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ISI Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture
ISI Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture
In the spring of 2008, the University of Arizona's School of Information Resources and Library Science will host an ISI Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture. The Lazerow Lecture Series is sponsored by Thomson Scientific to honor Samuel Lazerow for his long and distinguished service to the library profession.
Open or Closed:
A contemporary or a perennial debate?
Paul Duguid
School of Information, University of California-Berkeley
Abstract: Web 2.0 would seem to represent an emancipatory move to oppose the old closed or bounded system of technologies, forms, and institutions (the web page, the encyclopedia, the firm) with a more democratic open one (the wiki, wikipedia, wikinomics). Despite the hype, there is a great deal of truth and hope in such claims. A glance at the past suggests, however, that such struggles are not entirely new, nor, as some would have it, entirely the function of new technologies. By looking at earlier struggles over open or closed, we can not only understand the current trajectory better, but also understand why it sometimes happens that technologies, forms, and institutions that were once triumphantly forced open in hard-fought battles nonetheless closed again.
Date: Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Time: Reception at 5:30pm, Lecture at 6:30pm
Location: Eddie Lynch Pavilion
Previous Lazerow Lecturers:
This page was last updated on February 5, 2008.
Research Brown Bag Schedule
Research Brown Bag Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, SIRLS Research Brown Bags take place on Wednesdays from 12:00pm to 1:30pm in the SIRLS Multi-purpose Room. SIRLS is located at 1515 East First Street, just west of Cherry Avenue.
Note: Podcasts of most of the past talks can be downloaded from the SIRLS Podcast Page.
Fall 2007:
- August 29 -- Kay Mathiesen (Arizona, SIRLS) on "Group Rights to Control Information versus Individual Rights to Access Information."
- September 19 -- Kevin Kemper (Arizona, Journalism) on "Garcetti v. Ceballos and Morse v. Frederick: How Refined Government Speech Doctrine Could Impact Academic Freedom at Public Colleges and Universities."
- October 10 -- Leslie Francis (Utah, Alfred C. Emery Professor of Law) and John G. Francis (Utah, Political Science) on "Group Rights and Cultural Property: When Group Members Disagree."
- October 31 -- Don Fallis (Arizona, SIRLS) on "The Epistemology of Wikipedia."
- November 7 -- Martin Frické (Arizona, SIRLS) on "DIKW: The Knowledge Pyramid."
- November 28 -- David Woodruff Smith (Irvine, Philosophy) on "Categories: How to Think In and About Them.".
Spring 2008:
- January 23 -- Tony Doyle (CUNY, Hunter College Library) "Privacy and Perfect Voyeurism."
- January 30 -- James Nason (Washington, Anthropology) "Archival Ethics and Traditional Knowledge: Micronesian and Native American Responses." co-sponsored with American Indian Studies
- February 13 -- David Cuillier (Arizona, Journalism) "State of secrecy: Access to government information in an age of terror."
- February 20 (HARVILL 313) -- Amy Fatzinger (Arizona, American Indian Studies) "Indians in the House: Revisiting the Indians in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie." co-sponsored with American Indian Studies
- February 27 -- Jana Bradley (Arizona, SIRLS) "Reframing Book Publishing in the Age of Networking."
- March 6 (THURS, 6:30, LYNCH PAVILION) -- ISI Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture
- March 12 -- Melanie Kimball (Buffalo, Informatics) "An Eye on the World: Teaching American Children about Life in Other Lands, 1900-1925"
- March 26 -- Kathryn La Barre (Illinois, Library and Information Science) "Bootstrapping facets by revisiting the heritage of early document retrieval systems"
- April 3 (THURS) -- Xiaolong Zhang (Penn State, Information Sciences and Technology) "Multiscale Information Visualization to Support Information Retrieval and Knowledge Exploration"
- April 9 -- Suzanne Weisband (Arizona, Management Information Systems) "Challenges for Leading at a Distance"
- April 16 (HARVILL 313) -- Robert Williams (Arizona, Law) "Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group v. Canada: Protecting Indigenous Peoples' Land Property Rights in the Inter-American Human Rights System." co-sponsored with American Indian Studies
Previous Research Brown Bags:
2006-2007 Schedule
Research Group on the History and Philosophy of Information Access
Research Group on the
History and Philosophy of Information Access
Many academic organizations and research groups study the History and Philosophy of some particular topic, such as Science, Mathematics, Art, Medicine, Economics, Education, Technology, etc. In line with this tradition, several faculty members at the University of Arizona’s School of Information Resources and Library Science study the History and Philosophy of Information Access (HPIA). Thus, we have formed the HPIA research group.
Mission:
Access to information is critical to modern life. In order to survive and flourish, people need to have access to information about health, careers, politics, public safety, science, technology, etc. Access to information that enlightens and entertains is also intrinsically valuable to human beings. The main function of libraries, the Internet, books, the mass media, museums, and many government agencies is to provide access to such information. But in order to design systems and organizations that effectively provide such access, we need to know how such systems and organizations have operated in the past and to think about how they ought to operate in the future. With this goal in mind, the HPIA research group examines through the lens of history and philosophy such topics as intellectual freedom, knowledge acquisition, open access, organization of information, literacy, information privacy, preservation of documents, scholarly communication, intellectual property, equitable access to libraries, and the digital divide.
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For further information about the HPIA research group, contact Don Fallis (fallis@email.arizona.edu).