Fall 2011 Schedule
Research Colloquia | Lunchtime Lectures
Welcome to the Fall set of public lectures, discussions, and research topics.
The series was started in Fall 2004 by Gerry Benoit
to encourage sharing ideas and getting to know colleagues and students.
Lectures and panels will be podcasted, too. Unless otherwise scheduled, the lectures
are in the Palace Road Building, 2nd floor, room P210.
Spring 2011 |
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[Sabbatical] Fall 2008 | Spring 2008 |
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2004
Fall 2004
October 6
Thursday
12:10 - 1 pm
Room: P210 |
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Naresh Agarwal, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Verifying survey items for Construct Validity: A two-stage Sorting Procedure for Questionnaire Design in Information Behavior Research |
October 20
Thursday
12:10 - 1 pm
Room: P210 |
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Athanasia (Nancy) Pontika
Doctoral student
How the National Institutes of Health Public-Access Policy Influences the Principal Investigators' Publishing Preferences |
October 27
Thursday
12:10- 1 pm
Room: P210 |
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Laura Saunders, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Information as Weapon: Propaganda, Politics, and the Role of Libraries
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Nov 3
Thursday
12:10 - 1 pm
Room: P210 |
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G. Benoît, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Applying ruby to improve user engagement with encoded texts and manuscript arts
Ruby, the small explanatory text characters used primarily in Asian languages, is an XHTML and CSS3 annotation for marking and displaying texts. By incorporating and expanding ruby tags in existing electronic document collections and digital libraries, encoded texts might be made more useful to end-users, contributing to new dynamic visual and intellectual engagement, increasing appreciation for visualized humanities, internationalization, and supporting various educational needs.
Integrating the art and science of the text leads the user to generative engagement by incorporating pre-attentive behaviors, stimulated by the visuals, yet providing disambiguating and contextualizing data. Such application may advance from a method of inquiry from relying solely on texts to incorporating observation and hands-on experience. This expands the expected methods in pursuit of learning. Electronic documents by themselves are important sources of evidence and discoveries from them remain valuable. Expanding the means to represent and to publicize knowledge advance us to dynamic templates for its production.
Expanding understanding of and applying ruby and CSS3 means developing a linguistically heterodox corpus that, with mixed writing systems, provide research opportunities into web-based reading comprehension, art appreciation, information retrieval studies using SGML, and interactive interface studies.
iSchool poster abstract (.pdf) |
Presentation Slides
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Nov 10
Thursday
12 - 1 pm
Room: P210 |
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Katherine M. Wisser, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Can I be friends with Mother Teresa?: The wily world of relationships in archival description |
Nov 17
Thursday
12:10 - 1 pm
[Room: P210] |
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Ann Cullen
Doctoral student. Harvard Business School
Von Krogh, Nonaka and Ichijo’s “knowledge activist” model: Does it offer a useful way for librarians and information professionals to rethink their roles?
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