http://sirs.arizona.edu/podcasts The University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science Podcast Feed Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:39:40 GMT ListGarden Program 1.3.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://sirls.arizona.edu/podcasts Speakers: Mary Feeney, Associate Librarian for the University of Arizona's Main Library; Prof. Tom Wilding, Professor of Practice at SIRLS; Dr. Kay Mathiesen, Senior Lecturer at SIRLS. Program Description: Feeney starts the panel with information on SRRT (ALA's Social Responsibilities Round Table) and TFOE (SRRT's Task Force on the Environment). She also discusses what a progressive librarian means. Wilding continues the discussion by providing background on SRRT and PLG. Mathiesen concludes the panel with ethical considerations for what progressivism means for a librarian. Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:39:30 GMT http://sirls.arizona.edu/podcasts Michael Chiorazzi (Arizona, Law) - Michael Chiorazzi is Associate Dean for Information Services, Professor of Law, and Joint Faculty, Professor, School of Information Resources and Library Science. In this talk, professor Chiorazzi discusses the professional status of academic law library directors and implications for teaching future generations of law librarians. Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:17:32 GMT http://sirls.arizona.edu/podcasts Part 1 of 5. Quicktime streaming video. Program Description: Web 2.0 would seem to represent an emancipatory move to oppose the old closed or bounded system of technologies, forms, and institutions (the web page, the encyclopedia, the firm) with a more democratic open one (the wiki, wikipedia, wikinomics). Despite the hype, there is a great deal of truth and hope in such claims. A glance at the past suggests, however, that such struggles are not entirely new, nor, as some would have it, entirely the function of new technologies. By looking at earlier struggles over open or closed, we can not only understand the current trajectory better, but also understand why it sometimes happens that technologies, forms, and institutions that were once triumphantly forced open in hard-fought battles nonetheless closed again. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:07:45 GMT http://sirls.arizona.edu/podcasts Part 2 of 5. Quicktime streaming video. Program Description: Web 2.0 would seem to represent an emancipatory move to oppose the old closed or bounded system of technologies, forms, and institutions (the web page, the encyclopedia, the firm) with a more democratic open one (the wiki, wikipedia, wikinomics). Despite the hype, there is a great deal of truth and hope in such claims. A glance at the past suggests, however, that such struggles are not entirely new, nor, as some would have it, entirely the function of new technologies. By looking at earlier struggles over open or closed, we can not only understand the current trajectory better, but also understand why it sometimes happens that technologies, forms, and institutions that were once triumphantly forced open in hard-fought battles nonetheless closed again. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:04:54 GMT http://sirls.arizona.edu/podcasts Part 3 of 5. Quicktime streaming video. Program Description: Web 2.0 would seem to represent an emancipatory move to oppose the old closed or bounded system of technologies, forms, and institutions (the web page, the encyclopedia, the firm) with a more democratic open one (the wiki, wikipedia, wikinomics). Despite the hype, there is a great deal of truth and hope in such claims. A glance at the past suggests, however, that such struggles are not entirely new, nor, as some would have it, entirely the function of new technologies. By looking at earlier struggles over open or closed, we can not only understand the current trajectory better, but also understand why it sometimes happens that technologies, forms, and institutions that were once triumphantly forced open in hard-fought battles nonetheless closed again. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:58:00 GMT http://sirls.arizona.edu/podcasts Part 4 of 5. Quicktime streaming video. Program Description: Web 2.0 would seem to represent an emancipatory move to oppose the old closed or bounded system of technologies, forms, and institutions (the web page, the encyclopedia, the firm) with a more democratic open one (the wiki, wikipedia, wikinomics). Despite the hype, there is a great deal of truth and hope in such claims. A glance at the past suggests, however, that such struggles are not entirely new, nor, as some would have it, entirely the function of new technologies. By looking at earlier struggles over open or closed, we can not only understand the current trajectory better, but also understand why it sometimes happens that technologies, forms, and institutions that were once triumphantly forced open in hard-fought battles nonetheless closed again. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:51:23 GMT http://sirls.arizona.edu/podcasts Part 5 of 5, Quicktime streaming video. Program Description: Web 2.0 would seem to represent an emancipatory move to oppose the old closed or bounded system of technologies, forms, and institutions (the web page, the encyclopedia, the firm) with a more democratic open one (the wiki, wikipedia, wikinomics). Despite the hype, there is a great deal of truth and hope in such claims. A glance at the past suggests, however, that such struggles are not entirely new, nor, as some would have it, entirely the function of new technologies. By looking at earlier struggles over open or closed, we can not only understand the current trajectory better, but also understand why it sometimes happens that technologies, forms, and institutions that were once triumphantly forced open in hard-fought battles nonetheless closed again. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:47:38 GMT http://sirls.arizona.edu/podcasts Sandy Kramer, librarian for the University of Arizona Health Sciences Library, presents Interviewing for Library Positions: Professional Tips & Techniques for Successful Interviews. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:57:18 GMT http://www.sir.arizona.edu/resources/podcasts/podcasts.html Suzanne Weisband (Arizona, Management Information Systems) - Technological advances and changes in the global economy are motivating and enabling an increasing geographic distribution of work. Many leaders today communicate regularly with individuals, with their team members, and with larger organizational units at a distance. Distant leaders lead military missions from remote locations, use videoconferencing to learn about breaking news, resolve conflicts without compensation or authority to do so, manage local and remote teams, and oversee online communities. Leadership is no longer the sole responsibility of the CEO or vice president; it can be found at every level of an organization. It becomes a special challenge, then, to understand how shifts to distributed forms of work are changing the nature of leadership. When leaders have direct access to information and to the people with whom they collaborate, it will change the way they interact with others and what they talk about. When leaders come to rely on and use sophisticated computer technologies, there will be a greater reliance on the infrastructure supporting the work and the technology. When collaboration involves hundreds of researchers, engineers, programmers, and software developers, the world of work shifts to a very different perspective on how to lead and work together. For this talk, I offer a new perspective on leadership at a distance, with a focus on leadership emergence, technical expertise, and new authority structures in large-scale collaborations. The goal is to present new challenges facing leaders in this flatter, global, highly interconnected, world of work, and to suggest new ways of working at a distance. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:50:25 GMT http://www.sir.arizona.edu/resources/podcasts/podcasts.html The rapidly growing information world poses new problems for people to interact with information resources effectively. One of challenges is to understand, access, and manage information with structures. This challenge is partially related to the limited cognitive resources of human beings, in terms of memory and attention, and partially due to the lack of information structures to guide information retrieval and sense-making. To help people deal with this issue, I am interested in using advanced visualization tools to improve the understanding of information, associated structures, and visually-guided user navigation in large information space. In this talk, I will discuss my current research projects on multiscale visualization of complicated (e.g., multi-dimensional data, social network data, and geo-spatial information) and sensemaking of research literature. I will also discuss a project on using process visualization to support common ground building in collaborative decision-making. Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:29:03 GMT