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SIRLS Podcast Archive

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2006-2007

Saturday, May 12
SIRLS Graduation Celebration

Audio recording of the 2007 Spring Graduation Celebration, with welcome, introduction, awards,congratulations and closing remarks by SIRLS Director Dr. Jana Bradley, and address by GladysAnn Wells, Arizona State Librarian. Download (MP3, 48MB).

Graduation Celebration Video - Shockwave/Flash video of the graduation celebration including welcome, introduction, awards, congratulations and closing remarks. Requires Flash and broadband Internet connection.

Wednesday, April 4
Technological Protection Measures and Licensed Electronic Resources: Soft TPM and Hard TPM

Dr. Kristin Eschenfelder (Wisconsin, Library and Information Studies) describes the outcome of an ACRL- funded study that explored what technological protection measures (TPM) publishers/vendors of licensed scholarly resources employ by assessing the use restrictions experienced in a sample of resources from history/art history, engineering and health sciences. The analysis develops a framework of use restrictions that distinguishes between soft TPM — which discourage use — and hard TPM — which strictly limit or forbid uses. Within soft TPM, the framework identifies six use discouraging TPM: extent of use, obfuscation, omission, amalgamation, frustration and threat. The study concludes that these soft TPM are common in licensed scholarly resources. Further, while hard TPM are less common, they are not unknown. View the Presentation while you listen to the podcast. Download the lecture (MP3, 77MB).

Wednesday, March 28
Questioning LibQUAL+: Expanding its Assessment of Academic Library Effectiveness

SIRLS assistant professor William (Bill) Edgar critiques LibQUAL+, a widely used tool for assessing academic libraries based upon users’ perceptions of service delivery, to propose a functional/technical model of academic library effectiveness. Balancing these user perceptions against academic library service’s essential features, this broader approach provides a basis for demonstrating academic libraries’ immediate and cumulative contributions. View the Presentation while you listen to the podcast. Download the lecture (MP3, 87MB).

Wednesday, February 28
Labeling Information: Issues and Implications drawing upon Mundane Examples from Popular Media

Dale Kunkel, University of Arizona, Communications, discusses his work relating to ;the many ways in which popular media content -- such as newspaper articles or television programs -- are classified into categories that are supposed to hold significant implications for how consumers of that content should "treat" the material. Such labeling tactics (a) may influence the likelihood that individuals will choose to seek or avoid exposure to the material, as well as (b) may bias people's perception of the content depending upon the categorical labels applied. In this conversation, the speaker will review both empirical evidence and anecdote to demonstrate how applying labels to popular media content can influence both exposure and effects outcomes. The audience will be invited to consider potential parallels between these effects and the impact of classifying information in more traditional library science applications. Download the lecture (MP3, 77MB).

Wednesday, February 21
Motivation and Diversity: Factors that influence the choice of LIS as a career

Lisa Hussey (British Columbia, Library, Archival and Information Studies) discusses her dissertation, which focused on building an understanding of the motivations of ethnic minorities to choose library and information science (LIS) as a career. Diversity in LIS and diversity initiatives in LIS programs have been important topics in the profession and in the literature. Increasing the presence of librarians of color may help to improve diversity within LIS. However, recruiting ethnic minorities into LIS has proven to be difficult. The central questions explored can be divided into two parts: (1) Why do ethnic minorities choose librarianship as a profession? (2) What would motivate members of minority groups to join a profession in which they cannot see themselves? View the Presentation while you listen to the podcast. Download the lecture (MP3, 62MB).

Thursday, February 8
Relevant Information: How philosophy can help you find the information that you really need

How do we know when some information is relevant? In this first SIRLS/Thomson Scientific ISI Samuel Lazarow Memorial lecture, Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Information Policy, Oxford University introduces the general debate on informational relevancy in a variety of contexts (including search engines, information retrieval, online advertising, juridical procedures, everyday information processes, medical diagnosis, and scientific experiments). He then presents a general theory of relevant information and shows it to provide a satisfactory answer to the initial question. View the Presentation while you listen to the podcast. Download Lecture (MP3, 52MB). Download Question and Answer Session following the Lecture (MP3, 39MB).
Quicktime Streaming Video (requires the Quicktime Plug-in, broadband recommended). Windows Video (.wmv format, requires IE and Media Player version 9 or higher for streaming). Ipod Compatible (.m4v, 375MB, download only).

Wednesday, February 7
Career Path Planning

Tom Wilding, SIRLS Visiting Associate Professor of Practice and Advising Coordinator discusses Career Path Planning. Covers networking, searching for opportunities, your resume and cover letter, interview techniques, and more. Download the lecture (MP3, 64MB). View the Presentation while you listen to the podcast (PDF). Download the presentation as a Voice Over Powerpoint (PPT, requires Microsoft PowerPoint or the PowerPoint Viewer)

Wednesday, January 24
Ladies in the Streets: My Work with the National Woman's Party and the National Archives

Linda Lumsden discusses her research in the National Woman's Party archives for three books, including the upcoming "Forward Into Light: An Illustrated History of the National Woman's Party" to be published by Indiana University Press. You may wish to explore the links to archives described in the audio lecture. Download (MP3, 45MB )

Saturday, December 16
SIRLS Graduation Celebration

SIRLS honors its Summer and Winter 2006 graduates. This short video podcast includes opening remarks by Dr. Jana Bradley and State Librarian GladysAnn Wells, and announcements of the student and faculty awards. iPod/iTunes .m4v format, 5:30' 70MB. Download.

Wednesday, November 28, 2006
Social Computing

SIRLS adjunct faculty member and U of A Learning Technologies Center Senior Consultant Stuart Glogoff discusses trends in social computing and what many are calling Web 2.0 or the Read/Write Web. Stuart presents collaboration tools such as blogs, wikis, RSS feeds and talks about tagging, folksonomies, mash-ups, social bookmarking and other topics. Stuart also shows how libraries and higher education are adapting some of these new technologies. View the accompanying presentation ( 2.5MB) as you listen to the podcast. Download (MP3, 54MB)

Monday, November 6, 2006
Tips for Giving Presentations

SIRLS faculty member Dr. Patricia Montiel Overall hosts this Library Student Organization workshop on how to give an effective presentation. The workshop focuses on professional presentations including poster sessions and concludes with a question and answer segement. Download (MP3, 56MB)

Wednesday, November 1, 2006
Networking… or how does my information get from Tucson to Anchorage?

Fred Neasham, IT Project Manager for the University of Arizona Center for Computing and Information Technology (CCIT) discusses networking on and off campus. Topics include connecting to the UA network, the new wireless network, the UA virtual private network, and the technology behind them. Download (MP3, 56MB)

Friday, October 27, 2006
NCSU Libraries Fellows Program 2007-2009

North Carolina State University Libraries acting head of cataloging and metadata Karen Letarte describes the NCSU Fellows program for newly minted MLS graduates. The fellows program offers new librarians an opportunity for rapid professional growth through assignment to an innovative project combined with experience and mentoring in a home department. Fellows are appointed to the rank of librarian for a two year term. Recent SIRLS graduate Janelle Joseph describes her experiences as a recent NCSU Fellows recipient. Also see the accompanying PowerPoint presentation. Download (MP3, 16MB).

Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Onion skin and Oxygen: Access and Research at theTelevisa Script and Video Archive in Mexico City

UA Journalism Assistant Professor Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante discusses her research and the challenges of working in a private archive owned by Mexico's largest television network, Televisa. Onion Skin paper and oxygen represent two of the environmental factors that have caused vital historical documents to decay. Professor Gonzalez de Bustamante talks about how she gained access into the private archive and how she had used scripts and images in her research. Be sure to view the accompanying powerpoint presentation as you listen. Download (MP3, 57MB)

Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Mathematics for 'Just Plain Folks': The Viennese Tradition of Visualization of Quantitative Information and its Verbal Forms, 1899-1914

The guest speaker for this Research Brown Bag Presentation is Marija Dalbello, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science at Rutgers. Sponsored both by SIRLS and AZ ASIS&T, today's presentation explores statistical representations in the popular almanacs published at the end of the nineteenth century in the Habsburg Empire as an early prototype of visualizing statistical data for popular consumption and informing the public of an ethnically and linguistically differentiated society. A copy of the PowerPoint presentation is now available through dLIST so you can follow along with the podcast. Illustrations referred to in the presentation can also be found in Dalbello, Marija and Spoerri, Anselm (2005). Statistical Representations From Popular Texts for the Ordinary Citizen, 1889-1914. Library & Information Science Research 28 (2006) pgs. 83-109 (available online from www.sciencedirect.com). Download (MP3, 80MB)

Monday, October 9, 2006
LSO Careers Panel Discussion - Tucson

A panel of speakers discusses their different fields and their unique environments, how they got there, and what they see for the future. The speakers include: Mary Graham, Head Librarian at the Arizona State Museum, Jan Knight, information consultant and founder of Bancroft Information Services, and Ann Dutton Ewbank, former K-12 librarian who is now working in the ASU West library. Download (MP3, 80MB)

Wednesday, Oct 4, 2006
Toward a Theory of Disinformation

SIRLS Associate Professor Don Fallis discusses his research in developing a theory of disinformation. Library and information scientists commonly distinguish between misinformation and disinformation. In this talk, Professor Fallis offers an account of what it is to disseminate disinformation, by contrasting it with lying, and suggests how we might go about identifying instances of disinformation. Includes an accompanying PowerPoint presentation. Download (MP3, 77MB)

Wednesday, September 21, 2006
The Role of Computers in the Library

The guest speaker for this technology brown bag is Carla Stoffle, Dean of the University of Arizona Library. The University of Arizona Library is a leader in the use of technology to provide service to users and manage costs. Carla discusses her approach to the management of technology and how technology has improved service and cut costs at the UA Library. Carla also discusses how technology is changing the roles of librarians in academic libraries, and what the future holds. The talk references three documents, a timeline of technology(.doc) at the University Library, a whitepaper from the University of Indiana on The Future of Cataloging (), and a report of the University of California Libraries on Rethinking How We Provide Bibliographic Services (). Download (MP3, 75MB)

Monday, September 19, 2006
Introduction to the ePortfolio

This podcast is presented in two parts. In part one, SIRLS Associate Professor Martin Frické explores the background of the SIRLS ePortfolio and its current requirements and policies. The presentation references a slide show that can be found here. Then, Martin and SIRLS Assistant Director Leslie Kent Kunkel answer some questions from the audience. In part two, graduate assistant Bjorn Tipling walks through posting a reflection into the ePortfolio content management system. Additional questions and answers follow. Download Part 1 (MP3, 44MB). Play Part 2 (MP3, 22MB)

Monday, September 11, 2006
Jobs, Careers and Pizza

This month's jobs and careers event, co-sponsored by SIRLS and LSO features Jeremy Reeder, Staff Development Manager of the Maricopa County Library District talking about positioning yourself for success as a public librarian. Jeremy discusses objectively assessing your strenghts and weakness and getting your foot in the door. Download (MP3, 36MB)

2005-2006

March 1, 2006: Don Fallis
"Epistemic Objectives"

Our first podcast is a recording of a lecture delivered by Associate Professor Don Fallis on March 1, 2006. Dr. Fallis described his current research which focuses on how epistemoloy can help us make information policy decisions. The PowerPoint presentation that accompanied the lecture will be up shortly. Download (MP3, 63MB)

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