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Nov 16, 2011, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

A "virtual open house", for prospective students to chat with current I School students and learn more about life at the I School.

The Extreme Craft Roadshow

Nov 9, 2011, 6:10 pm to 7:30 pm

Garth Johnson of Extreme Craft, a blog which vacillates gleefully between playful, provocative, and downright rude, presents a fast-paced hour of the website’s “greatest hits”, proving that the lines between art, craft, and design have become hopelessly blurred.

Information Access Old and New

Nov 4, 2011, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Nineteenth-century information-access techniques (indexing, cataloging, classification), implemented successfully in the 20th century (online catalogs, Medline, OCLC, etc.), now seem outmoded and irrelevant in the Web 2.0 era. Are today's techniques just old wine in new bottles? Or really new and different?

Three Social Studies

Oct 28, 2011, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Three doctoral students present research projects about information systems and Chinese migrant workers, the politics of information sharing in disaster relief, and what happens when online communities meet in real life.

Why PowerPoint Is the Biggest Software Pirate and How It Can Be Fixed

Oct 26, 2011, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Finding and using externally produced media is typically a cumbersome process. New software provides access to various legal sources of images built right into the creative workflow and automates the process of attribution.

Nuclear Forensics: A Scientific Search Problem

Oct 21, 2011, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Beyond Design Thinking

Oct 19, 2011, 6:10 pm to 7:30 pm

"Design is sexy; craft is frumpy." It's time to kill that particular trope, and it's time to bring them together, says Regina Connell, the founder and editor-in-chief of Handful of Salt, an online magazine devoted to the craft of modern design.

Digital Diversity: Exploring Global Media By Starting With Culture and Community

Oct 19, 2011, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Ramesh Srinivasan reports on his fieldwork on technology, culture, and community-driven design from Egypt's Tahrir Square, the Zuni Nation of New Mexico, the Kyrgyz Steppe, and Rural India.

Prospective Student Open House

Oct 18, 2011, 9:00 am to 6:30 pm

Prospective students are invited to visit classes during the day, or attend the information session at 5:30 pm. RSVP required.

Editors' Notes and Humanities Scholarship

Oct 14, 2011, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

A report on "Editorial Practices and the Web", a two-year Mellon Foundation–supported project to move the editors' notes into digital form and make them openly accessible.

Online Admissions Chat

Oct 13, 2011, 9:00 am to 10:00 am

A "virtual open house", for prospective students to chat with current I School students and admissions staff and learn more about life at the I School.

Alumni & Friends Reception

Oct 11, 2011, 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm

Reception during the during the ASIS&T annual meeting, for alumni and friends of the I School, SIMS, the School of Library & Information Studies, and the School of Librarianship.

Names and Lives In the Cultural Record

Oct 7, 2011, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Information Dynamics in a Socially Networked World

Oct 5, 2011, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Lada Adamic is a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley School of Information and an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and Center for the Study of Complex Systems.

The Tragedy of Survey Methodology

Oct 3, 2011, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Why do people create, interact, and collaborate online? What are the deep motivations that drive so many to invest significant time and energy on Facebook, Flickr, StackExchange, Wikipedia, Yahoo! Groups, YouTube, and countless other sites?

Spatially Aware History Teaching

Sep 30, 2011, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Co-Imagining Futures

Sep 22, 2011, 6:10 pm to 7:30 pm

How can breakthrough solutions be found for lingering problems and saturated marketplaces, simply by engaging stakeholders in co-imagining the future? Uday Dandavate of SonicRim speaks at the semester's first Design Futures Lecture.

Data Curation and Re-Use

Sep 16, 2011, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Information Access Seminar, with Clifford Lynch & Michael Buckland

Online Admissions Chat

Sep 14, 2011, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

A "virtual open house", for prospective students to chat with current I School students and admissions staff and learn more about life at the I School.

Centers of Intention

Sep 9, 2011, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Information Access Seminar, with Dave Lester, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)

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