http://sirls.arizona.edu/podcasts University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science Podcast Series Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:00:18 GMT ListGarden Program 1.3.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://sirls.arizona.edu/node/1613 An open townhall discussion with SIRLS Professor Peter Botticelli concerning the recent Google settlement. Google recently settled a class action law suit that will allow them to create a vast digital library of full-text books. Learn more about the settlement and the potential implications that this ruling may hold for the future of libraries. Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:53:46 GMT http://sirls.arizona.edu/node/1418 Abstract: A number of departments of Library and Information Science have begun to add courses in Ethics. In these courses, students are introduced to the American Library Association's "Library Bill of Rights," (LBR), which articulates the rights of the library patron. Article Five of the Library Bill of Rights (ALA 1996) states that, "A person's right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views" [emphasis added]. According to the American Library Association (ALA 2004), "the 'right to use a library' includes free access to, and unrestricted use of, all the services, materials, and facilities the library has to offer." The age provision has been understood to mean that if one limits a minor's access to any part of the collection on the grounds of age, then one is infringing this right. There are two possible explanations of whose rights are protected by this provision. The most obvious is that this provision protects the rights of the child to unrestricted use of the library. However, the statements defending this provision typically focus not on the rights of children, but on the rights of parents. For example, according to the ALA's (2004) interpretation of this provision, "Librarians and library governing bodies cannot assume the role of parents or the functions of parental authority in the private relationship between parent and child." In this paper, I argue that the parental rights justification of Article Five is seriously flawed, especially in the light of the ALA's position on children's rights to patron confidentiality. I then explore the question of whether the age provision can be defended on the grounds of children's rights to intellectual freedom. This focus is notable, since children's rights generally are under-theorized and their intellectual freedom rights, in particular, are not something that has been seriously addressed in the literature. Indeed, one of the most eloquent advocates of intellectual freedom, John Stuart Mill (1975 [1859], 166) explicitly excludes children from his consideration, saying that such rights are only possessed by those in the "maturity of their faculties." Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:22:53 GMT http://sirls.arizona.edu/node/1396 Recent LIS graduates finding employment in a one person library setting might not feel fully prepared to take on the many roles of a solo librarian. Catherine Dimenstein will talk about what it means to be a solo librarian: the work, the benefits, the challenges. She will also share some advice from veteran solos, along with some resource web sites. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:37:17 GMT http://sirls.arizona.edu/node/1393 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:01:56 GMT http://sirls.arizona.edu/node/1369 This talk is situated in a specific domain, namely biosystematics documents. These documents record living organisms: name, classification, morphological characters, collecting events, habitat and distribution, etc. Those documents contains high quality information but in a legacy format. How to effortlessly convert those documents into a new digital format, such as XML/RDF, is one of major problems facing biodiversity informatics researchers. The talk will review existing approaches and describe a different way to look at and solve the problem. Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:53:44 GMT http://sirls.arizona.edu/node/1350 Storybook accounts of science often downplay the contributions of informal collaborators and trusted assessors, not to mention those of technicians and others who manage labs, build accelerators, run experiments, debug software, repair equipment, handle animals, manage fly stocks, clone DNA fragments, sequence proteins, conduct tests, take measurements, and analyze data streams. In this talk I examine the unexamined, or better the under-examined, and show how the "rhopos" of scholarly communication, as revealed in the journal article's paratext, can be systematically gathered and analyzed to deepen our understanding of the "moral economy" of disciplines such as genetics. What I am proposing is a form of intellectual archaeology with the humble acknowledgment as the primary site for exploration. The mundane insights into science in action afforded by acknowledgments complement and vivify the large-scale, bibliometric visualizations of communication in science with which we are so familiar. Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:01:46 GMT http://sirls.arizona.edu/node/1352 Speakers: Mary Feeney, Associate Librarian for the University of Arizona's Main Library; Prof. Tom Wilding, Professor of Practice at SIRLS; Dr. Kay Mathiesen, Senior Lecturer at SIRLS. <br> <br>Program Description: Feeney starts the panel with information on SRRT (ALA's Social Responsibilities Round Table) and TFOE (SRRT's Task Force on the Environment). She also discusses what a progressive librarian means. Wilding continues the discussion by providing background on SRRT and PLG. Mathiesen concludes the panel with ethical considerations for what progressivism means for a librarian. Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:52:21 GMT