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Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lectures at UCLAThe distinguished Samuel Lazerow Lecture is an annual event at the UCLA Department of Information Studies. It is sponsored by Thomson ISI's Corporate Awards Program http://www.isinet.com/. The Lecture Series was established in 1983 by ISI, publisher of the Citation Index for the Sciences, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities, to honor the memory of Samuel Lazerow, who was an outstanding librarian, administrator, and pioneer in library automation. Samuel Lazerow, in whose honor and memory this lecture series has been established, had a record of long and distinguished service in the library profession. An honors graduate of Johns Hopkins University, he received his library education at Columbia University. During World War II he served as the Army’s chief library officer in Europe. Mr. Lazerow spent 25 years of service in the federal library community and held administrative posts at each of the three national libraries. From 1947 to 1952 he served as chief of acquisitions at the National Library of Agriculture and followed that with a similar assignment at the National Library of Medicine for thirteen years. In 1965 he joined the Library of Congress where he headed a task force on the automation and sharing of services between national libraries. He served as Vice President for the Institute for Scientific Information after his retirement in 1972 and held the post until his death. This lecture series was initiated by Dr. Eugene Garfield, founder and president of ISI, as a tribute to his friend and colleague. Bernd Frohmann on Dawn of the Document: Zombies in the iFieldApril 24, 2008Professor Bernd Frohmann is a member of the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario Abstract: Documents and documentary practices have been marginalized as phenomena of interest to the areas of scholarship currently called library and information science, or, increasingly, information studies. The concept of information is the master trope of work now pursued in iSchools dedicated to the study of problems and issues populating a vast and ceaselessly expanding iField. Interest in documents and documentation is seen as antiquarian and somewhat eccentric, whereas interest in information is touted on the iSchools’ website as bringing worldwide benefits to twenty-first century society, advancing all areas of human endeavor, and even emancipating humankind though access to information. Documents and documentation, however, have recently arisen from the dead like a plague of zombies, not only trespassing upon the iField, but settling intriguing new territory beyond it. The 2008 Samuel Lazerow Lecture charts some of these zombie zones, with the help of Michel Foucault’s ideas about ethical self-formation, his interest in “masses of documents” and the “power of writing”, Gilles Deleuze’s concept of assemblages, Bruno Latour’s ideas about non-human agency and the centrality of documentation to science, Ian Hacking’s notion of “making up people”, and recent interest in documentation by anthropological work on global assemblages. By bringing these ideas together, the lecture reveals ethical and political dimensions of documentation, and reclaims for documentation some neglected territory in scholarship and institutions currently overcoded by the concept of information. Past Lazerow LecturesBrewster Kahle, Digital Librarian & Director and Co-Founder of the Internet Archive, on "Universal Access to Human Knowledge" - April 5, 2007 - Flyer (pdf) - Images from Brewtser Kahle's presentation Dr. Hope Olson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, on "Transgressive Tools: The Power and Potential of Classification" - February 16, 2006 (pdf) - Images from Dr. Olson's presentation Rick Prelinger, CD ROM developer, media archaeologist, and film scholar, Prelinger Archives and Prelinger Library. January 27, 2005 (pdf) Karen Sparck Jones, Information Retrieval Research: Old Ideas, Current Challenges, New Possibilities, May 13, 2004 Lawrence Lessig, Building Creative Commons, May 8, 2003 Marc Rotenberg, What the History of Privacy Teaches Us About the Future of Copyright, April 4, 2002 Dr. Elisabeth Davenport, Exploring the Fabric of Computing: Threads, Patterns, Textures and Black Boxes, March 8, 2001 Manuel Castells, The Network Society: Information Technology and Its Social Implications, April 27, 2000 Peter Lyman, Virtual Communities, Digital Libraries and Information Highways: Information Society Metaphors and the Future of Copyright, November 19,1998 Deana B. Marcum, The Enduring Library, February 27,1997 Elfreda A. Chatman, Nickel-Hoppers and Other Social Types: Implications for Information Behavior, November 6, 1997 Michael Lesk, Mad Library Disease: Holes in the Stacks, April 18, 1996 Carol C. Kuhlthau, Uncertainty Principles in Information Seeking, March 7,1995 Stephen Robertson, Retrieval and Relevance: On the Evaluation of Retrieval Systems, November 11, 1993 Jorge Schement, Policy Implications of the Production and Dissemination of Information in the United States, February 18, 1992 Richard R. Rowe, Librarians of the Future: Just in Case or Just in Time? April 21, 1991 Patrick Wilson, Text, Works, and Information, April 25, 1990 Pauline Cochrane, The Inter-Relatedness of Indexing and Searching, May 16, 1989 Roger K. Summit, Societal Implications of Computer-Based Information Retrieval and Dissemination, April 19, 1988 A. J. Meadows, Communication: Will Its Future Have a Past? May 19, 1987 Michael Rubin, Information Economics and Information Policy, March 3, 1986 William Paisley, Convergence of Communication and Information Science, May 9, 1985 The Lazerow Lecture series is sponsored by Thomson ISI. |
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