer, What is the Question?
Nov 17, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Christine Borgman is Distinguished Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA.
Clifford Lynch
Developments in the Marketplace for Cultural Materials, with Implications for Access and Preservation
Nov 3, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Michael Buckland
What Counts As Information? What Counts As a Collection?
Oct 27, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

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