Spring 2012 Schedule
Research Colloquia | Lunchtime Lectures
Welcome to the Fall set of public lectures, discussions, and research topics.
All are welcome.
- Lunchtime refreshments are provided by the Dean of Simmons College GSLIS.
- Podcasts are provided by the GSLIS Tech Lab Staff.
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.
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February 16
Thursday
12:10 - 1 pm
Room: P207
Henrietta Derman
Russian Fulbright scholar, Olga Kulikova, will give a presentation about Henrietta Derman, a Simmons College LS alumna (Class of 1917), an important revolutionary library leader in Soviet-era Russia and who was consigned to a Soviet gulag due to her “modern library practices.”
March 28
Wednesday
12:10 - 1 pm
Room: P210
“They Wanted to Read Books by Lady Authors”: Early 20th Century Children’s Reading Clubs at the Cleveland Public Library.
April 3
Tuesday
12:10 - 1 pm
Room: P210
Humans at the Intersection of Nature and Technology
This presentation will share the results of an informatics study, looking at the intersection of humans and the natural world using technology. The study will look at the use of GPS technology, along with the information provided on www.geocaching.com, in exploring how technology is used to bring humans into contact with different aspects of the natural world.
April 20
Friday
12:10 - 1 pm
Room: P210
Multimodal Stories: LIS Students Explore Reading, Literacy, and Library Service through the Lens of “The 39 Clues”
What’s the Story with Multimodal Books for Kids?
In this talk, I will explore the issues and questions that I wrote about in my contribution to the recently published article, “Multi-Modal Stories: LIS Students Explore Reading, Literacy, and Library Service Through the Lens of ‘The 39 Clues’” (JELIS, Jan./Feb. 2012). Multimodal, multimedia, and cross-platform stories like The 39 Clues and other titles are extending the concept of “reading a book” across forums and modes, including video games, card collections, participatory writing, and interactive web and social media experiences. I’ll examine and open for discussion some of the opportunities and questions inspired by multimodal texts in library contexts, including issues of library access, whether readers or publishers are driving the popularity of these stories, and what is the “story” in these kinds of reading experiences - just the book, the book and the enhanced content, or maybe a messy mix somewhere in between.
April 24
Tuesday
12:10 - 1 pm
Room: P207
Using auroraDL to integrate your digital images
There are lots of OpenSource projects - but they all have to have their beginning ... In this talk we explore auroraDL and demonstrate how hundreds of image files can be catalogued in minutes, how any end-user (student, teacher, librarian) can create valid, well-formed, and standards-compliant records.
In addition, these records can link back to library holdings and feed into your own interface designs. We demonstrate the integrated search tool that builds teaching websites and .pdf books on-the-fly and a visual-only interactive interface for exploring visual resources in a form of "user-directed experience."
April 26
Thursday
12:10 - 1 pm
Room: P210
[Topic: TBA]
To be announced.
