Title: Piracy and Place-making: An ethnography of a software copy shop in Hanoi, Vietnam
Presenter: Lilly Nguyen, Women and Gender Studies at UNC
Abstract:
In this talk, I describe the work of a pirated software disc shop in Hanoi, Vietnam. Based on nineteen months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2010 to 2011, this talk will show how copying served as a form of place-making. Copying allowed shop owners to make and reproduce software discs, but more importantly, copying proved to be a vital process in which people shared knowledge, repaired computers, and generated professional networks along “Computer Street.” As such, rather than assume piracy to be illicit and illegal, this talk instead reveals the ways in which copying and piracy are highly contingent on culturally informed ideas of expertise, techno-material stability, and everyday entrepreneurial cultures.
Where: Manning Hall Room 208
When: Friday, April 22nd 2016, 12-1PM

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Title: Infrastructuring & the Artful Integrations of Workers on the Move
Presenter: Ingrid Erickson of Rutgers
Abstract:
Contemporary forms of work, while continuing to be intimately connected to information and communication technologies (ICTs), are increasingly being shaped by two new sociotechnical forces–the expanding global economy and emerging cloud infrastructures. Together these realities have resulted in the need for a new type of worker that is technically skilled and amenable to project work, while likewise able to accomplish his or her tasks across multiple environments or while on the move. These individuals can be likened to professional satellites—actors who define their work not by their presence in a traditional work-related location but by their agile ability to orbit around clients, co-workers, and infrastructures integrating inputs and output as they circumnavigate. This talk draws on a recent study to explore how workers must actively configure infrastructures to address both technological and contextual constraints, ranging from technological and infrastructural breakdown to difficulties caused by both spatial and organizational boundaries. These ‘artful integrations’ by workers involve the construction of bridging, assembling, and circumventing solutions to maintain task continuity and, more importantly, to produce a seamless veneer of professionalism for clients and coworkers. Engaging in these practices requires that workers develop ‘infrastructural competence’ in addition to knowledge expertise–a discovery that suggests not only the need for new ways of training workers in the future, but also an update to the ways that we conceptualize knowledge work.
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, April 8th 2016, 12-1PM

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Title: If you build it, will they come? Practices, technology, and the value proposition of online civic engagement.
Presenter: Dima Epstein, University of Illinois
Abstract:
Between Twitter revolutions and Facebook elections, there is a growing belief that information and communication technologies are changing the way democracy is practiced. The discourse around e-government and online deliberation is frequently focused on technical solutions and based in the belief that if you build it correctly effective mass participation will follow. This talk will delve into the intricacies of design and practice of effective online engagement in complex policymaking activities and deliberation; it will also touch on the value proposition of lay citizens’ contribution to such processes. The talk is based on research conducted on RegulationRoom – an experimental online c ivic engagement platform designed and operated by CeRI (Cornell eRulemaking initiative). It will draw on three recent studies dealing with mapping of challenges for effective online participation, experimenting with platform design, and evaluating potential contribution of such civic engagement.
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 25th 2016, 12-1 PM

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Title: Geographic Information: Organization, Access, and Use
Presenter: Wade Bishop, Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 11th 2016, 12:00 Noon

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Title: Innovative IT Approaches in HIV
Presenter: Tarandeep Anand & Kate Chattiya, Co-founders and project directors for Adam’s Love and TemanTeman.org organized by the Thai Red Cross Aids Research Centre, Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia and Indonesia

Where: Manning Hall Room 208
When: Friday, March 4th 2016, 12:00 Noon

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Title: When is a Rock not a Rock? Exploiting Ontologies for Personalized Search and Recommendations
Presenter: Susan Gauch, University of Arkansas
Where: Manning Hall Room 208
When: Friday, February 19th 2016, 12:00 Noon

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Title: Science Helping the Data to Help the Science
Presenter: David Arctur, Research Scientist, UT Austin
Where: Manning Hall Room 208
When: Friday, February 5th 2016, 12:00 noon

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Title: Your Internet and My Internet are Not the Same Thing: why  bridging the Digital Divide requires us to make keener distinctions about wealth and privilege
Presenter: Cliff Missen, Clinical Associate Professor and Director of WiderNet, School of Information and Library Science, UNC
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, November 20th 2015, 12:00 noon

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Title: A Framework for Interacting with CIDOC CRM/ FRBRoo data: With emphasis on heterogeneous needs
Presenter: Maliheh Farrokhnia,  PhD candidate, Library and Information Science at Oslo & Akershus University College in Norway
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, October 9th 2015, 12:00 noon

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Title: Should we archive Facebook?  Why the users are wrong and the NSA is right.
Presenter: Cathy Marshall,  Adjunct Professor, Center for the Study of Digital Libraries, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (formerly of Microsoft Research)
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, September 18th 2015, 12:00 noon

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Title: Getting to the Good Bits: Enabling Use of Born-Digital Materials
Presenters: Cal Lee, Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Science, UNC ; Kam Woods, Research Scientist, School of Information and Library Science, UNC
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, September 11th 2015, 12:00 noon

Title: Evaluating the Use of Academy Library by Cadets and Post Graduate Students in Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, Nigeria
Presenters: Col. Muktar Muhammad Bunza, College Librarian, National Defence College Nigeria; Mrs. Maimuna Izah, Academy Librarian, Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, Nigeria
Where: Manning Hall, Room 006 (WiderNet Lab)
When: Thursday, August 27th 2015, 12:00 noon

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Title: I’m not a social worker!: An information service model for working with patrons in crisis
Presenter: Lynn Westbrook, Associate Professor, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, April 24th 2015, 12:00 noon

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Title: Identifying Neurological Patterns Associated with Information Seeking: A Pilot fMRI Study
Presenters: Javed Mostafa, Professor, School of Information and Library Science, UNC ; Vincent Carrasco, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Information and Library Science, UNC
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, April 17th 2015, 12:00 noon

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Title: “Can’t you just tell me what to type?”: Urban Libraries Respond
Presenter: Deborah Turner, Assistant Professor, College of Computing & Informatics (CCI), Drexel University
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 27th 2015, 12:00 noon

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Title: Digitisation and on-line accessibility of cultural heritage collections in Europe
Presenters: Javier Hernandez-Ros, EU Fellow at UNC and Head of the Creativity Unit, European Commission.
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 20th 2015, 12:00 noon
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Title: MyEpi: Epidemiology of one
Presenters: Dr. Georgiy Bobashev, Senior Research Statistician at RTI
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, February 13th 2015, 12:00 noon

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Title: Large-Scale Machine Learning for Computer Vision
Presenters: Dr. Alex Berg, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, UNC
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, January 23rd 2015, 12:30 noon

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Title: Human-Centric Visual Recognition
Presenters: Dr. Tamara L. Berg, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, UNC
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, January 23rd 2015, 12 noon

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Title: Digital Scholarship and Academic Libraries
Presenters: Dr. Stewart Varner, Digital Scholarship Librarian, UNC
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, November 14th 2014, 12 noon

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Title: Leveraging information technology to develop multi-language patient education materials
Presenters: Dr. Charles Lee, Polyglot Systems
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, November 7th 2014, 12 noon

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Title: Modelling User Data Access Patterns as a Component of Archive Engineering
Presenters: Dr. Bruce Barkstrom, NASA
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, October 10th 2014, 12 noon

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Title: A Brief History of Interactive Information Retrieval Research
Presenter: Nick Belkin, Distinguished Professor, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, October 3rd 2014, 12 Noon

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Title: In Face on Facebook: Information Tactics and Technological Distributions of Power
Presenter: Dr. Jessa Lingel, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Microsoft Research New England
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, September 26th 2014, 12 Noon

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Title: How do place, community and information influence behaviors in the disabled?
Presenter: Amelia Gibson, Assistant Professor, School of Information and Library Science at UNC
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, September 19th 2014, 12 Noon

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Title: Action and Alignment–Using Collaborative Networks To Support Scholarly Communications
Presenter: Dr. Katherine Skinner, executive director of Educopia
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, April 25th 2014, 12 Noon

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Title: Neuronal-activation Patterns and Search
Presenter: Javed Mostafa, Professor, School of Information and Library Science at UNC
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, April 11th 2014, 12 Noon

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Title: NSF Innovations Corps (iCorps) program–Fostering entrepreneurship
Presenter:
Arcot Rajasekar, Professor, School of Information and Library Science at UNC
Leesa Brieger, Senior Research Software Developer at  RENCI – Renaissance Computing Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, April 4th 2014, 12 Noon

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Title: A statistical approach to utilizing electronic health records
Presenter: Dr. Joe Lucas, Senior Director of Predictive Analytics at Quintiles
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 21st 2014, 12 Noon

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Title: Explaining Breakdowns in Political Communication: Digital, Data, Analytics, and the 2012 Presidential Campaign Cycle
Presenter: Daniel Kreiss, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 7th 2014, 12 Noon

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Title: Google Glass @ SILS
Presenter: Brad Hemminger, Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Science at UNC
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, January 24th 2014, 12 Noon

This is a document to save and share ideas for apps and projects for Google Glass, and in particular for the SILS Google Glass group. Please feel free to add your ideas to this document (ideas in “Proposed by Others” and development notes in “Development” section).

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Title: Educational Entrepreneurship in International Settings: Lessons Learned from LIS Collaboration in the Middle East and North Africa
Presenter: Representatives of the ELIME-21 group: Barbara Moran, John D. Martin III, Amanda Click, and Sarah Ramdeen (Moderator).
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, January 17th 2014, 12 Noon

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Title: ESIP Federation: Connecting Communities for Advancing Data, Systems, Human & Organizational Interoperability
Presenter: Carol Meyer, Manager of Operations for the Foundation for Earth Science
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, November 22nd 2013, 12 Noon

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Title: CrowdLogger: A platform for conducting remote web-interaction studies
Presenter: Henry Feild, Assistant Professor at Endicott College
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, November 15th 2013, 12 Noon

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Title: Augmenting Web Search Surrogates With Images: Does it help to add images to web search results?
Presenter: Robert Capra, Assistant Professor, School of Information and Library Science at UNC
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, October 25th 2013, 12 Noon

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Title: Factors Affecting Aggregated Search Coherence and Search Behavior
Presenter: Jamie Arguello, Assistant Professor, School of Information and Library Science at UNC
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, October 25th 2013, 12 Noon

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Title: Bibliometric Overview of Chalmers Technical University’s Collaborations
Presenter: Thomas Houze, Innovation Adviser, Chalmer University of Technology
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, October 4th 2013, 12 Noon

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Title: “Facebook is a Luxury”:  Discussing High Costs and other Barriers to Social Media Adoption in Rural Kenya
Presenter: Susan Wyche, Assistant Professor, Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies & Media at Michigan State University
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, September 27th 2013, 12 Noon

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Title: Using Metadata to Facilitate Understanding and Certification of Assertions about the Preservation Properties of a Preservation System
Presenter: Jewel H. Ward, Hao Xu, Mike C. Conway, Terrell G. Russell & Antoine de Torcy
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, September 20th 2013, 12 Noon

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Title: Exploring cross-cultural differences in information seeking behavior in a qualitative interview study
Presenter: Gabriele Pätsch, Doctoral Student, Institute of Information Science & Language Technology, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, September 13th 2013, 12 Noon

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Title: The Effects of Threshold Priming and Need for Cognition on Relevance Assessments
Presenter: Diane Kelly, Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Science at UNC
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, May 3rd 2013, 12 Noon

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Title: Information Orders after the 1906 Earthquake
Presenter: Megan Finn, Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research New England
Where: Carroll Hall, Freedom Forum Conference Center (3rd floor)
When: Friday, April 19th 2013, 12 Noon

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Title: Big Data in Health Care:  An Environmental Scan
Presenter: Shellery Cunningham, MSPH, Health IT Scientist with RTI International
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, April 12th 2013, 12 Noon

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Title: Mobile Health Informatics Applications at RTI
Presenter: Robert Furberg MD, Phd, Senior Clinical Informaticist, RTI
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 22nd 2013, 12 Noon

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Title: Serving the Information Poor: eGranary digital libraries in developing countries and incarcerated populations
Presenter: Cliff Missen, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Science at UNC
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 1st 2013, 12 Noon

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Title: National Library of Australia Digital Preservation: a chronology of ideas and projects over the last 6 years
Presenter: David Pearson , Manager of the Digital Preservation section at the National Library of Australia
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, January 11th 2013, 12 Noon

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Title: Using Web-based Tools to Communicate Breast Cancer Risk to Young Women
Presenter:   Neasha B. Graves, Community Outreach and Education Manager, UNC Institute for the Environment
Kathleen Gray, Program Director, UNC Institute for the Environment
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, December 7th 2012, 12 Noon

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Title: Beyond Google: Improving Searchers’ Experience and Satisfaction Using their Behaviors and Contexts
Presenter:   Jingjing Liu, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science at University of South Carolina
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, November 30th 2012, 12 Noon

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Title: From Trickle to Flood: An Extensible Approach to Large-Scale Digitization of Manuscript Collections
Presenter:   Tim Shearer, Head, Application Development Team at UNC – University Library
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, November 16th 2012, 12 Noon

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Title: Physical information spaces, in context
Presenter:   Rob St. Amant, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, November 9th 2012, 12 Noon

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Title: Building National Data Infrastructure
Presenter:   Reagan Moore, Professor, School of Information and Library Science at UNC
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, November 2nd 2012, 12 Noon

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Title: Differences in Effectiveness Across Sub-collections
Presenter:   Falk Scholer, Senior Lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, October 26th 2012, 1 p.m.

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Title: The Effect of Aggregated Search Coherence on Search Behavior
Presenter:   Jamie Arguello, Assistant Professor, School of Information and Library Science at UNC
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, October 26th 2012, 12:30 Noon

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Title: Design and Evaluation of a System to Support Collaborative Search
Presenter:   Robert Capra, Assistant Professor, School of Information and Library Science at UNC
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, October 26th 2012, 12 Noon

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Title: Who Owns Research Data?
Presenter:  Cal Lee,  Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Science at UNC
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, September 14th 2012, 12 Noon

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Title: The  Psychophysics of Web Search: Why Cranfield and User Studies (Might) Disagree
Presenter:  Falk Scholer, Senior Lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, September 7th 2012, 12 Noon

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Title: “Big Data” and Approaches for Using it in Genomics Research
Presenter:  Michael Shoffner, RENCI Data Sciences Group, Adjunct Instructor, SILS
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, May 4th 2012, 12 Noon

Presentation Slides

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Title: The Intersection of Usability, Accessibility and SEO
Presenter:  David Minton, Managing Partner of DesignHammer Media Group
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, April 20th 2012, 12 Noon

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Title: The Discipline of Organizing
Presenter:  Robert J. Glushko, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, April 6th 2012, 12 Noon

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Title: Studying Personal Information Management as a Dual-Task Scenario
Presenter:  Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 23rd 2012, 12 Noon

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Title: Metrics for Openness
Presenter: David Nichols, Department of Computer Science at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 2nd 2012, 12 Noon

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Title:  Social Roles as Context in Information Behavior
Presenter:  Donald Case, Professor in the University of Kentucky College of Communication and Information Studies
Where: Pleasants Family Assembly Room at Wilson Library
When: Friday, February 28th 2012, 11 AM

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Title:  Data Triage and Data Analytics for Personal Digital Collections
Presenter:  Kam Woods, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Where: Pleasants Family Assembly Room at Wilson Library
When: Friday, January 27th 2012, 12 Noon

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Title: Using Off-Line Libraries to Fill a Critical Information Gap in Underserved Areas
Presenter: Cliff Missen, director of the WiderNet Project and an instructor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa
Where: Pleasants Family Assembly Room at Wilson Library
When: Monday, January 23rd 2012, 11 AM

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Title: Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama
Presenter: Daniel Kreiss, Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, November 18th 2011, 12 Noon

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Title: Creating Digital Libraries: A Collision Course with Copyright Law?
Presenter: Laura N. Gasaway, Paul B. Eaton Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, November 11th 2011, 12 Noon

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Title: Delivering query suggestions from authority data in Library Discovery Layers
Presenter: Ben Pennell, Applications Analyst at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, October 14th 2011, 12 Noon

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Title: The Use of Social Tags in Interactive Information Retrieval
Presenter: Yong-Mi Kim, Post Doctoral Associate, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, September 23rd 2011, 12 Noon

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Title: Geographic Interfaces
Presenter: Mike Graves, Application Developer at the Davis Library, University of North Carolina
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, September 16th 2011, 12 Noon

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Title: Food on the Table, Privacy in the Cloud
Presenter: Jim Adler, Chief Privacy Officer & General Manager, Data Systems, at the University of North Carolina
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, September 9th 2011, 12 Noon

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Title: An Examination of Two Delivery Modes for Interactive Search System Experiments:  Remote and Laboratory
Presenter: Diane Kelly and Karl Gyllstrom
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, April 29 2011, 12 Noon

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Title: Connecting scholars with information–and unlocking it!
Presenter: Jan Reichelt, President and Co-Founder of Mendeley
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When:  Friday, April 19 2011, 12 Noon

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Title: Introduction to Affective Features based Image Retrieval
Presenter: Kun Huang, Associate professor in the department of Information Management, School of Management, at Beijing Normal University
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, April 8 2011, 12 Noon

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Title: Ontology-based Information Access: Experience from FinnOnto projects
Presenter: Tuukka Ruotsalo, Aalto University, School of Science and Technology Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo)
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, April 1 2011, 12 Noon

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Title:Information and Environmental Finance: The Role Information Plays in the Work of the Environmental Finance Center
Presenter: Jeff Hughes, Director of the Environmental Finance Center at UNC
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 25 2011, 12 Noon

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Title:Electronic records in the “wild frontier”:  a practical approach to digital preservation
Presenter: Erin O’Meara
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 18 2011, 12 Noon

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Title: BioSense 2.0: Public Health Surveillance through Collaboration
Presenter:  Barbara Massoudi, Senior Research Health Scientist at RTI International
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 16th 2011, 10 AM
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Title: Practice Transformation Project: Road to Successful EHR Adoption and Implementation
Presenter:  Beth Lasater, Health Research Analyst at RTI International
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 16th 2011, 10:30 AM
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Title: Patient-generated Health Data – exploring its definition and impact on care delivery and health IT
Presenter:  Michael Shapiro, Senior Health Informaticist at RTI International
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 16th 2011, 11:00 AM
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Title: mHealth at RTI International: How Mobile Technologies Are Changing the Practice of Medicine & Public Health
Presenter:  Robert Furberg, PhD, MBA; Clinical Informaticist at RTI International
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 16th 2011, 11:30 AM
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Title:  Chronic Illness in Second Life
Presenter:  Saira Haque, Research Scientist at RTI International
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 16th 2011, 12 Noon
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Title: Workplace Information Literacy: Its Role in Community and Technical College Libraries
Presenter: Dr. Nora Bird, Assistant Professor at UNC-Greensboro
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 4 2011, 12 Noon
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Title: Opportunities and Challenges in Engaged Scholarship: Faith Makes Us Live and the 2010 Haitian Earthquake
Presenter: Margarita Mooney, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UNC-Chapel Hill
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Wednesday, Mar 2 2011, 12 Noon

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Title: Purposeful data collection in online user research
Presenter: Elke Greifeneder
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, Feb 16th 2011, 12 Noon

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Title: Curation of a disk image collection to support education
Presenter: Cal Lee and Kam Woods, UNC SILS
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, Nov 5 2010, 12 Noon

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Title: Health informatics education
Presenter: Javed Mostafa, UNC SILS
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, Oct 29, 2010, 12 Noon

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Title: Beyond everyday life: Information seeking behavior in deeply meaningful and profoundly personal contexts
Presenter: Rachel Clemens and Amber Cushing, UNC SILS doctoral students
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, Oct 1, 2010, 12 Noon

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Title: Prime III: One machine, one vote for everyone
Presenter: Juan Gilberts, Head of Clemson’s Human-Centered Computing Division
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, Sept 24 2010, 12 Noon

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Title: A modicum of creativity after Feist
Presenter: Julian Warner
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, August 27 2010, 12 Noon

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Title: A tale of two systems: How do facets affect the library search experience
Presenter: Sarah Ramdeen, SILS doctoral student
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, April 23th 2010, 12 Noon

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Title: Becoming a Public Steward: Technology and Its Role in the Public Sector
Presenter: Shannon Tufts, Lecturer and Director, Center for Public Technology
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, April 16th 2010, 12 Noon

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Title: Everywhere to go but where is home? Building “places of our own” for personal information
Presenter: William Jones, Research Associate Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, April 9th 2010, 12 Noon

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Title: Effects of Popularity and Quality on the Usage of Query Suggestions during Information Search
Presenter: Diane Kelly
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 26th 2010, 12 Noon

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Title: Tools-at-Hand and Learning in Multi-Session, Collaborative Search
Presenter: Robert Capra
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 19th 2010, 12 Noon

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Title:Science Data Repositories
Presenter: Laura Marcial
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 5th 2010, 12 Noon

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Title: Introduction to Open Source Search with Apache Lucene and Solr
Presenter: Grant Ingersoll, Apache Lucene and Solr committer, and a Vice President at the Apache Software Foundation
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, Feb 11 2010, 12 Noon

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Title: Beyond Google: A Quest to Understand Information Seeking Across Time and People
Presenter: Chirag Shah
Where: Manning Hall, Room 214
When: Friday, December 4th 2009, 12 Noon

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Title: Controlled Vocabularies and Ontologies Research
Presenter: Rahul Deshmukh and Lina Huang
Where: Manning Hall, Room 214
When: Friday, November 20th 2009, 12 Noon

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Title: Modeling Information Seeking Behavior in Social Media
Presenter: Eugene Agichtein, Assistant Professor in the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Emory University
Where: Manning Hall, Room 014
When: Wednesday, November 18th, 2009, 11 am

Presentation Slides: Not available

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Title: An Ideal Approach to Open Access Author Payment
Presenter: Don King, Distinguished Research Professor, School of Information and Library Science
Where: Manning Hall, Room 214
When: Friday, October 9th, 2009, 12 Noon

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Title: Identity, Privacy and Support: Three perspectives on Social Network Sites
Presenter: Fred Stutzman
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, September 18th, 2009, 12 Noon
Presentation slides: Not available

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Title: Mechanical Turk
Presenter: Terrell Russell and Jacob Kramer-Duffield
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, August 28th, 2009, 12 Noon

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Title: Interaction Design for Novel Media Technologies
Presenter: Dr. Hyowon Lee, Dublin City University
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, April 3rd, 2009, 12 Noon
Related Papers:
Interaction Platform-oriented Perspective in Designing Novel Applications

Balancing the Power of Multimedia Information Retrieval and Usability in Designing Interactive TV

Constructing a SenseCam Visual Diary as a Media Process

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Title: Virtualization
Presenter: Main speaker – Mladen Vouk (Department Head and Professor of Computer Science, and Associate Vice Provost for Information Technology at N.C. State University), plus others from NC State and IBM including (Sam Averitt, Eric Sills, Aaron Peeler, Sarah, Henry)
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 20th, 2009, 12 Noon

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Title: Experiences in Deploying Public Metadata Analysis Tools
Presenter: David Nichols, professor of computer science at the University of Waikato in New Zealand
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 6th, 2009, 12 Noon

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Title: Celebrating Darwin Day + 1: Metadata Research and the Dryad Repository Project
Presenter: Jane Greenberg, Sarah Carrier, and Hollie White
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, February 13th, 2009, 12 Noon

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Title: Update on Collaborations: Humanities, Arts and Technology (CHAT)
Presenter: Megan R. Granda
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, January 30th, 2009, 12 Noon

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Title: Video Context Indexing at LABRI
Presenter: J Benois-Pineau LABRI/Univ Bordeax
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, January 16th, 2009, 12 Noon

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Title: Republic of Web: a Web of, by, and for the People
Presenter: Chirag Shah
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, November 14th, 2008, 12 Noon

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Title: RENCI Open House Meet
Where: RENCI
When: Friday, October 31st, 2008, 12 Noon
Presentation: Not available

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Title: Reinventing Science Librarianship: Education for New Roles
Presenter: Catherine Blake
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, October 3rd 2008, 12 Noon

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Title: Next Generation Library Catalogs: Local Developments and Research Opportunities
Presenter: Derek Rodriguez
Program Officer, Triangle Research Library Network
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, September 26th 2008, 12 Noon

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Title: Digital Video Policy and Practice in Higher Education: From Gatekeeping to Viral Lectures
Presenter: Gary Marchionini
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, September 12th 2008, 12 Noon

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Title: Corporate Reputation and the News Media: A Program of Research on Media Intelligence
Presenter: Craig Carroll
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When:Friday, September 5th 2008, 12 Noon

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Title: Ongoing Internet Public Library-related work in SILS
Presenter: Jeffrey Pomerantz
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, May 2nd 2008, 12 Noon

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Title: Method Bias? The Effect of Performance Feedback on Users’ Evaluations of an Interactive IR System
Presenter: Diane Kelly
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, April 4th 2008, 12 Noon

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Title: Library Catalog as Versatile Discovery Platform
Presenter: Tito Sierra and Joseph Ryan, NCSU Libraries
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, March 21st 2008, 12 Noon

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Title: Preservation Manager and Universal Virtual Computer
Presenter: Dr. Raymond J. van Diessen, Senior Managing Consultant for IBM Global Business Services in the Netherlands
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, Feb. 22nd 2008, 12 Noon

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Title: Blogger Perceptions on Digital Preservation
Presenter: Songphan Choemprayong, Carolyn Hank, and Laura Sheble
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, Feb. 8th 2008, 12 Noon

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Title: Discovering the Unseen World through Standards
Presenter: Toby Considine
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, Nov. 30th 2007, 12 Noon

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Title: Open Content Alliance: 2007 Meeting Report
Presenter: Don Sizemore
Where: Manning Hall, Room 116
When: Friday, Nov. 16th 2007, 12 Noon

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Title: Automatic Gene Ontology Annotation in a Text Categorization Framework
Presenter: Kazuhiro Seki
Where: Murphey Hall, Room 104
When: Monday, Nov. 12th 2007, 12 Noon
Presentation: Not available

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Title: Text and Images. Better Together
Presenter: Mari-Carmen Marcos
Where: Manning 208
When: Friday, Nov. 9th 2007, 12 Noon

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Title: I Still Can’t Find What I Want: An Evaluation Of Next Generation Library Catalogs That Combine Text Search With Faceted Navigation
Presenter: Cory Lown & Brad Hemminger
Where: Manning 208
When: Friday, Nov. 2nd 2007, 12 Noon

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Title: Students’ Personal Information Management and the MyLifeBits System
Presenter: Abe Crystal
Where: Manning 208
When: Friday, Oct. 26th 2007, 12 Noon

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Title: Science 2.0
Presenter: Bora Zivkovic
Where: Manning 208
When: Friday, Oct. 5th 2007, 12 Noon

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Title: Best-Answer Selection Criteria in a Social Q&A site (Yahoo! Answers) from the User-Oriented Relevance Perspective
Presenter: Sanghee Oh
Where: Manning 208
When: Friday, Sept. 28th 2007, 12 Noon

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Title: Hunting for Hip, Hipsters, and Happenings on YouTube – A ContextMiner Story
Presenter: Chirag Shah
Where: Manning 208
When: Friday, Sept. 21st 2007, 12 Noon

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Title: Carolina Digital Library Project
Presenter: Kirill Fesenko
Where: Manning 208
When: Friday, Sept. 7th 2007, 12 Noon

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Title: Service and Service Systems: A New Science?
Presenter: John Bailey, IBM Research
Where: Manning 208
When: Friday, April 20th, 2007, 12 Noon

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Title: Carolina’s Research Vision
Presenter: Andy Johns, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research
Where: Manning 208
When: Friday, April 13th, 2007, 12 Noon

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Title: Seminar on UNC Social Software Symposium
Presenter: Fred Stutzman and Gary Marchionini
Where: Manning 208
When: Friday, March 30th, 2007, 12 Noon

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Title: Toward Multimedia Surrogation
Presenter: Gary Marchionini
Where: Manning 208
When: Friday, February 16th, 2007, 12 Noon

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Title: Wikis for Classrooms
Presenter: Brad Hemminger
Where: Manning 208
When: Friday, February 2nd, 2007 12 Noon

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Title: 21st Century Student Experience
Presenter: John Oberlin
Where: Manning 208
When: Friday, January 19th, 2007, 12 Noon

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Title: Scientific Discovery: A View from the Trenches
Presenter: Cathy Blake
Where: Manning 208
When: Friday, December 8th, 2006, 12 Noon

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Title: GIS Data Capture and Preservation
Presenter: Steve Morris, Head of Digital Library Initiatives, North Carolina State University Libraries
Where: Manning 208
When: Friday, November 17th, 2006, 12 Noon

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Title: Peg Leg Sam, Possum Trot, and Pilebutts – Folkstream.net
Presenter: Paul Jones and Kristina Spurgin

Where: Manning 214

When: Friday, November 10th, 2006, 12 Noon

Presentation: Not available

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Title: Web Archives Workbench, a NDIIPP funded project, and Archive-It, a service offered by the Internet Archive
Presenters: Kelly Eubank, NC Department of Cultural Resources, Government Records Branch, Electronic Records Archivist, and Jennifer Ricker of the North Carolina State Library
Where: Manning 208
When: Friday, October 27th, 2006,  12 Noon

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Title: Organizing the World’s Information: Google’s Vision for the 21st Century
Presenters: Craig Silverstein, Google’s Technical Director and First Employee
Sponser: The Health Sciences Library and School of Information and Library Science
Where: Medical Biomolecular Research Building at UNC-CH
When: Thursday, October 26th,  2006, 4-5:30 PM
Presentation Not available

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Title: Institutional Repositories and Scholarly Communications at UNC-CH
Presenter: Helen Tibbo, Brad Hemminger
Where: Manning 208
When: Friday, October 13th, 2006, 12 Noon

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Title: NHPRC Electronic Records Research Fellowship Symposium
Where: Pleasant Room, Wilson Library
When: Friday, Oct. 6th, 2006, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM
Schedule: Download Schedule
Event Website: NHPRC Fellows

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Title: Memex Personal Information Management (MyLifeBits)
Presenter: Abe Crystal
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, September 15th 2006, 12 Noon

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Title: Does Open Science Matter? A Case Study of Genomics
Presenter: Robert Cook-Deegan, Director of the Duke Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy
Where: UNC Medical Biomolecular Research Building (MBRB), Ground Floor Auditorium, G202
(The MBRB is a relatively new building, on Columbia St south of Thurston-Bowles, and north of the Ambulatory Care Center).
When: Friday, April 21st 2006, 12 Noon
Presentation: Not available

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Title: Reclaiming your personal identity, the ClaimID.com project
Presenter: Terrell Russell, Fred Stutzman
Where: Manning Hall room 208
When: Friday, April 7th 2006, 12 Noon

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Title: Report from Study of Information Seeking Behavior of Scientists at UNC
Presenter: Brad Hemminger, SILS
Where: Manning Hall room 208
When: Friday, Mar 24th 2006, 12 Noon

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Title: Inter-library Loan Process Annotations: Transition from Physical to Electronic
Presenter: Lili Luo & Dave West
Where: Manning Hall room 208
When: Friday, Mar 10th 2006, 12 Noon

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Title: Using Endeca for Catalog interface
Presenter: Andrew Pace
Where: Manning Hall room 208
When: Friday, Mar 3rd 2006, 12 Noon

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Title: Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Presenter: Ed Fox, Brad Hemminger
Where: Manning Hall room 208
When: Friday, Feb 17th 2006, 12 Noon

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Title: The Archivist’s Toolkit
Presenter: Bradley Westbrook, UC-San Diego
Where: Room 208, Manning Hall
When: Feb 10th 2006, 12 Noon

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Title: Knowledge management problems faced by Nortel Human Resources department
Presenter: Sherry Slaughter, Osamu Yamamura
Where: Manning 307
When: Friday, Nov 18th 2005, 12 Noon

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Title: UNC Digital Curation/Institutional Repository Committee
Presenter: Helen Tibbo
Where: Manning 208
When: Friday, Nov 11th 2005, 12 Noon

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Title: Lessons learned wrap-up from the NCknows evaluation
Presenter: Jeff Pomerantz
Where: Manning 304
When: Friday, Nov 4th 2005, 12 Noon
Presentation:Not available

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Title: Wikis and Blogs–How they can improve conferences and related activities
Presenter: Brad Hemminger and Jackson Fox
Where: Manning 208
When: Friday, Oct 14th 2005, 12 Noon
Presentation:Not available
Abstract:For the first time, the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST) conference will host both a blog and a wiki for their annual conference. Brad Hemminger and Jackson Fox developed and will host the ASIST 2005 wiki. We’ll talk about our vision for how we think wikis and blogs can help encourage communication between conference participants before, during and after the conference. We’ll walk you through the ASIST wiki, blog, and some of the behind the scene decisions in choosing the wiki, and designing it for ASIST. We’ll leave time for lots of questions, and for others to share their experience with wikis and blogs as well. Please bring your laptop and engage in interacting with and updating the wiki (before, during and after the talk)!

Below are links to the main ASIST wiki page, and the discussion page on the wiki specifically for this talk. Use the discussion page to pose questions and comments before or during the talk.

ASIS&T 2005 Meeting Wiki
Wikis and Blogs at ASIST 2005 Wiki Page

If you don’t have experience with wikis yet, we promise you’ll have at least a passing knowledge by the end of this talk!

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Title: Contextual Authority Tagging: Cognitive Authority through Folksonomy
Presenter: Fred Stutzman & Terrell Russell
Where: Manning Hall room 208
When: Friday, Sep 30th 2005, 12 Noon

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Title:Preview and Brainstorming for JCDL 2006
Presenter:Gary Marchionini
Where:Manning 208
When:Friday, Sept 9th 2005, 12 Noon
Presentation: Not available
Abstract:
SILS is hosting the 2006 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2006). Gary Marchionini is the conference chair. Come hear an update of what’s planned for the conference and learn the behind the scenes secrets. We are especially interested in getting feedback from you about events and activities that UNC may want to do in conjunction with JCDL: for instance workshops, tours, etc. Please come join us. It’s not to late to volunteer to help with the conference!

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Title:Institutional Repositories (at Duke and worldwide)
Presenter:Paul Conway, director of Information Technology Services at Duke Libraries
Where:Manning Hall 208
When:Friday, April 15th 2005, 12 Noon
Presentation: Not available

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Title:Subject indexing via annotation in the GENIE project
Presenter:Nancy Green
Where:Manning Hall room 208
When:Friday, March 4th 2005, 12 Noon
Presentation:Not available
Abstract:Nancy Green: As for the talk, my goal is to give an overview of an annotation scheme for clinical genetics documents that I developed for the GenIE project. I was thinking that it may be of interest to the Digital Libraries group since it is a kind of subject indexing though not in the traditional sense. So, I planned to give an overview of the goals of the GenIE project, and describe how this kind of Bayesian network-based annotation scheme compares to a thesaurus or semantic network based approach. (attached is a copy of the journal paper on which the talk will be based.)

Special Note: Nancy is interested in talking with people at UNC. She will be here for a visit Friday afterNoon (4th). There will be a general open discussion immediately following her talk, as well as potential time slots for individual or small group discussions with her. If you’re interested please email me (bmh@ils.unc.edu) to make arrangements.

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Title:Identification of Recurring Residue Packing Pattern from a Group of Protein Structures
Presenter:Luke Huan
Where:Manning 208.
When: Friday, February 11th 2005, 12 Noon
Presentation:Not available

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Title:New developments at ibiblio – our contributor run digital library
Presenter:Paul Jones
Where:Manning 208
When:Friday, Dec 3rd 2004, 12:30pm
Presentation:Not available

Lyceum – an open source blogsphere
http://lyceum.ibiblio.org

Osprey – a peer-to-peer enabled content distribution system
http://osprey.ibiblio.org

Folkstreams – IMLS awarded project to digitize for archiving films of American folk practice
http://www.folkstreams.net

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Title:Preserving Digital Video Context
Presenter:Gary Marchionini
Where:Manning 214
When: Friday, Nov 5th 2004, 12:30pm
Presentation:Not available

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Title:Minds of Carolina
Presenter:Helen Tibbo
Where:Manning 208
When: Friday, Oct 29th 2004, 12:00pm
Presentation: Not available

Helen Tibbo will be speaking about Minds of Carolina

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Title:NCknows Chat Reference Service
Presenter:Jeff Pomerantz
Where:Manning 208
When:Friday, Oct 8th 2004, 12:30pm

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Title:Public Library of Science
Presenter:Hemai Parthasarathy
Where:Manning 214
When:Thursday, Oct 7th 2004, 11:00am
Presentation:Not available
Abstract:PLoS is a publisher whose mission is to make scientific and medical literature a public resource, freely available to all. PLoS currently publishes two journals, PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine. Effective September 1, 2004, UNC-CH and the three other Triangle Research Libraries Network consortium universities are members of the Public Library of Science (www.PLOS.org). The membership provides scientists affiliated with UNC-CH a 50% reduction in fees for publishing in PLoS journals.

Contact: KT Vaughan, Librarian for Bioinformatics and Pharmacy, UNC-CH Health Sciences Library (ktlv@email.unc.edu)

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Title:VITAL
Presenter:Scott Weimer
Where:Davis 214
When:Friday, Sept 24th 2004, 10:00am
Presentation:Not available
According to the VTLS website
Abstract:“VITAL builds on the Fedora repository architecture by providing VTLS
developed work flow extensions, management utilities and enhanced
searching capabilities. Using Fedora defined web services, VITAL
provides a mechanism for your organization to create tools, enhance the
functionality provided by VTLS, or leverage the open source community
for future applications. Together, the package is known as VITAL.”

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Title:Google is Good?
Presenter:Scholarly Communication Working Group
Where:Davis 214
When:Tuesday, Sept 14th 2004, 12 Noon
Presentation:Not available
Abstract:
Just how good is this popular search engine and what are the strengths and weaknesses? How is Google affecting student writing at UNC-CH? We will also discuss the impact of Google on reference services in academic libraries.

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Title:Virtual Museums
Presenter:Brad Hemminger
Where:Manning 208
When:Friday, Sept 3rd 2004, 12:30pm
Presentation:Not available
Abstract:
Come see and experience how most museum patrons may visit museums virtually in the future. Dr. Hemminger will present the basics of how entire museum exhibits (as well as individual pieces) can be digitized and then visualized in virtual reality. He’ll also discuss how users will interact with online virtual museums. There will be plenty of time at the end for folks to test drive the world’s first completely digitized museum exhibit (Ackland’s 2003 exhibit
“Plum, Pine, Bamboo: Seasonal and Spiritual Paths in Japanese Art”). This project is in conjunction with the Ackland Museum and 3rdTech. http://ils.unc.edu/bmh/virseum

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Title:Semester Research
Presenter: CRADLE fellows Jackson Fox and Marisa Ramirez
Where: Manning 208
When: Friday, December 03rd 2003, 12:00pm
Abstract:
CRADLE fellows Jackson Fox and Marisa Ramirez discussed their semester accomplishments. Marisa discussed her involvement with the development of the CRADLE website and the Minds of Carolina pilot project. Jackson discussed his work with Electronic Theses and Dissertations and the advantages of using MIT’s DSpace digital repository to store digital information.

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Title:Henderson Lecture
Presenter: Dr. Fred Kilgore and Dr. Herbert Van de Sompel
Where: Pleasants Family Room, Wilson Library
When: Friday, November 21st, 2003, 09:30am
Abstract:
The annual Henderson Lecture was established in 1990 to honor the memory of Lucile Kelling Henderson, faculty member (1932-1960) and dean (1954-1960) of what was then known as the School of Library Science.

Dr. Fred Kilgour, a Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Information and Library Science and founder of OCLC, and Dr. Herbert Van de Sompel, team leader of the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory discussed the evolution of shared information resources.

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Title:Evaluation of Digital Libraries at University of North Carolina
Presenter: Dr. Gary Marchionini & Dr. Jeffery Pomerantz, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, October 31st, 2003, 12:00pm
Abstract:
Dr. Gary Marchionini and Dr. Jeffery Pomerantz discussed their work in evaluating digital libraries at both the local and national levels. Dr. Marchionini focused on several evaluative elements that are useful when analyzing a digital library. He advocated a multi-faceted approach for such an analysis, which includes examining the system, the user actions and the human-computer interface interactions. Dr. Pomerantz spoke about the evaluative process with the State Library of North Carolina’s new chat-based virtual reference pilot project, NC Knows. His evaluation seeks to answer the evaluation question: “Is collaborative virtual reference an effective way to meet the information needs of North Carolinians?”

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Title:The Digital Library Initiative at North Carolina State University
Presenter:Steve Morris, NC State Digital Library Initiatives Head
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, October 10th, 2003, 12:00pm
Abstract:
Steve Norris discussed the North Carolina State University Digital library initiatives that are underway. Among the points that he touched on, he discussed changes and improvements in library web content and redesign, use of instructional objects and online tutorials, developments in automated reference, methods of maintaining persistent internal and external web links, management and preservation of digital objects, use of collaborative tools and methods of information delivery and advantages of pooling and decentralizing library resources.

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Title: New UNC Library Website Functionality
Presenter: Tim Shearer , Web Access Librarian, Academic Affairs Library, UNC
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, September 19th, 2003, 12:00pm

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Abstract:
Tim Shearer discussed the UNC library efforts to provide an infrastructure to cut across the current library website database, beginning with subject access to resources. He has been working to develop “tab design” and “subject drilldown”, which is due to release Fall 2003. It will allow users to go in by a subject, like “Psychology,” and get to resources collocated by the thesaurus term. Tim summarized the background behind the UNC library database, discussed what lead up to the development of this new infrastructure, and demonstrated the beta version of the new interface that is currently being developed.

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Title: Scholarly Communication: The Changing Face of Peer Review
Presenter: Prof. Brad Hemminger, UNC SILS
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208
When: Friday, September 5th, 2003, 12:15pm
Abstract:
Brad Hemminger discussed the changes wrought upon scholarly communication, and in particular the peer review process by the change to an electronic medium. The “pipeline” of the peer review process was discussed including alternative automated and human indexing & cataloging, alternative peer review mechanisms. These mechanisms include the human expert peer review, certified reviewers, open review, moderators, no review, and automated mechanisms such as citation count, usage, amount of discussion. Discussion touched on modern digital open archive systems that support multiple mechanisms. The floor discussion debated the pros and cons of the different methods.

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