Timeline

2015

Thursday, December 31, 2015 at 9:58am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information at Pratt Institute School of Information.
Happy New Year from Pratt School of Information! Photograph of Pratt Manhattan by Kristine Paulus, MSLIS, Pratt 2003.

Friday, December 25, 2015 at 2:57am EST
“The book in Iceland is such an enormous gift, you give a physical book. You don't give e-books here." The book industry is driven by the majority of people buying several books each year, rather than the North American pattern of a few people buying lots of books. http://www.treehugger.com/culture/icelanders-give-books-christmas-eve.html?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly&utm_campaign=9eb4a9059f-UA-15906914-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0bb2959cbb-9eb4a9059f-304821673

Thursday, December 24, 2015 at 8:42am EST
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/librarians-nationwide-protest-michigan-bill-sb-571/

Monday, December 21, 2015 at 11:00am EST
Students in LIS 625 Management of Archives & Special Collections create a DACS/EAD finding aid for a collection of School Records going back to 1890. They used AtoM (Access to Memory) to create the finding aid. http://atom.prattsils.org/index.php/school-of-information-records

Monday, December 21, 2015 at 10:55am EST
Students in LIS 668 Projects in Moving Image and Sound Archives curate an exhibit about Women in ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/exhibits/show/nomoreinvisiblewomenexhibition

Monday, December 21, 2015 at 10:52am EST
Students in LIS 665 Projects in Digital Archives made enhancements to an oral history archive documenting the Puerto Rican diaspora. http://voces.prattsi.org/

Monday, December 21, 2015 at 9:44am EST
Parisians archive objects from the attacks http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/21/arts/design/in-paris-archivists-preserve-tokens-of-grief.html

Sunday, December 20, 2015 at 3:11am EST
If librarians were honest, they would say, No one spends time here without being changed.

Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at 6:00pm EST
Free the Law by Pratt SI student Jen Dixon in Library Journal (and originally a paper for LIS 631: Academic Libraries and Scholarly Communication) - Congrats Jen!

Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at 4:42pm EST
Lovely sunset during the last week of classes

Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 10:26pm EST
Get your free NYC ID with 2016 memberships to museums and your library card connected to it.

Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 6:16pm EST
Pratt colors are in vogue http://nyti.ms/21WaUa1

Monday, December 14, 2015 at 6:02pm EST
NYPL names William P. Kelly ... Director of the Research Libraries http://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/december-14-2015/william-p-kelly-named-new-york-public-library%E2%80%99s-andrew-w-mellon?utm_source=eNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ResearchMatters201512+Kelly+Announcement&utm_campaign=ResearchMatters

Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 1:44pm EST
Sickeningly beautiful day on the Bklyn campus

Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 1:39pm EST
For those who love cats videos, How Cats Took Over the Internet is a must see

Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 10:41am EST
Support scholarships for future librarians, archivists, and other informational professionals by making a tax-deductible contribution to the Fund for Pratt School of Information. https://www.pratt.edu/academics/information/give-to-the-school-of-information/

Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 7:46am EST
"This is the time to recognize that the very existence of our massive knowledge commons is an act of collective civil disobedience. It is the time to emerge from hiding and put our names behind this act of resistance." http://custodians.online

Friday, December 11, 2015 at 9:43pm EST
SI faculty Slava Polishchuk and Tula Giannini, with History of Art Chair Gayle Kurtz

Friday, December 11, 2015 at 9:37pm EST
Pratt SI Holiday Party - Happy Holidays everyone!

Friday, December 11, 2015 at 2:46pm EST
Checkout some plans for a new ground floor at Pratt Manhattan http://avoidobvious.com/visualization/portfolio/pratt-manhattan/

Friday, December 11, 2015 at 2:45pm EST
Checkout the School of Information’s new Vision, Mission and Goals https://www.pratt.edu/academics/information/about-the-school/mission/

Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 4:01pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information with Craig MacDonald.
Great pic of Prof. Craig McDonald with UX students, who collaborated with NYC Media Lab and ESPN on a project (via https://twitter.com/nycmedialab/status/674667764318105600)

Monday, December 7, 2015 at 11:32pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared The Upturned Microscope's photo.

Monday, December 7, 2015 at 5:30pm EST
Going to the School Holiday Party? Don't miss the preview of "Inventing the Librarian: A Gendered Narrative," an exhibition by students in LIS 625 Management of Archives & Special Collections. https://madmimi.com/p/33c307?fe=1&pact=552-128738174-8195010699-5165422928760c9c2ab7176bf6fbdc8a122ce19d

Monday, December 7, 2015 at 12:49pm EST
PrattSI alumna Julie Graves Krishnasawmi's research on the origins of the Blue Book receives NYTimes coverage! Yay Julie! http://nyti.ms/1IzU7D5

Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 11:04pm EST
Dean Giannini on the new Museums & Digital Culture MS https://www.pratt.edu/news/view/technology-challenges-the-status-quo-with-unique-museum-experiences

Friday, December 4, 2015 at 7:13pm EST
A first edition King James Bible discovered in a Jersey library http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/rare-king-james-bible-first-edition-discovered-at-drew-university/

Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 8:43am EST
School of Information facilities in one big collage

Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 10:33pm EST
"Here and there, a featureless tower pierces the sky. Pratt Institute is the neighborhood’s centerpiece, its greensward campus’s brick pathways braiding through a sculpture garden."

Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 12:51pm EST
"Great to see librarians correcting the record. You can't be a champion of libraries if you cut funding for libraries, Cory Booker."

Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 11:56am EST
Art education in public libraries http://projectart.org/

Monday, November 30, 2015 at 1:18pm EST
"I’ve been studying news preservation for the past two years, and I can confidently say that most media companies use a preservation strategy that resembles Swiss cheese."

Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 10:13pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Tim Green's photo.

Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 6:13pm EST
The Legacy of Librarians ... "Under Putnam, the Library established a Legislative Reference Service in 1914 to expand services to Congress. Early in his tenure, Putnam had courted the support of President Theodore Roosevelt who, in his first annual message to Congress on Dec. 3, 1901, called the Library of Congress “the one national library.”

Friday, November 27, 2015 at 2:51pm EST
"I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free" http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/912045191

Friday, November 27, 2015 at 7:33am EST
"EBLIDA believes that libraries all over Europe should act as a platform for democratic and open-minded values, and be a safe place where social inclusiveness for all is a priority."

Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 7:03pm EST
Prof. Cocciolo to publish new book for Society of American Archivists titled "Moving Image and Sound Collections for the Archivist" http://www.thinkingprojects.org/?p=534

Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 11:28pm EST
Interesting 8min interview about the ceiling problem in the main reading room. Still one year to go before the Rose Reading Room reopens. http://www.wnyc.org/story/new-york-public-librarys-rose-main-reading-room-restoration/

Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 3:46pm EST
Holiday Party - rsvp to infosils@pratt.edu.

Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 1:40pm EST
Declassified government documents are so much fun: "A non-cooperative attitude may involve nothing more than creating an unpleasant situation among ones fellow workers, engaging in bickerings, or displaying surliness and stupidity."

Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 1:00pm EST
http://www.psfk.com/2015/11/books-double-as-subway-tickets-brazil-lpm-editores.html#.VlSGkk2EV6F.facebook

Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 12:36pm EST
Student Rikki Pennisi maps power relationships in Game of Thrones for InfoViz class http://research.prattsils.org/blog/coursework/game-of-thrones-character-connections/

Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 9:23am EST
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/books/greek-new-testament-papyrus-is-discovered-on-ebay.html

Friday, November 20, 2015 at 7:25pm EST
Recent alums Rossy Mendez & Tali Han of @guggenheim presenting at #amia2015

Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 1:24pm EST
On-campus interviews going on for Children's librarians for @bklynlibrary

Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 8:14am EST
Printed Matter moves into their new space on 11th Ave http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/fashion/art-bookstore-printed-matter-new-space.html

Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 7:55am EST
Virtual reality films and other VR experiences picking up steam and may enter mainstream in the next few years http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/arts/a-virtual-reality-revolution-coming-to-a-headset-near-you.html

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 9:04am EST
Provide feedback on a draft revision to the School's Mission, Vision and Goals http://feedback.prattinfoschool.nyc/

Monday, November 16, 2015 at 1:02pm EST
Pratt SI alumna Lee Ann Fullington, Health and Environmental Sciences Librarian at CUNY Brooklyn College, featured in ACRL

Monday, November 16, 2015 at 9:12am EST
Please help change government information policy. I hope you’ll consider sending comments to OMB on circular A-130 individually and more importantly via your library organizations. Please forward to others who may also be interested. Public comment open until Nov 20 on OMB Circular A-130 Explanation of the needed changes: http://freegovinfo.info/node/10574 Background and place to comment: https://a130.cio.gov/

Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 8:04pm EST
http://nyti.ms/1PJreFn

Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 7:50pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Public Library Association (PLA)'s video.
Recent alum Jodi Shaw on being a children's librarian at BPL.

Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 11:54am EST
The famed DJ and hip-hop pioneer has found an unexpected platform to promote hip-hop and document its culture, joining the Queens Library as its first ever hip-hop coordinator.

Friday, November 13, 2015 at 8:52pm EST
As Anne Frank's diary approaches the end of its copyright, she gets a 2nd author, which extends the copyright to 2050. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/14/books/anne-frank-has-a-co-as-diary-gains-co-author-in-legal-move.html

Friday, November 13, 2015 at 8:37pm EST
Faculty & staff having some fun working on the School's vision, mission & goals.

Friday, November 13, 2015 at 12:34pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 1:39pm EST
Alums, faculty and students to present at the 2016 METRO New York Library Library Council Conference http://metro.org/articles/metros-2016-annual-conference-our-selected-project-briefings/

Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 9:58pm EST
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/16/the-invisible-library

Monday, November 9, 2015 at 1:37pm EST
The life of a book at NYPL http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/06/nyregion/new-york-101-how-the-library-works-a-book-odyssey.html

Saturday, November 7, 2015 at 8:32pm EST
http://nyti.ms/1iI4MiR

Saturday, November 7, 2015 at 8:06am EST
“A library is a focal point, a sacred place to a community; and its sacredness is its accessibility, its publicness. It’s everybody’s place. https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/06/ursula-k-le-guin-libraries/

Friday, November 6, 2015 at 5:41pm EST
Time Inc. donates its archives to New York Historical Society http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/nyregion/time-incs-record-of-the-20th-century-in-thousands-of-boxes-is-moving.html

Friday, November 6, 2015 at 4:59pm EST
Dean Tula Giannini addresses a letter to students on the relationship between the MSLIS and the School's name change. Dear students and School of Information Community, Yesterday, I met with the Student Association officers to briefly discuss the upcoming meeting on Saturday, November 14. From our conversation, I can see that there is some confusion around the status of the MSLIS in light of the School’s renaming. So, I would like to clarify this now to allay these concerns. Most importantly, the School’s Master of Science in Library and Information Science which is fully accredited by the ALA, has not changed and there are no plans to change our ALA accredited MSLIS . Quite to the contrary, we are committed to the MSLIS, and continue to enhance this degree to the benefit of student learning and experience. As before and moving forward, you will graduate with an MSLIS from Pratt Institute. At the same time, we have been growing our programs in new and emerging areas of the information field to increase diversity, depth and breadth, You have likely noted that this fall 2015 we introduced a new MS in Museums and Digital Culture, an Advanced Certificate in User Experience and one in Digital Humanities. Next fall, we will again introduce new programs. Thus, changing our name to “School of Information” was essential to truly represent the totality and richness of the School’s programs - among which, we consider the MSLIS at the heart of what we do. I will be at the meeting to answer any of your questions and look forward to this opportunity. With all my best wishes, Dean Giannini

Friday, November 6, 2015 at 12:13pm EST
#6 My wife told my daughter that the kitty was hurt (arthritis) and to be careful with her. Daughter: “Ok I’ll read to her”. http://tinyurl.com/pe2l59d

Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 3:23pm EST
And so it ends and Kansas gets the last bite

Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 2:06pm EST
Syracuse iSchool Social Media Tool Used to Track Elections: Researchers at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) are using the open-source Social Media Tracker, Analyzer, and Collector Toolkit at Syracuse (STACKS) to collect and analyze social media posts and traffic related to the 2016 presidential candidates as part of an interdisciplinary digital politics project, according to a campus publication.

Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 12:36pm EST
ALA's Executive Board announces a task force on ALA Accreditation, with Pratt's Tula Giannini as a member. http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/task-forces-on-lis-accreditation-announced/

Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 8:31am EST
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/coloring-book-clubs-cross-the-line-into-libraries/

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 6:39pm EST
Thank you to our wonderful alums who came today to talk about their career: Krissa Corbett Cavouras, Engagement Manager in the Marketing & Communications Department at Brooklyn Public Library Ellie Horowitz, Information literacy librarian, Dominican College Julia Marden, Data librarian, Columbia U. Seth Persons, Metrics and Analytics Specialist for CUNY Academic Commons Gina Shelton, Head Librarian, Sullivan Library at Dominican College

Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at 12:19pm EST
What's the connection between real-estate and LIS? Not much, except that all NYers are amateur realtors with a healthy interest in the neighborhood. http://nyti.ms/1Hhadvs

Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at 11:01am EST
Profs. MacDonald and Hochman present this weekend at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in St. Louis. Also there, Prof. Rabina and Drabinkski will receive the ASIS&T 2015 Elfreda A. Chatman Research Proposal Award. https://madmimi.com/p/b0a3d6?fe=1&pact=34318054108

Monday, November 2, 2015 at 11:28pm EST
In arbitration "rules tend to favor businesses, and judges and juries have been replaced by arbitrators who commonly consider the companies their clients" “This amounts to the whole-scale privatization of the justice system,” said Myriam Gilles, a law professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. “Americans are actively being deprived of their rights.” http://nyti.ms/1N4UNfI

Monday, November 2, 2015 at 9:58pm EST
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-municipal-archives-offer-rare-nyc-history-article-1.2410124

Monday, November 2, 2015 at 6:23pm EST
SILSSA is holding a Town Hall on Saturday, Nov. 14 at 2pm. More information on their website: http://silssa.prattsils.org/pratt-si-informational-town-hall-saturday-1114/

Monday, November 2, 2015 at 7:50am EST
"Among parents of the under-5 set, spots for story time have become as coveted as seats for a hot Broadway show like 'Hamilton.'" http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/02/nyregion/long-line-at-the-library-its-story-time-again.html

Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 8:01am EST
At the Library Hotel in New York, each of the 10 guest room floors honors one of the 10 categories of the Dewey Decimal System, such as literature and history, and each of the 60 rooms has a collection of books exploring a distinctive topic within a category. http://nyti.ms/1HaCVxV

Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 7:46am EDT
What do CUNY students want from their library? Article co-authored by SILS alum Marua Smale (now Cheif Librarian at CUNY City Tech). Students valued the library as a distraction-free place for academic work, in contrast to the constraints they experienced in other places—including in their homes and on the commute http://crl.acrl.org/content/76/7/899.full.pdf+html

Friday, October 30, 2015 at 10:40pm EDT
http://today.law.harvard.edu/harvard-law-school-launches-free-the-law-project-with-ravel-law-to-digitize-us-case-law-provide-free-access/

Thursday, October 29, 2015 at 2:53pm EDT
as the holiday season approaches

Thursday, October 29, 2015 at 7:18am EDT
Harvard law library puts case law online by de-binding books, scan them at high speed and re-bind them. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/29/us/harvard-law-library-sacrifices-a-trove-for-the-sake-of-a-free-database.html

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 10:32pm EDT
New books at Pratt Manhattan library, like this one http://cat.pratt.edu/record=b1221187~S0

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 6:21pm EDT
Affective computing on steroids, the possibilities are fascinating http://nyti.ms/1LR5l1Y

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 2:14pm EDT
In honor of Open Access week, let's begin by opening the government: http://nyti.ms/1OU7qA1

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 1:08pm EDT
Halloween coming soon: http://bookriot.tumblr.com/post/131688370124/libraryjournal-iworkatapubliclibrary-happy

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 8:01am EDT
A review of John Palfrey’s BiblioTech (available at PMC 020.2854 P159)

Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 9:44am EDT
#regram Recent alum Carolyn Li-Madeo of Archive.org brings her computer outside- talk about meeting your users where they're at.

Friday, October 23, 2015 at 5:46pm EDT
What are libraries essentially about? It's still collecting, organizing and providing access, regardless of the collections being digital of physical. ...All these extra tasks make it difficult, if not impossible, for librarians to work as librarians: to see that the collections remain coherent, to sift through catalogues, to help readers read, to read themselves. The new duties imposed on them are the obligations of civilized societies toward their citizens, and should not be dumped pell-mell onto the shoulders of librarians. If we change the role of libraries and librarians without preserving the centrality of the book, we risk losing something irretrievable. http://nyti.ms/1R0E2G8

Friday, October 23, 2015 at 12:07pm EDT
"Library and information science (LIS) graduates are finding their place in a market that demands creativity, flexibility, and a solid set of LIS skills that represent the profession’s foundations and future..." http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2015/10/placements-and-salaries/2015-survey/the-expanding-info-sphere/

Friday, October 23, 2015 at 9:40am EDT
Wonderful way to engage with the community: *Libraries baseball spat* While Toronto plays Kansas City in a tense fight for the American League pennant, both cities' libraries are involved in a high-stakes, winner-take-all...exchange of pointed book recommendations on Twitter. Begins min. 17 (about 6 min long) http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.3283934

Friday, October 23, 2015 at 8:37am EDT
Beautiful words from the eloquent Maria Popova, always worth reading. https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/23/nine-years-of-brain-pickings/

Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 11:46am EDT
Beta-Phi-Mu Theta Chapter (Pratt Institute School of Information's Honor Society) Fall Lecture & Tour with Josh Hadro, NYPL Labs Deputy Director, Oct. 30 5:30-8:30

Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 11:40am EDT
Museums & the Digital Age: A Talk with Professionals, Oct. 28 2p-4:30p

Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 8:43am EDT
#regram from @binnorie - Mgmt of Archives and Special Collections students remove fasteners from 19th century files

Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 8:10am EDT
David Mao, former Law Librarian of Congress, was appointed as Acting Librarian of Congress

Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 11:10pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 6:49pm EDT
Have an opinion on the NYPL redesign? Can you find the CATALOG? Can you find the Databases? Don't be shy, share your opinion with Frank Migliorelli, Director of Digital Experience, or tweet them @nypl http://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/10/09/introducing-new-navigation#comment-21055

Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 1:16pm EDT
Short (5min) video on the libraries help keep American informed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRFACkDd9d0

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 8:23pm EDT
According to Google Scholar, the School of Information accounts for 65% of all Pratt Institute citations #busypublishing https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_org&hl=en&org=16327864200831261253

Monday, October 19, 2015 at 7:39pm EDT
So so true. We live in an AND world: Lecture AND hands-on, on-line AND off-line, and so on. As a take on Ranganathan, for each teacher her pedagogy, for every circumstance, its pedagogy: http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2015/10/how-to-write-an-essay-about-teaching-that-will-not-be-published-in-the-nyt-chronicle-ihe-or-anywhere.html

Monday, October 19, 2015 at 6:00pm EDT
Effective today: All 60 of our locations will now offer six-day service, and the number of branches offering seven-day service will increase from two to five

Monday, October 19, 2015 at 12:16pm EDT
ASIST@Pratt Faculty Speakeasy tonight. https://madmimi.com/p/d4ffc6?fe=1&pact=33931343491

Monday, October 19, 2015 at 10:52am EDT
Spring 2016 course listing is available online https://webadvisor.pratt.edu:8443/

Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 10:14pm EDT
The lecture is back and “It is not a recitation of facts, but the building of an argument.” http://nyti.ms/1QEAdWX

Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 11:30pm EDT
Promising agenda this week at #GPODLC15 Dr. Rabina presenting: Where Has All the Data Gone? Using Citizen Created Tools in Reference, Research, and Instruction http://tinyurl.com/GPODLC15

Friday, October 16, 2015 at 10:09pm EDT
"The web, as it appears at any one moment, is a phantasmagoria. It’s not a place in any reliable sense of the word. It is not a repository. It is not a library. It is a constantly changing patchwork of perpetual nowness." http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/raiders-of-the-lost-web/409210/

Friday, October 16, 2015 at 3:51pm EDT
Court rules Google's book scanning is fair use http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/17/business/media/googles-digital-library-wins-court-of-appeals-ruling.html

Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 10:22pm EDT
Congratulation to SILS alums who recently accepted the following positions: Allison Piazza, Health Sciences Librarian Fellow at New York University Rachael Wettenstein, Senior Children's Librarian, NYPL, Grand Concourse Branch Rachel Skinner-O'Neill, Senior Children's Librarian, NYPL, Inwood Branch

Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 7:38pm EDT
[shared from Thomas Hill]I always find it interesting that most documentary "discoveries" are of materials preserved in the collections of libraries and archives:

Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 12:15pm EDT
Congratulations to Pratt MSLIS student Laurin Paradise on the publication of her paper in The Serials Librarian. The paper was originally written for LIS 631: Academic Libraries and Scholarly Communication (D. Rabina FA14)

Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 10:05pm EDT
Fellowship opportunities at the Berkman Center https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/fellowships

Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 1:33pm EDT
Some high-tech supplies for Mgmt of Archives & Special Collections

Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 1:30pm EDT
Things are a'changin at Pratt Manhattan

Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 9:13am EDT
So what is information? What does it have to do with information technology and libraries? Marcia Bates offers an explanation in her new paper. http://www.informationr.net/ir/20-1/paper655.html

Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 4:45pm EDT
Congratulations to our student Sarah Hamerman on the publication of her paper PIRATE LIBRARIES and the fight for open information. The paper was originally written for LIS 651 (C.Sula) http://www.fvckthemedia.com/issue61/pirate-libraries

Monday, October 12, 2015 at 3:57pm EDT
Hope to 'see' many of my students (past and present) and fellow alums at #TDS15 on Wednesday October 14th! Many of you may not know that I have worked on this #free, online learning event since 2010.

Saturday, October 10, 2015 at 8:41am EDT
... you'll notice that all of the provisions that recognize the rights of the public are non-binding, whereas almost everything that benefits rightsholders is binding. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/final-leaked-tpp-text-all-we-feared

Friday, October 9, 2015 at 7:09pm EDT
Data does not just impact politics, it is politics. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/10/07/how-data-does-political-things/

Friday, October 9, 2015 at 7:08pm EDT
Is more data the answer to bad data? http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/10/08/we-need-informative-metrics-how-to-make-metrics-better/

Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 7:16pm EDT
MoMA's PS1 announces free admissions for one year. Of course, libraries are always free.

Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 8:52am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information at Pratt Institute School of Information.
Students in Mgmt of Archives & Special Collections processing 19th century school records.

Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 8:25am EDT
Now that culture is streamed digitally, its preservation is threatened when huge portions of it are managed by 1 company. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/when-amazon-dies/409387/

Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 11:30am EDT
http://www.wnyc.org/story/check-out-what-you-can-borrow-from-a-library-in-alaska/

Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 5:16pm EDT
Great opportunity to celebrate Women’s Suffrage Centennial and the 200th Birthday of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Join and Share with your friends and family! Declaration of Sentiments: The Remix The link to the viral video is: https://youtu.be/bfebjrV2ohg The ticket buying link is: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/10039568 To know more about Womens Activism in New York City visit-http://www.womensactivism.nyc/

Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 2:10pm EDT
Mergers and acquisition in library land: Proquest buys Ex Libris: http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/latest-links/proquest-to-acquire-ex-libris/

Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 8:22am EDT
US cloud computing industry challenged by European data privacy laws http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/technology/european-union-us-data-collection.html

Monday, October 5, 2015 at 8:32pm EDT
Priest documents the Hidden Holocaust using oral history, GPS and archives http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hidden-holocaust-60-minutes/

Monday, October 5, 2015 at 11:47am EDT
More on the renaming of the School https://www.pratt.edu/news/view/school-of-information-and-library-science-renamed

Friday, October 2, 2015 at 6:04pm EDT
Brewster Kahle wants all knowledge to be accessible digitally. http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201510021000

Friday, October 2, 2015 at 3:06pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information updated their profile picture.

Friday, October 2, 2015 at 2:24pm EDT
Letter to the Pratt Community from Provost Kirk E. Pillow on SILS's name change: October 2, 2015 Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff, For more than 125 years, Pratt Institute’s School of Information and Library Science has been a leader at the nexus of information studies and design thinking and has been internationally known among our academic peers for its scholarly work. To honor this legacy and to recognize the advancements in technology and globalization that have yielded unprecedented growth and opportunities in the study, application, and exchange of physical and digital information, it is my pleasure to announce that we are changing the name of the school from the School of Information and Library Science to the School of Information. By renaming the school, we better position it to lead in the information fields, as we continue to explore how new technologies affect our economic, social, and knowledge-making processes. The new name, which will be effective on Monday, October 5, 2015, also more accurately reflects the school’s current academic focus and vision for its future. The School of Information enhances the Masters in Library and Information Science graduate programs by featuring new offerings that support the existing curriculum. As the field continues to rapidly expand, new School of Information programs have been developed through the lens of professional practice and now include a new Master of Science program: Museums and Digital Culture. In addition to these master degrees, the School will offer even more specialized skills with Advanced Certificates in User Experience and Digital Humanities. New graduate programs will also be announced in the near future. I’d like to thank Dean Tula Giannini, whose leadership of the school over the last decade has allowed it to thrive and evolve with the changes brought on by the digital age. It is her vision that has made all of this possible and allows the school to continually build on its legacy as an established leader in the field. As we position Pratt for the next 125 years, I look forward to working together with Dean Giannini and others across the Institute to ensure that the Institute’s School of Information will allow current and future students the best possible education and professional preparation for the digital and information age. Sincerely, Kirk E. Pillow Provost

Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 11:46pm EDT
SILS students in Mgmt of Archives & Special Collections ready to bust into these polyester document protectors

Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 2:57pm EDT
Pratt SILS to become Pratt Institute School of Information. Please find the following letter from Dean Tula Giannini: Dear Students, Faculty, Staff, and SILS community, I am writing to you with you some exciting news – Pratt’s School of Information and Library Science, after 125 years of being a library school, is marking this anniversary with a new beginning. As of Monday, October 5, the name of our school will become the School of Information. Over the past few years, our faculty, students, staff, and alumni have participated in and contributed to exciting developments as our programs have grown in scope, depth, and diversity to represent the enormous range of the rapidly evolving information field. By doing so, we have expanded career opportunities for our graduates as our programs make connections across libraries, archives, museums, and user experience, at the heart of today’s information society and digital world. Most importantly, we have grown in response to the focus and interests of students, faculty, alumni, and the School’s professional community of practice. This fall 2015, we introduced two new programs, an Advanced Certificate in User Experience and Advanced Certificate in Digital Humanities. And making history, for the first time since 1890, the school has more than one master’s degree program, a Master of Science in Museums and Digital culture—and we already have plans to offer a number of new and exciting programs in fall 2016! This year, 2015, as our School celebrates its 125th anniversary, we are taking stock of the School’s long and distinguished history of making significant contributions to education, research, and practice. At the same time, we are excited about our new and emerging place in the field of information as our programs have continually evolved and kept pace with this rapidly advancing field. Thus, in addition to the Masters in Library and Information Science, the School is now becoming home to a growing array of diverse programs that represent the enormous breadth of the information professions positioned firmly in the context of the arts, humanities, and the digital culture of today’s information society, as we more fully embrace and link to the mission and values of Pratt Institute. As we move into the future, we will continue to evolve and transform through our process of assessment and creative innovation, as our forward-looking programs progress in parallel to that of today’s information society in the digital world. We are proud to stand alongside Pratt’s School of Architecture, School of Art, School of Design, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and School of Continuing and Professional Studies, as Pratt’s School of Information. Sincerely, Tula

Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 12:36pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Walter Schlect.
Glückwünsche to SILS alum and SILLA former pres. Walter Schlect, newly hired as Librarian at the Goethe Institut

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 11:58pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information at Pratt Institute School of Information.
Hello there back issues of American Archivist

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 1:24pm EDT
Why are these books banned?

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 1:19pm EDT
Pratt Libraries to begin circulating its 16mm film collection and projectors. http://libguides.pratt.edu/16mmCollection

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 12:11pm EDT
Another guest post from Prof. Cocciolo on the decline of text on the web http://webarchivehistorians.org/2015/09/28/the-rise-and-fall-of-text-on-the-web-a-study-using-web-archives/

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 11:39am EDT
SILS professors Debbie Rabina and Emily Drabinski article (part I) on the reference needs of incarcerated people published in RUSQ https://journals.ala.org/rusq/article/view/5798

Monday, September 28, 2015 at 9:18am EDT
Guest blog post from Prof. Cocciolo on the disappearance of text from the web http://www.cilip.org.uk/cilip/blog/rise-fall-text-web

Monday, September 28, 2015 at 7:44am EDT
This week is banned books week http://www.ala.org/bbooks/

Sunday, September 27, 2015 at 1:48pm EDT
Turkle argues that "our phones are not accessories, but psychologically potent devices that change not just what we do but who we are." http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/opinion/sunday/stop-googling-lets-talk.html

Saturday, September 26, 2015 at 3:37pm EDT
www.fdsys.gov to read the address to Congress by Pope Francis. [and learn more about the Congressional Record in LIS 613 e-Government Information and Users]

Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 9:34am EDT
"The e-book terror has kind of subsided" http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/business/media/the-plot-twist-e-book-sales-slip-and-print-is-far-from-dead.html

Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 10:22pm EDT
'Happy Birthday' is free!

Monday, September 21, 2015 at 8:40am EDT
“When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.” https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/04/09/the-public-library-robert-dawson-book/

Sunday, September 20, 2015 at 8:27am EDT
Let's get someone who knows the job and wants the job. #nextloc http://librarianofprogress.com/

Saturday, September 19, 2015 at 3:50pm EDT
SILS alums, students and staff gather for Pratt Alumni Day on the Brooklyn campus.

Friday, September 18, 2015 at 3:10pm EDT
"Librarians and Revolution" by Professor Irene Lopatovska. She will be presenting on her recent Fulbright experience in Ukraine. Come in between classes to check it out!

Friday, September 18, 2015 at 8:34am EDT
Academics have criticised the British government for creating a "climate of fear" after the national library declined to store the world's biggest collection of Taliban-related documents over concerns it could be prosecuted under terrorism laws.

Friday, September 18, 2015 at 8:33am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 2:34pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Humans of New York's photo.
SILS part-time lecturer and alum Kyle Triplett is a Human of New York

Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 11:44am EDT
SILS visiting professor Lisa Norberg featured in American Libraries

Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 8:21am EDT
SILS Prof. Cocciolo publishes new research on the decline of text on the web. http://www.informationr.net/ir/20-3/paper682.html

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at 9:16pm EDT
A new blog on reading children's literature as anti-racist work. A co-author is Pratt SILS alum Allie Jane Bruce of Bank Street School.

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at 1:20pm EDT
Energy Universe - Energetic Physics https://www.facebook.com/groups/519054941585851/

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at 1:06pm EDT
making smart predictions

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at 12:57pm EDT
http://nyti.ms/1UQG95g

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at 12:33pm EDT
Pratt Manhattan library is brimming with new books

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at 7:44am EDT
Court rules that online services like YouTube need to consider fair use cases when receiving take-down notices from copyright holders. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/15/business/media/youtube-dancing-baby-copyright-ruling-sets-fair-use-guideline.html?_r=0

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at 6:52am EDT
Demand for vinyl records surges http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/15/business/media/a-vinyl-lp-frenzy-brings-record-pressing-machines-back-to-life.html

Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 11:43pm EDT
Yes, yes, yes!

Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 9:41am EDT
SILS students visit the Archives of the Puerto Rican diaspora to begin work on an oral history digitization project.

Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 11:15pm EDT
Happy first day of school to our LMS grads who start positions in New York City Schools this week! Julianna Morrison at IS 5 Middle School in Elmhurst, Queens, Kari Panzer at PS 110 on the Lower East Side, and Hailey Watkins at the Loyola School in Manhattan. Wishing you and your students a great year!

Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 7:34am EDT
SILS alums & students taking on new roles at the @Guggenheim Museum, including; Tali Han - Assistant Archivist, Rosie Mendez - Project Archivist and Katherine Martinez - Born-digital Archives Fellow

Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 10:08am EDT
SILS's Advanced Certificate in Archives webpage has been updated to provide more guidance on course sequencing. https://www.pratt.edu/academics/information-and-library-sciences/advanced-certificate-program/advanced-archives/

Sunday, September 6, 2015 at 7:39pm EDT
Spotlight on SILS Alum Rebecca Chandler, Consultant at AVPreserve Rebecca specializes in analysis and recommendations for digitization workflows, infrastructure, and staffing. Recent projects have focused on market analysis and digitization lab design. https://www.avpreserve.com/people/rebecca-chandler/

Sunday, September 6, 2015 at 3:43pm EDT
Stop mistaking change for progress, and start trusting the people who work for you

Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 11:23pm EDT
SILS Alum Carolyn Vega, Associate Curator at the Morgan Library, discusses the new exhibition "Alice: 150 Years of Wonderland" on the PBS Program NYC-Arts http://www.nyc-arts.org/showclips/137308/alice-150-years-of-wonderland-i-nyc-arts-curators-choice

Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 10:33pm EDT
orphan works back in the news

Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 2:26pm EDT
Meet the man behind a new effort to save documents and other artifacts before they disappear. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/introducing-the-archive-corps/403135/?utm_source=SFTwitter

Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 8:23am EDT
SILS poster from 1973 found in the archives.

Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 1:21am EDT
Sophie Blavet graduated in 2007. Head Librarian at ISHCMC (International School of Ho Chi Minh City) Vietnam. Thank you Pratt!

Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at 4:46pm EDT
Congrats to SILS recent alum Katherine Kotacska. She is now a full-time Reference Librarian at Middletown Public Library in New Jersey http://mtpl.org/

Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at 3:53pm EDT
Congrats to SILS recent alum Esperanza Pacheco. She is now the Young Adult Reference Librarian at the Fort Lee Public Library, NJ. http://fortlee.bccls.org/

Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at 2:29pm EDT
So many SILS Alums and collaborators featured in this great back-to-school piece in School Library Journal by SILS Alum Jess DeCourcy Hinds.

Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 9:59am EDT
Walter Benjamin on unpacking his library:

Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 12:52pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Library Journal's photo.
Why do we even need libraries anymore?

Monday, August 24, 2015 at 9:12pm EDT
SILS alum Daniel Lopatin's new album

Monday, August 24, 2015 at 1:24pm EDT
Nominate your favorite librarian: http://ilovelibraries.org/lovemylibrarian

Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 7:50am EDT
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xyL4c_LDCl0

Friday, August 21, 2015 at 7:26am EDT
Amanda Palmer, eight months pregnant and exquisitely painted, recreates Damien Hirst’s Verity statue in a performance art piece for the New York Public Library’s children’s book drive.

Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 7:25pm EDT
#saa15 SILS student Karen Hwang on the @LinkedJazz project

Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 7:23pm EDT
#saa15 SILS student Molly Seegers & SILS alum Rossy Mendez

Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 3:54pm EDT
Several SILS students and recent alums featured in a NYARC blog post, including Tali Han, Meredith Powers, Molly Seegers, Caitlin Harrington, Diane Dias De Fazio, Rebecca Plock and Elizabeth Feldbauer http://www.nyarc.org/content/training-future-librarians-and-enhancing-digital-and-print-collections-m-lead-ii-comes

Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 2:53pm EDT
Kudos to SILS alum Philip Sutton in the Milstein Division at NYPL for doing the research and maintaining the collections that allow this article:

Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 11:38am EDT
The digital workplace: soon we will be wearing a felon’s ankle bracelet. Data-Crunching Is Coming to Help Your Boss Manage Your Time http://nyti.ms/1DXbXOg

Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 7:15pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Monday, August 17, 2015 at 10:25pm EDT
Congratulation to SILS alumna Annalise Welte, on her new job as Senior Library Associate, Circulation and Technical Services, Thomas J. Watson Library in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Monday, August 17, 2015 at 10:22pm EDT
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/15/1412382/-Amazon-mixes-the-brutality-of-the-Victorian-workhouse-with-the-paranoia-of-Stalinist-Russia?detail=facebook

Monday, August 17, 2015 at 10:51am EDT
Attending SAA Annual Meeting this week in Cleveland? Pratt SILS is having a Happy Hour - 7:30-9:30p (drinks on SILS 7:30-9p) at the Society Lounge this Friday. http://www.societycleveland.com/

Monday, August 17, 2015 at 10:44am EDT
SILS faculty, students and alumni present this week at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting in Cleveland. Presentations include: Prof. Anthony Cocciolo Email Appraisal Solutions for the Cultural Heritage Sector: A Case Studyhttps://archives2015.sched.org/event/decb52a6c6ab7d42d106ee8673206fb1 Grad Student Syncopation: Contributing to Linked Jazz Karen L. Hwang, William J. Levay, and Alexandra A. Provo https://archives2015.sched.org/event/ceb0f31e891eec3df6367c5b3c1bfffb SAA@Pratt J.E. Molly Seegers https://archives2015.sched.org/event/ceb0f31e891eec3df6367c5b3c1bfffb

Monday, August 17, 2015 at 8:43am EDT
How Cats Took Over the Internet: exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens http://www.movingimage.us/exhibitions/2015/08/07/detail/how-cats-took-over-the-internet/

Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 4:10pm EDT
Some new artworks on the Bklyn campus

Friday, August 14, 2015 at 12:17pm EDT
SILS alum Alana Miller authors article on dealing with data in museums http://www.hugeinc.com/ideas/perspective/dealing-with-data-in-museums

Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 11:27am EDT
A fantastic project: kids talking about race by analyzing book covers. Props to Pratt SILS alum Allie Jane Bruce for sharing this work.

Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 10:35am EDT
People who made a difference:

Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 2:50pm EDT
Useless data from the Dept. of Justice

Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 1:03pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Monday, August 10, 2015 at 8:18am EDT
Without warning and without enough time for the public to file comments, Arizona Secretary of State Michele Reagan recently moved the state library’s genealogy collection to a much smaller facility with only two bookshelves, holding a fraction of the books previously available to all. The move brought howls of protests from the genealogy community. The Secretary of State also laid off four employees of the state library at the same time. Genealogists are not the only ones protesting the abrupt and unannounced changes. Catherine May, Chairman of the State Library’s Advisory Board, has resigned in protest. “I just don’t want my name tied to Secretary Reagan,” May said. “I don’t trust what they’ve done.” Details may be found in an article in The Republic‘s web site at http://goo.gl/VBkw9q. And Researchers lament Arizona genealogy library's sudden downsizing, relocation At: http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2015/07/29/arizona-genealogy-collection-state-library-move/30859015/

Friday, August 7, 2015 at 11:12am EDT
"Libraries — those most democratic cultural temples of wisdom where we come to commune with humanity’s most luminous minds"

Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 9:00pm EDT
New Census data finder from NYC Dept. of City Planning: Try it our here and read more in the press release http://maps.nyc.gov/census/

Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 4:35pm EDT
UK: iTunes is Illegal (private copying exceptions overturned)

Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 10:36am EDT
European right to be forgotten may spread to US http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/06/technology/personaltech/right-to-be-forgotten-online-is-poised-to-spread.html

Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 10:14am EDT
Oct. 9 is the deadline to send comments to the Copyright office about Extended Collective Licensing and Mass Digitization. Become informed and involved. Submit comments here to the copyright office http://copyright.gov/policy/massdigitization/ Learn more from ARL (http://policynotes.arl.org/?tag=extended-collective-licensing) and Kevin Smith http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2015/08/04/what-is-extended-about-extended-collective-licensing/

Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 8:57am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at 9:23am EDT
The new UN 2030 agenda includes access to information, universal literacy, safeguarding of cultural and natural heritage, as well as access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) strongly represented across it. http://www.ifla.org/node/9726

Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at 8:55am EDT
Pending legal case may lead Happy Birthday to finally enter the Public Domain... http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/business/media/an-old-songbook-could-put-happy-birthday-in-the-public-domain.html?_r=0

Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at 2:26pm EDT
Women, AIDS & ActUP - a collection to be digitized in Prof. Cocciolo's Moving Image and Sound archives class this Fall

Monday, August 3, 2015 at 7:02pm EDT
NYPL research staff profiles, we count 5 Pratt people (alums and adjuncts): Jason Baumann, Rebecca Federman, Michael Inman, Matt Knutzen and Annemarie van Roessel . If we missed anyone, let us know.

Monday, August 3, 2015 at 11:20am EDT
Congratulations to recent SILS graduate and Project Manager for Linked Jazz, Alex Provo for receiving the prestigious 2015-2016 Kress Fellowship in Art Librarianship.

Sunday, August 2, 2015 at 1:35pm EDT
Here is information on the "March on Emporia" regarding the racial harassment case in the library school, School of Library and Information Management: http://www.marchonemporia.com/

Friday, July 31, 2015 at 2:19pm EDT
Congratulations to our alumna Carolyn Waters!

Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 5:01pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 5:00pm EDT
UX@Pratt is a collection of articles about User Experience and its related disciplines, written and maintained by Pratt students, alumni, and faculty. http://ux.prattsils.org/

Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 11:25am EDT
New York Public Library is hiring librarians and holding open houses http://www.nypl.org/node/311187

Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 10:43am EDT
BPL celebrating the spirit of Brooklyn, and a shout-out to our graduates Nick Higgins, BPL director of outreach services and the chairman of the fiction shortlist committee, Ivy Marvel, the manager of special collections at the library, and Leigh Hurwitz, also at BLP. http://nyti.ms/1JRmLKj

Monday, July 27, 2015 at 9:19pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 8:39pm EDT
"Our archaic copyright laws prevent libraries from making much of that content openly available online, but libraries are much more than traditional content — each one also includes librarians, information systems, and the communities they serve."

Friday, July 24, 2015 at 6:14pm EDT
SILS Prof. Kyle Triplett and NYPL Rare Book Librarian takes us through some NYC colonial era objects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8gK_eKuU4c

Friday, July 24, 2015 at 12:19pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Anthony Cocciolo.
Erin, Quinn & Anthony finishing up a major phase of the SILS archive project

Friday, July 24, 2015 at 12:16pm EDT
Proud to have a box-level inventory of the SILS archive

Friday, July 24, 2015 at 10:51am EDT
A shout-out to the NYPL innovation lab and to our many graduates who have and still work there (Josh Hadro and Matt Miller come to mind) our students who interned or contributed to projects such as the map warper, (https://debbierabina.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/nypl-map-warper-tutorial/) and probably more that I'm forgetting but feel free to add below:

Friday, July 24, 2015 at 10:43am EDT
For Fall 15 - a new park sprouts up 2 blocks from campus (7th Ave & W 12th)

Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 1:02pm EDT
Congratulations to SILS alum Corina Bardoff (May '15) how was just hired to fill the position of Adult Librarian at the Marcy Library in Bed-Stuy!

Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at 9:15pm EDT
Troubling news: the article paints a worrying picture of pressure on the All-Russian State Library of Foreign Literature and its chief librarian from state authorities in Russia.

Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at 3:39pm EDT
Dean Giannini appears in Pratt's Inspire Newsletter

Tuesday, July 21, 2015 at 6:40pm EDT
New York Public Library is hiring librarians - check-out the job listings: https://jobs-nypl.icims.com/jobs/search?ss=1&searchCategory=8723&mobile=false&width=750&height=500&bga=true&needsRedirect=false&jan1offset=-300&jun1offset=-240

Tuesday, July 21, 2015 at 3:47pm EDT
New York Public Library is hiring! Pratt Institute School of Information & Library Science

Tuesday, July 21, 2015 at 2:00pm EDT
Select readings from the Archives & Special Collections class this Fall

Monday, July 20, 2015 at 12:47pm EDT
Prof. Cocciolo publishes new research on digitizing oral history http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/OCLC-03-2014-0019

Monday, July 20, 2015 at 10:53am EDT
Current students - need help creating an e-portfolio? Attend the E-portfolio workshop July 27 6-8p. RSVP to infosils@pratt.edu. More on the e-portfolio: https://www.pratt.edu/academics/information-and-library-sciences/sils-eportfolio/

Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 12:00pm EDT
SILS fellowship applications for the Brooklyn Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art year are currently being accepted. Apply now! https://www.pratt.edu/academics/information-and-library-sciences/grant-scholarship-internship/

Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 9:10am EDT
What else do you think we need from the Librarian of Congress? Read the article and write a response below.

Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at 3:19pm EDT
Brooklyn Public Library is hiring A LOT of librarians (Adult, YA and Children) so if you’re at all interested in working in public service, get yourself down to the job fair! http://www.bklynlibrary.org/jobs-business/jobs

Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 2:27pm EDT
What went wrong at one of the world’s eminent research institutions? (print edition is available at PMC) http://chronicle.com/article/The-New-York-Public-Library/231127/

Sunday, July 12, 2015 at 12:00pm EDT
Prof. Cocciolo presents this week at the Archival Education & Research Institute at University of Maryland http://aeri2015.umd.edu/program/

Friday, July 10, 2015 at 10:33pm EDT
Support for libraries in Rosarito, Mexico!

Friday, July 10, 2015 at 8:09am EDT
Beauty and Truth, Fountains at the New York Public Library, Flow Again

Thursday, July 9, 2015 at 10:04am EDT
Interesting read, too many good observations for a single quote, so you should just read the article.

Thursday, July 9, 2015 at 12:49am EDT
"To library futurists, this is progress ... To library purists, this is nonsense."

Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at 9:36pm EDT
SILS alum Jenny Ferretti is moving on to a new position as Digital Initiatives Librarian at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and would love to be on touch with other alums in similar positions. Congratulations Jenny!

Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at 5:02pm EDT
Congratulations to SILS student Sarah Hatoum for the publication of her review of The Times of India (1838-2001) in Reference Reviews. The review was written as part of an assignment for LIS 652 Information Services and Sources http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/RR-04-2015-0085

Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at 12:55pm EDT
Profs. Rabina & Drabinaki and their students get a shout-out in the newest issue of Prattfolio

Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at 8:59am EDT
http://nyti.ms/1H408BG

Monday, July 6, 2015 at 11:11am EDT
Congratulations to SILS alum Amanda (McLane) Foster, who is the Cancer Registry Coordinator at Asante, Medford OR.

Monday, July 6, 2015 at 10:21am EDT
Congratulations to May 2015 alum Jodi Shaw, who is now Children’s Librarian at Brooklyn Public Library - Carroll Gardens branch. Graduates, please share your job information with us, you are doing fascinating things and we love to keep up with you. Please send updates to: drabina@pratt.edu

Sunday, July 5, 2015 at 9:56pm EDT
Museums are catching up with libraries

Sunday, July 5, 2015 at 8:12am EDT
A day in the life of a Citizen Archivist

Saturday, July 4, 2015 at 12:31pm EDT
When America's Librarians Went To War http://wamc.org/post/when-americas-librarians-went-war#stream/0

Thursday, July 2, 2015 at 12:14pm EDT
Question for Retired or Near-Retirement Professionals: What Advice Would you Give your Earlier Self?

Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at 11:53pm EDT
Great new digitized collection

Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at 7:24pm EDT
At 42nd St and 5th Ave.

Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at 9:24am EDT
Heard the book is dead? Pratt Manhattan library gets more shelving for books. Long live the book!

Monday, June 29, 2015 at 4:10pm EDT
SILS students help create the History of Computing in Learning & Education Virtual Museum https://hclemuseum.wordpress.com/2015/06/29/pratt-helps-digitize-hcle/

Monday, June 29, 2015 at 10:47am EDT
Pratt Manhattan is proud to have transgender-friendly bathroom signage across all floors of the building. Happy *T*LGB Pride.

Sunday, June 28, 2015 at 1:03pm EDT
The Digital Dark Age from On The Media http://www.onthemedia.org/story/on-the-media-2015-06-26/

Friday, June 26, 2015 at 3:08pm EDT
SILS recent alum Elizabeth Wilse and Prof. Ellyssa Kroski publish book on Tables and Apps in Libraries http://www.amazon.com/Tablets-Libraries-Library-Technology-Essentials/dp/1442243902/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1435172283&sr=8-1

Friday, June 26, 2015 at 12:05pm EDT
SILS is proud to have worked on documenting the LGBT Civil Rights movement in the U.S., notably through partnership with the Lesbian Herstory Archive and student work: http://herstories.prattsils.org/omeka/ We celebrate marriage equality on this historic day!

Friday, June 26, 2015 at 9:44am EDT
Dean Tula Giannini presents at the King's College Strand Symposium on Public Engagement http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/eventrecords/2015/public-engagement.aspx

Friday, June 26, 2015 at 9:41am EDT
SILS students in summer's Projects in Digital Archives class curate an online collection of materials about the uses of early computing in education and learning http://loop.prattsils.org

Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 3:48pm EDT
Interesting collection of new books at Pratt Manhattan library, like this one: http://cat.pratt.edu/record=b1219900~S0

Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 2:32pm EDT
https://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/06/25/russia-bans-the-internet-archives-wayback-machine/

Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 9:19am EDT
Hey Pratt SILS Community!!!! If anyone is attending ALA in San Francisco come find me in the exhibit hall! I will be manning a booth along with my coworker and boss for Office of Minority Health - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Resource Center. Come and see what resources we have available to you as a student and eventual professional!!!! Don't be shy to stop by and say Hi!!!!

Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 12:44am EDT
The additional funding will allow for a restoration of six-day service at all branches across the city’s three library systems (Brooklyn, New York, and Queens) and create some 500 new jobs, Library Journal reported.

Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 10:40am EDT
Pratt SILS Community Service Prof. Cocciolo documents a small part of the NYC LGBT Community with the FRNY History & Archive website. Happy Pride! http://frny.org/omeka/

Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 9:17pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 8:43am EDT
Design for Guggenheim museum in Helsinki released http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/arts/design/guggenheim-helsinki-unveils-design.html

Monday, June 22, 2015 at 10:44pm EDT
What's the library's role in the information age? In an interview with Boston Public Radio, Berkman faculty chair Jonathan Zittrain suggests that libraries' lasting advantage may be impartiality, and he calls for a redoubling of efforts to keep them in business.

Sunday, June 21, 2015 at 8:58am EDT
Wikipedia faces many challenges -- but most surprising, the article points to the increase use of smartphones as the preferred mobile device....For the last few years, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Archives and other world-class institutions, libraries and museums have collaborated with Wikipedia’s volunteers to improve accuracy, quality of references and depth of multimedia on article pages..... These are vital opportunities for Wikipedia to tap external expertise and enlarge its base of editors. It is also the most promising way to solve the considerable and often-noted gender gap among Wikipedia editors; in 2011, less than 15 percent were women. http://nyti.ms/1K1eHKn

Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 6:57pm EDT
If you didn't have enough reasons to love New York, add the new Whitney to the list.

Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 6:50pm EDT
Congrats to SILS student Dinah Handel on being selected as a National Digital Stewardship Resident! She will be doing her residency from CUNY TV. She is the first Pratt SILS student to be selected as a NDSR resident. http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/ndsr-ny-selects-201516-residents/

Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 2:02pm EDT
SILS stands with Charleston County Public Library and mourn the loss of St. Andrews Regional Library Manager Cynthia Hurd.

Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 11:00am EDT
TBT - SILS's webpage from 1998 - https://web.archive.org/web/19980214072103/http://sils.pratt.edu/

Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 2:51pm EDT
Some of the best policy research comes for CRS and making it publicly available is long overdue http://nyti.ms/1GsuUpJ

Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 1:03pm EDT
SILS alum Sarah Quick selected as mobile digitization specialist for Metro's Culture in Transit project http://metro.org/articles/meet-our-three-culture-in-transit-digitization-specialists/

Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 12:06pm EDT
Some lovely new public art

Monday, June 15, 2015 at 9:20am EDT
Recent graduates getting jobs: J.D. Arden, Genealogy & Reference Services Librarian, The Center for Jewish History. Katherine Hessler, director of the Carver Memorial Library in Searsport, ME Congratulations! Please send us your employment news to drabina@pratt.edu so we can share with the SILS community

Sunday, June 14, 2015 at 12:44pm EDT
Recommended beach reads: editors of n+1 compile short stories about American cities and the forces affecting them.

Sunday, June 14, 2015 at 8:36am EDT
SoHo resident to start a neighborhood historical society http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/nyregion/the-memory-keeper-of-soho.html

Friday, June 12, 2015 at 7:57pm EDT
BARD LIBRARY TO GROW: The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., is growing, artfully. A $3 million expansion, ... includes a remake of the interior of its library, while one of its big gallery spaces will become a new archive, ... The library will increase to 60,000 volumes from 30,000, and the archives and special collections will triple in size. “Ours is one of the pre-eminent libraries of contemporary art in America,” Tom Eccles, the center’s executive director, said. “This allows us to double the capacity of our holdings.”.... The expanded Center will reopen this fall. http://nyti.ms/1MuWx2Q

Friday, June 12, 2015 at 12:00am EDT
Please consider signing this petition

Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 10:24pm EDT
Congratulations to the SILS Linked Open Data team SILS Associate professor Cristina Pattuelli, Matt Miller (part-time faculty and SILS alum) and Alexandra Provo (SILS recent graduate) who are the recipients of the Kress Foundation grant as part of the team developing the project Florentine Renaissance Drawings: A Linked Catalogue for the Semantic Web, based at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. To learn more about the project see announcement from Harvard

Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 2:09pm EDT
SILS students prepare to digitize the last Betamax tape of the semester on the history of computing in learning & education

Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 1:20pm EDT
Change is coming

Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 7:58am EDT
Bibliotherapy was actually a thing in LIS programs years ago, it was a course offered along with Reader Advisory. It was never popular in American LIS programs but common in Europe. Today I think it is offered mostly in psychology programs.

Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at 10:13pm EDT
Librarians and other staff at MoMA experiencing wage stagnation while museum assets climb above 1 billion. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/04/moma-protest-posters_n_7513648.html?utm_hp_ref=arts

Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at 4:54pm EDT
Art meets freedom of information, like at Pratt Institute School of Information & Library Science http://nyti.ms/1dsGk2q

Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at 11:12am EDT
Roses looking lovely on Bklyn campus

Monday, June 8, 2015 at 8:58am EDT
"Academic research is one of the most valuable global public goods that exists, and its value only multiplies with access and reuse, most of which can’t be predicted or planned. Building walled gardens or segmented siloes of content only restricts that public good." - Virginia Barbour

Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 8:55am EDT
This week on On The Media: ...how librarians shaped the original debate over the Patriot Act http://www.onthemedia.org/story/on-the-media-2015-06-05/

Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 9:33pm EDT
Summer reads from Pratt Manhattan library: Rhinehart & Ippolito (2014) consider new ways to preserve new media art http://cat.pratt.edu/record=b1219397~S0

Monday, June 1, 2015 at 4:45pm EDT
Prof. Cocciolo publishes article on archiving CAD in "Practical Technology for Archives" http://practicaltechnologyforarchives.org/issue4_cocciolo/

Sunday, May 31, 2015 at 1:11pm EDT
Researchers use archival records to uncover a sunken vessel off the cost of Portugal is a slave ship. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/world/africa/tortuous-history-traced-in-sunken-slave-ship-found-off-south-africa.html

Friday, May 29, 2015 at 5:32pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared their album.
More photos from #infoshow15 posted today.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at 11:33pm EDT
Interesting summer reads: Steinbeck meets Orwell/Huxley for the Occupy generation: Greenfeld's "The Subprimes"

Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at 3:40pm EDT
Support scholarships for future librarians, archivists, and other informational professionals by making a tax-deductible contribution to the Fund for Pratt SILS https://www.pratt.edu/academics/information-and-library-sciences/give-to-sils/

Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at 3:51am EDT
"... they’ll outlast the internet … ONLY IF libraries stick to the values that got them this far: collecting, describing, giving access to and preserving information in all its forms. " http://freegovinfo.info/node/10049

Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 7:33pm EDT
SILS alum Billy Parrott (MLS '02) gets a shout-out by Mad Men director & creator Matthew Weiner at last night's NYPL Live event (at time mark 45:09) http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2015/05/20/matthew-weiner?hspace=302540&_opt=2575830098.2588990144 He's been maintaining a Man Men Reading List for years as a NYPL librarian http://www.nypl.org/blog/2010/09/13/mad-men-reading-list

Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 7:10pm EDT
Prof. Lopatovska on her Fulbright teaching at Kyiv National University of Culture and Art, Ukraine

Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 4:38pm EDT
Prof. Cocciolo speaks on June 2 at the Archiving Email Symposium co-hosted by the Library of Congress and the National Archives http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/meetings/archivingemailsymposium.html

Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 4:20pm EDT
SPARC denounces Elsevier over Open Access policies

Monday, May 18, 2015 at 5:10pm EDT
Pratt's Board of Trustees approved the following actions for SILS faculty (effective 8/24). Dr. Debbie Rabina, promotion from Associate Professor to Professor. Dr. Irene Lopatovska, reappointment and promotion from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor. Dr. Craig MacDonald, reappointment. Congratulations!

Monday, May 18, 2015 at 10:20am EDT
The creeping privatization of elite public universities http://nyti.ms/1JT1tgY

Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 1:14pm EDT
"Culture needs stewardship and disruption" - On Being hosts the amazing Maria Popova

Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 11:53am EDT
"Libraries are in danger because they are caught between two ideas not easily reconciled: on the one hand, the public sentiment that the digital era has made libraries less relevant, and on the other, the growing number of expectations we have for libraries, stemming in no small part from the very digitization that the public assumes is making them obsolete. These two ideas cannot both be right." (p. 20) Coming soon to PMC library http://cat.pratt.edu/record=b1219937~S0

Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 10:48am EDT
Columbia acquires the archive of dancer Arthur Mitchell http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/arts/dance/columbia-acquires-archives-of-arthur-mitchell-dance-pioneer.html?_r=0

Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 12:57am EDT
SILS #infoshow15: Serving the underserved: Reference for incarcerated people. Holly McDade, Anna Murphy, Kerry Elkins, Laura Childs.

Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 12:55am EDT
SILS #infoshow15: Standing room only

Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 12:55am EDT
SILS #infoshow15: Prof. John Berry http://lj.libraryjournal.com/author/jberry/

Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 12:52am EDT
SILS #infoshow15: Password Safety Lesson. Corina Bardoff

Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 12:51am EDT
SILS #infoshow15: American Aviatrixes: Women with Wings. Megan De Armond, Diana, Moronta Laurin Paradise (see project on DPLA http://dp.la/exhibitions/exhibits/show/american-aviatrixes)

Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 12:48am EDT
SILS #infoshow15: Embargoes and Overfishing: The paper trail. Adena Gruskin and Tim Furlow

Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 12:46am EDT
SILS #infoshow15: Finally: LibGuides that Deliver: Anna Murphy, Abigail Purcell, Sarah Hatoum, Nanyamkah Mars and Tracy Roninson

Friday, May 15, 2015 at 11:26pm EDT
Another of the giants among library leader is retiring and his reflection on his tenure are well worth reading: "... The Harvard library is a national asset. We should share its intellectual wealth, and we can do so, thanks to the power of modern technology. By opening up our library, we can open access to knowledge to everyone in the country, everyone in the world. How have we tried to accomplish this mission? Let me mention a few of the innovations that have taken place during the past eight years—with the understanding, of course, that business-as-usual, providing services to the Harvard community, remained our top priority."... http://harvardmagazine.com/2015/05/state-of-harvard-libraries

Friday, May 15, 2015 at 11:23pm EDT
Love the little grad hat #prattgrad15 #infoshow15

Friday, May 15, 2015 at 11:22pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Chris Alen and 3 others.
Happy Grad from #infoshow15

Friday, May 15, 2015 at 4:57pm EDT
Congrats grads!

Friday, May 29, 2015 at 3:32pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information added 16 new photos to the album: #infoshow15 — at Pratt Institute School of Information.
Students present at #infoshow15, the 5th Annual Showcase of Pratt SILS student work. Photos by Chris Alen Sula.

Friday, May 15, 2015 at 10:28am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Chris Alen and 2 others.
Wishing our grads lots of success! #prattgrad15

Friday, May 15, 2015 at 9:19am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Chris Alen and 4 others.
SILS faculty wishing our graduates a happy commencement!

Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 2:26pm EDT
Take a peak at the Grad ComD MFA thesis exhibit on the 7th floor of Pratt Manhattan

Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 9:41am EDT
When I got rid of my CDs for an iPod, I never looked back. As VHS tapes turned to DVDs and later streaming services, I didn’t think twice about the lost physical objects — rather, I rejoiced in their disappearance. But books, I now understand, are entirely different.

Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 11:46pm EDT
A challenge for information professionals: strain of humans who are virtually immune to any form of verifiable knowledge

Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 3:04pm EDT
Women of Jazz Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon! More info below.

Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 9:36pm EDT
SILS students in LIS 668 Projects in Moving Image & Sound Archives enhance what has become perhaps the largest online audiovisual archive of #LGBTHistory http://herstories.prattsils.org/omeka/collections/show/36

Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 8:22pm EDT
Check it out, it’s President Jimmy Carter! SILS students Ryan Alons, Kathleen Arthur, Jaclyn Cafarella, Laura Childs, Zinia Rahman and Diana Rosenthal create a finding aid and digital repository for a photography collection in LIS 665 Projects in Digital Archives using DACS, EAD and EAC-CPF. Find out more on Friday at #infoshow15. http://atom.prattsils.org/index.php/2015-146

Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 3:12pm EDT
Supreme Court to Address Standing to Sue for Data Breaches and Privacy Violations

Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 1:00pm EDT
Archivists just uncovered a stash of lost Mark Twain Stories

Monday, May 11, 2015 at 5:17pm EDT
Happy final week of Spring semester - Food for SILS students!

Monday, May 11, 2015 at 4:26pm EDT
Checkout our Museum Fellowships available to Students to do projects at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, The Frick Collection & Moma Library Application deadline is 5pm EST Wednesday, May 27, 2015 https://www.pratt.edu/academics/information-and-library-sciences/grant-scholarship-internship/

Saturday, May 9, 2015 at 8:45pm EDT
When college is more about career than ideas, when paycheck matters more than wisdom, the role of professors changes. We may be 50-year-olds at the front of the room with decades of reading, writing, travel, archives or labs under our belts, with 80 courses taught, but students don’t lie in bed mulling over what we said. They have no urge to become disciples. http://nyti.ms/1Ernu1O

Saturday, May 9, 2015 at 4:04pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Chris Alen and 3 others.
Greenpoint! #bikethebranches

Saturday, May 9, 2015 at 4:01pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Chris Alen.
Go team @prattsils #bikethebranches

Saturday, May 9, 2015 at 3:58pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Debbie L Rabina and Anthony Cocciolo.
Stop 1: Brooklyn Heights branch, w/SILS student volunteer Corina Bardoff

Saturday, May 9, 2015 at 1:07pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Chris Alen and Debbie L Rabina.
SILS profs #bikethebranches of @bklynlibrary

Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 2:41pm EDT
GAO report on the Library of Congress, as reported on NPR, and a link to the full text of the report http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-315

Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 1:22pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared American Library Association's photo.
Librarians Versus the NSA Your local library is on the front lines against government surveillance.

Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 10:37pm EDT
The NSA is transcribing our conversations.

Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 1:28pm EDT
Gearing up the vintage AV players for this summer's Projects in Digital Archives (LIS 665)

Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 12:42pm EDT
SILS Prof. Craig MacDonald featured in Pratt's Differentiate by Design Magazine http://issuu.com/prattinstitute/docs/dxd_4_lowres/46

Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 8:35am EDT
Digitizing Edison's dolls using microscopes http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/science/thomas-edison-talking-dolls-recordings.html

Monday, May 4, 2015 at 6:08pm EDT
Pratt alum Nate Hill

Sunday, May 3, 2015 at 3:44pm EDT
Book facing: a new way librarians are using social media to promote reading http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/fashion/oh-those-clever-librarians-and-their-bookface.html

Friday, May 1, 2015 at 6:36pm EDT
Columbia University welcomes Ann Thornton, new University Librarian and Vice Provost. http://news.columbia.edu/pressroom/3674

Friday, May 1, 2015 at 5:45pm EDT
Spotlight on SILS alum Phil Sutton

Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 9:01pm EDT
Cherry blossoms in bloom on Bklyn campus

Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 3:47pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Chris Alen and 2 others.
Bike the Branches of the Brooklyn Public Library with Team Pratt SILS on May 9, 2015! Students, alums, faculty/staff and friends are invited to join. Enjoy a fun-filled day of biking and get your Branch Passport stamped at as many branches as you can visit. Throughout the day, stop in at our branches to recharge and enjoy entertainment and exciting activities. Cap it off at the Bike the Branches Block Party at Central Library from 5 – 7 pm. Team Pratt SILS will be meeting at noon at the Brooklyn Heights Library (280 Cadman Plaza West). Check-out our itinerary: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=z24RZGyLANVM.kG4xm_HSWSCo To join, please register on the Bike the Branches website: http://misc.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/btb/ ($20) BPL will send you Bike the Branches swag. The team Pratt SILS t-shirts are in! For current students who have registered, we will be passing them out. For alums and others, pick up your shirt on the day of the event. We still have more shirts if you still want to register. To let us know that you are joining Team Pratt SILS, please provide us your name and email here: http://bit.ly/1CW0Dus No Bike, No Problem! Registration includes a free day of CitiBike!

Monday, April 27, 2015 at 10:00pm EDT
@prattsilssa prez @dinahrhandel unloading archives at Herstory Archive in Bklyn for @acocciolo's class Moving Image & Sound Archives

Monday, April 27, 2015 at 12:32pm EDT
SILS students Freya Yost & Lauren Allshouse featured on Met Blog http://www.metmuseum.org/research/libraries-and-study-centers/in-circulation/2015/art-libraries-101

Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 9:12am EDT
No one who has set foot in the libraries...can mistake them for anything other than power plants of intellect and opportunity.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 11:05pm EDT
Graduating with a job: Freya Yost, Director of Information and Library Services, A Growing Culture. Diana Sapanaro, User Experience Researcher, Change Sciences Group. Congratulations! Please send your job information to drabina@pratt.edu so we can share the good news.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 12:09pm EDT
Congratulations to SILS prof. Emily Drabinski and SILS alum Amber Billey: Their co-authored paper (with K.R. Roberto) won the 2015 ACRL New England Chapter Best Paper Award! http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/libfacpub/19/

Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 10:50pm EDT
I think the idea of ownership has already been destroyed by commercial database vendors

Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 4:21pm EDT
http://nyti.ms/1PbKnhr

Monday, April 20, 2015 at 11:30am EDT
Checkout the updates to our Wikipedia page. We now have a timeline & more notable alums listed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_Institute_School_of_Information_and_Library_Science

Friday, April 17, 2015 at 2:00pm EDT
Packed room at Columbia Avery Library to talk about digitally archiving architectural practice.

Friday, April 17, 2015 at 12:57pm EDT
Interesting project with many similarities to various activities at SILS

Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 3:10pm EDT
Talk about SILS Alums doing interesting work. Margot Williams is Research Editor for Investigations at The Intercept, created by Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras following the Edward Snowden revelations. During 14 years at The Washington Post, Margot was a member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/staff/margotwilliams/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_Williams https://www.linkedin.com/in/margotwilliams

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 1:51pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Chris Alen and 3 others.
Bike the Branches of the @bklynlibrary with Team Pratt SILS on May 9, 2015! Students, alums, faculty/staff and friends are invited to join. Enjoy a fun-filled day of biking and get your Branch Passport stamped at as many branches as you can visit. Throughout the day, stop in at our branches to recharge and enjoy entertainment and exciting activities. Cap it off at the all-new Bike the Branches Block Party at Central Library from 5 – 7 pm. Team Pratt SILS will be meeting at noon, location TBD. To join, please register on the Bike the Branches website: http://misc.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/btb/ ($20) Also, the first 20 registrants get a free team Pratt SILS T-shirt on the day of the event. To let us know that you are joining Team Pratt SILS, please provide us your name and email here: http://bit.ly/1CW0Dus No Bike, No Problem! Registration includes a free day of CitiBike!

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 11:28am EDT
Toronto iSchool professor Andrew Clement spearheads the initiative

Monday, April 13, 2015 at 10:50am EDT
SILSSA is hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon around the history of SILS and its alums and the contribution to LIS. Hosted by SILS Alum Gina Shelton ('14), who BTW was just promoted to Head Librarian at Dominican College. Prof. Cocciolo will also be bringing in archival items going back to the beginnings in 1890. RSVP here: http://bit.ly/SILSeditathon More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Librarians@Pratt_Part_2

Sunday, April 12, 2015 at 1:55pm EDT
Playwrights who have written in the library include August Wilson and James Baldwin http://nyti.ms/1Ogazai

Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 7:00pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Jessica Hochman.
Prof. Hochman presents this week 3 papers & chairs a panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association http://tinyurl.com/m9gbgtf

Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 2:01pm EDT
Terrible limitations on free speech in Spain

Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 12:05pm EDT
Please consider

Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 9:23am EDT
Welcome to the neighborhood, Whitney Museum of American Art! http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-whitney-marks-a-change-in-museum-design-1428599862

Friday, April 10, 2015 at 6:49pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, April 10, 2015 at 12:15pm EDT
SILS student Janelle Varin has been named Secretary-Treasurer of the Greater New York chapter of the Music Library Association. The GNY chapter of the Music Library Association (MLA) brings together members from Princeton to the Pierpont Morgan Library and from Sarah Lawrence College to Stony Brook. As with MLA, the Greater New York Chapter is proud to count among its members performers, scholars, students, collectors and music lovers who use libraries. Congrats Janelle!

Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 10:39pm EDT
Join all your favorite Pratt SILS student groups (ASIS&T, SILSSA, SAA, SLA and UX/IA) as we storm Beauty Bar for cocktails on Friday April 10th! Librarian Libations is teaming up with all the Pratt SILS student groups this month to help us celebrate the final stretch; whether you’re graduating in May, finishing your first year at Pratt, or just finishing up your first semester, come have a cocktail or two (or three)! Librarian Libations is a monthly gathering featuring students from all the local library schools, and is a great place to "meet current and future NY metro-area librarians, including students from all local schools...a diverse crowd of students and professionals from all disciplines to talk shop, jobs, and what it really means to be a librarian.” What: Librarian Libations (co-hosted by all Pratt SILS student groups) Where: The Beauty Bar, 231 E. 14th Street, New York, NY When: Friday, April 10, 2015, from 6:00pm-9:00pm We hope to see you there!

Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 6:06pm EDT
Zine making workshop this Saturday

Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 2:58pm EDT
Kudos to Elizabeth McDonald, Tim Furlow, Marina Rosenfield and Tara Kron whose paper “Book or NOOK? Information behavior of academic librarians” was accepted for publication in the Aslib Journal of Information Management! The paper was written for the LIS630: Information Science Research (new course title “Research design and methods”)

Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 11:51am EDT
SILS Alum Michael Inman (MLS ’02), Curator of Rare Books at New York Public Library, is also quoted in Prattfolio “The Art of The Book” http://issuu.com/prattinstitute/docs/spring2015_prattfolio/26

Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 7:28pm EDT
Prof. Cocciolo quoted in the Spring 2015 Prattfolio: The Art of The Book http://issuu.com/prattinstitute/docs/spring2015_prattfolio/26

Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 11:18am EDT
Deadline for becoming a NDSR resident is this Friday April 10. http://metro.org/articles/apply-for-our-ndsrny-program/

Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 3:56pm EDT
Internship Information Session: Optimity Advisors April 16, 5:50-6:30p, Room 608 This information session will introduce SILS students to the internship program at Optimity Advisors, which is a strategic business consulting company with Information Management as one of its practices, and specializing in digital asset management (DAM), Metadata, Taxonomy, Data Analytics, Records Management, Rights Management, and more. Representatives from Optimity will provide an overview of their work and the internship program, and answer any questions that students may have. The internship program will be introduced by SILS Alums Gretchen Nadasky (Manager, Optimity Advisors) and Mindy Carner (Senior Associate, Optimity Advisors). http://www.optimityadvisors.com/

Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 12:20pm EDT
Congratulations to SILS student Elizabeth McDonald for being awarded the 2015 IA Summit Student Scholarship Award, courtesy of the IA Institute and Pratt UX/IA! Elizabeth will receive her MSLIS degree from Pratt in the spring of 2016. Her interests include user-centered design and qualitative research methods. For the past five years, she has worked on a fundraising team at the Wildlife Conservation Society, specializing in information and database management. She is a graduate of Fordham University, with a BA in Communications and English. She'll be attending this year's IA Summit from April 22-26 in Minneapolis, MN, and will be preparing a report about her experience that will be shared with the IA and Pratt community. Congratulations Elizabeth!

Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 12:16pm EDT
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE EVENT: ANDREA DAVIS PINKNEY See attached flyer or details below. Thursday, April 23rd – 6:30-8:00 pm, room 610 The distinguished writer and editor, Andrea Davis Pinkney will be the guest speaker at the Literature & Literacy for Children class (676) and all Pratt students interested in children’s literature are invited to this special event. Andrea Davis Pinkney is the award winning-winning author of many books for children and young adults including picture books, novels, and works of non-fiction. She is the recipient of several Coretta Scott King Book Award citations including the author award for Hand-in-Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America. Her latest book is The Red Pencil, a novel in verse set in the Sudan that garnered four starred reviews. In addition to her active writing life, Andrea currently serves as Vice President, Executive Editor at Scholastic. Ms. Pinkney will be happy to sign books at the event; students should bring their own copies. Please RSVP to Professor Caroline Ward cward@fergusonlibrary.org or 203-351-8240

Monday, April 6, 2015 at 10:37pm EDT
There's a Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monument in Brooklyn - YouTube – via NYT Now

Monday, April 6, 2015 at 3:45pm EDT
The [new] tragedy of the Commons?

Monday, April 6, 2015 at 9:41am EDT
Students - present your work at #infoshow15. Alums, attend and see what students are up to. http://silssa.prattsils.org/infoshow15-preparation-begins/

Sunday, April 5, 2015 at 9:38pm EDT
Now this sounds like an exciting job: “We were partying all the time,” said Ayse Ozakinci, who was a librarian for four decades in the imposing structure, the American Consulate in Istanbul. “There was a festive mood for everyone.”

Sunday, April 5, 2015 at 11:02am EDT
SILS faculty Pattuelli, MacDonald & Giannini present this week at Museums & the Web in Chicago http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/program/

Sunday, April 5, 2015 at 9:04am EDT
"This isn’t an opt-out system; it’s an opt-in system"

Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 1:35pm EDT
School Library Month 2015 https://www.rebelmouse.com/slm15/

Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 9:23am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, April 3, 2015 at 4:11pm EDT
Help save seed libraries . . .

Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 2:26pm EDT
Archivists of the world: Documentary & Independent filmmakers can use your help http://www.indiewire.com/article/5-key-takeaways-from-the-documentary-film-preservation-summit-20150401

Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 10:51am EDT
Upcoming classes at Pratt SILS with hands-on archival projects http://www.thinkingprojects.org/?p=430

Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 9:24pm EDT
Yesterday Jodi Shaw was awarded the Senior Leadership Award by the Division of Student Affairs of Pratt Institute. Congratulations Jodi !

Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 5:06pm EDT
Many interesting issues discussed in @acocciolo's class Projects in Moving Image & Sound Archives also discussed at #savedocs event at IFC

Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 1:24pm EDT
The card catalog is back :)

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 6:10pm EDT
New York State has been, and will continue to be, a leader in ensuring that all LGBT persons enjoy full and equal civil rights. With this action, we stand by our LGBT family members, friends and colleagues to ensure that their rights are respected."

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 5:00pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Jessica Hochman.
ASIS&T@Pratt presents Dr. Hochman's Speakeasy tomorrow (Wednesday April 1st) at 6pm in room 610. Tweeting to Transgress: Teachers Using Social Media for Practices of Resistance “By exploring both the tweeting practices of teachers and the content of their tweets, this research project, still in progress, examines both the ways that teachers use Twitter to resist current education reform and to signal moral discontent about educational policy. My talk will address different methods of collecting and coding tweets for qualitative review, as well as early findings of this study, which indicate a fluidity between teachers professional practices in classrooms and their political and moral concerns.”

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 3:55pm EDT
Somewhat belated, but Prof. Jessica Hochman presents her research at the Philosophy of Education Society in Memphis, TN. http://pes2015memphis.blogspot.com/

Monday, March 30, 2015 at 9:54pm EDT
Team Pratt SILS 2013

Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 9:24pm EDT
We're beginning to see Generation Z at SILS, and they are quite impressive. http://nyti.ms/1I4Hf2u

Friday, March 27, 2015 at 9:48pm EDT
http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/download-422-free-art-books-from-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art.html

Friday, March 27, 2015 at 7:28pm EDT
Portal: http://a860-gpp.nyc.gov/

Friday, March 27, 2015 at 7:19pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, March 27, 2015 at 3:57pm EDT
Bringing in the artists: "Advanced computing produces waves of abstract digital data that in many cases defy interpretation " http://nyti.ms/1HROePJ

Friday, March 27, 2015 at 12:32pm EDT
SILSSA event tonight - Gender, Race and Sexuality in LIS panel - starting promptly at 5pm, in Room 609 http://silssa.prattsils.org/round-up-march-20-27/

Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 10:26pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Anthony Cocciolo.
Prof. @acocciolo presents poster at #iconf15

Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 4:35pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Irene Lopatovska.
Prof. @irenelopapratt presents at #iconf15

Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 4:29pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Chris Alen and Debbie L Rabina.
Profs. @debbie_rabina and @chrisalensula present at the #iconf15 on the @visualfa project.

Monday, March 23, 2015 at 10:01am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Chris Alen and 3 others.
SILS Profs. Rabina, Sula, Lopatovska & Cocciolo present this week at the iConference 2015 in Newport Beach, CA https://www.conftool.com/iConference2015/index.php?page=browseSessions&search=Pratt+

Sunday, March 22, 2015 at 7:48pm EDT
Trigger warnings and safe spaces are a distraction from the real issue here, which is intellectual freedom and freedom of speech.

Sunday, March 22, 2015 at 7:44pm EDT
Highly recommended: The gut is dead. Long live the data ... Optimization addresses itself not to our inner hero but to our inner bean counter.

Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 10:59am EDT
What's the rate of divorce in the US in 2015? NO WAY TO KNOW Cutting the American Community Survey will leave current for future researchers with any sources of data. ...data is critical because “public policy should be evidence-based.” Maintaining the quality of U.S. statistics is “the next great infrastructure challenge in the data age"

Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 10:01am EDT
NYC Dept. of records receives $125K grant to digitize crime scene photos 1914-1975 Photo: Books considered indecent being destroyed by police, 1935 http://nyti.ms/1Hbv9Eu 

Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 9:57am EDT
“We are overloaded with junk,” said Daniel Levitin, a professor of psychology and behavioral neuroscience at McGill University whose books include “The Organized Mind.” “It’s becoming harder and harder to separate the wheat from the digital chaff. .... That problem seems quintessentially modern; Alvin Toffler didn’t popularize the term “information overload” until 1970.

Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 12:24am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information added a new photo.

Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 10:49pm EDT
SILS faculty keeping busy during spring break: Dr. Rabina moderates a panel at Columbia

Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 7:04pm EDT
Dr. Pattuelli is invited to speak at Harvard, with Matt Miller

Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 6:36pm EDT
SILS faculty keeping busy over spring break: Dr Pattuelli speaks to sold out crowd

Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 11:19am EDT
"In the overwrought language of Presidential politics, some have tried to evoke the Watergate era by suggesting the cover-up of some unspecified deed and even raising the possibility of obstruction of justice. But that’s not very likely; rather, it is in the obstruction of history, the deletion of America’s past, intentional or not, where permanent damage is likely to occur." http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/hillary-clinton-and-the-historians

Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 10:18am EDT
#TBT Did you know the ISC building on the Pratt Brooklyn campus is short for “Information Science Center.” This building was SILS’s home from the 70s through the 90s. This building started out as a dormitory for women, built in 1954-1955, and was renovated in 1973 for use by SILS.

Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 10:11am EDT
Noam Chomsky--rarely appearing in the mainstream press--is interviewed in the NYTimes. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/noam-chomsky-on-the-roots-of-american-racism/?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 1:53pm EDT
SILS students Megan DeArmond, Diana Moronta and Laurin Paradise create exhibition "Women with Wing" as part of Prof. Rabina’s course “Information Services and Sources” http://dp.la/info/2015/03/18/women-with-wings-takes-off/

Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 8:38pm EDT
What does the Open Access memorandum mean? "The U.S. public access requirements are established only to ensure that federally funded research is “free to read,” while OA publishing ensures that research is both free to read and that licenses are clearly defined. "

Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 2:25pm EDT
ALA elections coming up soon http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/tag/ala-presidential-candidates/

Monday, March 16, 2015 at 11:27pm EDT
Deadline March 24: Have a great teacher at Pratt? Nominate him or her for the distinguished teacher award http://www.prattsenate.org/dta/

Sunday, March 15, 2015 at 1:17pm EDT
SILS is looking for a new Visiting Assistant/Associate Professor in Museums & Digital Culture http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/job/visiting-assistantassociate-professor-museums-digital-culture/

Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 6:26pm EDT
Congratulations to Pratt SILS Drs. Debbie Rabina and Chris Sula on being 2015 Papers Award Finalists at the iConference. As they say, it is an honor to be nominated :) http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/papers/#finalists

Friday, March 13, 2015 at 9:13pm EDT
Pratt alum and former SILS part-time faculty Amber Billey is one of seven woman to watch in Vermont! http://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/seven-vermont-women-to-watch/Content?oid=2535899

Friday, March 13, 2015 at 10:07am EDT
Pushback for Cuomo's plan to delete all NY State email after 90 days http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/13/nyregion/calls-to-end-quick-purge-of-new-york-state-workers-email.html?_r=0

Friday, March 13, 2015 at 10:02am EDT
Gender, Race, and Sexuality in LIS Panel, March 27th at Pratt SILS, sponsored by SILSSA. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j-zRfIOKxVplnMj2qCiIlVMIpV8kAXJVCAK03kwRLIU/mobilebasic?pli=1

Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 3:10pm EDT
Avery Library at Columbia University is a great place to do Architectural research.

Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 10:29am EDT
Vatican Library manuscripts to be digitized by Japanese company http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a6dc0e4c-c2f1-11e4-a59c-00144feab7de.html

Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 10:02am EDT
#tbt Just noticed this plaque the other day in the Pratt Library dedicated to Mary Wright Plummer, the first director of SILS

Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 10:13am EDT
New courses for Fall 2015, like LIS 697 Web Development with Prof. Maceli http://www.monicamaceli.com/lis-697-web-development/

Monday, March 9, 2015 at 12:09pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared their photo.
ASIS&T is proud to present Dr. Lopatovska's Speak Easy!! Engaging digital artworks through emotion: interface design study "Artworks are often created to solicit emotional responses, yet the emotional elements are largely missing from artworks’ description and access options. In this talk, Professor Lopatovska will present several research proposals for incorporating emotion into digital art collections. The proposed solutions highlight some of the design choices for developing emotion metadata and navigation features, and offer innovative ways to engage virtual visitors with museum digital collections. Some of the current methods for incorporating emotion into museum websites will also be discussed.” Dr. Lopatovska's Speakeasy will be Monday March 9, at 6pm in room 610!!

Monday, March 9, 2015 at 11:28am EDT
SILSSA Event: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in LIS Panel March 27th, 5 PM - 6 PM, with informal discussion and reception with snacks to follow More info: http://silssa.prattsils.org/round-up-february-28-march-6/ RSVP: http://bit.ly/GenderLISPanel

Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 12:23pm EDT
SILS alum Rob Hudson writes about his linked open data project at Carnegie Hall archives. http://www.pilsudski.org/portal/en/news-and-events/blog/529-visualizing-cultural-heritage-linked-open-data-and-the-carnegie-hall-archives

Friday, March 6, 2015 at 2:18pm EST
Kudos to Brooklyn Public Library for this exceptional digitization project of Brooklyn City Directories 1796-1986. In the words of BPL librarian and SILS slum Ivy Marvel "This is an early iteration, we're hoping to improve on it soon. I should let you know, also, that the first batch of NYC residential and classified directories from 1909 - 1938 are digitized with Internet Archive now. The OCR isn't great, but it's a directory so, you know, it's alphabetical: Direct link: http://www.bklynlibrary.org/citydir/ From the Internet Archive http://bklynlib.org/1aQR6yB

Friday, March 6, 2015 at 11:41am EST
Congrats to SILS Prof. Emily Drabinski on receiving the 2015 ACRL Instruction Section Ilene F. Rockman Publication of the Year Award http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2015/03/drabinski-receives-2015-acrl-instruction-section-ilene-f-rockman-publication

Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 1:08pm EST
Classes after 2p today (Thursday) are canceled. Happy Snow Day!

Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 10:54am EST
Subway reads from the Pratt Manhattan Library. Blanke (2014) complicates notions of what Digital Asset Management is all about (it's more than file+rights=asset). http://cat.pratt.edu/record=b1218495~S0

Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 10:44am EST
#latergram Slushy mess for those heading to class last night.

Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 8:07am EST
Looks like Hilary Clinton is another executive who doesn't care about the historical record http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/secretary-clinton-may-have-jeopardized-preservation-of-a-full-and-accurate-historical-record/386638/

Monday, March 2, 2015 at 11:31pm EST
Is the e-book already behind us?

Monday, March 2, 2015 at 5:05pm EST
Please join us in welcoming Javier Calzada-Prado, visiting scholar from the Library & Information Science Department of the Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M). Dr. Calzada-Prado will be working with Dr. Cristina Pattuelli and the Linked Jazz team on a research project focused on linked open data, education and cultural heritage. Dr. Calzada-Prado holds a PhD in Library & Information Science from Carlos III University of Madrid, a Bachelor's Degree in Library & Information Science from León University and a Master's Degree in Documentation from Carlos III University of Madrid. He is currently Assistant Professor at the Library & Information Science Department of the University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain). His research activity focuses on exploring innovative services aimed at facilitating learning and research in different environments and ultimately conducive to impact and boost the creation of new knowledge and innovation. More at: http://www.bib.uc3m.es/~fcalzada/welcome.html Please stop by and say hello to Dr. Calzada-Prado. You will find him in the Seminar/Research room (#602) and he can also be reached at fcalzadaprado-guest178@pratt.edu.

Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 3:45pm EST
Good reads from the Pratt Manhattan library. Santamaria's (2015) book is a must read for any archivist interested in addressing processing backlogs. http://cat.pratt.edu/record=b1217603~S0

Friday, February 27, 2015 at 5:17pm EST
Congratulation to Dr. Chris Sula, for his chapter: Digital humanities and digital cultural heritage (alt-history and future directions), published in:

Friday, February 27, 2015 at 10:45am EST
It's all about collections: "There is no substitute for collecting and curating specimens for long-term study"

Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 6:56pm EST
“all the tools in our toolbox to protect innovators and consumers” and preserve the Internet’s role as a “core of free expression and democratic principles.”

Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 6:42pm EST
Literary archives have become increasingly expensive to acquire: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's archive fetches 2.2 million. http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20150225-university-of-texas-paid-2.2m-for-garcia-marquez-archive.ece

Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 10:56am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 10:51am EST
Cuomo deletes old emails, impoverishing the archival record and making NY state government an even larger "black box" http://nypost.com/2015/02/25/cuomo-administration-to-delete-emails-older-than-3-months/

Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 4:19pm EST
Congrats to Profs. Cristina Pattuelli and Matt Miller. They received a travel scholarship from Metro NY Library Council to attend the LODLAM Summit in Sydney, Australia. http://metro.org/articles/metro-awards-travel-stipends/

Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 6:52pm EST
Are you are School Library Media Specialist or a children/young adult librarian? Here is a "Teaching Copyright" curriculum and resources. A project created by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 6:26pm EST
Open Access Journals and Books - EIFL webinar - March 11

Monday, February 23, 2015 at 8:37am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 6:45pm EST
"Performing Franklin Furnace" show opens tonight

Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 9:37am EST
#Tbt Greetings from the SILS class of 1927. Lady Mary and Edith would fit right in.

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 6:11pm EST
Cycling for libraries: registration open The registration for Cyclo-biblio 2015, a local tour from Basel to Strasbourg, is now open! And we have already 26 participants in less than a week. So, don't forget to register if you are interested! Indeed, after the success of the "Cycling for libraries" 2014 between Montpellier and Lyon in August 2014, the French association Cyclo-biblio has been kept alive to organize a new event for library advocacy : Cyclo-biblio 2015. Twitter : @cyc4lib

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 10:07am EST
Congratulation to SILS students Karen Hwang and Julie Robbins

Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 4:27pm EST
Pratt Manhattan Gallery exhibits 30 objects from the Franklin Furnace archives. Opening reception is this Thursday 6-8pm. https://www.pratt.edu/events/exhibitions/pratt-manhattan-gallery/

Monday, February 16, 2015 at 9:13am EST
A wonderful tribute to Prof. Carr. There is a lot to learn from his approach to journalism and apply to LIS

Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 11:20pm EST
When students were given a choice of various media—including hard copy, cell phone, tablet, e-reader, and laptop—92 percent said they could concentrate best in hard copy.

Friday, February 13, 2015 at 10:26pm EST
.. mounting evidence shows that showering students, especially those from struggling families, with networked devices will not shrink the class divide in education. If anything, it will widen it.

Friday, February 13, 2015 at 5:25pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Scholastic Librarians's photo.
SILS alum Demosa Webber-Bey in the Spotlight!

Friday, February 13, 2015 at 4:21pm EST
The Pratt SILSSA blog, Keyword, is up and running. Right now, we’re posting twice a week, which includes a weekly round-up of news and events. This week, our Round-Up includes: a review of our Student Happy Hour, co-hosted with SAA@Pratt information about a SILS student study group upcoming events at the NYPL, and the Beinecke Library at Yale and more! You can read the post here, and see everything we've written so far at http://silssa.prattsils.org/keyword

Friday, February 13, 2015 at 3:05pm EST
Important source of research and statistics about global health from the FAO. Learn more about official world source in LIS 619 International Information Sources

Friday, February 13, 2015 at 9:01am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 8:17am EST
Miss Plummer & Rathbone led SILS from the nineteenth century into the twentieth century (top), and the end of the twentieth century brought more women leaders to SILS. Anne Woodsworth (bottom left) was the dean from 1999-2001, Marie Radford (bottom middle) the Acting Dean from 2002-2004, and Tula Giannini has been Dean from 2005 to present (bottom right). Today, Radford teaches at Rutgers, and plays keyboard in a band. Woodsworth is the editor of the serial “Advances in Librarianship.” Giannini has worked as a professional flutist, and still finds time to research historical wind instruments.

Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 12:52pm EST
Have a great teacher at Pratt? Nominate him or her for the distinguished teacher award http://www.prattsenate.org/dta/

Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 10:02am EST
ASIST @ Pratt Presents the SILS Speakeasy tonight at 6p with Anthony Cocciolo When Archivists and Digital Asset Managers Collide: Tensions and Ways Forward Cocciolo will present on a study that looks to address the question: what issues arise between archivists and digital asset managers when they are working together in the same organization? To study this, he spent one year as a participant observer at a major art museum located in the northeast United States. Cocciolo will present his findings and discuss ways that the field can move forward.

Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 3:13pm EST
Need to sharpen your skills? A large online library of video tutorials is available for you, whenever you need them and where ever you are. Lynda.com is now available to all Pratt Institute students, faculty and staff. Visit library.pratt.edu and click on the Lynda.com announcement for information on creating your account.

Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 12:26pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Monday, February 9, 2015 at 10:12pm EST
Congratulations to the following Dec. 2014 graduates on their recent jobs placements: Alison Bleznick, Carter Burden Project Cataloger at The Morgan Library and Museum Rachel Smiley, Services Associate, EdLab Teachers College. Please send your updates with drabina@pratt.edu so we can share with the SILS community.

Saturday, February 7, 2015 at 11:02pm EST
Lynda comes to Pratt libraries, looks interesting, let us know what you think if you try it.

Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 2:12pm EST
University of Texas Austin iSchool Dean Andrew Dillon on the need to reform ALA Accreditation http://blogs.ischool.utexas.edu/infomatters/2015/02/03/please-reform-accreditation/

Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 10:02am EST
More on SILS’s women leaders. Josephine Adams Rathbone became vice-director of the School after Mary Wright Plummer left in 1911. Although she reported to Edward F. Stevens— the director of the library—a student in the 1930s commented that “Miss Rathbone ruled the library school. And the whole country knew it, including Mr. Stevens.”* Pictured is Miss Rathbone (left) being poked fun of—affectionately it seems—by a student (c. 1931). * Source: Brand, Barbara B. "Pratt Institute Library School: The Perils of Professionalization." In Suzanne Hildenbrand (Ed.), Reclaiming the American Library Past: Writing the Women In, pp. 251-278. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing, 1996.

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 11:29am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 10:01am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Unexpected Thug Life's video.
"You take this MBA style of thinking, it's the problem with ed policy...A teacher want to teach. Why else would you take a s---y salary and long hours and do that job?"

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 8:50am EST
"To Kill A Mockingbird" author Harper Lee to publish her 2nd novel http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/04/books/harper-lee-author-of-to-kill-a-mockingbird-is-to-publish-a-new-novel.html

Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 2:01pm EST
Graduating this semester? E-Portfolios are due April 1. If you haven't attended an e-portfolio workshop yet, there is one today at 6:30pm in 608 taught by Seth Persons. https://www.pratt.edu/academics/information-and-library-sciences/sils-eportfolio/

Monday, February 2, 2015 at 4:39pm EST
Check out SILSSA's redesigned website:

Monday, February 2, 2015 at 9:04am EST
The U.S. Government Publishing Office is preparing the budget that will be released today at 11:30am. Yay GovDocs!

Monday, February 2, 2015 at 7:38am EST
Classes canceled today.

Saturday, January 31, 2015 at 3:17pm EST
How sad. Never thought about a little free library being a zoning violation.

Saturday, January 31, 2015 at 12:14pm EST
http://nyti.ms/1zfVEYz

Friday, January 30, 2015 at 6:22pm EST
Archiving Ferguson http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/us/as-ferguson-looks-to-rebuild-archivists-move-to-preserve-what-was-lost.html

Friday, January 30, 2015 at 4:54pm EST
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/library-social-worker-helps-homeless-seeking-quiet-refuge/

Friday, January 30, 2015 at 10:48am EST
Some colorful paintings installed in the 2nd floor of Pratt Manhattan

Friday, January 30, 2015 at 9:02am EST
"... if you want to know how museums are changing their philosophies and programs in a time of increasing financial pressure.." check out the NEW MS DEGREE from Pratt SILS: Masters in Museums and Digital Culture: http://tinyurl.com/nctfq2b

Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 11:05pm EST
"Google may have dropped the ball on the past, but fortunately, someone was there to pick it up."

Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 1:29pm EST
Ever wonder what the faculty are up to when they are not teaching? Come to the SILS Speakeasy!

Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 8:27am EST
Did you know that SILS has a long history of woman leaders, stretching back to the 19th century? Mary Wright Plummer began teaching classes in librarianship at Pratt in 1890, and became head of both the library and school in 1895. She was also the president of ALA from 1915-1916. She left Pratt in 1911 and was succeeded by another woman leader, Josephine Adams Rathbone. More on her next week. #tbt #PrattSILS125

Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 4:41pm EST
Interested in digital humanities? Check out our DH portal featuring student projects, event reviews, tutorials & more at dh.prattsils.org.

Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 9:36pm EST
More on fair use and documentary film . . . Oh, and the Pentagon Papers.

Monday, January 26, 2015 at 12:40pm EST
All classes tomorrow (Tuesday Jan. 27) are canceled due to inclement weather – happy snow day #2.

Monday, January 26, 2015 at 12:36pm EST
Congrats to SILS Profs. Rabina, Drabinski, and students in LIS 652 Information Services and Resources - their work with NYPL and incarcerated persons is featured in Newsweek http://www.newsweek.com/people-behind-bars-google-answers-arrive-mail-301836

Monday, January 26, 2015 at 11:47am EST
Classes after 2:00pm today are canceled - have a happy snow day!

Monday, January 26, 2015 at 11:35am EST
Current Students and Faculty: Sign-up for the Pratt Alert System to get information about weather-related closings https://alerts.pratt.edu/

Monday, January 26, 2015 at 8:12am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Monday, January 26, 2015 at 7:59am EST
"... with foresight and some help from City Hall, a community asset like a public library can anchor positive development."

Saturday, January 24, 2015 at 8:47am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 11:26am EST
Checkout some of the projects from Prof. Matt Miller's course LIS 664 Programming for Cultural Heritage http://pfch.nyc/

Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 11:16am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information added a new photo to the album: Throwback Thursdays — at Pratt Institute.
Happy 125th Anniversary to Pratt SILS. #tbt Pratt Library School students, c. 1926

Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 11:26pm EST
Researchers have found a key that may unlock the only library of classical antiquity to survive along with its documents

Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 8:52pm EST
New Yorker on the Internet Archive

Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 1:57pm EST
We hope you will participate! We are cosponsoring this event in celebration of Eating Disorders Awareness Month.

Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 1:57pm EST
We hope you will participate! We are cosponsoring this event in celebration of Eating Disorders Awareness Month.

Sunday, January 18, 2015 at 8:23am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Saturday, January 17, 2015 at 10:13am EST
Take home a hot spot from NYPL:

Friday, January 16, 2015 at 5:10pm EST
Good news for libraries. Good news for authors. Bad news for lawyers:

Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 5:38pm EST
SILS new student orientation - welcome new students!

Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 7:42pm EST
The first day of class is just one week away. Here’s some new things you can expect at SILS: New chairs: We are slowing phasing out those chairs with the desks attached and exchanging them with cushioned office chairs and tables. This has happened in so far in rooms 602 and 608. We hope this will make the rooms more comfy! Welcome to our new visiting professors: - Rebbeca Guenther - former Senior Networking and Standards Specialist at Library of Congress and teaching Metadata - William Ying - CIO for Artstor and teaching Digital Asset Management - Deena Schwimmer - Archivist at Yeshiva University and teaching a section of Management of Archives & Special Collections - Farris Wahbeh, Director of Research Resources at the Whitney Museum and co-teaching Art Documentation New Courses being offered: Projects in Information Experience Design (collaborating with the Asia Society), Digital Asset Management and Art Documentation And more to come as the semester progresses....

Monday, January 12, 2015 at 10:58pm EST
The new NYC id cards, serve as a single library card for all 3 systems: "You are able to use your IDNYC card at any public library in New York. The card can be integrated with your account at the New York, Brooklyn, and Queens Public Library Systems. This is the first time a single card can be utilized across all three systems. To use your IDNYC card at a library, ask a librarian or a library clerk at your local branch to connect your IDNYC card with your library account or sign up for a new library account and use your IDNYC card as your library card."

Monday, January 12, 2015 at 9:16pm EST
Tips for how to better engage girls in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects: http://www.cmrubinworld.com/2014/06/12/the-global-search-for-education-girls-and-science/

Monday, January 12, 2015 at 8:22pm EST
Preservation of video games discussed in this week's New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/video-games-curse-retro

Monday, January 12, 2015 at 1:51pm EST
Heard of Google Cardboard? We didn't either until Prof. MacDonald introduced it to us. It makes an Android phone into Augmented Reality goggles https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/

Monday, January 12, 2015 at 8:05am EST
Aarhus Public Libraries (Denmark) announced the release of the Design Thinking Toolkit for Libraries. The toolkit can be used by any front-line library staffer to adapt to library users’ changing needs.

Thursday, January 8, 2015 at 9:12am EST
Public Libraries Reimagined

Wednesday, January 7, 2015 at 2:48pm EST
Very interesting to read these two articles from this week's New Yorker in juxtaposition to one another Menand, "Pulp's Big Moment" http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/05/pulps-big-moment and Marantz, "The Virologist" http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/05/virologist

Monday, January 5, 2015 at 5:01pm EST
Democratization of information, of collections, of access, long standing values for librarians and other information professionals, are now reaching into museum collections - welcome!

Monday, January 5, 2015 at 3:55pm EST
Congratulations to SILS alumna Karen Spritzer, and student Adena Gruskin, whose papers were published in ALA's government information journal, Documents to the People. The papers were part of a research for LIS 613: Government Information sources. Spitzer, Karen (2014). Who’s protecting my peanut butter? Documents to the People 42 (4): 27-31. Gruskin, Adena (2014). A look at gun control in the aftermath of mass shootings. Documents to the People 42 (4): 18-21.

Friday, January 2, 2015 at 10:27am EST
Oxford library marginalia project