Events

Mary Elings and Christina V. Fidler discuss the Bancroft Library’s approach to managing born-digital collections and building a sustainable digital archives program.

Dr. Daniel Greene explores why technology solutions aren’t solving complex social problems such as STEM education and the digital divide.

PhiloBiblon is a database of primary sources for the study of medieval Iberian culture, built on a Wikibase platform.

Dr. Doris Lee presents her dissertation research enabling data analysts to identify trends and patterns, generate and verify hypotheses, and detect outliers and anomalies.

Dr. Latanya Sweeney pioneered the field of data privacy and launched the study of algorithmic fairness.

How and why the ​University of California migrated its ten campuses, two regional library facilities, ​and  California Digital Librar​y to a single centralized catalog system.

Vini Jaiswal explains the “data lakehouse” data paradigm, which provides all of the capabilities needed to train and deploy machine learning models.

Alan Inouye discusses how policy-making has evolved in the library & education sectors during the pandemic and possible future directions.

Bill Marczak shares his experience identifying new threat actors, including Candiru, a secretive Israel-based company that sells spyware exclusively to governments

The 12th annual InfoCamp explores conflicts in data control and policy. The two-day event, led by IMSA, features an ideathon and a speaker series. The event is free and open to everyone in the information community.

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

The Citizen Clinic (INFO 289) is a public-interest cybersecurity course that supports the capacity of politically-targeted organizations to defend themselves against online threats. Join us to learn 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.

The UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) invites you to the fifth-annual Research Exchange.

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?

Join us as we welcome the MICS Summer and Fall 2021 cohorts. Open to all MICS students and alumni.  

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