Information Access Seminar

Rob Day explores the concept of the “living document” as joining knowledge and experience, science and literature.

Cliff Lynch discusses cultural stewardship & “cancel culture” and Ivy Anderson of CDL discusses UC’s landmark open access contract with Elsevier.

How Berkeley’s University Library rose to the challenge of providing course materials to all students in a fully virtual global environment.

Ryan Shaw is an associate professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Leslie Johnston is director of digital preservation at the U.S. National Archives.

An overview of the last 50 years of information science research on information seeking and transfer.

Information access seminar, with Wayne de Fremery and Michael Buckland

Prediction games pit players against one another as they use open data and news stories to forecast the outcome of real-world events.

Paul Duguid discusses his new book, Information: A Historical Companion, a landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuries.

David S. H. Rosenthal is the co-founder of the LOCKSS program at Stanford University.

Emerging science nationalism and its implications for the research enterprise and the global system of scholarly communication.

Recent moral panic around Internet fragmentation hides the uncomfortable truth: the Internet has always been affected by political realities. Our measurements reveal a multi-polar Internet.

Privacy-protection measures from a project training librarians as community privacy advocates.

Elaine Sedenberg leads global research and academic engagement for Facebook’s Privacy and Data Policy team.

Salwa Ismail is associate university librarian for digital initiatives and information technology and associate CIO for UC Berkeley Library.

An overview of the Social Networks and Archival Context Cooperative, its past, and its future.