Information Access Seminar

David S. H. Rosenthal: “Blockchain: What’s Not To Like?” and Clifford Lynch: “Priorities for Capital Investment in Digital Infrastructure and Services”

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.