290 Research Seminar: Information Studies

Spring 2006 - C. Chu

Update 4/27/06

Course Description: Seminar, one to two hours. Designed for Ph.D. students. Emphasis on recent contributions to theory, research, and methodology. S/U grading.

 

Class: 1:30-2:45 p.m., GSE&IS room 111; Colloquium: 3-5 p.m., GSE&IS room 111

 

Resources:

Agre, Phil.  Networking on the network.  http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/network.html  A detailed guide to professional networking both on and off the Internet. Although written principally for advanced graduate students and others in academia, the underlying principles apply widely.

 

* = Faculty meeting, 1-3 p.m.

Spring 2006

 

 

  • Fall 2006 Colloquium planning – students will schedule their own meetings
  • Host a Colloquium
  • Potential activities >> Introduction to faculty research; Beyond doctoral studies: From Dissertation to Job; Journal Publishing – J. Richardson; Writing book reviews – J. Richardson

 

4/5(Wed.)  3-4:30 p.m. meeting with Ted Nelson, GSE&IS 202,  5-7 p.m. Colloquium: Ted Nelson, Fellow, The Oxford Internet Institute and Visiting Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford.  Title: Starting Over: Not Easy, but Not Impossible.  Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Information as Evidence.

4/6    Class; Colloquium: Rebecca Baron, award-winning Los Angeles filmmaker and faculty at School of Film/Video, California Institute of the Arts.  Title: How Little We Know of Our Neighbors.  Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Information as Evidence.  http://www.calarts.edu/schools/film/faculty/baron_rebecca.html

*4/13     Colloquium: Terry Belanger, Director of Rare Book School, University of Virginia and 2005 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks/

4/20   NO class or colloquium

4/27   Class: Professor Ramesh Srinivasan will speak on the job search process Colloquium: Professors Ingeborg T. Sølvberg, http://www.idi.ntnu.no/info/group_info.php?gruppe=8 and Arne Sølvberg http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~asolvber/, Dept. of Computer and Information Science (IDI), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Visiting Professors at UCLA Dept. of Computer Science, hosted by Professor Wes Chu.  Topic: Wireless Trondheim and new services based on geo-referenced information

5/4    Class, colloquium (room 111) and wine reception (room 245) with Ron Day

For class, please read: Ronald E. Day and Ajit K. Pyati. (2005). “We Must Now All Be Information Professionals”: An Interview with Ron Day. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies. Vol. 1, Issue 2, Article 10.  http://repositories.cdlib.org/gseis/interactions/vol1/iss2/art10

Colloquium: Ron Day, Visiting Assistant Professor, Indiana University and Assistant Professor, Wayne State University http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~roday/

TITLE: From the Culture of the Book to the Culture of Documents: European Documentation in the Works of Paul Otlet and Suzanne Briet

ABSTRACT:

In honor of the English translation of Suzanne Briet's 1951 manifesto, “Qu'est-ce que la documentation?” (“What is Documentation?”, Scarecrow Press, 2006), I will present and discuss some concepts in works by the father of European Documentation, Paul Otlet, and the later European Documentalist, Suzanne Briet. I will discuss the different ways that these two authors position the meaning, cultural importance and social function of documents, particularly in relation to the modern dominance of books as both a material item and as a rhetorical and metaphysical figure of epistemological and cultural order. Such a positioning has importance today for how we might understand digital collections and services. My talk also will discuss the notion of "culture" in Briet's “What is Documentation?” and it will highlight some differences Briet saw between the education of documentalists and librarians.

*5/11  NO Class; Colloquium: Michael Gorman, Dean of Library Services, CSU Fresno and President of the American Library Association.  You are invited to attend the reception following the talk. http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/news/current.htm#gormancolloquium

5/18  Class: Professor Richardson will speak on grant writing; Colloquium  Lesley Farmer, Co-ordinator of the Library Media Teacher  Program at California State University Long Beach) and Author of Librarians, Literacy, and the Promotion of Gender Equity (McFarland, 2005) http://www.csulb.edu/~lfarmer/.  Talk hosted by Leslie Swigart.  [Note: LISAA Spring Dinner, UCLA Faculty Center, 6pm https://giving.ucla.edu/lisaa/dinner/]

5/25   NO class or Colloquium [MLIS portfolios]

*6/1    NO class or Colloquium

6/8    Class and talk on IT jobs, hosted by Wei-Li Sun

 

Colloquium Hosting Sign-up

Name                                  Quarter                              Potential Speaker

 

Host Checklist

q        Invite speaker and schedule a colloquium date (talk is approx. for 45 minutes followed by 30 minutes of Q&A; Thursdays, 3:00 p.m., GSE&IS 111)

q        Obtain author’s name, title and affiliation, as they wish it to appear on announcements AND talk title and abstract; picture is optional

q        Ask speaker about A/V needs and request equipment a week prior to talk or earlier http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/lab/avorder/avorder.asp

q        Offer speaker complimentary parking, and as needed, request complimentary parking in Lot 5 from Lydia Doplemore doplemore@gseis.ucla.edu or (310) 206-9393 and she will make the reservation and send you a reservation number.

q        Design flyer and post copies in the GSE&IS Bldg., and other places you consider appropriate

q        Send speaker confirmation of speaking date, the building and room number, and as appropriate, confirmation of a/v equipment, parking reservation number, and the following parking instructions to the speaker:

Your talk will be held on “date” in room 111, GSE&IS Building.  I have ordered the necessary a/v equipment.  Your complimentary parking reservation number in Lot 5 is #.  To obtain your parking sticker, please proceed to any information kiosk on campus, provide your name and reservation number and you will be directed to the appropriate Lot. For driving instructions and a map, please see: http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/about/contact.htm; 300 Charles E. Young Drive North; Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520. 

q        Send announcement of talk to: is-announce@lists.gseis.ucla.edu

Clara Chu will post the information to issposts@lists.gseis.ucla.edu. ETU List Coordinator: Chad Jones cjones@gseis.ucla.edu

q        Send talk information to David Cappoli dcappoli@ucla.edu and request him to post it to the alumni list and IS website

q        Post talk on department master calendar http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/calendar/

q        Order refreshments as necessary.  Contact: Lydia Doplemore doplemore@gseis.ucla.edu  For approved vendors, ask Lydia to produce a LVO/PO, which is handed over to the vendor when purchases/orders are picked up.  Two UCLA-approved vendors:

1.                       Diddy Riese, 926 Broxton Ave., Los Angeles, 90024. (310) 208-0448.  Cookies are $3.75 a dozen.

2.                       Whole Foods, Westwood Village http://www.wholefoods.com/stores/westwood/  1050 S. Gayley Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024. 310.824.0858, fax: 310.824.6390

q        On day of talk: ensure a/v and refreshments are set up, speaker has arrived, water is available for speaker, present speaker, handle Q&A, thank speaker, and announce future talks and if non-IS audience members wish to receive announcements of future talks to subscribe to issposts@lists.gseis.ucla.edu.

 

Resources:

Agre, Phil.  Hosting a Speaker in the Information Studies Seminar.    http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/local.html

Complimentary Parking, cookies, drinks: Lydia Doplemore doplemore@gseis.ucla.edu

 

Students’ general interests

Arnold, Corey Wells

Bashyam, Vijayaraghavan (Vijay)

Chung, Su Kim

Genkina, Alla

Mizrachi, Diane

Novak, Joy Rainbow

Sun, Wei-Li

Swigart, Leslie Kay

Weissmann, Deborah