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This poster summarizes the history and impact of the Occupy Movement, using government sources and data to put together the story.
This paper focuses on the first sale doctrine and its importance and impact on the daily operations of lending libraries, used book businesses, and companies like Netflix, Inc. and eBay, Inc. Federal court cases are reviewed, including the recent Supreme Court case Kirtsaeng v. Wiley (2013).
An examination of the U.S. Department of State’s online social media use to conduct outreach to foreign populations
This paper focuses on the first sale doctrine and its importance and impact on the daily operations of lending libraries, used book businesses, and companies like Netflix, Inc. and eBay, Inc. Federal court cases are reviewed, including the recent Supreme Court case Kirtsaeng v. Wiley (2013).
As Big Data has emerged as the basis of modern research, fittingly it has also become apparent in research libraries. Data centers equipped with data librarians are becoming more prevalent. Information professionals serve as stewards of access and instruction to information resources, the tidal wave of datasets is no exception. Data librarians have emerged as specialists on data resources, tools and also data management plans that are required for research grant proposals. With more publically accessible datasets from government funded research, privacy ethics can fall on scientists and funding agencies. Librarians are poised, and in some cases required, to be part of the data revolution. Despite the specialty area of data librarianship, the information profession field should be aware of growing data-based research and the issues involved
Almost immediately upon its completion in the 1860’s, the Gowanus Canal in South Brooklyn became known for its contamination. In 1887 the New York Times reported that the Canal “was pronounced to be offensive and dangerous to the health of the people presiding in the vicinity”. This “water highway” was purported to carry the power of the sea right into the city, bringing with it industrial capabilities; but in fact, the dead-ended canal was a semi-stagnant body of water without tidal flow to flush its contents out into Gowanus Bay.
On March 4, 2010, after over 100 years of degeneration and political paralysis, the Gowanus Canal was finally designated as a Superfund Site by the Federal Government. This designation allowed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to investigate contamination at the site and develop a remedy. As recently as March 2013, the EPA finalized a $500 million plan to dredge and cap the Gowanus Canal; however, the cleanup has yet to begin.
In recent times, graphic novels have risen in popularity and prestige. Librarians are in the perfect place to promote their appeal and transformative power. And helping readers find them helps the librarians save their space!
This poster uses Everett Rogers’ (1995) concept of innovation diffusion to illuminate the adoption of e-books among library and information science students at the Pratt Institute, an institution that currently does not offer this technology in its academic libraries. A study was conducted in fall 2012 as part of Dr. Irene Lopatovska’s Research Methods course to determine how Pratt SILS students use e-books for academic purposes. To collect quantitative data on e-book use among this population, a survey was sent out via the SILS listserv, while qualitative data was gathered in focus groups and through individual interviews. The results of this study show that, despite not having access to e-books through their institution’s library, SILS students actively circumnavigate barriers of access to use e-books for their coursework and research. This becomes a useful case study for technology adoption when framed with the concept of innovation diffusion (Rogers, 1995). The use of e-books for academic purposes can be understood as an innovative practice that many SILS students regularly engage in despite lack of institutional support. Participants’ discussions of the reasons that they use e-books demonstrate Rogers’ characteristics of innovations that lead populations to adopt them more readily: relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability, and observability.This poster uses these aspects of innovations to visualize how e-books are currently being adopted and to suggest students’ growing needs for digital resources.
Theft of unique items from special collections and archive departments is not a new phenomenon, nor is it a thing of the past. Understanding the seedier side of the industry can help librarians secure history for future generations.
This poster aims to highlight how digitization projects may negatively alter both source material, as well as user experience.
Notions regarding Information Architecture have changed in relation to concurrent advances in technology, which can be roughly divided into four stages: the Information Design Approach, the Information Systems Approach, the Information Science Approach, and Pervasive Information Architecture.
As part of a larger collaborative study on the use of e-books in academia conducted with Cristina Pattuelli’s Human Information Behavior course and partner libraries, students of Irene Lopatovska’s Research Methods course used three data collection methods to study how e-books are currently being used by SILS students.
This website was developed by Amy Belotti and Julie Hunter to fulfill a final project requirement for the Fall 2012 Film and Media Collections class. This project describes how to secure permissions for still image content. The website is designed and built to navigate users through the appropriate questions to ask regarding public domain, fair use, copyright, and ultimately, how to determine who owns the the rights to an image. The website acts as a tutorial prompting the reader through a series of questions. Answers are given in the form of a “yes” or “no” response, and depending on the response given, users are guided through the necessary steps to find rights holders.
This archive is possibly the largest collection of digitized audio materials about Lesbians and Lesbian communities, featuring notable Lesbian artists and activists, including Mabel Hampton, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich. It also features the women of Buffalo, New York, who were interview subjects for the now seminal work of LGBT studies, Elizabeth Kennedy and Madeline Davis’ Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community. This archive provides an oral account of 20th Century LGBT life, particularly the 1920s through the 1990s, a time in which being gay was rife with conflict.
View the program brochure from our second #infoshow (called the SILS Showcase) from 2012.
View the program brochure for our first #infoshow (then called the SILS Showcase) from 2011.