2012 Archives

eChicago 2012
2012 marked the sixth year of eChicago, which brings together practitioners, policymakers, and researchers to facilitate discussion that will help Chicago become a more digital and democratic city. Keynote talks were presented by Joyce Latham, assistant professor, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee School of Information Studies; Philip Neustrom, co-founder of localwiki.org; Greg Wass, CIO, Cook County; and David Johnson, former mayor of Harvey, Illinois, and professor emeritus, South Suburban College.
Resources available online include the full program, video, audio, presentation slides, tweets, and speaker biographies (recorded 4/20/12-4/21/12)

Windsor Lecture Series
"Memory Organizations and Evidence to Support Scholarship in the 21st Century"
Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information
Abstract and speaker biography
MP3 Audio Recorded 4/17/12

Ensuring Long-Term Access to Personal Digital Archiving
Ensuring long term access to personal digital archives—the sum of an individual's digital information and creative works—is an unsolved problem, but the need, and variety of proposed solutions, is growing daily. The early work of the Nobel prize winners of the 2030s and 2040s is likely to be born digital, and is therefore at risk in ways that previous scientific and literary creations were not. Over the last three years, discussions at the Personal Digital Archiving conferences held at the Internet Archive, have helped to develop the beginnings of a research agenda that a number of key questions. As part of the Illinois Data Research Initiative (IRDI), this presentation by Jeff Ubois, founder and chair of the Personal Digital Archiving conferences, summarized some of the suggestions and ideas discussed over the last three years, and some possibilities for future work.
Video presentation recorded 4/12/12

The Discipline of Organizing
Robert Glushko discussed the development of his book, The Discipline of Organizing. Robert J. Glushko is an adjunct full professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. After receiving his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology at UC San Diego in 1979, he spent about ten years working in corporate R&D, about ten years as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and now has worked ten years as an academic. His interests and expertise include information systems and service design, content management, electronic publishing, internet commerce, and human factors is computing systems. He founded or co-founded four companies, including Veo Systems in 1997, which pioneered the use of XML for electronic business before its acquisition by Commerce One in 1999.
MP3 audio recorded 4/10/12 | Slides

Disaster Response in Cultural Institutions: A Workshop for Library, Archives, and Museum Students
Disasters and emergencies affect cultural institutions everyday, yet according to the Heritage Health Index, 80% of U.S. collection institutions do not have a written disaster plan that includes collections with staff trained to carry it out. Add a new and attractive skill to your resume by learning how to develop a collections disaster plan and form a response team! Be the new employee that can start disaster preparedness at your institution, whether it is a library, archives, or museum. This three-hour workshop covers some common emergencies that affect cultural institutions, what you need to know to create a disaster plan, and how to form a disaster response team based on FEMA's Incident Command System model. Presented by Jessica Lapinsky and sponsored by the SAA Student Chapter.
MP3 audio recorded 3/31/12 | Slides

Digital Media and Learning 2012 Brown Bag Discussion
GSLIS doctoral students Brittany Smith and Colin Rhinesmith hosted a discussion of the Digital and Media Learning 2012 Conference, "an annual event supported by the MacArthur Foundation and organized by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the UC Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine."
MP3 Audio recorded 3/27/12

Data Access for Research and Teaching in the 21st Century
Dr. Myron Gutmann, Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation
Presented as part of the Illinois Research Data Initiative (IRDI), Dr. Gutmann's presentation addressed how the scientific community is facing new opportunities and new requirements in the ways that data are managed and made available for future research.
MP3 Audio recorded 3/15/12

Gryphon Lecture
"Grounding our Perspectives on Children's Literature"
Dr. Margaret Mackey, Professor, School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta
MP3 Audio Recorded 03/01/12

2011 Archives

Windsor Lecture Series
"Shifting Organizational Boundaries for a Sustainable Digital Ecosystem at Yale"
Meg Bellinger, Director of the Office of Digital Assets and Infrastructure, Yale University
MP3 Audio Recorded 10/25/11

Windsor Lecture Series
"Visualizations of Universes of Knowledge"
Charles van den Heuvel, Head of Research into the History of Science, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands
MP3 Audio Recorded 10/5/11  |  Slides  

Headlines, History, and Hats: American Historical Newspapers and Chronicling America
Deborah Thomas, Program Coordinator, National Digital Newspaper Program at the Library of Congress
MP3 Audio Recorded 6/30/11

Addressing the Digital Divide through Technology for Development
Moustafa Ayad (MS '09), independent subcontractor specializing in social media and networking training for journalists
MP3 Audio Recorded 5/2/2011

Reinventing East Asia Speaker Series: China's Quest for "Soft Power": Imperatives, Impediments and Irreconcilable Tensions
Yuezhi Zhao, Professor & Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Global Communication, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University
Sponsored by Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Center for Global Studies, Graduate College, and the Information in Society Program at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science
MP3 Audio Recorded 4/28/2011

Beyond "Beyond Books" Brownbag Lunch
Caroline Nappo & Colin Rhinesmith, GSLIS doctoral students and Information In Society fellows; Jack Brighton, Director of New Media and Innovation at WILL Public Media
MP3 Audio Recorded 4/27/2011

GSLIS Storytelling Festival recorded 4/16/11

• Clever Manka told by Jennifer Stasinopulos MP3 Audio
• The Man Who Had No Story told by Michelle Bourgeois MP3 Audio
• Pamilo: Can't Buy Me Freedom told by Julia Pyatetsky MP3 Audio
• Snow White and Rose Red told by Barrat Miller MP3 Audio
• The Strange Visitors told by Amanda Melchor MP3 Audio
• Catbeard a digital story by Ross Thompson YouTube Video
• Eating with Trolls told by Sam Sednek MP3 Audio
• The True Tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears told by Kate McDowell MP3 Audio
• East of the Sun and West of the Moon told by Miriam Larson MP3 Audio
• An Unforgettable Camping Trip told by Hal Southern MP3 Audio
• The Wise Old Woman told by Sue Searing MP3 Audio

Feeding Bodies and Minds: The Illinois-Africa Connection Panel Discussion
MP3 Audio | Recorded 4/13/2011

American Indians in Children's Literature: An Indigenous Scholar's Use of Social Media
Dr. Debbie Reese, American Indian Studies, UIUC
Co-sponsored by The Center for Children's Books (CCB) & the Community Informatics Initiative (CII)
MP3 Audio | Slides Recorded 4/13/11

21st Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture
The 'Invisible' Forces of Haiti—How Can Books and Culture Help the Reconstruction Process?
Elizabeth Pierre-Louis, library program coordinator at the Fondation Connaissance et Liberté (FOKAL), Haiti
MP3 Audio Recorded 4/6/11

The Changing Roles of Libraries
Dr. Sohair Wastawy, MLIS, PhD, Dean of University Libraries at Illinois State University, previously the chief librarian of the Library of Alexandria
MP3 Audio Recorded 3/31/11 

A Theory of New Service Idea Conception and Development by Library Administrators
Joe Rubleske is a Doctoral Candidate at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) at Syracuse University
MP3 Audio Recorded 3/14/2011

Inside the World's Factory: Network Labor in China
Dr. Jack Linchuan Qui is associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
MP3 Audio Recorded 03/14/2011

Gryphon Lecture
Books Build Better Brains: Wanderings at the Intersection of Children's Literature and Early Brain Development
Dr. Navsaria is a pediatrician at Madison's American Family Children's Hospital and the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin's School of Medicine and Public Health
MP3 Audio Recorded 03/04/2011

Improving Team Performance during Trauma Resuscitation through Information Technology (IT)
Aleksandra Saracevic, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Communication and Information (SC&I) at Rutgers University and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr.
Sponsored by
MP3 Audio Recorded 03/01/2011

Career Development Presentation
ALA Lecture Series: Career Development Presentation
Lorelle R. Swader (MLS, MA, CAE), director of the Office for Human Resource Development and Recruitment (HRDR) at ALA
MP3 Audio | Slides

The READ Scale and (Hopefully) Beyond: Adding Qualitative Assessment to Enhance Library Statistical Practice
Bella Karr Gerlich, University Librarian at Dominican University, River Forest, IL
MP3 Audio Recorded 02/21/2011

Reinventing East Asia Speaker Series: A Broadband Heaven or Hyper-Surveillant Nation? A Case of South Korea.
Lee, Kwang-Suk, Australian Research Council postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Wollongong
Sponsored by the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies Center for Global Studies Graduate College Information in Society Program, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
MP3 Audio Recorded 02/17/2011

Envisioning New Knowledge Environments
Stan Reucker, Associate Professor of Humanities Computing in the Department of English and Film Studies and the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Alberta 
MP3 Audio Recorded 02/14/2011

Anti-Politics and Information Societies in the South: A Political Economy of ICT-D
Paula Chakravartty is Associate Professor of Communication at University of Massachusets, Amherst
MP3 Audio Recorded 02/14/2011

Windsor Lecture Series
"Social Media and Attention"
Bernardo Huberman, Senior HP Fellow and Director of the Social Computing Lab at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
MP3 Audio Recorded 01/26/2011

Attachments: 

windsor_abbott.pdf

windsor_tillett.pdf