UCLA Information Studies

2011 LISAA Spring Awards Dinner

2011-06-02T11:01:00.000-07:00

On May 19, the Library and Information Studies Alumni Association (LISAA) held its 2011 Spring Awards Dinner at the JW Marriott Hotel at LA Live. This year's dinner honored alumnus and rare book dealer Ken Karmiole MLS '71, who received the 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award for his leadership in the rare book industry. University of Southern California Professor of History, award-winning author, and State Librarian Emeritus Kevin Starr was the keynote speaker and spoke about the historical significance and enduring value of libraries, from Ephesus' ancient Celsus Library to the digital age and beyond.

Kevin Starr

Kevin Starr, delivering keynote address

(From left to right) Dean Aimee Dorr, 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient Ken Karmiole '71, LISAA Board President Sanjeet Mann MLIS '08, and Department of Information Studies Chair Greg Leazer.

IS Department Chair Greg Leazer, LISAA Board member Claude Zachary MLS '98, and LISAA Board President Sanjeet Mann '08

GSE&IS May E-Newsletter

2011-06-02T10:47:00.001-07:00

Check out the latest issue of the GSE&IS E-Newsletter here for news and upcoming events!

GSE&IS Launches E-Newsletter

2011-04-19T16:51:00.001-07:00

Check out the inaugural edition of GSE&IS' e-newsletter here!

Adopt a Chair in the IS Lab!

2011-04-15T11:51:00.001-07:00

Friday Forum - 6/4/10

2010-05-20T13:32:00.001-07:00

UCLA Dept. of Information Studies' Friday Forums, in partnership with the California Library Association's Spring Fling Program Series and the UCLA Library & Information Studies Alumni Association, presents

Taking Charge of Your Career: Résumé writing, interview skills, and finding a job that's right for you

June 4, 2010 - 9:30am-1:00pm
$25 (UCLA members and UCLA alumni - $20, students - $15)

During this half-day workshop, our presenters will help you improve your job-seeking expertise and develop the skills you need to find and get the job for you. Please join us for information on how to carry out an effective job search, build a professional résumé, and develop and enhance your interview skills.

Presenter information:

Keri Botello is the Coordinator for the Information Studies Department's Internship Program and the Director of the Department's Multimedia & Information Technology Lab. She is the instructor of the IS 498 Internship course, develops the Career Forum Series sponsored by the Department for the CLA annual conference, has presented workshops on job searching and careers at CLA and for the Department's annual Career Fest. She is a member of the CLA Leadership Development Committee.

Keith Gurtzweiler is the Vice President of Recruiting at Library Associates Companies (LAC), a consulting and staffing firm specializing in the often overlapping fields of library, information, knowledge, intelligence, and asset management. He has interviewed and placed professional librarians and information workers in hundreds of positions from the very traditional to cutting edge, and he works regularly with diverse hiring organizations in the corporate, government, public, and academic sectors.

Hillary Theyer is the Principal Librarian of Public Services for the Torrance Public Library, and is on the Board of Directors for the California Library Association. She has participated on interview panels and resume review for multiple public library agencies for jobs from Children's Librarian to Reference Librarian and Library Managers. She has hired and supervised Library Pages, Library Clerks, Children's Librarians, and Library Managers. She has her Masters in Library Science from UCLA and a Masters of Public Administration from California State University Long Beach.

For additional information click here.

For information on the California Library Association's Spring Fling Program Series go here.

IS Colloquium - 5/20/10

2010-05-17T09:45:00.000-07:00

Please join us this Thursday, May 20, from 3pm to 5pm in the GSE&IS Building, Room 111.

The Public Interest in Private Digital Records and Why We Should Care if Corporations have the Right to be Forgotten

by David Kirsch, Associate Professor and Director, Digital Archive of the Birth of the Dot Com Era, University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

Over the span of 120+ years of American legal history, corporations have enjoyed the benefits of personhood. This talk explores whether corporations should enjoy the "right to be forgotten," articulated recently by Blanchette (2006) and Werro (2009). We will consider the risks and benefits of the corporate right to be forgotten in the context of our ongoing efforts to preserve the digital records of the failed law firm Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and discuss possible mechanisms that recognize the requirements of both deorganized firms and the interested public.

Dr. David Kirsch is Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship in the M&O Department at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. He received his PhD in history from Stanford University in 1996. His research interests include industry emergence, technological choice, technological failure and the role of entrepreneurship in the emergence of new industries. Kirsch is interested in methodological problems associated with historical scholarship in the digital age. With the support of grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Library of Congress, he is currently building a digital archive of the Dot Com Era that will preserve at-risk, born-digital content about business and culture during the late 1990s. Selected materials are available to the public at www.dotcomarchive.org.

You can view his latest publication in Library Trends here.

LISAA 2010 Spring Dinner - May 20

2010-05-17T09:33:00.000-07:00

Don't forget that this year's Library and Information Studies Alumni Association Spring Dinner will take place on Thursday, May 20 at Roy's Restaurant in Pasadena.

6 pm Cocktails
7 pm Dinner

Distinguished Service Award:
Susan Abler, Information Studies Student Services Representative
Keri S. Botello, Director, Multimedia & Information Technology Lab and Internship Coordinator

Guest Speakers:
Mary Niles-Maack, Professor, UCLA Information Studies
Marcia Bates, Professor Emerita, UCLA Information Studies

$45 per person
Class of 2010 masters and doctoral graduates attend for free.

RSVP at alumni@gseis.ucla.edu or 310-206-0375.

Second Annual Breslauer Lecture on Biblio+Info

2010-05-13T13:06:00.000-07:00

Jerome McGann
What Do Scholars Want?
Thursday, May 27th 3-5 GSEIS 111

“The question is pressing because the library is the pivot point for all literary and cultural studies and the library is passing through a drastic set of changes. What kind of digital condition does the scholar want, what kind of textual condition, and how do we imagine we should integrate their resources?”

Jerome McGann is the John Stewart Bryan Professor of English Literature at the University of Virginia. He is known for his pioneering work in digital humanities as well as his distinguished scholarship in critical editing, Romanticism, poetics, and textual studies.

McGann is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Other awards include: Melville Cane Award, American Poetry Society, 1973, for his work on Swinburne as "The Year's Best Critical Book about Poetry"; Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats-Shelley Association of America (1989); Distinguished Scholar Award from the Byron Society of America, 1989; and the Wilbur Cross Medal, Yale University Graduate School, 1994.

In 2002 he was the recipient of three major awards: the Richard W. Lyman Award for Distinguished Contributions to Humanities Computing, National Humanities Center (first award reciptient); the James Russell Lowell Award (from the Modern Language Association) for Radiant Textuality as the Most Distinguished Scholarly Book of the Year; and the Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award. In 1996 the University of Chicago awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters.

LISAA mixer for alumni, faculty, and students - 5/6/10

2010-04-21T15:07:00.000-07:00

Click on the image below for more details about our upcoming casual mixer event.

Photos from the 2010 Sayers Lecture

2010-04-15T10:12:00.001-07:00

Check out these photos of Jules Feiffer at the 2010 Frances Clarke Sayers Lecture on April 11, and join us on Facebook!

Photos

UCLA Dept. of Information Studies' Friday Forums presents . . .

2010-04-14T09:43:00.000-07:00

User Experience Design

Note: This is a three-part workshop, but you are not required to enroll in all three parts.

April 30, May 7, and May 14, 2010 - 9:30am - 4:00pm

Enrollment fees:

One workshop: $85 / $59 (students)
Any two workshops: $153 / $106 (students) - 10% discount
All three workshops: $215 / 150 (students) - 15% discount

Description: Do you have a website? Do your customers use it? Do they like using it? Does it do what they want it to do? How do you know? The UCLA Friday Forum's program announces three day-long workshops in User Experience Design. Each day will begin with an introduction to the theories and practices of a specific aspect of user experience design, and by the end of the day, participants will work with other members of the class using the standard tools of the practice to create and present a deliverable in the area of focus. These classes are perfect for people who want to get their feet wet with web design strategy, or for people who need to expand their abilities into a new area of knowledge.

Each class can be taken individually, or in any combination. There will be a 1 1/2 hour break for lunch at midday; students should bring their own lunch or may purchase a lunch from a variety of locations on campus. Dining options for lunch.

Instructor: Lynn Boyden earned the MLIS at the UCLA library school in the late 90s and started her first job as an information architect the day that the web bubble burst in 2000. After working for a series of now-defunct web agencies (a process akin to playing "Survivor" on the Titanic), she returned to UCLA to bring up the administration of the Moving Image Archive Studies program. After graduating three classes of film archivists she moved back into information architecture on the Symantec web team, where she owned the user experience of search and pioneered the use of search analytics to improve findability of key content.

In February 2008 she joined FatDUX as Analytics Maven and head of the Los Angeles office. She regularly teaches information architecture in the MLIS program in Information Studies at UCLA. And since 2004 she has been an instigator of the Information Architecture Slam team.

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April 30, 2010 - Information Architecture - The strategy behind a
user experience of a web site or tool

9:30am - 4:00pm

What is it?
Why do you need it?
How do you get it?
Where does it fit into the whole website design process?
What happens next?
Tools and methods
Deliverables

A hands-on experience in creating the information architecture for a
web offering. Presenting solutions.

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May 7, 2010 - Interaction Design - Where does your web site fit into
the larger picture of the user's journey?

9:30am - 4:00pm

What it is
Why you need it
How you design a robust interaction
Patterns and standards
Designing the edges
Tools and methods
Deliverables

A hands-on experience in creating an interaction design for a web
offering. Presenting solutions.

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May 14, 2010 - User Experience Research - How to listen so users will
talk and how to talk so users will listen

9:30am - 4:00pm

Goals and objectives
What kind of research, when?
Learning from research
From research to design
Tools and methods: paper, remote, groups, and usability

A series of hands-on exercises in conducting user experience. Presenting findings and recommendations.

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For additional information go
to: http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/friday_forums/workshops/2010/100430.htm

Book Binding Workshop with Kitty Maryatt - May 15th

2010-04-07T10:12:00.001-07:00

Have you ever wanted to learn how to bind your own book? Now's your chance!

Book Binding Workshop with Kitty Maryatt
Saturday, May 15, 2010
9am - 5pm
GSE&IS Building, Room 121

$20 fee covers materials and instruction. Learn two different binding styles and create your own unique blank books.

Space is limited. To register contact Michelle at hornpress@ucla.edu.

UCLA Information Studies Dodgers Night - 4/30/10

2010-03-31T14:31:00.001-07:00

Dear Information Studies Alumni and Friends,

The 11th Annual UCLA Information Studies Dodgers Night will be held on Friday, April 30th, 2010 at 7:00 PM.

Please join us as the Los Angeles Dodgers take on the Pittsburgh Pirates!

That evening is also the date of the official UCLA Night at Dodgers Stadium and the organization will be holding a Hat Giveaway Event, during which the first 20,000 fans who enter the stadium will receive a free Dodgers baseball cap in UCLA school colors.

Listed below are details about how to go about purchasing tickets.

PURCHASING TICKETS:

TICKETS WILL BE SOLD STARTING MONDAY, MARCH 29TH. We have a limited
number of tickets in our reserved block of seats (in the Top Deck, Section 10), so please make sure to make your purchases early.

You may purchase tickets in two ways:

1. Every weekday between March 29th and April 14th, a Special Libraries Association officer will be in the IS Commons from 12:30-1:30 PM to take your orders and hand out tickets.

2. For those of you who are not on campus, you may email Ian Leong at ianleong.ucla@gmail.com to let us know how many tickets you’d like to purchase. Then send your check payment (payable to UCLA SLA Student Chapter) to David Cappoli at: UCLA, Information Studies, 217 GSE&IS Bldg., Box 951520, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520. We will set aside your tickets. Once we receive your check, we will contact you with arrangements about how to pick up your tickets.

PRICING: 1 ticket for $13; 2 tickets for $12 each; and 3 or more for $11 each.

The event is being sponsored by the UCLA Chapter of the Special Libraries Association.

We hope that a good number of alumni can make it out to the ballgame and have a Dodger Dog with us!

-- The UCLA Chapter of Special Libraries Association

"Thinking in Pictures: The UCLA Communication Studies Archive"

2010-03-31T14:07:00.000-07:00

Dr. Francis Steen
Associate Professor, UCLA Department of Communication Studies

Thursday, April 29th, 2010
3-5 pm, GSE&IS 111

At 90,000 hours, UCLA's Communication Studies Archive is the nation's largest and fastest growing digital collection of television news and current affairs, automatically capturing around 80 hours a day. Prof. Steen, its Director, will present the history of the archive, the motivations behind it, the back-end development, the data characteristics, the front-end interfaces, and the interpretive projects that mine and analyze the content.

Francis Steen is Associate Professor of Communication Studies. A native of Norway, he received his PhD is in English from UC Santa Barbara. He has published on computer games, entertainment psychology, narrative, and the nature and culture of play. Research interests include cognitive modeling of communication and learning, visual persuasion, and perceptual agency.

We welcome you to join us for this presentation and discussion.

Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

2010-03-24T09:46:00.000-07:00

UCLA Dept. of Information Studies' Friday Forums, in conjunction with the Society of American Archivists, presents:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

June 25, 2010 - 8:30am - 4:30pm

Description:

Want practical strategies for implementing DACS? This is the introductory workshop for you!

Get an in-depth, practical consideration of the key concepts and descriptive elements in Describing Archives: A Content Standard , the U.S. standard. Explore strategies for incorporating this standard into workflows for accessioning, arrangement, and description through discussions and hands-on work with a variety of exercises, culminating in a DACS-based analysis of existing finding aids. This workshop, a basic introduction to the standard, focuses on
application of DACS rules and concepts, which participants can apply to repository processes and descriptive outputs.

Upon completion of this workshop you'll be able to:

Apply the rules to formulate the content of descriptive elements for a minimal standardized description
Understand the different application of DACS in single- and multi-level descriptive outputs
Integrate DACS into basic repository processes such as accessioning, arrangement, and description
Articulate how integration of a content standard into basic repository processes facilitates reuse of information in a variety of outputs.

*Workshop fee includes the SAA publication, Describing Archives: A Content Standard (a $35 value!).

Who should attend? Anyone whose work includes accessioning, arranging and describing, or supervising employees who do that work.

Testimonials:

When participants were asked "what aspect of the workshop methods/materials was most valuable to you?" responses included:

"Group work and accompanying discussion. All of the feedback was very educational. The entire presentation was clear, even-paced, and informative." - Peter K. Steinberg
"Everyone should take this - it's a good how-to-write-finding-aids workshop, so it does double-duty!" - Judy Farrar
"Application of rules to practice. Hands-on activities (exercises)." - Betsy Pittman
"Identity elements - especially title, wil make me rethink how I will supply titles in the future." - Burton Altman
"Clarification of what DACS is and is not; emphasis on elements rather than name formation; demonstration of output options exercises were very helpful." - Melissa Watterworth

Attendance limited to 40.

Instructor:

Bill Landis is the Head of Special Collections Research and Instructional Services at the Louis Round Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously he served as Head of Arrangement and Description & Metadata Coordinator in Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library; as Metadata Coordinator for the California Digital Library; as Manuscripts Librarian in Special Collections and Archives at the University of California, Irvine; and as the first Production Coordinator for JSTOR, a large-scale scholarly journal digitization project. He earned a BA degree in History from the University of California, Santa Cruz, an MILS from the University of Michigan, and is sporadically working toward an MA in History, focusing on the U.S. West.

Bill has been involved in the development and implementation of archival description standards since he "caught the bug" during the residency of Daniel Pitti's EAD development group at the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, during the summer of 1995. His more recent interests have turned towards outreach and instruction in academic special collections, especially engaging undergraduates with the thrills of using archival sources in their research.

He served from 1997 to 2003 as a member of SAA's Encoded Archival Description Working Group, contributing to the production of both versions of the EAD Tag Library and the EAD Application Guidelines, Version 1.0. More recently, he served for three years as a member of the U.S. contingent of the Canadian-U.S. Taskforce on Archival Description (CUSTARD) and contributed to the new U.S. standard emerging from the work of that group, Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS).

He has published articles, given presentations, and taught classes and workshops on the subjects of archival description and associated standards, user and usability issues, and archival information access systems. When not up to his ears in description and metadata issues Bill likes to hike, especially when he can get back to California and disappear into the Sierra Nevada mountains. He has been known to spend hours debating issues relating to EAD and archival description in fairly remote venues, and the oxygen deprivation that accompanies hiking above 10,000 feet hasn't managed to dampen his enthusiasm for these topics.

Bill has served SAA in a variety of capacities as chair of the Technical Subcommittee on Descriptive Standards (TSDS), 1998-1999; chair of the Description Section, 2000-2001; member of the Nominating Committee, 2000-2001; member of the Program Committee, 2000-2001; co-chair of the Birmingham annual meeting Program Committee, 2001-2002; member of two Continuing Education Task Forces, 1999-2000 and 2002-2003; member of the Los Angeles annual meeting Host Committee, 2002-2003; member of the Theodore Calvin Pease Award committee, 2003-2005; co-chair of the Committee on Education, 2003-2005; and currently as a member of the American Archivist Editorial Board and chair of the newly formed DACS Working Group.

Bill is a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists.

For additional information go to: http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/friday_forums/workshops/2010/100625.htm

UCLA Dept. of Information Studies' Friday Forums presents . . .

2010-03-24T09:41:00.000-07:00

Strategic Planning for Information Professionals

April 23, 2010 - 10:00am - 2:00pm - $55 / $38 (students)

Description: Most organizations have high level missions and develop strategies but there is data that most strategies fail. So why do they fail. One of the issues is the failure to fully understand the current environment and appreciate how the situation may be changing in the future.

The information professional has much to contribute to any organization in understanding competitive intelligence and helping to develop different scenarios for the future by acquiring, organizing and managing the wealth of information

Neelima Firth will go through the strategic planning methodology for develop a strategic plan for your organization or department and how the information professional can provide valuable competitive intelligence to the overall organization.

Exercises for the development of a situational analysis and scenario planning will be conducted.

Agenda

What is Strategy?
What is a Strategic Plan?
Exercise in situational analysis
Competitive intelligence
What the information professional can provide for their organization
Scenario Planning, examples of scenario planning, group exercises
Forecasting
Final strategic plan
Measurement of the strategic plan- how are you doing?

Instructor: Neelima Firth is an experienced biopharmaceutical executive with extensive scientific, reimbursement, marketing and international experience in start up and Fortune 500 biopharmaceutical companies including GSK, Bristol Myers Squibb, Sandoz and Amgen. She is a Director for The Aequitas Group, a boutique reimbursement consulting company.

She was the Director of Strategic Planning and Operations at Amgen and led the strategic planning and operations group. She built strong relationships with alliance partners and managed the brand plan across Amgen and Wyeth. She is a skilled business planning manager who leads change management initiatives to solve critical business problems. One of the key tactics used for planning future strategies is scenario planning and utilizing simulation models.

She worked at Amgen for 16 years in a series of increasingly senior roles in clinical, marketing and reimbursement in the UK and USA. Accomplishments include developing compendia strategy, managing Medicare and Medicaid marketing strategies, creating alliance management governance and managing clear brand planning processes.

For additional information go to:
http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/friday_forums/workshops/2010/100423.htm

2010 Frances Clarke Sayers Lecture

2010-03-15T14:44:00.000-07:00

Join us for the 2010 Frances Clarke Sayers Lecture

Featuring

Jules Feiffer

Sunday, April 11, 2010
4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
UCLA De Neve Plaza Lecture Auditorium

$20 per person includes reception and complimentary parking.

A book signing will follow the lecture. Mr. Feiffer’s books will be available for purchase at the event via cash or check.

Seating is limited. To register, call 310-206-0375 or email alumni@gseis.ucla.edu.

Friday Forum - 3/19/10

2010-03-10T09:00:00.000-08:00

UCLA Dept. of Information Studies' Friday Forums presents . . .

Public Programming for Adults: From Concept to Fruition!
(Co-sponsored by the California Center for the Book)

March 19, 2010 - 9:30am - 12:30pm - $55 / $38 (students)

Description: Everyone has a great idea for a library program, but implementation is another story. This workshop is designed to assist public librarians in generating new ideas for library programs and then giving them the tools necessary to plan, implement, and evaluate them. This workshop will focus on creating programs that emphasize the role of the public library as an important cultural, recreational, and educational institution in the community.

The workshop will help attendees to establish timelines, create a budget, market and publicize events, and work with community groups. The workshop will allow time for individuals to bring their programming concepts to share with others and provide them with guidelines to bring that concept to reality.

Instructor: Dana Vinke is Reference Services Supervisor for the City of Torrance. He has served as a Youth Services Librarian, Audiovisual Librarian, and Branch Manager for the City of Torrance. He has an MLIS from UCLA. He has spent the last 5 years developing cultural, recreational, and educational programs for the City of Torrance Public Library. He has served as Chair of the MCLS Reference Committee, CALIFA Advisory Board, and on numerous other committees. Dana also taught Beginning Adult Programming for Public Libraries as a Friday Forum workshop in 2008.

For additional information go
to: http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/friday_forums/workshops/2010/100319.htm

More information on the California Center for the Book is available
at: http://calbook.org

Print History Conference March 5-6, 2010

2010-02-18T11:27:00.000-08:00

Cultures of Communication, Theologies of Media in Early Modern Europe and Beyond:Multimediality: Print Culture in Context

A conference at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library—organized by Christopher Wild, UCLA and the University of Chicago and Ulrike Strasser, UC Irvine, Center and Clark Professors, 2009–2010.

The early modern period has long been recognized as a time of revolutionary change in the uses of media and forms of communication. Much attention has been focused on the history of print and the book in particular. Without questioning the importance of this technology-and book-oriented perspective, this series of conferences considers print media alongside a range of other media with which they interacted and re-approaches the history of media in early modern Europe from an original and timely perspective. It resists the technological focus and teleological pull of the Gutenberg galaxy and concentrates instead on the powerful religious and theological currents informing communication and media. We suggest that the history of media in early modern Europe is best understood in its longue durée from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century and in reference to the long-term aftershocks of the Reformation and the profound transformation of both media and mediation it set in motion. The sixteenth-century reformers not only revolutionized the use of media, they also formulated their own theories about media and communication, addressing issues that remain of concern to modern media theorists who, however, rarely consider their theological precursors.

Protestants and Catholic reformers, albeit in confessionally distinct ways, responded to the same cultural crisis in mediation between God and humanity, as well as within the community of believers, particularly as the latter began expanding rapidly with the onset of global evangelization. Each camp developed theories and practices of optimizing “vertical communication” with the divine and “horizontal communication” among humanity. Consequently, the recourse to the different theologies of early modern reform can help us examine the complex and competing media cultures of the time and what helped drive technological changes. The transformation of media had a persistent corollary in the critique of mediation. Once unleashed, this critique would not go away, but would be reformulated throughout the early modern period and beyond, and in a host of contexts within and beyond the religious domain.

Against this backdrop, our conference cycle takes as its starting point the conjunction of Reformation theology and the rise of new media in the sixteenth century to trace the ripple effects of these phenomena in the following centuries. Our sites of investigation include European cultures, “New World” spaces, and the trans-oceanic communication networks linking them.

—Session 3, Multimediality: Print Culture in Context

Here we return to the history of print to show what can be gained by situating print media within a broader landscape of mediality and intermediality. In the early modern period, the printed message was almost always complemented by the spoken word, just as the image was complemented by its written variant. When Luther translated and edited the Gantze Heilige Schrift one of his intentions was to simulate and even restore orality through this printing project. A similar motive of restoring and renewing orality can be discerned in eighteenth-century poetry. In exploring the intersections between orality and print we move beyond the dichotomy of spoken versus written word that often still structures accounts of the “advent of
print” towards a more complex and historically dynamic picture of intermedial interactions.

Registration Deadline: February 26th.

Click here to register: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/c1718cs/

Registration Fees: $15 per per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge*
*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

Complimentary lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants.

Friday Forum - 3/12/10

2010-02-18T11:18:00.000-08:00

UCLA Dept. of Information Studies' Friday Forums presents ...

Preservation and Conservation of a Paper-Based Collection
March 12, 2010 - 9:30am - 4:00pm - $85 / $59 (students) - There is an enrollment limit of 15 for this workshop.

Description: After introducing ourselves to each other and exposing the main expectation in regards to the workshop, an overview of the conservation field organization and conservation activities will be exposed. We will then focus our interest on the specific needs of a paper-based collection in regards to its use, its storage and its display.

In the first part of the workshop, we will describe the fabrication process of paper and its physical and chemical characteristics. Stemming from this knowledge, we will assess the main issues that can affect paper-based collection and describe the environmental related issues (Light degradation, water and relative humidity, insect and mold damage, atmosphere pollution,
contamination due to inappropriate storing material, mishandling of the collection,...), which can have destructive impacts on a paper-based collection.

Exposing the methodological approach developed in preventive conservation, we will explain the best practices in the caring of a paper-based collection. As a matter of concrete example of preventive conservation approach, we will study more thoroughly the most recent developments in the light sensitivity assessment of artwork and the light budgeting plan for a collection.

We will then review the decision making process to choose the appropriate housing and display material for a paper-based collection. We will then dedicate some time on how to interpret the information provided in preservation material catalog in regards to select the appropriate material. We will also review the available preservation resource websites.

The second part of the workshop will be a "hand-on" part: we will learn together basic remedial care methods (dry cleaning, paper corner making, Japanese paper mending and hinging, tape removal...).

We will conclude the workshop with a collective discussion concerning the content developed during the day and answering questions that may have emerged from it.

The instructor will use Powerpoint presentations for the first part of the workshop and, if needed, will provide additional pedagogical documents supporting few specific issues.

Interactivity between participants is highly appreciated and welcomed. The content of the workshop may be adapted to the specific interests of participants if expressed during the registration process.

The agenda for the day will include:

Overview of Conservation field and Conservation activity
Paper: overview of the fabrication process - physical and chemical characteristics
Environmental related issues concerning preservation of paper based collection
Preventive conservation approach - Recent research concerning prevention of light induced degradation.
Material choices for paper collections and storage folders, boxes, matting, framing and glazing
Demonstrations of basic remedial care methods

Instructor:

Christel Pesme is a paper conservator in private practice in Los Angeles. She will also soon undertake research on theoretical issues concerning the conservation of contemporary art, as a Ph.D student in Art History at the University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne ( Paris, France). Since 2008, She also works as a consultant at the Getty Conservation Institute under the supervision of Mr. Jim Druzik, Senior Conservation Scientist, researching lighting issues in regard to sensitive works of art. Her main focus is to articulate preservation approach and conservation practice with scientific research and expertise dissemination.

Ms. Pesme holds a Master's Degree in Conservation from the University Paris 1- Panthéon - Sorbonne with specialization in Paper Conservation. She also holds a Bachelor's Degree in Biology from the University Paris 6- Pierre et Marie Curie with major in Human Physiology and minor in Chemistry/Biochemistry and a Master's degree in Art History with major in Contemporary Art
History and minor in History of photography.

Friday Forum - 3/5/10

2010-02-18T11:14:00.000-08:00

UCLA Dept. of Information Studies' Friday Forums presents ...

Early Literacy at Your Library
March 5, 2010 - 9:30am - 12:30pm - $55 / $38 (students)

Description: Early Literacy, also called emergent literacy or pre-reading, is what children know about reading and writing before they can actually read or write. This workshop demystifies the concept of Early Literacy and its six skills. As each skill is uncovered, participants will learn the concept while being a part of the demonstrations of songs, rhymes, stories, and activities that can
be used in their libraries right away.

Objectives of the course: Learn about the six skills of early literacy and their application. Development of a bibliography of picture books for each pre-reading skill, theoretical knowledge, and hands-on experience will turn participants into advocates of Early Literacy both inside and outside of their libraries.

Instructor: Zhen Li, M.Ed, MLIS, is a children's librarian at the OC Public Library (OCPL), Laguna Niguel Library. Previously she worked for the Seattle Public Library (SPL), at the Children's Center in the Central Library for two and a half years. To promote Early Literacy, Zhen taught at local preschools and presented the Early Literacy workshops to parents and care-givers with a strong focus on utilizing books, songs, rhymes, and crafts to develop children's pre-reading skills.

From 2006 to 2007, Zhen represented the SPL to give presentations at the headquarter of the United Way of King County, and Thrive by Five Washington, a public-private partnership led by education, government and business leaders for a partnership with SPL. Serving families with young children and sharing her knowledge and experience with other professionals are Zhen's passion.

For additional information go to: http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/friday_forums/workshops/2010/100305.htm

UCLA Internship Sites for 2010

2010-02-18T10:47:00.000-08:00

UCLA Information Studies graduates are widely recognized as among the best in the field. A key factor in the quality and professionalism of our graduates is the UCLA Information Studies Internship Program, providing graduate students with the opportunity to apply what they are learning to real-world, on-the-job challenges. The variety of internship sites for this current year is inspiring and speaks to the quality of our programs and our students:

Maymie Clayton Library and Museum
UCLA Lab School Library
Los Angeles Philharmonic Archives
Santa Monica Public Library (multiple sites)
Getty Conservation Institute
Los Angeles Public Library (multiple sites)
County of Los Angeles Public Library (multiple sites)
Loyola Marymount University (multiple sites)
UCLA Biomedical Library, History & Special Collections Division
Altadena Public Library
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Registrar's Office
Academy of Motion Pictures, Science & Technology
University of Southern California, Norris Medical Library
Occidental College Library
20th Century Fox Photo Archive
Cedars Sinai Medical Library
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Research Library
University of Southern California, Special Collections/University Archives
California State University, Los Angeles Kennedy Library
UCLA Library Preservation Program
UCLA Film & Television Archive
Los Angeles County Law Library
UCLA College Library
Windward School
UCLA Law Library
A.K. Smiley Public Library
Occidental College
University of San Diego
Simon Wiesenthal Center Archives

If your organization is interested in becoming an internship site, please contact our internship coordinator, Keri Botello, at (310) 206-9392 or kbotello@ucla.edu

All About Copyright - 2/12/10

2010-02-04T13:13:00.000-08:00

UCLA Dept. of Information Studies' Friday Forums presents ...

All About Copyright: The Basics and Beyond for Academic Librarians
February 12, 2010 - 9:30am - 4:30pm - $85 / $59 (students)

Description:

This session will begin with the history and evolution of Copyright Law, from the Statute of Anne to the TEACH act. We'll discuss in detail the types of materials covered by Copyright, the "Bundle of Rights," Copyright term limits, the Public Domain, and Orphan works. We'll review the statutory exceptions to copyright law, particularly those pertinent to the library enterprise. A particular focus will be lent to the Fair Use exception, with exercises on applying the "Four Factor Test" when making Fair Use determinations. We will also spend time reviewing methods to help authors retain key rights to their own materials when negotiating with publishers, the Copyleft movement spearheaded by Creative Commons, and other topics. Participants will walk away with handouts and brochures on these topics, as well as lots of pointers to additional worthwhile materials available on the web. Though geared for academic librarians, this session should prove useful to any librarian who needs to improve their skills for handling copyright-related consulting.

Instructor:

Martin Brennan has been the Copyright and Licensing Librarian at the UCLA library for just over a year. In this role, Marty consults with faculty about copyright issues as they add copyrighted materials to their online course sites, and is involved in a variety of Scholarly Communications issues in the library. Prior to UCLA, Marty was the Librarian for Medical Education and Curriculum Development at the NYU School of Medicine in New York City, and has worked in similar health sciences educational positions at the Miner Library at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York, and at the Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a senior member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP) and a member of the MLA, ALA, and ACRL. He received his BA and MLS from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, and has also completed additional graduate work in the Educational Communication and Technology program at the Steinhardt School of Education at NYU.

For additional information go to:
http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/friday_forums/workshops/2010/100212.htm

iSchools Balloon Scavenger Hunt

2009-12-03T16:06:00.000-08:00

HELP UCLA AND iSCHOOLS WIN DARPA'S NATIONAL BALLOON SCAVENGER HUNT
iSchools to establish a student travel fund with the $40,000 prize

On December 5, 2009, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launches the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization required to solve broad-scope, time-critical problems. The competition is being held in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Internet.

The challenge is to be the first to submit the locations of 10 moored, 8-foot, red, weather balloons at 10 fixed locations in the continental United States. The balloons will be in readily accessible locations and visible from nearby roads. The contest runs Saturday, December 5, through Monday, December 14. The first person or organization to enter all the correct locations wins.

iSchools wants to win the $40,000 prize to establish a student travel fund and we need your help. In return, the names of those who submit the correct locations will be entered into a drawing to win one of ten GPS systems. The iSchool with the most participants will receive a special award at the iConference in February.

On DECEMBER 5, start looking for balloons. Once you have located one, contact us and provide the street address. If you have access to Google maps or a GPS, type in the address to find the latitude and longitude. Latitudes and longitudes need to be entered in degree-minute-second (DDD-MM-SS) format. Please include your name, an email address, the name of the iSchool you are associated with, and a phone number where we can reach you. If you have an iPhone, take a photo of the balloon and send it to us.

You can reach iSchools by calling the virtual command center of the iSchool team: 814-442-5501 (or 814-4BA-LL01), by texting them at 814-442-5501 (or 4BA-LL01) or by emailing them at balloon@ist.psu.edu.

To learn more, visit http://www.ischools.org/site/DARPA_challenge/

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Horn Press Holiday Card Printing Party - 11/21/09

2009-11-30T13:56:00.000-08:00

On Saturday, November 21 students at UCLA's Horn Press and UCLA Professor Johanna Drucker held a holiday printing party where students, alumni and friends created and hand printed unique holiday greeting cards on the vintage Vandercook Sp 15 Proofing Press.

The event was held at the Broad Art Center on the UCLA campus. UCLA's Horn Press is a student-run organization dedicated to hand-press fine printing and the book arts. The cards will be sold during the week of Nov. 30 to December 4 in the Information Studies commons (located in the back of the first floor of the GSE&IS building) from noon to 1:30 pm. They will sell for $1:50 each, or 4 for $5.

Below are a few pictures.