Information Access Seminar

How archives and special collections can address the transition from analog to digital creation and the digital deluge.

This School was founded in 1918 on a strong social agenda; Professor Buckland will review the past 101 years of its mission.

In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 101st birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.

How the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity’s Citizen Clinic is combating sophisticated attacks from governments, hate groups, terrorists, and multinational corporations.

Alternate policy approaches for stewardship of some classes of cultural materials in the current world.

The most significant near-term applications for machine learning in archives and special collections.

Dean AnnaLee Saxenian looks back at her 15 years as dean and discusses scenarios for the future.

Jeff MacKie-Mason is the university librarian and co-chair of UC’s publisher negotiations team, which carried out the recent negotiations with Elsevier.

North American premiere of In DOCAM’s Footsteps, a new documentary film with scenes shot in South Hall.

Instagram filters, Google Map’s live directions, and Pokémon Go demonstrate how augmented reality enhances “real life.”

How technical systems employing algorithms are shaping and displacing human decision-making.

When algorithms are used for predicting recidivism, do they make the criminal justice system more fair and accurate, or do they perpetuate racial bias?

Mark Graham is the director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive.