Timeline

2013

Tuesday, December 31, 2013 at 9:55pm EST
Happy New Year!

Sunday, December 29, 2013 at 5:29pm EST
Dept. of Labor is celebrating its centennial by "developing a list of Books that Shaped Work in America." Books that shaped work: http://www.dol.gov/100/books-shaped-work/

Friday, December 27, 2013 at 12:06pm EST
Need something to do for New Years? Ring in the New Year at Pratt http://gothamist.com/2013/01/01/photos_pratt_steam_whistles_greet_2.php

Thursday, December 26, 2013 at 7:49pm EST
"In our age of social networking, the selfie is the new way to look someone right in the eye and say, 'Hello, this is me.'" http://nyti.ms/1eGDZjO

Wednesday, December 25, 2013 at 9:26am EST
Technology companies begin analyzing e-book reading styles http://nyti.ms/1cncF74

Tuesday, December 24, 2013 at 12:21pm EST
Among the books which have been complained about were Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits and Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima.

Tuesday, December 24, 2013 at 11:39am EST
Quite a lot of drama in this story.

Tuesday, December 24, 2013 at 10:03am EST
Queen pardons father of modern computing http://nyti.ms/19a6JK4

Monday, December 23, 2013 at 3:43pm EST
Congrats to SILS Alum and Professor Jack Martin - he is the new Executive Director of the Providence Public Library http://www.provlib.org/news/providence-public-library-announces-appointment-new-executive-director

Monday, December 23, 2013 at 12:36pm EST
Happy new year! The proceedings from last year's LACUNY conference are now published! See articles by: Anthony Cocciolo, Assistant Professor, SILS Full-time faculty Emily Drabinski, SILS Part-time faculty Heather Lember, Suzanne Lipkin, Richard Jung Lee, SILS students Jessica Lingel, SILS alum and Rutgers Ph.D

Monday, December 23, 2013 at 9:21am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared their photo.
Happy Holidays from the Faculty and Staff of Pratt Institute School of Information & Library Science!

Friday, December 20, 2013 at 8:11pm EST
Event is free and open to the public: Speaking for the Humanities Thursday, February 20, 2014

Friday, December 20, 2013 at 11:28am EST
The older science research is, the more we lose of its original sources.

Friday, December 20, 2013 at 9:15am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, December 19, 2013 at 3:26pm EST
Faculty can now be fired for posting things that are “contrary to the best interests of the university”. Shame on you!

Thursday, December 19, 2013 at 1:07pm EST
For those interested in rare books and have a NYer subscription, this is an interesting read http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/16/131216fa_fact_schmidle

Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at 1:36pm EST
amazing. See especially visualization on gun victims, of homophobic tweets, and more. And I hope 2014 will have more talk about preservation of data. http://flowingdata.com/2013/12/16/data-and-visualization-year-in-review-2013/

Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at 10:26am EST
National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) puts out a report on digital preservation, with the finding that digital preservation efforts are currently understaffed. http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/12/just-released-staffing-for-effective-digital-preservation-an-ndsa-report/

Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at 8:10am EST
Turkle reflects on the now ubiquitous selfie http://nyti.ms/1bRZNpd

Monday, December 16, 2013 at 8:21pm EST
SILS Professor and Alumni Barbara Genco featured on the METRO website http://metro.org/articles/mymetro-member-spotlight-barbara-genco/

Monday, December 16, 2013 at 4:52pm EST
The latest installment in the saga of Jeffrey Beall and the fight against predatory journals

Monday, December 16, 2013 at 12:25pm EST
NYU provides guidance on standards for preservation of video http://library.nyu.edu/preservation/VARRFP.pdf

Monday, December 16, 2013 at 8:27am EST
A new NYPL branch opens in Staten Island http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/nyregion/an-oyster-filled-with-books-to-open-on-staten-island.html?_r=0

Sunday, December 15, 2013 at 8:16am EST
The British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Reuse & Remix

Saturday, December 14, 2013 at 7:36pm EST
Woman records 140,000 VHS tapes of television news between 1997 and 2012 http://www.fastcompany.com/3022022/the-incredible-story-of-marion-stokes-who-single-handedly-taped-35-years-of-tv-news

Thursday, December 12, 2013 at 9:49pm EST
SILS students in LIS 668 Projects in Moving Image and Sound Archiving make available a selection of video oral histories of the Daughters of Bilitis, one of the first LGBT activist organizations formed in 1955 http://www.herstories.prattsils.org/omeka/collections/show/36

Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at 9:57am EST
Have a great project you have worked on at SILS? Want to present on it at the Annual SILS Showcase? Nominate yourself here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mo_B0c87odTvCv0idQX4QoWo8QqMuuPsPxVcFcEBowQ/viewform

Tuesday, December 10, 2013 at 10:39pm EST
Students taking LIS 652 created miNYstories, short documentary narratives inspired by New York City. The link is here for you to enjoy, feel free to leave comments on the website.

Tuesday, December 10, 2013 at 9:04pm EST
In support of Open Access publishing: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/09/nobel-winner-boycott-science-journals

Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at 1:47pm EST
Is it? :)

Monday, December 2, 2013 at 3:28pm EST
One week left to apply to be a Berkman Center fellow for 2014-2015! Here's a great post from Nathan Matias at the Center for Civic Media on his experience at Berkman so far. http://civic.mit.edu/blog/natematias/why-you-should-apply-to-be-a-berkman-fellow

Monday, December 2, 2013 at 5:23am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information with Debbie L Rabina.
Dr. Rabina delivering the keynote address this morning at the GL15 conference at the Slovak Center for Scientific and Technical Information.

Saturday, November 30, 2013 at 7:59pm EST
Strangely beautiful and disturbing at the same time: Flying a Drone around NYPL

Saturday, November 30, 2013 at 4:29am EST
#4. An information science degree

Wednesday, November 27, 2013 at 12:07am EST
Thanks you to SILS alums Eloise Flood (Pace), Nora Almida and Jennifer Poggiali (CUNY), Vickey Ludas (Stevens institute of technology) Megan Wacha (Barnard) and Thomas Keenan (Princeton) for your panel tonight at LIS 631 Academic Libraries and Scholarly Communications

Sunday, November 24, 2013 at 9:54am EST
Debbie L Rabina shared a post to Pratt Institute School of Information's Timeline.

Saturday, November 23, 2013 at 9:25am EST
Dec. 2 deadline approaching: enter a logo for the Visual First Amendment, $100 for winner. Send submission to Dr. Chris Sula http://visualfa.org/logo-contest/

Friday, November 22, 2013 at 5:37pm EST
Vinette Thomas shared an album to Pratt Institute School of Information's Timeline.

Friday, November 22, 2013 at 5:36pm EST
Vinette Thomas shared an album to Pratt Institute School of Information's Timeline.

Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 1:11pm EST
Enjoy!

Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 7:54am EST
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/books/new-york-public-library-acquires-tom-wolfes-papers.html?_r=0

Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 10:26am EST
Downloadable datasets from Pew http://www.pewresearch.org/data/

Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 9:31am EST
Interested in scholarly communications? Listen to the Library Cafe interview with Ann Blair and read her book - available at Pratt Manhattan Library (call # 039 B634) http://library-cafe.blogspot.com/2013/11/ann-m-blair.html

Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 8:43pm EST
Fire at Internet Archive did not destroy any digital data, although there is a loss to equipment and some non-digital materials. https://blog.archive.org/2013/11/06/scanning-center-fire-please-help-rebuild/

Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 6:13pm EST
Language mapping internship with the Smithsonian . . . Hope current students follow this page . . .

Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 2:45pm EST
Interested in studying abroad next summer? Come learn more at our information sessions! 2014 Pratt SILS-SACI Florence Summer Program (May 22-June 20, 2014) 2014 Pratt SILS-King's College London E-publishing Summer Program (June 23-July 4, 2014) Information session: Tuesday, November 19 @ 6pm in Room 610 2014 Pratt SILS-Ravensbourne London Summer Program (July 7-25, 2014) Information session: Thursday, November 21 @ 5:30pm in Room 610 http://www.pratt.edu/academics/information_and_library_sciences/international_programs/london_summer_program/

Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 9:08am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared US National Archives's photo.
National Archives staff member identifies a photo of Lincoln before he delivers the Gettysburg Address 150 years ago today

Sunday, November 17, 2013 at 10:30am EST
Amazing what tens of thousands of undeveloped negatives can unearth . . .

Friday, November 15, 2013 at 3:46pm EST
Vinette Thomas shared a post to Pratt Institute School of Information's Timeline.

Friday, November 15, 2013 at 11:00am EST
Checkout all the new Library Buildings

Friday, November 15, 2013 at 10:27am EST
One more on the Google Books ruling. It's a little strange to be cheering in favor of Google, but copyright makes strange bedfellows

Friday, November 15, 2013 at 10:26am EST
One more on the Google Books ruling. It's a little strange to be cheering in favor of Google, but copyright makes strange bedfellows

Friday, November 15, 2013 at 6:44am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 10:02pm EST
Interested in DAMs? You may be interested in SLA@Pratt's panel this Friday: Fall Digital Asset Management Panel: A Mediated Panel with Q & A November 15th, 2013 at 6pm Pratt Manhattan RM 612 Reception to follow Please RSVP! http://tinyurl.com/kpsy6um Panelists confirmed: Gretchen Nadasky, Senior Associate at Optimity Advisors, Pratt Graduate Julie Maher, Co-Founder & CEO at Asset Atelier, Pratt Graduate, 15 years of experience Miwa Yokoyama, Project Digital Manager @ Carnegie Hall Katie Hut, Library Relations Manager at Practising Law

Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 8:46pm EST
Kenneth Crews, Columbia Copyright advisory board, on the Google books ruling from this morning: http://copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/2013/11/14/google-books-fair-use-and-public-benefits/

Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 5:54pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's album.
SILS at ASIS&T 2013, Montreal, QC

Wednesday, November 13, 2013 at 10:18am EST
Check out the new SILS calendar for upcoming events and workshops: http://bit.ly/prattsilscal

Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at 10:03pm EST
Reminder . . . if you are in the DC area this coming Friday, there is a symposium on American Art History and Digital Scholarship. It's free, but you need to register.

Sunday, November 10, 2013 at 7:56pm EST
SILS alum Mike Magilligan, now at SUNY Canton, talking on NRP about the WWII vets oral history project he created. Thanks Mike for the great project 9 min interview

Sunday, November 10, 2013 at 7:27pm EST
It's ACTA all over again, listen to Bill Moyers on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the destruction it will bring to intellectual property. Begins min13

Sunday, November 10, 2013 at 11:06am EST
Vidal's entire estate goes to Harvard, where he also donated his personal papers http://nyti.ms/1hrxPFr

Sunday, November 10, 2013 at 8:38am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Sunday, November 10, 2013 at 12:36am EST
First sale doctrine and digital files . . . . Deadline to submit input is November 13 (I know only a few days away. Just saw this today.)

Sunday, November 10, 2013 at 12:32am EST
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-w-p-campbell/exploring-the-worlds-grea_b_4232812.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

Saturday, November 9, 2013 at 11:06pm EST
We have made surveillance too cheap, and we need to make it more expensive,” Schneier added. “We’ve ended up with a public-private surveillance alliance.”

Friday, November 8, 2013 at 10:58am EST
Pleun Bouricius articulates very clearly why the humanities are essential to all parts of society. Also very interesting history on the role of libraries in the humanities, and certainly this can stimulate a discussion on how to keep that role live. http://wamc.org/post/ideas-matter-mass-humanities-bringing-humanities-life

Thursday, November 7, 2013 at 10:52am EST
http://www.flickr.com/photos/treborscholz/10724908913/

Wednesday, November 6, 2013 at 8:47pm EST
Congrats to SILS student Kai Alexis Smith for being a 2013-2014 ALA Emerging Leader - http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2013/11/emerging-leader-participants-class-2014-announced

Wednesday, November 6, 2013 at 2:37pm EST
Design the winning logo for the Visual First Amendment project with Drs. Rabina and Sula and win $100!

Tuesday, November 5, 2013 at 6:05pm EST
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/11/04/the-fate-of-the-humanities

Tuesday, November 5, 2013 at 11:08am EST
METRO to put NY library and archive collections into Digital Public Library of America. Also, SILS students in Projects in Digital Archives are working on exhibitions for DPLA. DPLA is sure keeping the LIS community busy! http://metro.org/articles/empire-state-digital-network/

Monday, November 4, 2013 at 3:52pm EST
At ASIST 2013 in Montreal? Visit the Pratt SILS table http://www.asis.org/asist2013/ (Photo courtesy of @BrandiCopher)

Monday, November 4, 2013 at 12:09pm EST
SILS student Doris Straus blogs for NYPL http://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/11/04/hands-art-history-treasures-pamphlet-files

Friday, November 1, 2013 at 9:19am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 7:35am EDT
A little humor for this Thursday - Happy Halloween! http://joannarenteria.com/2011/12/13/i-was-considering-grad-school-and-then-i-saw-this-hilarious/

Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at 3:27pm EDT
http://www.phlmetropolis.com/2012/12/the-joys-of-library-work.php Peace.

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 7:40pm EDT
The Internet Archive announces a emulator for old software that runs in your webbrowser http://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/microcomputer-software-lives-again-this-time-in-your-browser/

Monday, October 28, 2013 at 12:58pm EDT
"according to the terms of the museum's lease, which were just amended by the Bloomberg administration, the cultural institution could start charging a mandatory admissions fee if it wanted to, as long as it had approval from the commissioner of the department of cultural affairs"

Monday, October 28, 2013 at 10:09am EDT
Slides from METRO GoDig program on Big Data are available from the LibGuide under "File Repository" http://libguides.metro.org/content.php?pid=126208

Saturday, October 26, 2013 at 3:05pm EDT
Pratt Manhattan's neighborhood to become "more wealthy, more homogeneous" according to Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation http://nyti.ms/1alwwlG

Friday, October 25, 2013 at 3:48pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Pratt Institute Alumni's photo.

Friday, October 25, 2013 at 1:06pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, October 25, 2013 at 1:06pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's post.

Friday, October 25, 2013 at 1:05pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's post.

Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 10:44am EDT
Emily Dickinson archive is virtually reunified http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/books/enigmatic-dickinson-revealed-online.html?_r=0

Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 12:19am EDT
Congressing - new word in the Urban Dictionary http://tinyurl.com/n495ps6

Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 5:57pm EDT
28 people registered for Metro GoDig event tomorrow, and Walk-Ins are WELCOME http://metro.org/events/392/

Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 5:53pm EDT
Kudos to the students who will be representing Pratt SILS at the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting in Montreal! Diana Bowers paper titled "Digital Convergence and the Education Imperative" will be presented at 1:30pm on Monday, November 4th at the SIG-DL Digital Liaison panel. The paper was written for LIS 651. Iris Bierlein, Eleanor Meyer, Heather Lember and Dr. Irene Lopatovska will present a short paper "Exploring Requirements for Online Art Collections" in a poster session on Monday, November 4, 6pm. The paper is based on the LIS 607 project and can found at: http://irenelopatovska.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/asist13_exploring-requirements-for-online-art-collections.pdf

Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 10:38am EDT
Major Owens, Librarian and Representative in the House from Brooklyn, dies at 77 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/10/22/former-rep-major-owens-dies-at-77/

Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 6:00pm EDT
Very worthwhile discussion on free public access. The American people deserve, expect and want “no-fee public access to government information in all forms and from all three branches of government now and in the future.”

Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 1:45pm EDT
Congratulations to SILS student Jenny Ferretti on the publication of her article in the Serials Librarian Jennifer A. Ferretti (2013) First Sale Decided: The Road to the Kirtsaeng v. Wiley Decision and What It Means for Libraries, The Serials Librarian, 65:3-4, 261-276. To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2013.836464 This article was originally written as a paper for the course LIS 611: Information Policy [Rabina, Spring 2013]

Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 12:14pm EDT
SILS faculty Cocciolo and Rabina capture the government shutdown

Monday, October 21, 2013 at 11:31pm EDT
The entire text and individual chapters of various books written word for word on grains of rice. A re-interpretation of the library. http://www.cameandwent.com/books.html

Monday, October 21, 2013 at 10:16am EDT
Big Data in libraries: Content and policies for librarians Thurs. Oct 24, 2013 9:30am-12:30pm Location: Metro 57 East 11th Street, 4th fl. Details in LibGuide: http://libguides.metro.org/content.php?pid=126208&sid=1083556 To register: http://metro.org/events/392/

Sunday, October 20, 2013 at 7:43pm EDT
The importance of information for making good decisions: ... I dove into the academic literature on decision making. Not just in my field but also in neuroscience, psychology, sociology, information science, political science and history [...] But it’s often information that challenges our existing opinions or wishful desires that yields the greatest insights.

Sunday, October 20, 2013 at 9:40am EDT
Sherry Turkle shares her research on technology + loneliness on Bill Moyers this week

Saturday, October 19, 2013 at 7:36pm EDT
Very interesting thoughts and suggestion on engineering pace in syllabi in ways that cultivate attention.

Saturday, October 19, 2013 at 4:42pm EDT
This week is Open Access week: http://www.openaccessweek.org/

Saturday, October 19, 2013 at 4:38pm EDT
THATCamp is coming to Israel under the name "Digital Wind": Humanities in Hebrew are called the "spirit sciences" and the words Spirit and Wind are homonyms in Hebrew. Very clever and catchy name.

Friday, October 18, 2013 at 2:19pm EDT
Interested in learning more about Pratt SILS? Join us for our Nov. 2 at 10A Open House https://www.pratt.edu/calendar/view/open_house_school_of_information_and_library_science/

Friday, October 18, 2013 at 12:20pm EDT
Worked on or used a really good finding aid recently? Nominate it for the MARAC Finding Aid Award: http://www.marac.info/finding-aids-award

Friday, October 18, 2013 at 10:50am EDT
Apply for an ACRL 2013 Symposium Student Scholarship https://acrlnyforms.wufoo.com/forms/2013-symposium-student-scholarship-application/

Friday, October 18, 2013 at 10:46am EDT
Pratt UX is now on Twitter! Follow us @uxiapratt

Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 10:42am EDT
Want to create a visualization of your email? Here's an app to do it. http://www.wired.com/design/2013/09/this-app-makes-a-scarily-detailed-map-of-your-social-life-just-from-your-inbox/#slideid-240711 Immersion: https://immersion.media.mit.edu/

Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 9:45am EDT
A visualization of the 2013 government shutdown (courtesy of Will Dean) http://labs.enigma.io/shutdown2013/

Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 9:27am EDT
Nominate a Pratt SILS alum for an Alumni Achievement Award today! #PrattAlumniAwards http://bit.ly/U4Igmy

Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 9:05am EDT
The Rare Book & Manuscript library at Columbia will house Prokofiev's papers

Wednesday, October 16, 2013 at 5:34pm EDT
SILS students Julia Marden (M.S. Library and Information Science '13) and Carolyn Li-Madeo get a shout out in Inside Pratt (which for some reason is only accessible with a Pratt id) https://inside.pratt.edu/?p=11576

Wednesday, October 16, 2013 at 11:47am EDT
Neil Gaiman Keynote on the staying power of physical books, libraries and daydreaming.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013 at 11:05pm EDT
Photos of an abandoned library in Detroit.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013 at 9:07am EDT
Check out this Donors Choose project from SILS Alum Jess DeCourcy Hinds, LMS at Bard High School Early College in Queens.

Monday, October 14, 2013 at 10:47am EDT
An analysis of the "upgrade" to iOS 7 from a usability perspective http://www.nngroup.com/articles/ios-7/

Sunday, October 13, 2013 at 7:01pm EDT
Many Reasons to go to the MoMA. First, Pratt students get in free (just show ID). Things worth seeing include: To Save and Project: The 11th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, October 9–November 12, 2013 http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1429 AND Applied Design An interesting thing about this exhibit is it is the first time they are showcasing their newly acquired born digital collections, which include video games like SimCity, Myst, and Tetris http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1353

Thursday, October 10, 2013 at 3:57pm EDT
Digital Forensics and Archives? A podcast from NYC digital preservationists explain http://keepingcollections.org/more-podcast-less-process/

Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at 3:40pm EDT
Spotted on a listserv message: Midweek entertainment: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/when-meta-met-data.html "Which makes metadata terrifying, and not merely because of what we’re being told that all that information is being gathered and collated and purposed for (our safety and security). On a deeper level, the metadread of metadata stems from its unlimited nature ..." I'm not sure if this is the amusing result of someone assuming that "metadata" means the same thing as "big data" but with all sorts of extra sinister stuff imputed in due to that snazzy prefix, or if this is some kind of meta joke that I'm too non-meta (base? para?) to get. ---------------------- KT Data Librarian University of W.

Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at 1:56pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Monday, October 7, 2013 at 12:23pm EDT
Cartoonist's vast archive goes to Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript Library http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/07/arts/design/al-jaffees-work-is-going-to-columbia.html?hpw&_r=0

Sunday, October 6, 2013 at 10:05am EDT
Deadline approaching Nov. 2 Nominate someone for Library Journal Movers and Shakers awards http://lj.libraryjournal.com/movers-and-shakers/nomination-guidelines/

Saturday, October 5, 2013 at 7:57pm EDT
Regretfully behind paywall, print available at PMC

Saturday, October 5, 2013 at 12:53pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Saturday, October 5, 2013 at 12:19pm EDT
Job posting for professor at Pratt SILS - computing and emerging information technologies http://www.pratt.edu/pratt_blog/view/assistant_professor_computing_and_emerging_information_technologies/

Saturday, October 5, 2013 at 12:05pm EDT
Dr. Rabina needs help with Zotero I am looking for someone, preferably in NYC, who can offer help with Zotero. I need to combine two saved files in different accounts into one library, I need to draw tables from the saved URLs and create a Group that looks like this: https://www.zotero.org/groups/free_government_information I can pay $20 per hour and would prefer to work with a SILS student. Please e-mail me directly 'drabina at pratt dot edu'

Friday, October 4, 2013 at 3:26pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, October 4, 2013 at 12:51pm EDT
SILS alum Gretchen Nadasky (MSLIS, 2013) will be speaking about her job as Digital Asset Management at Optimity Advisors Tuesday, October 8 5:30-7:30. Register here: http://metro.org/events/414/ METRO Training Center 57 East 11th Street, 4th Floor All the best, Gretchen Nadasky, MSLIS, 2013 Sr. Associate, Optimity Advisors http://metro.org/events/414/

Friday, October 4, 2013 at 12:35pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, October 4, 2013 at 12:34pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, October 4, 2013 at 12:03pm EDT
Fascinating read

Friday, October 4, 2013 at 12:00pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, October 4, 2013 at 1:04am EDT
New program concentration at SILS - Research and Assessment - read about it here: http://www.pratt.edu/academics/information_and_library_sciences/program_concentrations/research_and_assessment/

Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 3:36pm EDT
Peter Nicholas Otis shared a link to Pratt Institute School of Information's Timeline.

Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 2:41pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's photo.

Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 1:36pm EDT
PRATT SILS @ 76th ASIS&T Montreal Conference November 2013 Beyond the Cloud: Rethinking Information Boundaries https://www.asis.org/asist2013/index.html Visit us at the Pratt SILS table during the Welcome Reception & Alumni Reunion. Also stop by to pick up your Pratt Ribbon, add it to your name tag and wear it with pride! –––––––––––––––––––––––– https://www.asis.org/asist2013/social.html Welcome Reception – Sunday, November 3rd Alumni Reunion – Tuesday, November 5th Le Centre Sheraton 1201 Boulevard René-Lévesque West Montreal, QC H3B 2L7 Canada ––––––––––––– BLOGGING OF ASIS&T CONFERENCE – Follow conference news at http://vinetteliveatala.wordpress.com

Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 12:04pm EDT
"What is at stake in this government shutdown forced by a radical Tea Party minority is nothing less than the principle upon which our democracy is based: majority rule."

Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 12:02pm EDT
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/ann-wolpert-obituary.html

Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at 3:30pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Monday, September 30, 2013 at 12:38pm EDT
An update on the efforts of the National Recording Preservation Foundation on preserving music recordings http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/09/just-how-much-of-musical-history-has-been-lost-to-history/279948/

Monday, September 30, 2013 at 11:00am EDT
Debbie L Rabina shared a photo to Pratt Institute School of Information's Timeline.
Today is the feast of St. Jerome. Patron saint of librarians.

Monday, September 30, 2013 at 10:09am EDT
Copyright . . . Australian record label vs. Lawrence Lessig

Sunday, September 29, 2013 at 5:32pm EDT
Dean Giannini at #PrattAlumniDay (Sept 28, 2013)

Sunday, September 29, 2013 at 3:13pm EDT
NY Archives Week is Oct. 6-12, 2013

Sunday, September 29, 2013 at 1:25pm EDT
Pratt SILS students Julia Marden ('13) and Carolyn Li-Madeo will be presenting at the ACM's SIGDOC 2013 on Tuesday, October 1, 2013 in Greenville, NC. Their presentation 'Linked Open Data for Cultural Heritage: Evolution of an Information Technology' is based on the paper they co-wrote with Noreen Whysel and Jeff Edelstein ('13) for Dr. Pattuelli's seminar LIS-670. For more information about the conference: http://sigdoc.acm.org/2013

Sunday, September 29, 2013 at 11:27am EDT
Interesting and conflicting information. Students spend Six minutes a day on email, but when given a choice on how they want to receive messages from learning management systems, 98% select e-mail

Friday, September 27, 2013 at 11:17pm EDT
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/27/timothy-leary-video-games-unearthed-in-archive/?smid=tw-share&_r=0

Friday, September 27, 2013 at 4:42pm EDT
The PrattUX group, an organization for SILS students and other members of the SILS community who are interested and/or curious about the practice in user experience (UX), usability, and user-centered design, held its first ever elections last night and I'm happy to congratulate the four members of the group's inaugural leadership team: Co-Chairs: Samantha Raddatz and Susan Young Secretary/Treasurer: Iris Bierlein Community Manager: Carolyn Madeo This semester, the officers will be submitting an application to get officially recognized by student government association while also developing the scope and mission of the group and planning some exciting UX-related events for the SILS community. Congratulations Samantha, Susan, Iris, and Carolyn!

Friday, September 27, 2013 at 1:22pm EDT
Congrats to SILS alum Houda El mimouni (Class of 2013) for receiving the ASIS&T 2013 New Leaders Award https://www.asis.org/asist2013/awards.html

Friday, September 27, 2013 at 1:09pm EDT
http://www.artandeducation.net/paper/emory-university-eradicates-its-visual-arts-department-portending-an-ominous-trend-in-university-education/

Friday, September 27, 2013 at 8:53am EDT
Hal Varian, professor emeritus from the iSchool at UC Berkeley and now chief economist at Google, explains the economics of the newspaper business: http://www.journalismfestival.com/news/hal-varian-on-the-economics-of-the-newspaper-business/

Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 2:08pm EDT
An app that tracks the provenance of rare manuscripts: http://blog.abaa.org/blog/?p=3241

Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 4:31pm EDT
Remember- if you are graduating this Fall you need to submit your E-Portfolio to your advisor by Nov. 1. Questions about your E-Portfolio? Attend a workshop on 9/26 or 9/28. More information available on the listserv.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 2:55pm EDT
Houda El Mimouni (SILS Class of 2013) was named one of three recipients for the Fall 2013 METRO Innovative Internship Program. For this internship, Houda will be working with Nadaleen Tempelman-Kluit, Discovery and Digital Access Librarian at NYU, to implement UX practices and methods throughout the library, which will include planning and conducting UX-related research and training for other library departments, piloting and developing a UX lab, and helping NYU library staff integrate a UX perspective into the user-centered design and development of library interfaces, tools, and services. Houda's work was chosen because of its innovative structure, diversity of responsibilities, and because "library services focused on usability testing and overall user experience have the potential to help expand the ways librarians can help their patrons develop and sustain digital projects." Houda has been an active member of the PrattUX group here at SILS and will be a tremendous asset to NYU Libraries as they develop and expand their User Experience program. Congratulations Houda! For more information: http://metro.org/articles/fall-2013-innovative-internship-recipients-announced/

Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 2:27pm EDT
Long overdue http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/technology/give-yourself-4-stars-online-it-might-cost-you.html?ref=dining

Sunday, September 22, 2013 at 10:58pm EDT
Celebrate the right to read http://bannedbooksweek.org/

Sunday, September 22, 2013 at 1:31pm EDT
[min. 8] "one of the skills of the next 20 to 30 years is that we're going to have to learn to deal with the enormous stores of memory we have and how to manage them so they are useful. A lot of this is going to become almost like library science for everyday life. Librarians began to grapple 500 years ago with having tons of books and they had to start thinking about how to prioritize them, and now we have to do that too." http://www.onthemedia.org/story/technology-making-us-smarter-you-think/

Saturday, September 21, 2013 at 11:17pm EDT
Show your SILS pride at #PrattAlumniDay Saturday, Sept. 28. Join Professor Craig MacDonald at the Academic Fair where he will present "The Aesthetics of Human-Computer Interaction: Teaching SILS Students How to Make Digital Tools Usable, Useful, and Desirable." Registration is free but required.

Saturday, September 21, 2013 at 3:59pm EDT
Show your SILS pride at #PrattAlumniDay Saturday, Sept. 28. Join Professor Craig MacDonald at the Academic Fair where he will present "The Aesthetics of Human-Computer Interaction: Teaching SILS Students How to Make Digital Tools Usable, Useful, and Desirable." Registration is free but required.

Friday, September 20, 2013 at 8:49pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared US National Archives's photo.

Friday, September 20, 2013 at 5:45pm EDT
Report focus on Child & Adolescent Health, and the Affordable Care Act, with a secondary focus on Food Security.

Friday, September 20, 2013 at 4:48pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, September 20, 2013 at 2:34pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, September 19, 2013 at 8:02am EDT
Librarians have a lower-than-average hiring outlook but they rank so high in other criteria, such as low stress level and better office environment than average. Librarians have an opportunity to work in an environment they love. They have good hours. And they’re serving the public, which is what most librarians get into this business to do"

Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at 5:13pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's photo.
Pratt SILS at Pratt Brooklyn Campus

Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at 12:20pm EDT
Happy Constitution day The Government Printing Office (GPO) announced today the launching of a new app and web publication that make analysis and interpretation of constitutional case law by Library experts accessible for free to anyone with a computer or mobile device. The information is from The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation, commonly known as the Constitution Annotated. The new app and improved web publication will make the nearly 3,000-page “Constitution Annotated” more accessible to more people and enable updates of new case analysis three or four times each year. The new Constitution Annotated app is available for the iOS platform and allows users to read the entire document; browse by section – such as by article of or amendment to the Constitution; view and navigate content from a table of cases and index; and search all text. The app can be downloaded for free from iTunes. A direct link is here: http://beta.congress.gov/constitution-annotated/. An Android version is under development. http://freegovinfo.info/node/4001?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at 12:47am EDT
SILS is looking for a new professor of Digital Media and Emerging Technologies http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/10032/

Monday, September 16, 2013 at 10:34am EDT
San Jose State University on Wednesday quietly released the full research report on the for-credit online courses it offered this spring through the online education company Udacity. The report, marked by delays and procedural setbacks, suggests it may be difficult for the university to deliver online education in this format to the students who need it most. . . . Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/09/12/after-weeks-delays-san-jose-state-u-releases-research-report-online-courses Inside Higher Ed

Saturday, September 14, 2013 at 11:08am EDT
The George and Ira Gershwin archive at LOC will be used to create a definitive edition of their work http://nyti.ms/1etg479

Friday, September 13, 2013 at 4:31pm EDT
Guardian opinion piece on the war on libraries in the UK

Friday, September 13, 2013 at 9:58am EDT
The Voyager spacecraft leaves the solar system - only took 36 years http://nyti.ms/17tBNWc

Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 4:15pm EDT
Are you interested in archives? Join the Pratt SILS Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists. The first meeting is Sept 18 at 5:50p in the 6th Floor Conference Room.

Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 1:33pm EDT
Introducing MANTRA, an online course designed for researchers or others planning to manage digital data as part of the research process. - See more at: http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/#sthash.lG5F70RK.dpuf

Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 2:35pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 2:27pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 2:26pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 1:21pm EDT
Check out our own Jack Martin blogging on badging!

Monday, September 9, 2013 at 4:24pm EDT
Day Conference on Archiving Video Games

Saturday, September 7, 2013 at 11:22pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, September 5, 2013 at 10:55am EDT
What do some of the mayoral candidates have to say about libraries? Find out in Urban Librarians Unite's 5-question survey

Thursday, September 5, 2013 at 7:16am EDT
Hanna donates her archive, then recovers http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/arts/music/kathleen-hanna-returns-with-the-julie-ruin.html

Wednesday, September 4, 2013 at 11:21pm EDT
Will you prosper in the new world? http://nyti.ms/17qIpFw

Wednesday, September 4, 2013 at 8:03pm EDT
E-readers and people w/disabilities: Read ALA comments to the FCC in response to a petition from the E-reader Coalition Petition of Class Waiver of Commission’s rules for Access to Advanced Communications and Services (ACS) for People with Disabilities:

Wednesday, September 4, 2013 at 5:10pm EDT
An opportunity to feel all warm and fuzzy about our branch libraries. Thanks to all the librarians and volunteers that make this happen and the library users who made their nominations http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2013/sep/04/library-award-finalists/

Monday, September 2, 2013 at 12:24pm EDT
Building a library in the digital age - interview with architect Francine Houben

Monday, September 2, 2013 at 9:26am EDT
Building a library in the digital age - interview with architect Francine Houben

Sunday, September 1, 2013 at 5:51pm EDT
http://newyork.sla.org/student-swing-iii/

Sunday, September 1, 2013 at 12:22pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, August 30, 2013 at 4:20pm EDT
ASIST annual conference 2013 Nov. 1-5 Montreal, poster #15 from SILS faculty Irene Lopatovske and SILS students Iris Bierlein, Heather Lember and Eleanor Meyer. Exploring Requirements for Online Art Collections Irene Lopatovska, Iris Bierlein, Heather Lember and Eleanor Meyer, all Pratt Institute http://www.asis.org/asist2013/posters.html

Friday, August 30, 2013 at 3:34pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, August 30, 2013 at 9:54am EDT
A particularly detailed and thoughtful discussion of the problems that plague NYPL and the irreversible impact this will have on the city's architecture, including social impact.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 1:19pm EDT
http://pages.email.nypl.org/nextmayor/?j=580753&e=drabina@pratt.edu&l=27372_HTML&u=8485338&mid=7000413&jb=8&utm_source=eNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=2013CandidateAdvocacyCampaignFollowUp&utm_campaign=2013CandidateAdvocacy

Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 1:16pm EDT
Meredith Morrissey shared a link to Pratt Institute School of Information's Timeline.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 9:46am EDT
http://huff.to/1feicuH

Tuesday, August 27, 2013 at 5:45pm EDT
RIP SILS Dean Emeritus Nasser Sharify (1925-2013)

Monday, August 26, 2013 at 12:42pm EDT
Select directors keep 35mm as a capture format for motion pictures alive

Monday, August 26, 2013 at 11:31am EDT
First day of classes, welcome back! Pratt Institute Library School, 1897 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/prattinstitutelibraries/3460546141/

Friday, August 23, 2013 at 1:01pm EDT
NYC geographic data now available for free The city of New York has finally made a wealth of geographic data available for free. As The Atlantic reports, where you once had to pay $1,500, now the entire package of data -- cleverly trademarked "BYTES of the BIG APPLE" by the city -- can be accessed for free.

Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 4:30pm EDT
SILS New Student Orientation today at 5p, 2nd Floor

Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 4:33pm EDT
SILS alum Jill Goldstein featured on METRO blog

Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 3:15pm EDT
SILS alum Jill Goldstein featured on METRO blog:

Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 2:39pm EDT
Discover what current SILS student, Carolyn Foyle, found and learned at the Samuel C. Williams Library at Stevens Institute of Technology during a Summer internship.

Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 1:27pm EDT
Davita Vance-Cooks is sworn in as the 27th Public Printer of the United States by Judge Gerald Bruce Lee of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on August 21, 2013 in GPO’s Harding Hall. The GPO oversees dissemination of government information to the public through the Federal Depository Library Program - Keeping America Informed

Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 12:31pm EDT
Christina Meninger shared a link to Pratt Institute School of Information's Timeline.

Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 10:21am EDT
The Editors of Prattfolio (Pratt's Magazine) are looking for students comments to the following questions for their next issue. Reply here and your comments may be included in the magazine: Augmented reality is a live view of a real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics, or GPS data. For the next issue of Prattfolio, we want to hear from you. What are your thoughts on augmented reality? Share with us the good, the bad, the weird… How has technology changed the art world for better? How about for worse? What Pratt artist, designer, or thinker best represents the convergence of data and art, and why? http://issuu.com/prattinstitute/docs/prattfolio-125th-anniversary-2012/1?e=0/1381072

Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 9:17am EDT
Born Digital: Conservation in the Computer Age http://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/born-digital-conservation-in-the-computer-age

Tuesday, August 20, 2013 at 4:31pm EDT
Interesting online game about our vanishing privacy (and thanks to Elizabeth Willse for bringing this to our attention). http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/08/20/heres-the-most-amusing-way-to-learn-the-depressing-news-about-your-vanishing-privacy/

Monday, August 19, 2013 at 6:43pm EDT
"Libraries were places of silence with pockets of group work and activity. In the 21st century university, they are becoming places of learning activity with pockets of silence." http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/aug/06/university-libraries-learning-shapes-design

Monday, August 19, 2013 at 10:59am EDT
Archives concentration page is updated with information on student projects https://www.pratt.edu/academics/information_and_library_sciences/advanced_certificate_program/advanced_archives/

Sunday, August 18, 2013 at 10:51pm EDT
SILS concentration Information Policy and Society (formally WISE) has been updated for Fall 2013: Check it out

Friday, August 16, 2013 at 11:45pm EDT
Dr. Rabina's blog post on summer session on contemplative pedagogy at Smith College. Read more: http://debbierabina.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/contemplative-pedagogy/

Friday, August 16, 2013 at 10:24pm EDT
Fall 2013 Syllabi from Prof. Cocciolo's classes available here

Friday, August 16, 2013 at 7:39pm EDT
Finding traces of the silent film era in odd places around NY & NJ http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/nyregion/getting-a-close-up-of-the-silent-film-era.html?_r=0

Thursday, August 15, 2013 at 10:23am EDT
At SAA Annual? Be sure to visit the Linked Jazz poster, that is going up tonight at 5pm and will be up through tomorrow at 1pm http://mysite.pratt.edu/~infosils/SAAPosterAUG9.pdf

Thursday, August 15, 2013 at 7:35am EDT
Please consider:

Monday, August 12, 2013 at 12:01pm EDT
Congratulations to SILS faculty Cristina Pattuelli and SILS alum Sara Rubinow, on the publication of their paper: The Knowledge Organization of DBpedia: A Case Study The paper is available from Emerald database, Pratt libraries,http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17094371&WT.mc_id=journaltocalerts and from Academia.edu http://www.academia.edu/4221278/The_Knowledge_Organization_of_DBpedia_A_Case_Study

Sunday, August 11, 2013 at 10:57pm EDT
SILS alums Ben Fino-Radin and Tara Hart discuss the New Museum's XFR STN with the NYTimes http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/arts/design/xfr-stn-offers-a-digital-update-at-the-new-museum.html

Sunday, August 11, 2013 at 10:02pm EDT
New issue of Metropolitan Archivist....

Monday, August 5, 2013 at 8:56pm EDT
http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/case-building-digital-preservation-network

Monday, August 5, 2013 at 2:03pm EDT
Do you use the ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) database - here is an update on what's going on there http://eric.ed.gov/?note

Sunday, August 4, 2013 at 4:35pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, August 2, 2013 at 10:12am EDT
first African-American and first woman to lead the Government Printing Office, which oversees the Federal Depository Library Program SENATE CONFIRMS DAVITA VANCE-COOKS AS PUBLIC PRINTER http://gpo.gov/newsroom-media/presspage/13presspage31.htm

Thursday, August 1, 2013 at 8:29pm EDT
Datasets available from NYC.gov http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/applbyte.shtml and an example of what you can do with them http://bklynr.com/block-by-block-brooklyns-past-and-present/

Thursday, August 1, 2013 at 8:14am EDT
http://www.wnyc.org/npr_articles/2013/aug/01/how-andrew-carnegie-turned-his-fortune-into-a-library-legacy/

Wednesday, July 31, 2013 at 4:23pm EDT
Lots of collaborative projects going on at SILS this Fall. These include: LIS 665-01 Outreach project with Digital Public Library of America; Oral histories project with Lesbian Herstory Archives LIS 665-02 Outreach project with American Jewish Historical Society; Oral histories of dancers (interviewed by Barbara Newman) LIS 697-3 (Projects in Digital Archives) Video oral histories project with Lesbian Herstory Archives

Tuesday, July 30, 2013 at 1:31pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information at Lesbian Herstory Archives.
Prof. Cocciolo loads up Melinda (the name of his 70' Benz) with archives from the Herstory Archives in Brooklyn for class this Fall

Tuesday, July 30, 2013 at 11:46am EDT
SAA@Pratt Event Coordinator, Rossy Mendez, will be attending SAA Annual August 11th until August 18th- reach out to her via the SAA@Pratt Facebook page

Monday, July 29, 2013 at 10:58am EDT
SILS student Robert Weinstein showing his talent outside the classroom on NPR's Live at the Moth http://themoth.org/posts/storytellers/robert-weinstein

Friday, July 26, 2013 at 6:30pm EDT
Pratt alum Ben Fino-Radin quoted in the Atlantic http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/07/new-museums-vast-beautiful-and-insane-digitization-project/67567/

Friday, July 26, 2013 at 6:25pm EDT
SILS Alum Tara Hart also made possible the New Museum's new XFR STN http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/xfr-stn

Thursday, July 25, 2013 at 8:58pm EDT
Peter Nicholas Otis shared a link to Pratt Institute School of Information's Timeline.

Thursday, July 25, 2013 at 2:59pm EDT
Poster from Image Permanence Institute about preserving motion picture film is hanging in PMC 611

Thursday, July 25, 2013 at 2:22pm EDT
This is kind of long, but really very highly recommended article about the NSA surveillance and information consumerism, parallels with climate change, ideologies and policies, and some suggested solutions Morozov's two books are also available at PMC http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/ueberwachung/information-consumerism-the-price-of-hypocrisy-12292374.html

Thursday, July 25, 2013 at 11:24am EDT
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/garden/the-new-audio-geeks.html

Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 10:17pm EDT
NSA facility in Utah will not store a yottabyte of data, as was originally reported in the media

Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 7:15am EDT
Neal Stimler of the Met, first person I've seen wearing Google Glass

Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 10:12pm EDT
Debbie L Rabina shared a link to Pratt Institute School of Information's Timeline.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 9:19pm EDT
Anthony Marx on Leonard Lopate tomorrow. Worth a listen.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 12:55pm EDT
The Race to Manage Government Records Begins

Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 12:27pm EDT
Art education at Savannah College of Art and Design. (print available at PMC)

Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 11:48am EDT
Just released: Inaugural National Agenda for Digital Stewardship http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/nationalagenda/index.html

Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 11:44am EDT
Congratulations to LIS faculty Nancy Friedland , President of The Theatre Library Association http://library.columbia.edu/news/libraries/2013/2013-7-17_NancyFriedland_TLA_President.html

Monday, July 22, 2013 at 5:26pm EDT
WITNESS created the Activists' Guide to Archiving Video http://archiveguide.witness.org/

Monday, July 22, 2013 at 1:10pm EDT
New Museum and Rhizome open media conservation center to public http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/jul/17/opening-tomorrow-xfr-stn-media-conservation/

Saturday, July 20, 2013 at 9:37pm EDT
Prof. Cocciolo will be representing Pratt SILS at Digital Preservation 2013, the annual meeting of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance

Saturday, July 20, 2013 at 11:49am EDT
MOOCs merits not supported by numbers http://www.infodocket.com/2013/07/19/moocs-san-jose-state-university-suspends-project-with-udacity-roundup/

Friday, July 19, 2013 at 8:17pm EDT
Columbia's Teachers College gets 8 million dollar gift to renovate the Library's 4th floor into a "learning theater," which will allow data displays and visualizations.

Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 8:47pm EDT
Archiving Video? Lots of useful information . . .

Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 4:43pm EDT
At what point does "going green" and saving electricity negatively impact the student experience? The Pratt Manhattan Library hit nearly 85 F today at 4:30pm. How hot is too hot? Thoughts? http://temperature.prattsils.org/?p=46

Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 2:02pm EDT
The most recent issue of the Code4Lib journal includes an article from SILS folks Cristina Pattuelli, Matt Miller, Leanora Lange, Sean Fitzell, and Carolyn Li-Madeo.

Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 1:40pm EDT
Theft alert: [Sent of behalf of Helen Sheehy, Head of the Social Sciences Library at Penn State University:] The Chicago Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the theft of historical topographical maps from various educational institutions. The maps are mostly from Central and Eastern Europe, including: Poland, Germany, Austria, and western Russia and their scales vary between 1:25,000 to 1:100,000. The maps are considered to be Interwar, meaning they were published between 1919 and 1939. Of particular interest are maps published by the Wojskowy Instytut Geograficzny Instytut (Poland). The investigation has also revealed the theft of 19 th century Austro-Hungarian topographical maps. The thefts have occurred as far back as 2008 and as recently as the spring of 2013. The FBI would like to identify as many victims as possible, and would like to interview individuals who may have been in contact with the individual or individuals responsible for these thefts. If you have information or believe your institution may have been the victim of a similar theft please contact Special Agent Luigi Mondini at 312 829-5526 or luigi.mondini@ic.fbi.gov .

Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 10:09am EDT
Please take 5 min to listen to this episode of Freakonomics radio. It features the Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure, a publication from the Dept. of Defense, and of course, freely available to the public. Librarians - add this to your collection. http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/freakonomics-radio/freakonomics-radio-govt-workers-gone-wild

Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 12:17am EDT
Prof. Pattuelli presenting Linked Jazz at Digital Humanities 2013 https://twitter.com/thisismmiller/status/357714692149497856

Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 12:16am EDT
Prof. Sula presenting at Digital Humanities 2013 https://twitter.com/thisismmiller/status/357713760439373825

Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at 8:14pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at 10:23am EDT
Washington Post article about saving TV shows on Quad videotape http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/rescuers-rush-to-preserve-tv-shows-shot-on-fragile-videotape/2013/07/15/ef6e2ee4-cd3c-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html?hpid=z5

Monday, July 15, 2013 at 9:38pm EDT
Linked Jazz will be at the Digital Humanities 2013 Conference

Monday, July 15, 2013 at 3:37pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Monday, July 15, 2013 at 1:36pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's video.

Monday, July 15, 2013 at 1:35pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's video.

Monday, July 15, 2013 at 1:35pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's video.

Monday, July 15, 2013 at 1:35pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's video.

Monday, July 15, 2013 at 1:35pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's video.

Monday, July 15, 2013 at 1:35pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's video.

Monday, July 15, 2013 at 1:34pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's video.

Monday, July 15, 2013 at 1:34pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's video.

Monday, July 15, 2013 at 1:34pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's video.

Monday, July 15, 2013 at 1:34pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's video.

Monday, July 15, 2013 at 1:34pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's video.

Monday, July 15, 2013 at 1:34pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's video.

Monday, July 15, 2013 at 1:33pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's video.

Monday, July 15, 2013 at 1:33pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's video.

Monday, July 15, 2013 at 1:33pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's video.

Monday, July 15, 2013 at 1:33pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's video.

Monday, July 15, 2013 at 1:33pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's video.

Monday, July 15, 2013 at 1:31pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Vinette Thomas's video.

Friday, July 12, 2013 at 7:14pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared New-York Historical Society's photo.
Whatever happened to those bath houses? Oh right, AIDS. AIDS in New York: The First Five Years at New York Historical Society http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/aids-new-york-first-five-years

Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 10:46am EDT
Open Access expands

Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 10:44am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 8:39am EDT
Duck Duck Go - the search engine with zero tracking

Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 8:38am EDT
More on the ruling regarding Apple and e-book pricing conspiracy

Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 1:28am EDT
Watched the movie "The Bling Ring" and pleased to see music credits go to SILS alum Daniel Lopatin http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1644827/

Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 1:48pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 1:35pm EDT
The Guggenheim gets an app with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/visit/app

Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 9:01am EDT
New e-book from Metro, co edited by SILS alum Lisa Chow http://metro.org/articles/metro-and-acrl/ny-announce-publication-of-the-global-librarian/

Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 7:46pm EDT
Archiving Video Games? You may be interested in this conference at NYU http://amiastudentsnyc.com/events/archiving-video-games-call-for-papers/

Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 4:46pm EDT
Peter Nicholas Otis shared a link to Pratt Institute School of Information's Timeline.

Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 1:22pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Saturday, July 6, 2013 at 5:58pm EDT
The controversial Jeffrey Beall, an academic librarian at the University of Colorado Denver who has assembled a list of "predatory journals" is interviewed by On The Media. http://www.onthemedia.org/2013/jul/05/bealls-list/

Saturday, July 6, 2013 at 11:07am EDT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/10163060/Wanted-Royal-librarian-to-look-after-the-Queens-125000-titles.html

Friday, July 5, 2013 at 8:50pm EDT
CFP: Disaster Planning for Archives http://www.nycarchivists.org/Default.aspx?pageId=1131756&eventId=705660&EventViewMode=EventDetails

Thursday, July 4, 2013 at 10:59pm EDT
Software that can only be rented (eg, Photoshop) could complicate long-term preservation of digital content http://nyti.ms/163n54A

Wednesday, July 3, 2013 at 11:15pm EDT
Happy Fourth of July everyone, take a minute to read the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Wednesday, July 3, 2013 at 11:12pm EDT
Lifts your noses up everyone, you're doing good!

Wednesday, July 3, 2013 at 10:47am EDT
Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive

Wednesday, July 3, 2013 at 9:31am EDT
Nice photo of the Brooklyn campus

Tuesday, July 2, 2013 at 3:07pm EDT
Univ. of Kentucky develops a system to make oral history more accessible. http://www.kentucky.com/2013/06/30/2699101/university-of-kentuckys-oral-history.html

Monday, July 1, 2013 at 11:41am EDT
3 Days only - Foundations of Freedom: the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights http://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/foundations-freedom-declaration-independence-and-bill-rights

Monday, July 1, 2013 at 11:24am EDT
The Archives of American Art has a Call for Papers (CFP) the their fall conference AAA is especially interested in combining American Art history with digital humanities, digital research, and digital tools. SILS students who have work in the appropriate areas are encouraged to submit proposals

Friday, June 28, 2013 at 12:24pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Linked Jazz's photo.
The Linked Jazz Project--led by SILS Prof. Pattuelli--is making its way around the world this summer.

Thursday, June 27, 2013 at 2:30pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared NYPL The New York Public Library's photo.
Happy NYC Gay Pride Week to everyone.

Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 1:13pm EDT
Duck stamps are hardly the news of the day, but I could not help remembering the excellent paper on the Federal Duck Stamp program written on SILS Alum Marcy Carlson: Carlson, M. (2006). Waterfowl and wetlands: A history of the federal duck stamp program. Documents to the People 35 (4). [Written for LIS 613: Government Information Sources]

Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 7:26am EDT
Congratulations to SILS alum and lecturer Josh Hadro on his appointment as Deputy Director, Reference and Research Services, at the New York Public Library (NYPL).

Monday, June 24, 2013 at 10:33am EDT
The secret is out: The library has resources!

Saturday, June 22, 2013 at 12:13pm EDT
Interview with Lynne Bradley from ALA on how libraries sounded the alarm on surveillance 10 years ago http://www.onthemedia.org/2013/jun/21/how-do-we-have-national-conversation/

Saturday, June 22, 2013 at 10:36am EDT
Summer reading at Seattle Public library http://mashable.com/2013/06/17/longest-book-chain/

Friday, June 21, 2013 at 8:01pm EDT
Keeping Up With... Big Data

Friday, June 21, 2013 at 7:49pm EDT
Geoff Nunberg: Calling It 'Metadata' Doesn't Make Surveillance Less Intrusive http://www.wamc.org/post/calling-it-metadata-doesnt-make-surveillance-less-intrusive

Friday, June 21, 2013 at 4:28pm EDT
SILS student Sophia Dahab will be blogging ALA 2013 http://prattsilsatala.wordpress.com

Friday, June 21, 2013 at 4:15pm EDT
Vatican calls for copyright changes to give better access to the blind http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1302677.htm

Friday, June 21, 2013 at 12:43am EDT
Goodbye Terminal 3- you will be missed- birds flying around inside you and all. http://nyti.ms/196Ds7N

Thursday, June 20, 2013 at 11:09pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, June 20, 2013 at 1:50pm EDT
Pratt SILS faculty, students, and alumni are well represented at the LODLAM Summit 2013 http://summit2013.lodlam.net/

Thursday, June 20, 2013 at 9:52am EDT
Love for #libraries from the blog at my day job. Wanted to share because it made me smile.

Monday, June 17, 2013 at 6:23pm EDT
Conflict between open-records and privacy

Monday, June 17, 2013 at 2:11pm EDT
Prof. Cocciolo is representing Pratt SILS at AERI 2013 (Archival Education and Research Institute) https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/aeri2013/schedule.html

Friday, June 14, 2013 at 8:39pm EDT
A filmmaker discovers the absurdities of copyright the hard way http://nyti.ms/176UIsP

Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 1:30pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 12:21pm EDT
This Friday is the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) NYC Regional meeting at Metro NY Library Council; free to attend http://camps.nycdigital.org/ndsa/

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 11:35am EDT
Students taking LIS 619 International Information Sources (Rabina, Spring 2013) created short video tutorials for the United Nations library. The video tutorials are now incorporated to the UN library Libguide. You can view them at: http://research.un.org/en/docs/find/letters Finding letters from the Secretary General & Finding letters from Member States http://research.un.org/content.php?pid=409454&sid=3349741 Finding reports by title & Finding reports by subject http://research.un.org/content.php?pid=409454&sid=3349742 Finding Statements by Country and Keyword Thank you to all participating students: Violeta Aybar Maki Madalyn Baron Denis Chavez Tim Fisher Kelly Hamilton Erin Horanzy Libby Kaufer Valarie Livingston Joan Markey Sumin Nam Erin Noto Fatoma Rad David Winger and to my graduate assistant Lisa Peet for her technical support with Camtasia

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 11:15pm EDT
Check out this book from PMC (Pratt Manhattan Library) 306.46 M468

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 8:57pm EDT
A big new library grows in Staten Island http://www.ny1.com/content/183610/historic-stapleton-library-begins-new-chapter?ap=1&MP4

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 1:16pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Special Libraries Association (SLA)'s photo.
Guess SLA Annual is a bit of a party...

Monday, June 10, 2013 at 1:52pm EDT
The kids like the records, crackle and all http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/arts/music/vinyl-records-are-making-a-comeback.html?hp

Monday, June 10, 2013 at 9:22am EDT
SILS student Ben Fino-Radin quoted in NYTimes article about restoring born-digital art http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/arts/design/whitney-saves-douglas-daviss-first-collaborative-sentence.html?hp&_r=0

Sunday, June 9, 2013 at 11:52am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Lesbian Herstory Archives's photo.
It is Brooklyn Gay Pride this weekend. Prof. Cocciolo's summer class Projects in Digital Archives is finishing up additions and upgrades to their oral history website: http://herstories.prattsils.org

Sunday, June 9, 2013 at 11:48am EDT
SLA Annual Meeting is going on this weekend - check-out SILS Student Elizabeth Willse's blog about the meeting

Sunday, June 9, 2013 at 10:23am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Saturday, June 8, 2013 at 9:00pm EDT
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/how-not-to-be-alone.html?hp&_r=0

Saturday, June 8, 2013 at 7:33pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, June 7, 2013 at 11:40pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, June 7, 2013 at 3:39pm EDT
Going to ALA? Visit Vinette Thomas at ALISE/LIS Cooperative Education Pavilion Shared Booth #137 and at the Alumni Reunion. Also stop by to pick up your Pratt Ribbon, add it to your name tag and wear it with pride. Please see below for details. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Alumni Reunion –Date Sunday, June 30th, 2013 –Time 5:30PM - 7:30PM –Location [Hilton Chicago Hotel - International Ballroom South] ALUMNI RAFFLE for IPAD MINI - One ticket only per alum. Winner must be present to receive prize. Open to SILS alums only. –Drawing is 6:30pm on Sun. 30th at the Alumni Reunion –Pick up raffle ticket [Booth #137] from Vinette Fri. 28th - 5:30pm - 7:00pm (opening reception) Sat. 29th - 9:00am - 1:00pm Sun. 30th - 9:00am - 11:00am or [Alumni Reunion] Sun. 30th at 6:00pm ––––––––––––––––––– LIVE BLOGGING OF ALA CONFERENCE - I will be updating conference happenings at vinetteliveatala.wordpress.com. Follow the conference by entering your email at the bottom of the blog and get notifications of new posts. See you there! Vinette Thomas, MSLIS Assistant to the Dean Pratt SILS

Friday, June 7, 2013 at 12:16pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared The Paris Review's photo.
A library springs up in the great city of Istanbul

Friday, June 7, 2013 at 9:52am EDT
http://www.risd.edu/about/news/2013/compelling-collections.aspx#.UbFFbX3M35s.facebook

Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 10:07pm EDT
Congratulations to Claire McInerney from Rutgers on this appointment. https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/floating-news-page.html

Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 1:58pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 2:03pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared The Paris Review's photo.
No Kindles allowed in this town.

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 8:00am EDT
Tons of photos of modern art with no metadata need a home... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/arts/design/d-james-dee-plans-to-give-away-his-modern-art-archive.html

Monday, June 3, 2013 at 11:07pm EDT
Great lineup of speakers at this year's Charleston Conference http://katina.info/conference/conference-info/program/

Monday, June 3, 2013 at 3:33pm EDT
Volunteers needed: 24 Hour Read In to Support New York City Public Libraries June 8th & 9th 4PM to 4PM Central Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza Contact: Christian Zabriskie, 941.445.7114, christian.g.zabriskie@gmail.com Readers and volunteers can sign up here: 24 Hour Read In Sign Up https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEx3OHcwTVRSOHRjWHhVbW9VS2phX0E6MA#gid=0

Sunday, June 2, 2013 at 6:53am EDT
"Studies show that concentration and cognitive abilities decline substantially after a room reaches 77 or 78 degrees" http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/01/schools-are-not-cool/?hp

Saturday, June 1, 2013 at 2:42pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, May 30, 2013 at 2:17pm EDT
Debbie Rabina, an associate professor who teaches government information in Pratt Institute’s library science program, told LJ that the memo “was received enthusiastically by the library community....

Thursday, May 30, 2013 at 7:37am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 3:32pm EDT
Interested in UX? Don't miss tomorrow's meeting.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 10:10am EDT
Copyright-free art from the Rijksmuseum

Tuesday, May 28, 2013 at 12:47pm EDT
Those Pratt cats made it to the NYTimes http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/in-an-old-steam-plant-providing-a-home-for-the-many-cats-of-pratt/

Tuesday, May 28, 2013 at 7:49am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 12:26pm EDT
If you haven't seen it yet, checkout the very nice and new SILS Student Research Website http://research.prattsils.org/

Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 12:09am EDT
Washington, D.C., May 25, 2013 -- Today the National Security Archive is publishing -- for the first time in English -- excerpts from the diary of Anatoly S. Chernyaev from 1973, along with edits and a postscript by the author. As in the previous installment of the diary, for 1972, Chernyaev, deputy head of the International Department of the Central Committee (and later a key foreign policy aide to Mikhail Gorbachev), continues to marvel at the contradictory and enigmatic person at the pinnacle of the Soviet leadership -- General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. On the one hand, Chernyaev is sharply critical of Brezhnev's primitive pompousness, his inability to express himself, and his ossified ideological dogmas. On the other hand, in one instance after another, Brezhnev shows himself as a real champion of peace and detente with the West; a man capable of dispassionate realpolitk. Chernyaev identifies the General Secretary's two irreconcilable driving desires -- to preserve the Soviet system intact and to cooperate with the West in order to prevent a world war and develop trade and investment. Several key members of the Soviet leadership emerge from the pages of the diary looking quite different from their official portraits, described in merciless detail by a very astute observer. The series of diaries donated by Anatoly Sergeyevich to the National Security Archive represent an invaluable source, a keyhole through which we today, forty years later, can look back at the internal politics and decision making of the Soviet Politburo and its supporting apparatus. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB430/

Friday, May 24, 2013 at 10:13pm EDT
Human attention is limited.... no matter where you put the screen. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/opinion/sunday/google-glass-may-be-hands-free-but-not-brain-free.html?hp

Friday, May 24, 2013 at 3:55pm EDT
http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/05/what-are-we-going-to-do-about-hardware/

Friday, May 24, 2013 at 9:25am EDT
Talk about going from the page to the screen. Now with the Electrolibrary your printed book IS the computer interface! This is truly a work of art, and it seems this is a student project. http://vimeo.com/47656204

Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 10:47pm EDT
Government information is removed from the public domain. Please read to learn what is going on. NASA Technical Reports Server being reviewed by NASA http://beta.fdlp.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1608:nasa-technical-reports-server-being-reviewed-by-nasa&catid=8:news-events&Itemid=145

Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 2:45pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 2:38pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Russ Abell's photo.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 10:38am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 1:02pm EDT
Prof. Cocciolo is monitoring the indoor temperature at the Pratt Manhattan Campus. If you have ever taken a summer class, you know how hot it can get. Hopefully this website will draw attention to this issue and help keep the AC on while classes are still in session. http://temperature.prattsils.org/

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 11:31am EDT
Influential but forgotten information theorist Norbert Weiner in today's NYTimes. Pratt library has 7 of his books - check them out. http://cat.pratt.edu/search~S0/?searchtype=a&searcharg=Wiener%2C+Norbert&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=aNorbert+Wiener

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 8:42am EDT
UNESCO to make its publications available free of charge as part of a new Open Access policy http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/033461.html#033461

Monday, May 20, 2013 at 9:58am EDT
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/05/20/high-noon-a-publisher-threatens-to-lunch-a-criminal-case-against-librarian-critic/

Monday, May 20, 2013 at 7:59am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Pratt Institute's photo.

Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 10:13pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 4:38pm EDT
To complement the petition to allow and accommodate the Pratt cats. http://drexel.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3JgECCsD69qkBrn

Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 9:14am EDT
GL15 Keynote Address will be delivered by Prof. Dr. Debbie Rabina, Pratt Institute Fifteenth International Conference on Grey Literature, Bratislava, Slovak Republic (http://www.textrelease.com/)

Friday, May 17, 2013 at 11:27pm EDT
My Internet is not only the Mark Zuckerberg Internet, or the Kleiner Perkins Internet; it’s the Internet of Michael Hart and Brewster Kahle, Aaron Swartz and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science and the new Digital Public Library of America, JSTOR and countless public archives and library and museum sites all over the world. It’s the Internet of preservationists and digital humanitarians, of scholars and intellectuals of all kinds.” http://www.theawl.com/2013/05/you-mad-evgeny-morozov-and-the-silly-volume-of-internet-rhetoric

Friday, May 17, 2013 at 11:20pm EDT
On the classic teaching models and MOOCs http://historyoftexttechnologies.blogspot.com/2013/05/on-moocs-flip-lectures-and-medieval.html

Friday, May 17, 2013 at 11:14pm EDT
http://metro.org/articles/cultural-heritage-iconathon/

Friday, May 17, 2013 at 11:07pm EDT
http://blog.abaa.org/blog/?p=3032

Friday, May 17, 2013 at 5:05pm EDT
Kudos to SILS student Ngozi Okoro for becoming a ProQuest Student Trainer at Pratt! After receiving her training at the ProQuest headquarters this summer, Ngozi will be able to offer individual and group instructions on ProQuest digital collections and provide trial access to the ProQuest platform. Please stay tuned for more ProQuest news and consider taking advantage of this learning opportunity! Photo via @nn_okoro

Friday, May 17, 2013 at 9:22am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 12:47pm EDT
NASA restricts access to public information: “The NASA technical reports server will be unavailable for public access while the agency conducts a review of the site's content to ensure that it does not contain technical information that is subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations and that the appropriate reviews were performed. The site will return to service when the review is complete. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.” http://beta.fdlp.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1601:nasa-technical-reports-server-has-limited-content-availability-until-further-notice&catid=8:news-events&Itemid=145

Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 12:41pm EDT
From Aaron Swartz's legacy

Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 11:26am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Society of American Archivists's photo.
DACS Second Edition (2013) is available from free download from SAA's Standards Portal http://www2.archivists.org/standards/describing-archives-a-content-standard-second-edition-dacs

Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 8:01am EDT
Hannah Rose shared a link to Pratt Institute School of Information's Timeline.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 12:11pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Chris Alen and 5 others at Pratt Institute School of Information.
SILS Faculty heading to Graduation at Radio City!

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 10:43am EDT
Join us for faculty colloquium Thursday night at 6pm. Now in Room 609. Doug Cox, "'No Such Record': The Role of Archives and Archivists in Ensuring (or Evading) Government Accountability"

Monday, May 13, 2013 at 11:34pm EDT
Librarians and information advocates Jim A. Jacobs (UCSD) and James R. Jacobs (Stanford University) talk about their organization, Free Government Information and their efforts to raise all Congressional, Executive & Judicial Branch information, publications and data, including current fee-based services, to the level of federally funded scientific information, and the publication of all government information as Open Access. http://library-cafe.blogspot.com/2013/04/james-r-jacobs-james-jacobs.html

Monday, May 13, 2013 at 3:41pm EDT
Summer Semester A Starts today.... welcome back!

Sunday, May 12, 2013 at 10:34pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Sunday, May 12, 2013 at 5:37pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information at Pratt Institute School of Information.
via @infomartian

Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 5:53pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information added 28 new photos to the album: Team Pratt SILS bikes the branches — with Chris Alen and 3 others.
For Brooklyn Public Library

Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 7:41pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information added 5 new photos to the album: SILS Showcase and Graduation Party 2013 — at Pratt Institute School of Information.
Congratulations to our 2013 Graduates and thanks to everyone for making the 3rd Annual Student Showcase the best yet.

Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 5:51pm EDT
Team Pratt SILS bikes for branches for Brooklyn Public Library

Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 12:23pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared their album.
Checkout the photos from last night's Annual Student Showcase and Graduation Party! https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.506774889371219.1073741827.234697743245603&type=1&l=6dbf5ad63c

Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 10:13am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, May 10, 2013 at 2:14pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 12:13pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information added 21 new photos to the album: SILS Showcase and Graduation Party 2013 — at Pratt Institute School of Information.
Congratulations to our 2013 Graduates and thanks to everyone for making the 3rd Annual Student Showcase the best yet.

Friday, May 10, 2013 at 11:06am EDT
The program for tonight's Showcase. See everyone at 5pm!

Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 9:39pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 8:35pm EDT
Jenny Ferretti, a current SILS student and Graduate Assistant at the Pratt Institute Libraries, just curated the new exhibit at Pratt’s Brooklyn campus library. Come check out the exhibit which will be on display through the summer. The Collections on View Selected Works From the Pratt Institute Libraries’ Archives, Rare Book, & Special Collections

Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 1:01pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared your photo.

Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 10:57am EDT
Kate Merlie's T-Shirt creations for Bike the Branches

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 8:09pm EDT
Congrats to Kai Alexis Smith for winning the 2013 Wolfgang M. Freitag Internship Award from ARLIS/NA http://library.columbia.edu/news/libraries/2013/2013-5-6_ARLIS_Avery_Recognition.html https://library.barnard.edu/headlines/librarys-intern-extraordinaire

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 3:19pm EDT
Dean Tula Giannini and Prof. Jessica Hochman testify at New York City Council on school libraries. Start around (2:55:00)

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 12:13pm EDT
Surveillance is about to become easier.

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 7:17am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Pratt Institute's photo.
Pratt Graduation is next Tuesday at 2pm at Radio City Music Hall!

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 4:33pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 4:32pm EDT
Melissa Brown, SILS alum and scholarly communication librarian at NYU provides a detailed review of Columbia University copyright symposium in the April issue of College and Library News http://crln.acrl.org/content/74/4/199.full Thank you for this helpful summary of the day's panels and talks.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 2:11pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Monday, May 6, 2013 at 10:19am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared their photo.
In honor of the Class of 2013, the SILS faculty and staff cordially invite you, your family, and friends to the annual Pratt SILS Graduation Reception! Date: Friday, May 10th Location: Pratt Manhattan Campus, 6th Floor Time: SILS Student Showcase - 5:00-7:00 pm Graduation Reception - 7:00-9:00 pm

Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 12:17pm EDT
Baruch gets some open space... now if Pratt could just get that lot at 153 W 14th St. turned into a little park... http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/baruch-students-break-out-the-ray-bans/

Friday, May 3, 2013 at 4:10pm EDT
The SILS e-Portfolio guide has been updated to include an example e-Portfolio. https://www.pratt.edu/academics/information_and_library_sciences/about_sils/sils_eportfolio/

Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 11:36pm EDT
copyright conundrum http://boingboing.net/2013/04/26/us-government-sends-itself-a-t.html

Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 5:32pm EDT
Pratt is Biking for Brooklyn Public - support our team http://www.kintera.org/i.asp?id=1069239-383402757

Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 2:44pm EDT
Performance art at Bobst library, NYU

Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 12:56pm EDT
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Document-an-Open-Letter/138937/

Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 10:06am EDT
Join us for our next colloquium speaker on Thurs, May 16 6-8pm, Room 213. Doug Cox, "'No Such Record': The Role of Archives and Archivists in Ensuring (or Evading) Government Accountability"

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 7:50pm EDT
HDTV may be obsolete in a few years- get ready for archiving 4K content http://m.techradar.com/news/television/tv/six-marvels-of-the-4k-revolution-at-sony-pictures-studios-in-la-1146838

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 1:08pm EDT
NSF meeting in DC, May 14 and 15 is to talk about the problems and opportunities related to expanding free public access to the results of federally funded R&D. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-05-01/html/2013-10298.htm

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 11:25am EDT
E-Books and Democracy, op-ed from NYPL president Anthony Marx http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/opinion/e-books-libraries-and-democracy.html?utm_source=eNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=05012013Hachette_FR&utm_campaign=FR

Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 10:22pm EDT
A look from the inside

Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 1:09pm EDT
Vinyl fans, checkout the new phonograph in room 611

Monday, April 29, 2013 at 2:25pm EDT
Project CHART Symposium program announced! May 17 10a-5p at the Brooklyn Historical Society

Monday, April 29, 2013 at 12:57pm EDT
Free Workshops from the Columbia Center for Oral History http://oralhistory.columbia.edu/news/People/free-public-oral-history-workshops-by-ohma-alums-and-students

Monday, April 29, 2013 at 10:41am EDT
..team of young execs in Silicon Valley who are deciding the rules for free speech on the Internet.

Monday, April 29, 2013 at 9:07am EDT
Check-out the article in today's New York Times about NYC Archivists. 3 of the Archivists mentioned in the article are Pratt SILS alums (Michael Simonson, Annemarie van Roessel and Maurita Baldock). http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/29/nyregion/archivists-bringing-past-into-future-are-now-less-cloistered.html?hpw&_r=0&pagewanted=all

Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 9:32am EDT
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6838/125/

Friday, April 26, 2013 at 3:37pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Bill Pardue's post.

Friday, April 26, 2013 at 2:16pm EDT
Dr. Cristina Pattuelli and Dr. Irene Lopatovska have been awarded the Carroll Preston Baber Research Grant from the American Library Association to support their project “E-reading in the Academy: Investigating Adoption and Use of E-books in Academic Libraries.” http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/pattuelli-and-lopatovska-win-2013-carroll-preston-baber-research-grant

Friday, April 26, 2013 at 2:04pm EDT
Prevent Child Identity Theft http://blog.usa.gov/post/24477531289/prevent-child-identity-theft

Friday, April 26, 2013 at 2:03pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information at Pratt Institue Manhattan Campus.
The print edition of the Chronicle is available at Pratt Manhattan library, stop by to read this. http://chronicle.com/article/shameonyou/138579/

Friday, April 26, 2013 at 2:01pm EDT
An upgrade debacle. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/content/what-happened

Friday, April 26, 2013 at 1:32pm EDT
SILS Prof. and YALSA President Jack Martin on Connected Learning http://connectedlearning.tv/teens-and-future-libraries

Friday, April 26, 2013 at 11:31am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Pratt Institute Libraries's photo.
SILS students at the 16mm Workshop

Friday, April 26, 2013 at 10:35am EDT
Profs. Cocciolo and Malbin representing Pratt SILS at MARAC 2013 (Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference) in Erie, PA http://www.marac.info

Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 9:42am EDT
Be sure to check out the Pratt UX group's last meeting of the semester!

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 10:37am EDT
Tour the NY Philharmonic Archives http://www.nycarchivists.org/Default.aspx?pageId=1131756&eventId=676943&EventViewMode=EventDetails

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 9:17am EDT
Interview with NYPL Born Digital Archivist http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/04/born-digital-archival-materials-at-nypl-an-interview-with-donald-mennerich/?utm_source=feedly

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 8:45pm EDT
Did you know there are 4 of the best analog-to-digital sound digitizers in room 611 at Pratt Manhattan? Learn more about the Benchmark ADC1 USB device http://www.benchmarkmedia.com/sites/default/files/documents/ADC1_USB_Manual_Rev_C.pdf

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 3:16pm EDT
Checkout SILS's new, cave-like book scanner in room 608.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 1:29pm EDT
Meet the people behind Brooklyn Visual Heritage at METRO; May 8 4-6pm http://metro.org/events/346/

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 1:26pm EDT
Remembering a favorite of NYC children's author author whose book served as inspiration for a project by students in LIS 652 (Information services and sources) See: http://minystories.wordpress.com/category/fall-2012/

Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 10:46am EDT
Interested in User Experience? Join the Pratt UX Group - meeting this Thursday at 5:50pm.

Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 9:10am EDT
Go Internet Archive! http://blog.archive.org/2013/04/11/450000-early-journal-articles-now-available/

Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 8:27am EDT
A research survey from the Intelligent Interactive Systems Group at Harvard, quite fun http://kgajos.eecs.harvard.edu/ag/

Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 8:47pm EDT
The Open Book - "a publication on open knowledge"

Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 6:28pm EDT
Tired of Earth? There may be some alternatives http://nyti.ms/15iJHTc

Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 5:09pm EDT
A recap of Profs. Jessica Hochman and Irene Lopatovska at SILS Colloquium today

Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 4:15pm EDT
SILS alum Jessa Lingel just published an article in JASIST, co-authored with dana boyd - congratulations! “Keep it secret, keep it safe”: Information poverty, information norms, and stigma JASIST 64(5) (pages 981–991) Jessa Lingel and danah boyd http://www.asis.org/jasist.html

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 8:47pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Brooklyn Industries's photo.
Pratt students can relate

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 3:15pm EDT
Stand up for libraries in NYC

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 3:02pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Jessica Hochman and Irene Lopatovska.
Join us tomorrow for our first spring colloquium speakers 12:30-2, Room 609. Jessica Hochman, "Fieldwork in Philosophy?: Exploring emergent literacies through mixed-method research" Irene Lopatovska, "In Transition: The Case of E-Book Adoption by Pratt SILS Students"

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 12:36pm EDT
Congratulations Anja Kennedy and Claudio Leon ALA's Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) announced the winners of the Excellence in Library Services 2012 program. Number 7 on the list, iPads With Incarcerated Youth at Passages Academy and Literacy for Incarcerated Teens, went to a team from New York lead by Jessica Fenster Sparber and Regan Schwartz. Although not mentioned by name, Anja Kennedy SILS alum and Claudio Leon current SILS student, are also part of the team. Announcement: http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/yalsa-announces-excellence-library-services-young-adults-2012-program-award-winners

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 10:54am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Pratt Institute's photo.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 6:00pm EDT
NY Archives conference on June 5-7 at CW Post http://www.nyarchivists.org/nyac/?page_id=18

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 12:30pm EDT
Interested in archiving the cloud? You may be interested in Google new product, the "Inactive Account Manager," or as some are calling it, the "Google Death Manager" http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/04/11/google-death-manager-new-feature-to-tell-the-company-what-to-do-with-your-data-when-you-die/

Monday, April 15, 2013 at 6:03pm EDT
You are invited to attend the presentation described below. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required. TOPIC: Linked Open Data for Digital Heritage: Opportunities and Challenges WHEN: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 ~ Noon - 1:45 PM WHERE: 523 Butler Library SPONSORS: Columbia Libraries Digital Humanities Center and the Digital Program Division SPEAKER: Cristina Pattuelli, Associate Professor, Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science DESCRIPTION: Linked Open Data (LOD) technology is rapidly leaving research labsand entering mainstream development. Cultural institutions have been playing a pivotal role in fostering the LOD initiative by building a rich landscape of projects in the domain of digital heritage. However, the potential of applying LOD technology to cultural data and its practical uses for integrating, sharing, and reusing heterogeneous data from multiple sources are not yet fully explored. This talk will provide an overview of principles and methods of LOD and will discuss advantages as well as challenges of adopting a linked data approach to cultural data. The development of Linked Jazz, a LOD project centered on jazz history digital archives, will provide the real-world scenario to ground the discussion.

Monday, April 15, 2013 at 4:35pm EDT
Join the Pratt SILS team (T-shirts on order)

Monday, April 15, 2013 at 11:14am EDT
*GreyGuide in search of a graphic design!*** GreyNet together with colleagues from the Institute of Information Science and Technologies in Pisa and the University of Lille are in the process of constructing the GreyGuide Repository. This open source *Guide to Good Practice in Grey Literature* is a community driven project that will house standardized metadata records along with their accompanying full-text documents. From now until 22 April 2013, you are invited to submit a graphic design for the logo that will be used for the GreyGuide. The winner will receive a year subscription to The Grey Journal, An International Journal on Grey Literature as well as special mention during the Tenth Annual GreyNet Award Dinner this December. All entries must be emailed to info@greynet.org <mailto:info@greynet.org>. The winning logo will be announced via GreyNet’s homepage on Monday, 29 April 2013. Hope to hear from you soon! GreyNet International Grey Literature Network Service Javastraat 194-HS 1095 CP Amsterdam Netherlands T/F +31-(0)20 331 2420 Email: info@greynet.org <mailto:info@greynet.org> Url: http://www.greynet.org

Friday, April 12, 2013 at 11:05pm EDT
When Wikileaks “Scoops” NARA on Their Own Publicly Available Documents, It’s Time for Agencies to Fully Embrace Effectively Digitizing All-Things FOIA http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/when-wikileaks-scoops-nara-on-their-own-publicly-available-documents-its-time-for-agencies-to-fully-embrace-effectively-digitizing-all-things-foia/

Friday, April 12, 2013 at 5:57pm EDT
SILS students visit Library of Congress and National Archives (via Gretchen Nadasky https://twitter.com/GNadasky/status/322707726146863105 )

Friday, April 12, 2013 at 4:59pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information added 5 new photos to the album: METRO GoDig meeting 4/11/13.
METRO Government Documents SIG spring meeting at the New York City Department of Records.

Friday, April 12, 2013 at 12:27pm EDT
METRO awarded an IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Grant http://metro.org/articles/metro-awarded-an-imls-laura-bush-21st-century-librarian-grant/

Friday, April 12, 2013 at 11:24am EDT
SILS alum and part-time lecturer Josh Hadro writes on self-publishing

Friday, April 12, 2013 at 10:16am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, April 12, 2013 at 9:42am EDT
Big data is a big deal http://nyti.ms/146mC6R

Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 10:14am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Pratt Institute Libraries's photo.
Interested in 16mm film? Come to this event at the Pratt Brooklyn Library.

Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 10:11am EDT
Speakeasy Spring 2013 - TODAY Public Libraries and Civic Engagement What: The Speakeasy Spring 2013 is a series of fun idea sharing events. These talks will introduce topics and trends to everyone in a short informal session. At each event, a specialist will give a presentation in the time between evening classes (5:55pm to 6:25pm). This will be great opportunity to learn, ask questions and have meaningful discussion with the Pratt community. Where: PMC Room 610 Who: Professor Anthony Cocciolo When: Thursday, April 11, 2013, 5:55pm – 6:25pm Why: Anthony Cocciolo will discuss a project that he was recently involved with in partnership with PBS. This project asks the question: Can public libraries act as places for promoting civic engagement through the use of socially and culturally significant documentaries? This project studies the use of independent documentaries and their impact on patrons across a 4-year period in public libraries across 36 states and the District of Columbia. Cocciolo will provide background on the project, discuss the research methods used, and conclude with results of this study. The study was published in Public Library Quarterly. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 10:27pm EDT
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/arts/design/a-showing-for-students-who-lost-art-at-pratt-institute-fire.html?hp

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 5:03pm EDT
Now it's official: Elsevier buys Mendelay http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/08/confirmed-elsevier-has-bought-mendeley-for-69m-100m-to-expand-open-social-education-data-efforts/

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 11:35am EDT
Horses on Campus

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 11:29am EDT
The faculty are pleased to announce the first in a series of colloquium talks that include both Pratt and external faculty members. Invited speakers will present their current research on emerging trends and issues in the field, followed by an opportunity for extended discussion. Thursday, April 18, 12:30 - 2pm (Room 609) Jessica Hochman, Assistant Professor and Library Media Specialist Coordinator, Pratt SILS "Fieldwork in Philosophy?: Exploring Emergent Literacies through Mixed-Method Research" Irene Lopatovska, Assistant Professor, Pratt SILS "In Transition: The Case of E-Book Adoption by Pratt Students" Thursday, May 16, 6 - 8pm (Room 213) Doug Cox, International Law Librarian and Associate Professor, CUNY School of Law TBA

Monday, April 8, 2013 at 12:03pm EDT
Come tonight to the SILS Speakeasy: Visualizations and Legal Content What: The Speakeasy Spring 2013 is a series of fun idea sharing events. These talks will introduce topics and trends to everyone in a short informal session. At each event, a specialist will give a presentation in the time between evening classes (5:55pm to 6:25pm). This will be great opportunity to learn, ask questions and have meaningful discussion with the Pratt community. Where: PMC Room 608 Who: Professor Debbie Rabina & Professor Chris Sula When: Monday, April 8, 2013, 5:55pm – 6:25pm Why: This project applies empirical methods and visualization techniques to the study of the First Amendment by creating interactive data-driven visualizations of Supreme Court rulings on cases involving first amendment rights. Our project provides a new examination and understanding of the First Amendment by visualizing the key components of its historic development that take into account both quantitative and qualitative measures. The availability of digital tools to visualize legal content offers innovative ways to advance legal scholarship and public access to legal history. The visual nature of this project allows users from a wide range of literacies, from law experts to members of the public, to engage with First Amendment data—searching for patterns, observing trends in legal interpretation, and developing a deeper understanding of Constitutional freedoms. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Monday, April 8, 2013 at 9:55am EDT
The dark side of Open Access http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/health/for-scientists-an-exploding-world-of-pseudo-academia.html

Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 12:49pm EDT
Prof. Cocciolo is doing a webinar this week for ASIS&T on Best Practices in Digital Archiving Moving Image and Sound Assets - signup at http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-Cocciolo-4-12-2013-register.html

Friday, April 5, 2013 at 4:13pm EDT
http://signon.org/sign/save-new-york-city-libraries/?source=search

Friday, April 5, 2013 at 2:36pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information added 4 new photos to the album: LACUNY Institute 2013 — with Suzanne Lipkin and 2 others at New Building At John Jay College.
SILS Students (Heather Lember, Richard Lee, Suzanne Lipkin) presenting at LACUNY Institute 2013

Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 5:06pm EDT
Know someone doing great work in digital preservation? Nominate him/her for the NDSA Innovation award http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/04/nominations-now-open-for-the-2013-ndsa-innovation-awards/

Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 9:30am EDT
Tonight at SIBL http://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/03/28/sibl-april-3rd-freedom-information-drone-age

Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 3:42pm EDT
Screening as part of the Tribeca film festival Out of Print, "narrated by Meryl Streep, draws us into the topsy-turvy world of words, illuminating the turbulent and exciting journey from the book through the digital revolution. Jeff Bezos, Ray Bradbury, Scott Turow, Jeffrey Toobin, parents, students, educators, scientists – all highlight how this revolution is changing everything about the printed word – and changing us. " http://outofprintthemovie.com/

Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 11:01am EDT
Cleveland Museum of Art leads the way with interactive tech at the museum http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/arts/artsspecial/at-cleveland-museum-of-art-the-ipad-enhances.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 10:56am EDT
We are proud to announce that Pratt SILS will be represented at the upcoming 5th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML 2013), 4-7 June, Rome, Italy. Out of the six papers written by SILS students and professors, three are directly related to the ongoing e-book project lead by Cristina Pattuelli and Irene Lopatovska and conducted by Human Information Behavior (LIS608) and Information Science Research (LIS630) students. -Caitlin Bronner and Fatoma Rad. Use of focus group method for investigating emerging phenomenon: the case of e-books. (The paper is based on students’ work for the LIS630 course) -Leanora Lange. Understanding e-book adoption as the diffusion of innovation. (The paper is based on student’ work for the LIS630 course) -Irene Lopatovska. Investigating information technology preferences: methodological issues. -Irene Lopatovska & M. Cristina Pattuelli. Understanding complex phenomena through an educational lens: the case of fluid reading. -M. Cristina Pattuelli. A Crowdsourcing Tool for Cultural Heritage: Design and Evaluation. -Derek A. Rodriguez and Lisa R. Norberg (Visiting Assistant Professor, LIS 633: Strategic Leadership.) Assessing library impact on student learning outcomes: a case study using the Understanding Library Impacts protocol. http://www.isast.org/

Monday, April 1, 2013 at 4:23pm EDT
who needs political science? http://prospect.org/article/take-political-science

Monday, April 1, 2013 at 12:28pm EDT
Come tonight to the SILS Speakeasy! What: The Speakeasy Spring 2013 is a series of fun idea sharing events. These talks will introduce topics and trends to everyone in a short informal session. At each event, a specialist will give a presentation in the time between evening classes (5:55pm to 6:25pm). This will be great opportunity to learn, ask questions and have meaningful discussion with the Pratt community. Where: PMC Room 608 Who: Professor Craig MacDonald & Professor Irene Lopatovska When: Monday, April 1, 2013, 5:55pm – 6:25pm Why: Although museums have spent considerable resources providing online access to their (digitized) art collections, the virtual museum experience remains in flux. Our research seeks to define best practices and UX design principles for online museum collections and inform the creation of digital interfaces that emphasize the emotional elements of art objects and art viewing experiences. In this talk, we will discuss the motivations for this research, including a brief review of the relevant LIS and HCI literature, introduce our museum partner, share our research plans, and present opportunities for student involvement.

Monday, April 1, 2013 at 10:29am EDT
April fools - they almost got me! [and I must say, I am sure we have all speculated running our grants, reviews and class as reality TV] http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/04/01/bbc-contemplating-reality-tv-show-to-decide-how-research-councils-uk-block-grants-are-dispersed/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScholarlyKitchen+%28The+Scholarly+Kitchen%29

Saturday, March 30, 2013 at 10:52am EDT
Hey, I know there are a lot of cyclists among the SILS FB friends - anyone want to join us on Sat. May 11 for the Brooklyn Public Library Bike the Branches? We are organizing a Pratt SILS team, we'll have T-shirts and endurance. So far we have about 12 people interested, in among them SILS faculty Debbie Rabina, Anthony Cocciolo and Chris Sula. Leave a comment if you are interested. http://www.bklynpubliclibrary.org/bike-the-branches

Friday, March 29, 2013 at 10:34am EDT
Edwin Mellen Press also threatened, and later dropped a lawsuit, against a librarian at McMaster University, Ontario, who also criticizedhttp://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/edwin-mellen-press-drops-lawsuit-against-university-librarian/42647 the publisher.

Friday, March 29, 2013 at 10:32am EDT
The Scholarly Kitchen is threatened with libel for criticizing Edwin Mellen Press. http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/03/29/posts-removed-because-weve-received-letters-from-edwin-mellen-press-attorney/

Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 11:05am EDT
Brooklyn Visual Heritage is featured in the New York Times http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/tag/project-chart/

Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 10:52am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 9:52am EDT
http://flavorwire.com/380345/10-of-the-coolest-librarians-alive

Monday, March 25, 2013 at 8:37pm EDT
"'Underground' libraries with Chicano literature are popping up across the Southwest and are set to open soon in unexpected places such as Milwaukee and Louisville."

Sunday, March 24, 2013 at 10:00pm EDT
Save the date- the SILS Student Showcase is Friday May 10, 5-7pm, and the Graduation Party follows.

Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 10:53am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 10:51am EDT
Please sign this petition, because we all know that free wifi = a more informed citizenry = a better democracy. (via Phil Sutton) http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/2369?share_ref=61Wdq3WZM74

Friday, March 22, 2013 at 12:21pm EDT
Tips on personal digital archiving from LOC

Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 4:00pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 10:53pm EDT
LA County Museum of Art is offering 20,000 images free of copyright restrictions. Finding them is also easy online. https://www.lacma.org/image-library

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 10:18am EDT
Do you have questions about creating your e-portfolio? Join us for the E-Portfolio workshop this Saturday from 1p to 3p. RSVP to infosils@pratt.edu. http://www.pratt.edu/academics/information_and_library_sciences/about_sils/sils_eportfolio/

Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 3:34pm EDT
O Canada, we always had such a good opinion of you. http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Federal+librarians+fear+being+muzzled+under+code+conduct/8105500/story.html

Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 11:01am EDT
Congratulations Dalia - SILS alumnae 2008

Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 10:48am EDT
Supreme Court Rules in Kirtsaeng v. Wiley: “First Sale Doctrine Applies to Copies of Copyrighted Work Lawfully Made Abroad”

Monday, March 18, 2013 at 10:07pm EDT
Some very detailed responses. Worth reading.

Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 10:32pm EDT
A victory for privacy . . .

Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 12:04pm EDT
The sequester is leading to tough times at universities and colleges http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/sequester-cuts-university-research-funds/2013/03/16/08e9cc24-877a-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394_story.html

Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 9:02am EDT
The underground library - what's not to love! http://vimeo.com/keritan/the-underground-library

Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 7:43pm EDT
So far we have about 10 SILS students and faculty interested in the Bike the Branches event http://www.bklynpubliclibrary.org/bike-the-branches If you would like to join, please contact: Jessa Lingel jessa.lingel@gmail.com

Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 7:34pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 10:47pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 9:05pm EDT
ALA honors Aaron Swartz

Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 8:03pm EDT
LOC is ending AACR2 on the last day of this month.... get ready without panicking http://www.rdatoolkit.org/blog/511

Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 3:23am EDT
Do you support free access to government information? Sign the We the People petition at http://wh.gov/ocjt Dear friends of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) and free permanent public access to authentic government information, The White House's recent directive supporting open access for federally-funded scientific information (http://freegovinfo.info/node/3878) has opened the door for the FDLP library community to push the envelope on free, permanent access to ALL govt information arising from the work of taxpayer-funded Executive, Congressional, and Judicial Branch agencies. We've created a petition on the White House's "We the People" site (http://wh.gov/ocjt) and need 100,000 signatures by April 11, 2013 in order to have the White House respond to our petition. Please help by signing the petition (http://wh.gov/ocjt), forwarding it to your friends and families and posting it to your social networks. With your help, we can get the Obama Administration to expand their Open Access directive to include ALL government information, not just scientific information. For more information and context, please see http://freegovinfo.info/node/3891.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 10:23pm EDT
U.S. News and World Report ranks Pratt #11 in Archives and Preservation... not that we pay attention to these things http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-library-information-science-programs/library-preservation-rankings

Monday, March 11, 2013 at 4:31pm EDT
At least she still has her files from back then...

Monday, March 11, 2013 at 3:29pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 9:36pm EDT
Preliminary budget hearings were on Friday. The total cuts to libraries in NYC are 106.7 million, 51% below 2008 funding levels.

Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 8:06pm EDT
Do you love history, finding archival footage, imagery and documents? Do you want to get involved with an exciting film project? New York-based filmmaker and creator of popular video series Everything Is a Remix is seeking a researcher on the library sciences track for his new film series about the history of conspiracy theories. The position is unpaid but, for the right person, is a great opportunity for experience and exposure to the industry. Please email jenny@thisisnotaconspiracytheory.com if you want to get involved!

Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 4:16am EDT
Keeping America Informed

Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 3:32am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 11:59am EST
Digital Public Library of America to be led by Dan Cohen (of Omeka, Zotero, etc.) http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/with-new-leader-digital-public-library-of-america-prepares-for-its-debut/42691

Friday, March 8, 2013 at 11:39am EST
A Declaration of VHS Independence

Friday, March 8, 2013 at 9:45am EST
Moving on after the fire http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/inside-pratt-institutes-supplies-dispensary/

Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 11:03pm EST
What happens when students stop reading: the case of Mexico http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/opinion/the-country-that-stopped-reading.html

Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 9:15am EST
The Society of American Archivists puts DACS (Describing Archives A Content Standard) online it its entirety. Download for free: http://files.archivists.org/pubs/DACS-2007.pdf

Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 8:51am EST
NYTimes does a nice job explaining the Higgs discovery to its readers http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/science/chasing-the-higgs-boson-how-2-teams-of-rivals-at-CERN-searched-for-physics-most-elusive-particle.html

Monday, March 4, 2013 at 3:09pm EST
Check out the March issue of The New York City Jazz Record featuring women in jazz for the latest piece by SILS' own Sean Fitzell http://www.nycjazzrecord.com/

Sunday, March 3, 2013 at 4:45pm EST
Women of library history http://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/post/44162057236/call-for-submissions

Friday, March 1, 2013 at 6:02pm EST
Have a great SILS professor? Nominate him or her for Pratt's Distinguished Teacher Award http://www.prattsenate.org/dta/

Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 9:11pm EST
Students scholarship opportunity - 2013 Roger K. Summit Scholarship, presented annually in honor of Dialog’s founder. This $5,000 (USD) award is presented to a student currently enrolled in an accredited library or information science program anywhere in the world. Applications are being accepted now through April 30, 2013. More information about the scholarship and an application form is available at http://www.proquest.com/en-US/aboutus/advocacy/summitscholar.shtml

Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 4:35pm EST
The possible uses are fascinating.

Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 12:39pm EST
Checkout all the fantastic SILS students who made Brooklyn Visual Heritage possible http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/content/pratt-institute/#Interns

Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 10:49am EST
A shout-out to Pratt SILS Heritage site that has been getting some local press mentions... http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/02/27/new_site_is_a_treasure_trove_of_historic_brooklyn_photos.php Actual BVH site: http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/ Looks amazing!

Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 9:53am EST
Interested in User Experience Design or Information Architecture? Come to the first meet-up for SILS students with an interest in UX design! - Today, Feb. 28th - Room 609 - 5:50-6:30 pm Join the discussion so that we can work together to create more opportunities to help each other prepare for careers as information professionals.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 2:51pm EST
Highly recommended event, save the date: Wednesday, April 3, 2013, 6 - 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 10:19am EST
24 Federal agencies provide Green open access resulting from 2/22 presidential directive: http://roarmap.eprints.org/view/geoname/geoname=5F2=5FUS.html

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 5:27pm EST
Harm from surveillance is not speculative. “Indeed,” Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote in his dissent, “it is as likely to take place as are most future events that common-sense inference and ordinary knowledge of human nature tell us will happen.” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/us/politics/supreme-court-rejects-challenge-to-fisa-surveillance-law.html?hp

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 4:46pm EST
What is true for business is true for higher education: "face-to-face interaction... fosters a more collaborative culture ..... If you want innovation, then you need interaction"

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 3:25pm EST
Preservation week is April 21-27, 2013 http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/preswk

Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 7:24pm EST
Archivists Roundtable of Metro NY present Project CHART... free for SILS students http://www.nycarchivists.org/Default.aspx?pageId=1131756&eventId=642263&EventViewMode=EventDetails

Friday, February 22, 2013 at 9:55pm EST
His classic book, Privacy and Freedom, is available from Pratt Manhattan Library

Friday, February 22, 2013 at 4:45pm EST
Today, the White House issued a directive supporting public access to publicly funded research http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-access-results-federally-funded-research

Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 12:46pm EST
Could be a great opportunity for someone interested in digital preservation and can live in the DC Metro area for 9 months

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 11:42am EST
Kudos to SILS student Leonora Lange who successfully represented the group from SILS at the annual iConference. The group received an Honorable Mention at the awards ceremony for their paper: Title: E-books in Academia: Expectations and Challenges Recipients: Irene Lopatovska, Pratt Institute; M. Cristina Pattuelli, Pratt Institute; Leanora Lange, Pratt Institute; Victoria Ludas Orlofsky, Pratt Institute http://iconference.ischools.org/iConference13/awards/

Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 2:25pm EST
The Trouble With Online College http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/opinion/the-trouble-with-online-college.html?src=rechp

Monday, February 18, 2013 at 8:16am EST
Columbia University Libraries Releases Human Rights Web Archive http://library.columbia.edu/news/libraries/2013/2013-2-14_Human_Rights_Web_Archive.html

Monday, February 18, 2013 at 8:15am EST
3D archives - I so saw this coming. http://unews.ca/dal-students-build-3d-model-archive/

Monday, February 18, 2013 at 8:15am EST
More push-back from the publishers, but we have First Amendment protection http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/15/another-publisher-accuses-librarian-libel

Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 11:01am EST
All librarians, archivists, and scholars please listen to this fascinating interview with the authors of the book Sacred Trash about the Cairo Gniza. "Scholarship is one of the most exciting and romantic activities we can engage in" The Library Cafe is a show about (among others) "the excitement of libraries and the work that people do in them" http://library-cafe.blogspot.com/2013/02/adina-hoffman-peter-cole.html

Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 2:46pm EST
4 Creative Mini Libraries - NYC, Tel Aviv, Salzburg, and Mexico City . . .

Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 11:12am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Pratt Institute, Fine Arts Department's photo.

Friday, February 15, 2013 at 6:08pm EST
When Local Libraries were closed . . . .

Friday, February 15, 2013 at 4:02pm EST
If you are committed to the values of open access and transparency Mexico City is the place to be this summer. The list of confirmed speakers includes all the top people from all the influential Open Access community that are out in the field and in academia. They include John Willinsky (Stanford University and PKP, USA and Canada) Lars Björnshauge (DOAJ) Heather Joseph (SPARC) Paper submissions accepted until April 15. http://pkp.sfu.ca/node/6038

Friday, February 15, 2013 at 1:39pm EST
Video from NY1 on the fire at Pratt http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/177103/fdny-probes-cause-of-intense-fire-at-pratt-institute

Friday, February 15, 2013 at 1:26pm EST
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/nyregion/pratt-institutes-main-building-damaged-by-fire.html?hpw

Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 4:49pm EST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2013/feb/12/leonardo-da-vinci-notebooks-art

Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 12:33pm EST
For Valentine's day: A love poem for Open Government http://www.openthegovernment.org/node/3861

Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 12:12pm EST
New paper out by Prof. Cocciolo on using independent documentaries to promote civic engagement at public libraries http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01616846.2013.760310

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 3:35pm EST
Sony ends production of the MiniDisc (for you born-digital archivists out there, data on MiniDisc is now an endangered format; good time to start consider re-formatting) http://techland.time.com/2013/02/04/the-ides-of-march-farewell-sony-minidisc-player/

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 2:37pm EST
Researcher Nick Turse visits the National Archives where he discovers records that documents the horrors of the Vietnam War. http://billmoyers.com/segment/nick-turse-describes-the-real-vietnam-war

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 11:59am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information's photo.
High quality full-text Sci Tech sources from the Dept. of Energy

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 9:59am EST
Obama Whitehouse releases College Scorecard this morning http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education/higher-education/college-score-card

Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 12:44pm EST
Launch of Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) http://dp.la/get-involved/events/launch/

Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 12:43pm EST
"I’ve seen far too many talented journalists, authors, musicians, artists, editors, agents and publishers lose their livelihoods in the name of free information."

Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 11:53am EST
SILS presence at NYC World IA Day 2013 On Saturday, February 9, Bloomberg hosted the 2013 World Information Architecture Day event in New York City, one of 14 global events organized by the Information Architecture Institute in an effort to celebrate and raise awareness about the practice of information architecture. I'd like to recognize several members of the SILS community who helped make the event a tremendous success: Noreen Whysel and Gretchen Nadasky, both current SILS students, served on the NYC Production Committee and were involved in planning and organizing the event over the past few months. Our volunteers: Jordan deButts, Nik Dragovic, Laura Elsner, Caroline Gabrielli, Boni Joi Koelliker, Michelle Lee, Lars Lindahl, Houda El Mimouni, Ngozi Okoro, Teresa Silva, Andy Steinitz, and David Winger. Thank you all for volunteering your time and helping to make the event run smoothly. Also, an extra thanks to Andy Steinitz and the ASIST@Pratt student group for helping to reach out and organize the SILS volunteers. I was also happy to see several other SILS students and alumni in attendance. To learn more about the event, visit: http://2013.worldiaday.org/locations/new-york To learn more about the Information Architecture Institute and their programs - including an extensive mentorship network and valuable library of IA resources - visit: http://iainstitute.org/

Monday, February 11, 2013 at 6:23pm EST
FDsys provides full text of US government documents going back to about mid-1990s. It includes laws, bills, presidential papers, regulations and much much more

Monday, February 11, 2013 at 5:37pm EST
Remain true to your trade. http://boingboing.net/2013/02/08/publisher-launches-3000000.html

Sunday, February 10, 2013 at 9:17pm EST
http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/02/archives-materiality-and-agency-of-the-machine-an-interview-with-wolfgang-ernst/

Friday, February 8, 2013 at 2:13pm EST
"The open educational resources movement that’s terrifying publishers."

Friday, February 8, 2013 at 12:38pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information at Columbia University in the City of New York.
Nice to see so many SILS people (students alums and faculty) with an active interest in Section 108 of copyright law

Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 3:33pm EST
Keep public information in the public domain - NO FEES for government information. Keep you hands off FDSys http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/02/07/keeping-gpos-data-free/

Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 8:49pm EST
United Nations librarians Susan K. and Joelle S. visit the International Information Sources (LIS 619) class at SILS

Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 12:12am EST
125 Faces of Pratt http://gateway.pratt.edu/around-campus-and-beyond-feb13/2013/1/29/face-off-125-faces-of-pratt.html

Monday, February 4, 2013 at 10:13am EST
Interested in studying in London this summer? Time to sign-up for the London program http://www.pratt.edu/academics/information_and_library_sciences/international_programs/london_summer_program/

Sunday, February 3, 2013 at 2:36pm EST
Fascinating discussion on the ethical and policy implications of drone use. http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-are-drones-destroying-our-democracy/

Friday, February 1, 2013 at 5:25pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared United Nations - Depository Libraries Programme's photo.
For those interested in international information sources: The United Nations Handbook (free download)

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 12:14pm EST
A great event to attend if you are interested in the future of Intellectual property with respect to libraries/archives http://www.law.columbia.edu/kernochan/symposia/section-108-reform

Monday, January 28, 2013 at 8:42pm EST
Not related to libraries, information, archives, digital humanities, big data, or anything that directly fits the SILS profile. Well maybe as an example of Fair Use (parody?). In any case, just kind of clever http://www.phildub.com/

Monday, January 28, 2013 at 4:00pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 10:53pm EST
SILS Carolyn Bratnober blogging from mid-winter http://prattsilsatalamw2013.wordpress.com/

Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 9:31am EST
Digital humanities in practice.

Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 1:31pm EST
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/509876/the-algorithms-that-automatically-date-medieval-manuscripts/

Friday, January 25, 2013 at 2:47pm EST
Congratulations to Roseanna Gulisano! For Roseanna Gulisano, SILS LMS graduate and school librarian at PS 11 The Highbridge school in The Bronx, 2013 is off to an amazing start. First, in early January she received a REACH grant from the New York City Department of Education and The Fund for Public Schools. This week, Caroline Kennedy, the Fund's Honorary Director, paid a special visit to her school library to learn more about her innovative literacy work through readers theater. Please join me in congratulating Roseanna (along with her hardworking students!) on this much-deserved recognition.

Friday, January 25, 2013 at 2:47pm EST
Congratulations to Pratt SILS students Heather Lember, Suzanne Lipkin and Richard Lee on their paper “Radical Cataloging: From Words to Action” to be presented at the 2013 LACUNY Institute “Libraries, Information, and the Right to the City” on April 5, 2013 at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY in New York City. The paper is based on their final project for the course LIS 653-Knowledge Organization, Fall 2012. Well done!

Friday, January 25, 2013 at 9:10am EST
Open source initiatives in all areas of life . . .

Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 2:30pm EST
Interested in Preservation and Technology? Attend the Preservation Now Pre-conference http://hdc.org/conference/19th-annual-preservation-conference-preservation-now-pre-conference-panel-discussionspreservation-and-technology

Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 5:30pm EST
Congratulations to Profs. Rabina and Cocciolo; their project German Traces NYC won the ALA Cutting Edge in Library Services Award http://www.districtdispatch.org/2013/01/cutting-edge-2013/

Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 10:59am EST
Interesting discussion on the future of Mendeley and other social sharing sites. http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/01/18/major-shifts-in-social-sharing-sites-do-consolidation-and-termination-mark-the-end-of-an-era/

Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 2:27pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Society of American Archivists at Pratt Institute's post.

Monday, January 14, 2013 at 3:31pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Monday, January 14, 2013 at 3:23pm EST
First day of class... welcome back!

Monday, January 14, 2013 at 2:34pm EST
When I was at Pratt SILS, Aaron Swartz came and spoke to our community about his Open Library Project and Information for All. RIP.

Monday, January 14, 2013 at 12:10pm EST
SILS student Kai Alexis Smith is featured on the ARLIS North America website http://www.arlisna.org/

Monday, January 14, 2013 at 10:35am EST
New paper from Profs. Cocciolo and Rabina on mobile technology and augmented reality.

Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 11:03am EST
Aaron Swartz, well known in information policy circles for the JSTOR and PACER captures, takes his own life. http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html

Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 9:08am EST
Why e-books cost so much Book publishers are being sued by the Justice Department for allegedly colluding to raise e-book prices. This isn't a case of simple greed. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57412587-93/why-e-books-cost-so-much/

Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 3:18pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Monday, January 7, 2013 at 5:33pm EST
Just in time for the semester: Additional proof that citations can lead to violent behavior. http://www.theonion.com/articles/4-copy-editors-killed-in-ongoing-ap-style-chicago,30806/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=standard-post:headline:default

Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 8:35pm EST
John Palfrey argues for the future of libraries

Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 8:12pm EST
"The Ethics of Visualization" with speaker Chris Alen Sula, Assistant Professor and Digital Humanities Coordinator at Pratt Institute School of Information & Library Science. The event, held on December 12th, was part of Columbia Libraries Digital Program Division and the Digital Humanities Center lecture series. More info on the session can be found on the presentation web page: https://library.columbia.edu/bts/ldp/digital_seminars/2012/2012-12-12.html The video is available on Columbia's YouTube channel.