PPT Slide Show: Documenting the Document Student’s Name: Alexander Whelan Title of Project: “Documenting the Document: Visualiazing Connections Among the Snowden NSA Papers” Abstract: This network study visualizes every available document from the Snowden Document Search, a collaborative online repository between Courage Foundation and Transparency Toolkit which collects and codes metadata for NSA documents leaked…

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Tony and Kurt will report on a study that examined methods for engaging young children in visual literacy instruction. The study was conducted by LIS 630 (Research Design/Methods) students in collaboration with the Brooklyn Public Library. A brief summary is below. More detailed information can be found on these slides: InfoShow 2017 – Decoding Picasso…

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Our poster “Metadata for Archives” is a summary of our LIS653 Knowledge Organization group project. We focused on three main topics – Common Issues of Implementing Metadata in Archives, Encoded Archival Description (EAD), and Social Networks and Archival Content (SNAC). In our presentation we offered a detailed review of our findings to complement this summary….

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“Seattle Public Library on a sunny day” by Moody75 Licensed under a [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/moody75/48112462/ What does it mean to build a public library for the 21st century? Library design should reflect the mission of the library. Traditionally, the library has been a space for books, but the…

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Marginalization in the Dewey Decimal Classification System Presented by Heather V Hill & Megan Westman with Hilary Baribeau & Kevin Cosenza This project explores the ways in which the DDCS fails to represent and/or support marginalized groups, using literature related to four communities: Muslims, indigenous populations, trans and intersex people, and children. The project explores…

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Students from Fall 2016’s Identity and Culturally Responsive Practice course will share findings from their scholarship on issues of race, class, and gender within the LIS field and our own SI community. Join us for a presentation and open discussion.         Author information nmars | The post Identity in LIS appeared first…

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This presentation will provide an overview of the current state of libraries within jails, prisons, and youth facilities: their policies, the programs they run, and their impact on incarcerated individuals. By examining collection development, patron privacy, prison law libraries, reference services, the school-to-prison pipeline, literacy programs for youth, and technology and information literacy, I hope to…

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UXPA@Pratt, a student chapter of the UXPA, organized a group trip to this year’s Generate New York web development conference. During this panel discussion, the trip’s eight attendees will address some key takeaways and common themes from the conference. This InfoShow17 Event Will Include the Following Participants Alex Hagenah Amanda Belantara Arushi Jaiswal Charles Dellebovi…

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This project is the result of a semester-long UX design and research project for the Advanced UX Design class taught by Professor Carl Collins. We created a calendar app named Beacon aimed at working professionals with irregular schedules. Beacon will help the user quickly create an event, manage difference types of schedules efficiently, and to be ready…

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Designed by: Monica Gao, Yangyang Long, Xi Zhang Time window: February 2017 – May 2017   Sprout is a mobile app designed for new mothers to track babies’ daily routine activities and document their growth and development. We went through a complete design process to create the final mockup, including user research, data synthesizing, user journey mapping, ideation,…

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