Timeline

2014

Wednesday, December 31, 2014 at 8:43am EST
5 of the most compelling Digital History sites from 2014 http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/12/29/historical_documents_online_five_best_digital_archives_from_2014.html

Monday, December 29, 2014 at 6:54pm EST
More reads from the Pratt Manhattan Library: the edited volume "Archiving the Artist" (2013) looks at archiving the artist from 3 perspectives: the artist, the archivist, and the art historian. A good read is chapter 8 by Anna McNally, who offers practical advice for the archivist. http://cat.pratt.edu/record=b1194500~S0

Saturday, December 27, 2014 at 7:29pm EST
More good reads from the Pratt Manhattan library: Robyns (2014) describes how a lone arranger can make appraisal/selection choices using functional analysis (e.g., developing an understanding of how the records produced by an office tie into larger institutional social roles/goals and making choices based on that... all with very limited resources) http://cat.pratt.edu/record=b1217532~S0

Saturday, December 27, 2014 at 4:54pm EST
Good reads from the Pratt Manhattan library: French historian Arlette Farge explains the allure of archives and how she uses them in her research http://cat.pratt.edu/record=b1192944~S0

Wednesday, December 24, 2014 at 8:17pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Wednesday, December 24, 2014 at 1:00pm EST
The Metro annual conference heads out to a good start - registration was sold out in 48 hours and is now waiting list only. The program looks very promising with the keynote by Siva Vaidhyanathan, who always puts on a good show. In addition Pratt SILS will be making a strong showing. We spotted the following alums and students in the program: Emma Carbone, Brooklyn Public Library Sarah Gentile, Brooklyn Academy of Music Julia Lipkins, Brooklyn Historical Society Suzanne Lipkin, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club Sumitra Duncan, New York Art Resources Consortium Seth Persons, New York Art Resources Consortium Caitlin Harrington, New York Art Resources Consortium http://mnylc.org/metrocon15/schedule/

Tuesday, December 23, 2014 at 5:15pm EST
Prof. Cocciolo authors the Guggenheim's Electronic Records Management plan http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/press-room/news/6231-museum-develops-strategy-to-preserve-electronic-records

Monday, December 22, 2014 at 4:11pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, December 19, 2014 at 9:35am EST
Happy Holidays from the faculty and staff of Pratt SILS!

Friday, December 19, 2014 at 2:49am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Kirby Sommers's post.

Thursday, December 18, 2014 at 3:31pm EST
SILS students digitized oral histories from the Center for Puerto Rican studies at Hunter College, and curated a website for them. They were delivered to Centro on five 16 GB USB disks.

Wednesday, December 17, 2014 at 1:36pm EST
A Connecticut Public Library is to be renamed after former SILS Prof. Ernie DiMattia http://patch.com/connecticut/stamford/ferguson-library-name-main-library-honor-its-late-president-0

Saturday, December 13, 2014 at 1:05pm EST
SILS students re-design and re-launch the Herstories website, which includes thousands of hours of LGBT oral histories and other audiovisual recordings. http://herstories.prattsils.org/omeka/

Friday, December 12, 2014 at 4:08pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, December 12, 2014 at 3:13pm EST
Good subway reads: Anne Gilliland takes you through all the big issues for archives in the 21st Century http://cat.pratt.edu/record=b1217645~S0

Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 5:23pm EST
SILS launches a "Curricular Resources" webpage, which includes a syllabus archive and visualizations on which courses supply projects for the e-portfolio. https://www.pratt.edu/academics/information-and-library-sciences/curricular-resources/

Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 4:18pm EST
Interested in pursuing a MSLIS? Come TODAY at 6pm for an Open House at Pratt SILS - 144 W. 14th St. 6th Floor https://www.pratt.edu/academics/information-and-library-sciences/admissions/open-houses/

Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 3:18pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 11:57am EST
How to dress the lions for the holidays:

Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 11:12pm EST
This has nothing to do with LIS, but this article does a nice job of analyzing the ubiquitous urban lumberjack http://m.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/12/lumbersexuality-and-its-discontents/383563/

Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 4:20pm EST
"Hush Little Baby" NYC style (2nd recording, right column). Thought you'd enjoy some NYC fun.

Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 4:13pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Tuesday, December 9, 2014 at 10:17am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Monday, December 8, 2014 at 8:55am EST
Pratt SILS students Sarah Davis and Rachel Smiley and alum Genevieve Podleski, at the GL16 conference at The Library of Congress

Sunday, December 7, 2014 at 10:29pm EST
From the MoMA archives: the earliest feature film to star an African-American Library Association

Sunday, December 7, 2014 at 9:45pm EST
The Guggenheim Museum releases project reports on its Electronic Records Management Start-up Project http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/library-and-archives/projects/electronic-records-management-start-up-project

Saturday, December 6, 2014 at 6:15pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, December 5, 2014 at 10:44pm EST
"What sublime experiences will researchers miss if they simply view the documents online? What will be lost if the archives, with their passionate staffs, morph into unvisited repositories?" http://m.wsj.com/articles/what-could-be-lost-as-einsteins-papers-go-online-1417790386

Friday, December 5, 2014 at 3:54pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information added 33 new photos to the album: SILS in the 70s — at Pratt Institute.
These slide photos were given to SILS by former Prof. Robert Karlowich. They include images taken at SILS from the early 1970s. Select photos were digitized by Anthony Cocciolo in December 2014.

Friday, December 5, 2014 at 9:45am EST
Einstein's papers are digitized and put online http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/05/science/huge-trove-of-albert-einstein-documents-becomes-available-online.html

Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 11:00pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Art+Feminism's event.

Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 9:25pm EST
Large group of protesters out in front of Pratt Manhattan after classes this evening.

Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at 11:08pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at 9:12am EST
Lepore makes the case for records retention requirements for US Supreme Court justices. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/01/great-paper-caper

Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at 2:27pm EST
SILS Prof. Drabinski (LIS 652) on Deciding What Goes Where And Why: Gender Studies and Librarianship

Monday, December 1, 2014 at 6:04pm EST
SILS Alum Deimosa Webber-Bey publishes an article on her unique project: The Runaway Quilt project. The project started while Deimosa was a student at SILS, particularly in Digital Humanities and Information Visualization (Dr. Sula). Please enjoy and congratulations Deimosa! http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/runaway-quilt-project-digital-humanities-exploration-of-quilting-during-the-era-of-slavery/

Monday, December 1, 2014 at 9:24am EST
As we prepare for the final stretch of the semester, we are pleased to share more update on alumni job placements. Congratulations to the following students: Leah Honor has been offered a medical librarian fellowship at the research library of the UMass Memorial Medical School Suzanne Lipkin, cataloger, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club Archives. Gina Shelton, Dominican College, Assistant Librarian of Periodicals and Information Literacy Please share your job information and other professional accomplishments with us. Send updates to drabina@pratt.edu

Sunday, November 30, 2014 at 6:19pm EST
Libraries around the world: a small library in the colonial section of Bogota, Colombia

Sunday, November 30, 2014 at 1:54pm EST
Current SILS students: SILSSA election now open: Voting closes 5pm, Friday December 5th, 2014. You must be a current SILS student to vote, one vote per student!!

Saturday, November 29, 2014 at 7:53pm EST
"There was an outcry in Colombia after the announcement on Monday that the archive of Gabriel García Márquez would go to the University of Texas instead of his native country." http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/26/books/-colombia-to-receive-some-garca-mrquez-effects.html

Saturday, November 29, 2014 at 7:46pm EST
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's archive goes to the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/24/books/gabriel-garca-mrquezs-archive-goes-to-university-of-texas.html

Saturday, November 29, 2014 at 12:14pm EST
Fascinating exhibit at the Peabody Library in Baltimore: "Perhaps now, more than ever, we ought to be attending to the subject of authenticity, because we've already built another tower of Babel," Havens tells NPR's Scott Simon. "That, of course is our Internet, where any kind of discourse — true or false and all points in between — is fair game."

Saturday, November 29, 2014 at 9:08am EST
Libraries and museums across the UK show their anger at extended restrictions on public release of documents

Friday, November 28, 2014 at 12:24pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Wednesday, November 26, 2014 at 9:16am EST
Official announcement: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/how-we-work/general-information/open-access-policy

Tuesday, November 25, 2014 at 10:28pm EST
What is literature good for?

Tuesday, November 25, 2014 at 10:24pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Jerry Saltz's photo.
The archivists at New York Magazine

Tuesday, November 25, 2014 at 9:36pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Tuesday, November 25, 2014 at 8:34pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Tuesday, November 25, 2014 at 7:43am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared The Librarians's album.
Who are the SILS extreme librarians? I know we have a roller derby librarian, but what else? Do you climb mountains? Bungee dive? Please share in the comments area.

Monday, November 24, 2014 at 9:36am EST
https://www.facebook.com/nytimes/posts/10150488763104999

Sunday, November 23, 2014 at 9:38pm EST
More on predatory journals:

Friday, November 21, 2014 at 11:08am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 8:46am EST
New bookstore around the corner on 13th between 7th and Greenwich ave.

Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at 8:14am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Monday, November 17, 2014 at 3:46pm EST
SILS alumnae Sian Evans has been included in Foreign Policy Magazine’s 2014 List of 100 Leading Global Thinkers for her work with Art+Feminism. (see Choniclers)

Monday, November 17, 2014 at 2:33pm EST
Good reads from the Pratt Manhattan library: Taylor argues that digital culture is eroding the ability of artists to get by. http://cat.pratt.edu/record=b1217692~S0

Saturday, November 15, 2014 at 9:51pm EST
The services instated by libraries with the intention improving access and service are being used to ban women from libraries. Women are barred from entering the library and told to orders books online.

Saturday, November 15, 2014 at 1:45pm EST
Welcome to the dark ages

Thursday, November 13, 2014 at 9:29pm EST
From SLA@Pratt

Thursday, November 13, 2014 at 11:41am EST
Agreement signed, no details made available.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at 8:24pm EST
Pratt hopes to dress the First Lady

Tuesday, November 11, 2014 at 8:29am EST
Our series continues - we are pleased to announce the following job placements: Kai Alexis Smith, Librarian in Residence at the University of Notre Dame Rossy Mendez, Public Services Project Archivist at Princeton University Noreen Whysel, Community Manager for the OWASP Foundation (The Open Web Application Security Project) Congratulations to Kai, Rossy and Noreen!

Monday, November 10, 2014 at 6:42pm EST
More information on the move of Franklin Furnace to Pratt. http://www.brooklynrail.org/2014/11/art/martha-wilson-with-jarrett-earnest

Monday, November 10, 2014 at 3:20pm EST
More job placement announcements, really nice to see the range of places where our graduates are working: Leah Castaldi, Digital Access Librarian, Office of Minority Health Resource Center Jenny Ferretti, Archives Technician, Smithsonian Channel, Library & Archives department Sophia Dahab, Archivist and American Bookseller Catalog Project Manager, The Grolier Club [Please send your job information or other professional news to Dr. Rabina (drabina@pratt.edu) and we will post to the SILS community.]

Friday, November 7, 2014 at 9:02am EST
Congratulations to the following SILS alums on their recent placements: Ellie Horowitz, Reference Librarian, College of Mount Saint Vincent Chantalle Uzan, Young Adult Librarian, NYPL Jessica Espejel, Children's librarian, BPL, DeKalb Branch

Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 9:22am EST
NY1 reports on a library expansion plan in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, which is one of the busiest libraries in Brooklyn. http://www.ny1.com/content/218433/library-expansion-plans-meet-opposition-in-sunset-park/

Tuesday, November 4, 2014 at 6:00pm EST
Copyright law may prevent you from fixing your car

Monday, November 3, 2014 at 4:59pm EST
Sherlock Holmes is in the Public Domain

Monday, November 3, 2014 at 4:03pm EST
Congratulations to SILS faculty Dr. Irene Lopatovska who was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Art, Ukraine

Monday, November 3, 2014 at 4:00pm EST
Interested in web archives? Attend this event on Friday night!

Monday, November 3, 2014 at 12:08pm EST
Did you know that Metro NY Library Council has a Wikipedian-in-residence working on enhancing Wikipedia for the Metro NY Library community? More information on events here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan_New_York_Library_Council

Saturday, November 1, 2014 at 5:33pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Gina Trask Shelton.
SILS students, alums and faculty showed up to this Saturday to a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon about the history of the School and the Pratt Institute Libraries Check-out some of the work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_Institute_School_of_Information_and_Library_Science More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Librarians@Pratt

Saturday, November 1, 2014 at 9:21am EDT
This is for all the genealogy lovers among us:

Friday, October 31, 2014 at 12:17pm EDT
Pratt SILS alumna Anne Garner, curator of Rare Books at the New York Academy of Medicine, found some skeletons in her archive. Happy Halloween!

Thursday, October 30, 2014 at 6:10pm EDT
If you haven't heard, Franklin Furnace--including the staff and archive--are moving to the Pratt Brooklyn Campus (the ISC building to be exact). http://www.franklinfurnace.org/

Thursday, October 30, 2014 at 3:01pm EDT
Need to know how to join SILS's Google Group/listserv? Information is available on our website https://www.pratt.edu/academics/information-and-library-sciences/about-sils/listserv/

Thursday, October 30, 2014 at 2:20pm EDT
So, how much money do you make? This was a question on the alumni survey administered to SILS students back in 1897. Students could expect to earn a few hundred dollars a year for full-time work. #tbt

Thursday, October 30, 2014 at 10:37am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information added 2 new photos.
Thanks to our wonderful alumnae (from left) Lauren, Maggie, Krissa, Julia and Brandy, who are not only doing wonderful things, but are also taking the time to inspire and share with current students.

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 11:42pm EDT
Why Netflix sends "Orange is the New Black" to the Library of Congress (copyright deposit) on Betacam tapes...

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 11:37pm EDT
Melvil Dewey was evidently a great guest speaker. In March of 1896 he came to Pratt’s Library School where the “class was keyed to the highest point by a talk from Mr. Dewey,” where he “impressed upon the class a realization of the dignity and importance of their calling.” #tbt

Tuesday, October 28, 2014 at 7:21pm EDT
Library Journal ranks Pratt grads as 2nd highest salary post-graduation (right after U. Michigan) http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/10/placements-and-salaries/2014-survey/renaissance-librarians/

Monday, October 27, 2014 at 7:57am EDT
This Wed. at 6:30pm - Putting your degree to work outside the library. A panel discussion. Pizza will be served.

Sunday, October 26, 2014 at 5:55pm EDT
Congratulations to SILS alumna Maura Smale, on her recent appointment as Chief Librarian at CUNY CityTech

Saturday, October 25, 2014 at 9:14pm EDT
Museums and the digital experience: Museums are being redefined for a digital age. ...Digital technologies being deployed or developed

Friday, October 24, 2014 at 1:44pm EDT
More throwbacks. The Pratt Library School course schedule from 1894-1895 shows that German courses happened frequently, as it was a graduation requirement.

Friday, October 24, 2014 at 10:58am EDT
#TBT The first class at Pratt Library School in 1890. There was a morning class and an afternoon class.

Friday, October 24, 2014 at 9:57am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 2:02pm EDT
The Pratt SILS community would like express our deep sorrow over the loss of SILS alum (2012) Jenny Mathias. Jenny was a valued student, friend and colleague. Jenny was president of SILSSA, the SILS student association during the 2010/11 academic year and an active contributor and supporter of the student body. We send our deepest condolences to her family and friends.

Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 9:52am EDT
A law firm's library discards most of its books and shelving http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/nyregion/so-little-paper-to-chase-in-a-law-firms-new-library.html

Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 12:08am EDT
METRO announces Fall 2014 Innovative Internship Recipients, congrats Sarah Davis, Graduate Student, Pratt Institute.

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 at 9:52pm EDT
Congratulations to SILS alum Jill Goldstein for contributing a chapter for the book The Small Library Manager's Handbook: Chapter 28.How to Create an Effective Library Website Jill Goldstein

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 at 5:25pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared U.S. Government Publishing Office's photo.

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 at 2:40pm EDT
We are glad to share more news of recent SILS hires, congratulations to: Sean Fitzell - Content Strategist, Q-Sensei Carolyn Li-Madeo - Interaction Designer, Prismatic, San Francisco Jacqueline Rider - Digital Archivist at Princeton Theological Seminary Rafael (Ralph) Baylor - Assistant Librarian for Public Services, The Frick Art Refernce Library

Tuesday, October 21, 2014 at 2:16pm EDT
Happy Open Access week: A view on OA from the London School of Economics

Monday, October 20, 2014 at 9:58am EDT
The ePADD project is working on archiving historically significant email.

Saturday, October 18, 2014 at 11:24pm EDT
Little Free Library

Saturday, October 18, 2014 at 9:22am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, October 17, 2014 at 4:02pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, October 17, 2014 at 1:28pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Romel Espinel's photo.
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz is available for viewing in full on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXr-2hwTk58

Friday, October 17, 2014 at 11:38am EDT
SILS Prof. Rubenstein publishes a book "Web Design for Libraries" http://www.amazon.com/Web-Design-Libraries-Charles-Rubenstein/dp/1610693434/ref=asap_B001JPC13O_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413560066&sr=1-1

Wednesday, October 15, 2014 at 6:22pm EDT
SILS student Rosemary De Ridder arranges an audiovisual collection in LIS 668.

Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at 5:01pm EDT
Cute cover choice New Yorker

Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at 2:36pm EDT
Presentation by SILS alum Roxanne Shirazi at ALA annual this summer:

Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at 12:23pm EDT
The New Republic on the Amazon debate:

Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at 9:37am EDT
Prof. @acocciolo publishes new article, "Challenges to Born-Digital Institutional Archiving: The Case of a New York Art Museum” http://www.thinkingprojects.org/?p=389

Sunday, October 12, 2014 at 8:50pm EDT
In time for Open Access week Oct. 20-26

Sunday, October 12, 2014 at 8:17pm EDT
Open access stance at Harvard . . .

Friday, October 10, 2014 at 6:12pm EDT
GovDocs at Large: Beyond Library Wednesday, October 29 at 6:30pm panel discussion on using government information outside of the traditional library in journalism, non-profits, and business setting. The panelists are all recent Pratt alumnae who will speak about their time at Pratt, what they studied, how they found their job, and what they do now. http://prattsla.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/next-slapratt-event-govdocs-at-large-beyond-the-library/

Friday, October 10, 2014 at 5:55pm EDT
"there is no subjective impression; there is only information in a data-processing device"

Friday, October 10, 2014 at 10:08am EDT
Interested in web archives? Come to the panel at METRO - Web Archiving: Experiences, Perspectives and Possibilities. Moderator: Anna Perricci; Panelists: Anthony Cocciolo, Sumitra Duncan, Jason Kovari, & Alex Thurman http://metro.org/events/537/

Friday, October 10, 2014 at 9:24am EDT
A drone's view of the Toronto Reference Library

Friday, October 10, 2014 at 8:57am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, October 9, 2014 at 9:58pm EDT
Metro workshop Data 101, by Margaret Smith, who teaches data librarianship at SILS (next offered Fall 15)

Tuesday, October 7, 2014 at 9:25pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Tuesday, October 7, 2014 at 9:08pm EDT
Flannery O'Connor's archive goes to Emory http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/books/university-acquires-flannery-oconnors-papers-and-effects.html

Tuesday, October 7, 2014 at 1:53pm EDT
Supreme Court inaction allows 5 States to permit Gay Marriage. Oral histories documenting the earliest LGBT Civil Rights efforts are being preserved and made accessible by Pratt SILS students in LIS 668: http://herstories.prattsils.org/omeka/collections/show/36 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/us/denying-review-justices-clear-way-for-gay-marriage-in-5-states.html

Tuesday, October 7, 2014 at 12:19pm EDT
The free METRO Annual Conference is a great way to connect with the NYC LIS community. Project submissions are due Oct. 15. http://metro.org/articles/metros-annual-conference-2015/

Tuesday, October 7, 2014 at 10:10am EDT
SILS recent alums April Siqueiros and Samantha Raddatz publish an article in the WeaveUX, an open access journal of library user experience http://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/weave/12535642.0001.104?view=text;rgn=main

Tuesday, October 7, 2014 at 10:08am EDT
Come to a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Saturday, November 1 to work on pages about the history of Pratt SILS and Pratt Libraries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Librarians@Pratt

Monday, October 6, 2014 at 9:53pm EDT
We are glad to share more news of recent SILS hires, congratulations to: Aimee Slater, Brandeis University, Government Documents Librarian (Jan. 15) Jan Diolola Metadata Manager, Data Management/IA Department Tagasauris, Inc. (New York City) Deanna Sessions Educational Technologist, Faculty of Arts and Science New York University Heather Lember Archive Manager New York City Department of Environmental Protection

Monday, October 6, 2014 at 9:35am EDT
First Monday: What to expect in the Supreme Court, including some interesting First Amendment cases:

Sunday, October 5, 2014 at 3:05pm EDT
One more week (until Oct. 12) for the makers exhibit at the MAD biennial. Free admission to Pratt students! Well worth the visit.

Thursday, October 2, 2014 at 8:27pm EDT
Congratulations Germany! All universities will be tuition free.

Thursday, October 2, 2014 at 10:22am EDT
Nice to see recent alums getting great jobs. Some recent hires include: Eric Mortensen, Digital Media Librarian, The Juilliard School https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=34113759 Carly Lamphere, Reference and Instructional Services, FIDM Fashion Institute https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=222805262 and more to come...

Wednesday, October 1, 2014 at 5:01pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Wednesday, October 1, 2014 at 10:30am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 at 10:44pm EDT
The Internet's future? Quite interesting.

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 at 1:03pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Monday, September 29, 2014 at 3:23pm EDT
Pratt added the ACM Digital Library and Social Explorer to its list of database. Happy dance from SILS!

Monday, September 29, 2014 at 1:51pm EDT
Checkout this networking event next week SILSSA is holding

Sunday, September 28, 2014 at 11:16am EDT
Today is right to know day. ... joint statement urging the Secretary General of the United Nations to highlight the importance of the right to information, free media, and the protection of civil society organisations’ ability to organise and engage in his upcoming stocktaking report on the Sustainable Development Goals to the General Assembly.

Sunday, September 28, 2014 at 9:09am EDT
Another great blessay from Maria Popova

Saturday, September 27, 2014 at 11:20am EDT
Many ideas appearing on the Knight News Challenge website that address the question: "How might we leverage libraries as a platform to build more knowledgeable communities?" https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/libraries/submissions

Saturday, September 27, 2014 at 9:18am EDT
Highly recommended article about the future of libraries: "What libraries and librarians know about books and so much more is too important a cultural resource to lose"... "libraries will be pulled out of themselves and into everything else." ... "Far more worrisome is that libraries are barely visible on the web."

Saturday, September 27, 2014 at 8:41am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, September 26, 2014 at 9:43pm EDT
Should we have the right to delete our personal information from a Google search? The book by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger who is interviewed for this article is available at PMC library http://cat.pratt.edu/record=b1145834~S0

Friday, September 26, 2014 at 9:14pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, September 26, 2014 at 10:52am EDT
Joan Rivers' Joke file may be headed to the Smithsonian, or the Library of Congress.

Thursday, September 25, 2014 at 9:52pm EDT
We're all Digital Archivists Now: Interview with Sibyl Schaefer from Rockefeller Archive Center in Sleepy Hollow, NY

Thursday, September 25, 2014 at 9:46pm EDT
SILS student Doris Straus blogs for NYPL: "Fashion, The High Life, and 'The Duties of Married Females': 19th Century Fashion-Plate Magazines" http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/09/25/19th-century-fashion-plate-magazines

Thursday, September 25, 2014 at 5:55pm EDT
Congratulations to SILS student Amy Lau, whose LIS 651 seminar paper, "Making Space for Silenced Histories: National History, Personal Archives, and the WWII Japanese American Internment" was published in the latest issue of Progressive Librarian

Tuesday, September 23, 2014 at 8:08pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Tuesday, September 23, 2014 at 8:03pm EDT
The Beta Phi Mu Theta Chapter proudly announces our Fall Lecture featuring: Deirdre Lawrence, Principal Librarian of the Brooklyn Museum "The hybrid library: The challenges of being a steward of both a physical and digital art library" Wednesday, October 15, 2014 6:30 – 8:30 pm Pratt Manhattan Campus 144 West 14th Street Room 213 Deirdre Lawrence has been the Principal Librarian at the Brooklyn Museum since 1983. She is a Pratt Alum, receiving her M.L.S. in 1979. At the Brooklyn Museum she has established the Museum Archives and implemented many projects to preserve and make the research collections accessible. Deirdre has overseen a major renovation project, the implementation of an online catalog, and several collaborative projects with other libraries and organizations. Pratt-SILS and the Brooklyn Museum have partnered on IMLS Grants from 2005 to present. Space is limited; please RSVP to info@bpmtheta.org by Monday October 13th. http://brooklynmuseum.tumblr.com/deirdrel

Tuesday, September 23, 2014 at 7:27am EDT
Job hunting? Consider looking in a region that will fare well in changed climate: Seattle, Portland, Detroit, Anchorage. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/science/on-a-warmer-planet-which-cities-will-be-safest.html

Sunday, September 21, 2014 at 1:19pm EDT
Ai Weiwei to exhibit on Alcatraz. Unfortunately, he will not see the exhibit because China has seized his passport. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/arts/design/ai-weiwei-takes-his-work-to-a-prison.html

Sunday, September 21, 2014 at 9:45am EDT
Earliest film with all black cast found in the MoMA film archives http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/nyregion/coming-soon-a-century-late-a-black-film-gem.html

Sunday, September 21, 2014 at 8:00am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 9:12pm EDT
Browsing the microfilms at Centro

Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 9:11pm EDT
Admiring the compact shelving

Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 9:07pm EDT
Centro Archivist Pedro Juan Hernandez discussing the collection

Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 9:06pm EDT
Visit to Centro Archives

Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 9:05pm EDT
SILS students collaborate with the Archives of the Center of Puerto Rican Studies on an oral history digitization project

Wednesday, September 17, 2014 at 3:14pm EDT
Isn't it great when scaffolding finally comes down?

Wednesday, September 17, 2014 at 10:45am EDT
Today September 17th is Constitution Day! Check out government publications related to the Constitution:

Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 4:10pm EDT
Spielberg is creating a movie about former Pratt President James Donovan, played by Tom Hanks. http://gothamist.com/2014/09/11/photos_spielberg_coens_dumbo.php#photo-1

Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 12:38pm EDT
The Library Cafe returns tomorrow. In depth interviews with authors "about books, ideas, and the formation and circulation of knowledge". Hosted by Thomas Hill, art librarian extraordinaire at Vassar. Love this program!

Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 9:47am EDT
Kudos to the recent SILS graduates Aimee Slater, Caitlin Beauregard, Houda El Mimouni, Lea Lange and Victoria Ludas-Orlofski for publishing an article in the Library Review journal! The article is based on the student work in the LIS630: Information Science Research course. Lopatovska, I., Slater, A., Beauregard, C., El Mimouni, H., Lange, L., & Orlofsky, V. L. (2014). In transition: Academic e-book reading in an institution without e-books. Library Review, 63(4/5), 261-275. The pre-publication full-text version can be found at: https://irenelopatovska.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/in-transition_lopatovska.pdf http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/LR-12-2013-0163

Saturday, September 13, 2014 at 11:51pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Saturday, September 13, 2014 at 3:44pm EDT
A summary of ISIS activity in Iraq has just been circulated. The ISIS activities that are related to libraries and other information services can be summarised as follows: - According to ISIS law, libraries should not exist and must be demolished. - ISIS wants to diversify and expand its financial resources to include the lucrative trade of antiquities. [This could be assumed to include the sale of rare books and manuscripts.] - Mosul museum, the second large museum in Iraq, has been occupied by ISIS and its staff cannot enter to check its valuable collections. [The Museum Library was established about 50 years ago, and has a substantial collection.] - Churches and monasteries were either burned or, when occupied, ISIS stole the contents. [Many of the monasteries in northern Iraq are known to have retained collections of ancient manuscripts] - Mosques and shrines were destroyed by explosions and bulldozers. [These may also have had collections of ancient manuscripts] - Government buildings have been destroyed by ISIS. [It is not clear whether these include the provincial records and archives centre, but it could be assumed that some recent government records have been lost.] - ISIS has taken over public libraries in Ninawa and Diyala provinces. [These must be assumed to be under threat of destruction.] http://tinyurl.com/q9k2uwj

Friday, September 12, 2014 at 10:57am EDT
http://www.dw.de/eu-court-strengthens-libraries-right-to-digitize/a-17918309

Friday, September 12, 2014 at 9:07am EDT
Program looks very interesting, admission is free.

Friday, September 12, 2014 at 8:44am EDT
Congratulations to the New York City Department of Education's Office of Library Services, winner of an IMLS National Leadership Grant for Libraries.

Thursday, September 11, 2014 at 11:32pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, September 11, 2014 at 2:09pm EDT
http://metro.org/articles/metros-annual-conference-2015/

Thursday, September 11, 2014 at 11:08am EDT
Knight Foundation competition: "How might we leverage libraries as a platform to build more knowledgeable communities?” http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2014/9/2/share-your-inspiration-knight-news-challenge-libraries/

Thursday, September 11, 2014 at 9:50am EDT
Jessica Hochman shared a link to Pratt Institute School of Information's Timeline.

Wednesday, September 10, 2014 at 11:31pm EDT
Zittrain argues why libraries still matter (digital preservation is key) https://medium.com/biblio/why-libraries-still-matter-3df27e7522cb

Wednesday, September 10, 2014 at 5:50pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Wednesday, September 10, 2014 at 12:37pm EDT
Interesting findings from a recent PEW report: "Millennials are more likely than their elders to say that important information is not available on the internet" for more, see report:

Tuesday, September 9, 2014 at 11:50am EDT
From the wonderful Maria Popova

Tuesday, September 9, 2014 at 9:17am EDT
Yale Photogrammer visualizes the 170,000 photos from the US Farm Security Administration http://photogrammar.yale.edu/

Tuesday, September 9, 2014 at 7:17am EDT
20th Anniversary of Kennedy & Davis' "Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold" book is out. SILS students digitized all of the oral histories that were used to form the ethnography. http://herstories.prattsils.org/omeka/collections/show/53

Monday, September 8, 2014 at 3:26pm EDT
Congratulations to SILS student Sara White and May 2014 graduates Ellie Horowitz and Michael Gressel on the publications of their articles as part of the Future Voices section of The Serials Librarian: Gressel, Michael (2014) Are Libraries Doing Enough to Safeguard Their Patrons’ Digital Privacy?, The Serials Librarian: From the Printed Page to the Digital Age, 67:2, 137-142. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2014.939324 Horowitz, Ellie (2014) Artifacts of the Encounter and the Digital Humanities, The Serials Librarian: From the Printed Page to the Digital Age, 67:2, 143-150 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2014.939325 White, Sara (2014) Net Neutrality and Libraries: Conflicts of Access, The Serials Librarian: From the Printed Page to the Digital Age, 67:2, 151-157 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2014.939326

Monday, September 8, 2014 at 10:24am EDT
Good news from BPL

Monday, September 8, 2014 at 9:39am EDT
New Amsterdam became New York 350 years ago today http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/opinion/the-source-of-new-yorks-greatness.html

Sunday, September 7, 2014 at 7:58pm EDT
Many new LIS titles at the Pratt Manhattan Library http://bit.ly/1q45uZP

Sunday, September 7, 2014 at 8:52am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, September 4, 2014 at 5:46pm EDT
RIP Joan Rivers. Did you know that she received an Honorary Doctorate from Pratt in 2004? http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=124238

Wednesday, September 3, 2014 at 4:56pm EDT
SILS alum (Dec. 2013) Lisa Peet named Library Journal Associate News Editor

Wednesday, September 3, 2014 at 9:45am EDT
50 years ago today President LBJ singed the Wilderness Act. See the Statute here from FDsys (Federal Digital System) Yay! Government Information http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-78/pdf/STATUTE-78-Pg890.pdf

Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 12:42pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 7:10am EDT
Archives point to Queen Victoria's relationship with her servant http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/01/opinion/a-queens-forbidden-love.html

Monday, September 1, 2014 at 3:38pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Sunday, August 31, 2014 at 7:26pm EDT
NY Times endorses Tim Wu, widely known for coining the phrase “net neutrality,” has been an adviser to the Federal Trade Commission http://nyti.ms/1AVOxTD

Saturday, August 30, 2014 at 10:25am EDT
Millions of photos posted to Flickr; they were extracted from Internet Achive's book digitization projects http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28976849

Friday, August 29, 2014 at 8:52pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Tuesday, August 26, 2014 at 2:13pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Tuesday, August 26, 2014 at 8:19am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Monday, August 25, 2014 at 11:19pm EDT
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-library-without-books-debuts-at-floridas-newest-college-2014-8#ixzz3BRFuTeYM

Sunday, August 24, 2014 at 10:36pm EDT
Almost 80,000 images, and counting are licensed under Creative Commons (attribution, share alike)

Sunday, August 24, 2014 at 8:23pm EDT
The Artist & The Librarian Tumblr features individuals who are both Artists & Librarians. http://theartistandthelibrarian.tumblr.com/

Thursday, August 21, 2014 at 9:10pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, August 21, 2014 at 5:03pm EDT
SILS new student orientation - welcome new students!

Wednesday, August 20, 2014 at 12:21pm EDT
"The Floating Library is a pop-up, mobile device-free public space aboard the historic Lilac Museum Steamship berthed at Pier 25 on the Hudson River in New York City for September 6- October 3, 2014."

Wednesday, August 20, 2014 at 1:01am EDT
Welcome new & returning students!

Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at 7:39pm EDT
Wayback Machine project .. . The Internet Archive's "Archive-It team is collecting URLs that we should put in the Wayback Machine related to the events in Ferguson, MO. Please contribute and/or share widely, especially to those in MO or who might be able to identify at-risk web content."

Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at 1:25pm EDT
Reflections on data from an information designer

Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at 8:30am EDT
Inequality manifests itself in Google search queries http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/19/upshot/inequality-and-web-search-trends.html

Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at 7:50am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Sunday, August 17, 2014 at 10:23am EDT
The Wall Street Journal has a long profile of the Iranian husband-and-wife team Mehdi Yazdany and Sarvenaz Heraner, whose wonderful creation is "a mobile reading room and taxi service, complete with chauffeur-librarian." They call the mobile bookstore "Ketabraneh," which translates as Books on Wheels.

Saturday, August 16, 2014 at 10:13am EDT
A way to reliably measure the impact of libraries

Friday, August 15, 2014 at 1:01pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Billy Levay.
SILS student Bill Levay receiving the F. Gerald Ham Scholarship at SAA 2014 (via @PrattSAA)

Friday, August 15, 2014 at 8:04am EDT
SILS student Diana Bowers presents her poster at SAA 2014 annual meeting

Wednesday, August 13, 2014 at 11:56pm EDT
Warhol's 16mm films to be digitized http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/14/arts/design/digitizing-warhols-film-trove-to-save-it.html

Wednesday, August 13, 2014 at 2:39pm EDT
SILS alum Lisa Peet article for Library Journal about Harvard’s Copyright First Responders - congratulations Lisa!

Tuesday, August 12, 2014 at 6:36pm EDT
SILS faculty, students and alumni come to DC for the Society of American Archivists' Annual Meeting http://www2.archivists.org/2014

Tuesday, August 12, 2014 at 6:34pm EDT
Characteristics of a good librarian from 1913.... http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/08/12/unpleasant-vibrators-need-not-apply

Tuesday, August 12, 2014 at 11:36am EDT
Robin Williams (1996) doing a series of comedic riffs for the opening of the new San Francisco Main Public Library.

Tuesday, August 12, 2014 at 8:03am EDT
"Today's document" from the US National Archives: a tribute to Robin Williams

Monday, August 11, 2014 at 6:12pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Saturday, August 9, 2014 at 8:12pm EDT
Congratulations to SILS students Sarah Davis, Malina Thiede, Meredith Brown and Lauren Restivo whose papers for LIS 631 Academic Libraries and Scholarly Communication were published in the Voices of the Future section of the Serials Librarian.

Saturday, August 9, 2014 at 10:29am EDT
A Brazilian man collects the world's vinyl http://nyti.ms/1opl7cC

Friday, August 8, 2014 at 4:06pm EDT
Pratt students can now access over 41K videos from Alexander Street Press http://search.alexanderstreet.com.ezproxy.pratt.edu:2048/

Friday, August 8, 2014 at 4:01pm EDT
Available now on Netflix - Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq. An interview heavily used in the film was digitized by students in LIS 665 Projects in Digital Archives. http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70298351 Student website: http://dancedialogues.prattsils.org/items/show/24

Friday, August 8, 2014 at 10:30am EDT
Pratt graduate Jess deCourcy Hinds (2009) was selected to be the 2014-2015 Pen Parentis Fellow in New York City. She will be reading her winning story, and will receive her award at the Andaz Hotel at Wall Street on September 9, 7-8 pm. All are welcome. Pen Parentis is an organization that supports creative writers who are parents. More information about the event: http://www.penparentis.org/calendar/ More about Jess: http://www.penparentis.org/fellowships/current-fellow/

Thursday, August 7, 2014 at 3:38pm EDT
Apply to become a 2015 Knight-Mozilla Fellow

Thursday, August 7, 2014 at 2:39pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, August 7, 2014 at 11:02am EDT
English instruction is in high-demand at NYC libraries http://nyti.ms/1uovIVr

Wednesday, August 6, 2014 at 3:33pm EDT
PS 181 in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn is hiring for a librarian. We are very supportive (and new) administration. We want our library program to thrive! Ideas? Candidates? Please email Michael Silverman, Assistant Principal MSilverman2@schools.nyc.gov :)

Tuesday, August 5, 2014 at 8:30pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information added 2 new photos.
Western-most library & bookstore in the USA (Kauai, HI)

Saturday, August 2, 2014 at 4:21pm EDT
Silicon Valley tries to get the developing world hooked on the Internet. http://nyti.ms/1ok2oOT

Friday, August 1, 2014 at 11:06pm EDT
A Cambridge University Library Project

Thursday, July 31, 2014 at 1:27pm EDT
All interesting sounding books, and the first two particularly relevant to LIS thinking.

Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at 3:51pm EDT
Wonderful interview, very creative approach to libraries and we can all learn something from this.

Monday, July 28, 2014 at 9:19pm EDT
Peter Hirtle's response to the University of Arkansas controversy about archival permission practice. "If a researcher wished to use a provided copy for publication, it should be the researcher’s responsibility to determine if her use is a fair use or if permission of the copyright owner is needed."

Monday, July 28, 2014 at 3:47pm EDT
Hope the lawsuit is successful http://boingboing.net/2013/06/13/lawsuit-happy-birthday-is.html

Sunday, July 27, 2014 at 8:08pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at 4:01pm EDT
Will people never learn?

Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at 9:19am EDT
Thoughtful post about advocacy on the ALSC blog by SILS alum and school librarian Eileen Makoff.

Tuesday, July 22, 2014 at 6:14pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Helen-Ann Brown Epstein's post.

Tuesday, July 22, 2014 at 1:31pm EDT
Interested in Health Sciences Information as a librarian that wants to connect health care providers to the best evidence or as a consumer of health care? The Pratt Health Information Concentration is the most comprehensive in the NYC area, starting with Medical Librarianship in the Fall and moving the Health Information Resources, Contemporary Issues in Health Information and Medical Informatics. Our graduates have gone on to variety of jobs contributing to improving health. Contact Helen-Ann Brown Epstein at habepstein@gmail.com or Sarah Jewell at jewells@mskcc.org with your questions and comments.

Monday, July 21, 2014 at 7:49pm EDT
Libraries as a bridge between the economic and digital divide.

Monday, July 21, 2014 at 1:59pm EDT
Look for it in September on your PBS station

Monday, July 21, 2014 at 8:24am EDT
Want safer medications? Your insurance data makes that possible. No worries, you identity protected, for now. And a nice discussion on developing proper research methods. 8:13 min podcast

Friday, July 18, 2014 at 10:19pm EDT
This project has many interesting LIS connections http://nyti.ms/1n2gsfm

Thursday, July 17, 2014 at 12:37pm EDT
Vinette Thomas shared an album to Pratt Institute School of Information's Timeline.

Thursday, July 17, 2014 at 11:52am EDT
Spotlight on Alumni: Carolyn Vega (2008), Assistant Curator of Literary and Historical Manuscripts at The Morgan Library & Museum http://magazine.good.is/articles/makin-it-carolyn-vega-librarian-for-handwritten-stuff

Wednesday, July 16, 2014 at 3:15pm EDT
http://www.bklynlibrary.org/jobs-business/jobs/librarian

Wednesday, July 16, 2014 at 9:49am EDT
Discovered at AERI 2014: SILS alum David Kim (2006) is a Ph.D. Candidate at UCLA. http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu/post/research-project/project-participants-research-individual/research-assistants/david-kim

Tuesday, July 15, 2014 at 10:05am EDT
SILS profs. Rabina and Cocciolo, and SILS alum Lisa Peet author a new article on archiving social media from the US Federal government. http://manchester.metapress.com/content/y1703403w40v25g0/?p=7f25f57041104d7c9f23b5954e025f86&pi=4

Monday, July 14, 2014 at 3:38pm EDT
http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/papers-mortality/373943/

Monday, July 14, 2014 at 8:28am EDT
Prof. Cocciolo represents SILS at the Archival Education and Research Institute at Univ. of Pittsburgh http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/aeri2014/bio.html

Friday, July 11, 2014 at 2:38pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information & Library Science Students, consider registering for this NYC Archives Unconference taking place in the fall: Registration and Session Proposals are now OPEN for the NYC Archives Unconference on Saturday, September 6, 2014! http://nycarchivesunconference.wordpress.com/ This free event, open to anyone interested in archives, will be held at Barnard College in New York City. Information about the unconference format, the schedule, travel, and accommodations can be found on the website listed above. Registration in advance of the unconference is highly encouraged so we can get an accurate headcount for space and coffee planning. Please register by filling out the form: http://nycarchivesunconference.wordpress.com/register/

Friday, July 11, 2014 at 2:38pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information & Library Science Students, consider registering for this NYC Archives Unconference taking place in the fall: Registration and Session Proposals are now OPEN for the NYC Archives Unconference on Saturday, September 6, 2014! http://nycarchivesunconference.wordpress.com/ This free event, open to anyone interested in archives, will be held at Barnard College in New York City. Information about the unconference format, the schedule, travel, and accommodations can be found on the website listed above. Registration in advance of the unconference is highly encouraged so we can get an accurate headcount for space and coffee planning. Please register by filling out the form: http://nycarchivesunconference.wordpress.com/register/

Friday, July 11, 2014 at 2:38pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information & Library Science Students, consider registering for this NYC Archives Unconference taking place in the fall: Registration and Session Proposals are now OPEN for the NYC Archives Unconference on Saturday, September 6, 2014! http://nycarchivesunconference.wordpress.com/ This free event, open to anyone interested in archives, will be held at Barnard College in New York City. Information about the unconference format, the schedule, travel, and accommodations can be found on the website listed above. Registration in advance of the unconference is highly encouraged so we can get an accurate headcount for space and coffee planning. Please register by filling out the form: http://nycarchivesunconference.wordpress.com/register/ All are invited to Propose a Session (or two!). Information about how sessions will be voted on and managed, as well as the form for proposing, can be found here: http://nycarchivesunconference.wordpress.com/propose/ Please keep checking the website and your inbox for more updates. We hope to see you there!

Friday, July 11, 2014 at 12:15pm EDT
Pratt lamppost signs popping up all over town.

Friday, July 11, 2014 at 11:34am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, July 11, 2014 at 9:29am EDT
Scholarly communication is influential enough to attack a crime ring. Read about A “peer review and citation ring” (want more: register for LIS631 Academic Libraries and Scholarly Communication, fall 2014)

Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 2:15pm EDT
SILS Alum Will Dean writes "Nothing to Fear in Exploring DH Tools” http://slanypublications.org/2014/07/07/nothing-to-fear-exploring-dh-tools/

Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 7:46am EDT
Paris manages to sustain a vibrant bookstore culture, where NY becomes a bookstore desert http://nyti.ms/VJjn2w

Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at 9:26am EDT
SILS alum Boni Joi Koelliker interviewed for Mixed Media Archives blog http://www.mixed-media-archives.com/blog/2014/7/7/in-conversation-boni-joi-koelliker-american-jewish-historical-society

Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at 2:21pm EDT
Vinette Thomas shared a link to Pratt Institute School of Information's Timeline.

Monday, July 7, 2014 at 11:05pm EDT
Best job seeking advice: shave, wear deodorant, and get cleaned-up. These things still do matter. http://www.cnbc.com/id/101796300

Monday, July 7, 2014 at 4:54pm EDT
Interesting research on user responses and support of causes promoted on social media and similar venues

Monday, July 7, 2014 at 3:40pm EDT
SLANY’s blog “Bridge to Excellence” includes the work of several SILS students and alumni, including Rachel Finn, Elizabeth Willse, and Abril Ibarra-Siqueiros http://slanypublications.org/

Monday, July 7, 2014 at 9:37am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Sunday, July 6, 2014 at 5:44pm EDT
SILS student Doris Straus blogs for NYPL http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/07/01/bustles-bear-grease-burnt-brandy-19th-century-self-improvement-manuals

Saturday, July 5, 2014 at 9:16pm EDT
Theatre Library Association has a new website. The President of TLA is SILS part-time faculty, Nancy Friedland.

Saturday, July 5, 2014 at 6:25pm EDT
How to participate in net neutrality debate [INALJ article]

Thursday, July 3, 2014 at 6:48pm EDT
Hobby Lobby, redux.

Thursday, July 3, 2014 at 3:34pm EDT
Cait McKinney--a PhD student at York University in Canada--writes about work at Pratt to digitize feminist and lesbian herstories. http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/out-of-the-basement-and-on-to-internet-digitizing-oral-history-tapes-at-the-lesbian-herstory-archives-cait-mckinney/

Thursday, July 3, 2014 at 1:54pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, July 3, 2014 at 10:54am EDT
Prof. Cocciolo publishes a new paper titled, "Mobile Technology, Oral History and the 9/11 Memorial: A Study of Digitally Augmented Remembrance." http://www.thinkingprojects.org/?p=367

Thursday, July 3, 2014 at 10:07am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information at Proquest.
SILS students with Dean Giannini visit Proquest in Cambridge, UK, after visiting the British Library earlier in the week. Photo from ProQuest

Thursday, July 3, 2014 at 8:07am EDT
Interesting debate erupting over the National Archives' transcription of the Declaration of Independence http://nyti.ms/1mLzS3m

Wednesday, July 2, 2014 at 4:49pm EDT
Children's and YA author Walter Dean Myers passed away yesterday on July 1, 2014.

Wednesday, July 2, 2014 at 1:27pm EDT
In anticipation of throwback Thursday, the SILS website from 2008. It was a real beauty! https://web.archive.org/web/20081209025027/http://sils.pratt.edu/

Tuesday, July 1, 2014 at 8:37am EDT
When to not engage in data-driven decision making. http://nyti.ms/1xabjFz

Monday, June 30, 2014 at 9:24pm EDT
Facebook manipulates the emotions of its users without informed consent. http://nyti.ms/1r8ydwq

Monday, June 30, 2014 at 11:24am EDT
Are listservs valuable in your professional life?

Monday, June 30, 2014 at 9:44am EDT
From ALA conference:

Monday, June 30, 2014 at 9:06am EDT
Need to do digital preservation with no dinero? Digital POWRR project is investigating options for small institutions to do digital preservation. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=893910380619056&id=116070868403015

Monday, June 30, 2014 at 8:59am EDT
A not-so-novel but surprisingly effective outreach strategy: the email newsletter http://nyti.ms/TI97q4

Sunday, June 29, 2014 at 8:03am EDT
Congrats to SILS part-time faculty Emily Drabinski on the publication of her article "Toward a Kairos of Library Instruction"

Saturday, June 28, 2014 at 3:31pm EDT
The SILS community is saddened at the passing of Ernie DiMattia, President of the Ferguson library and formally visiting faculty at SILS. Ernie taught our management course for many years and was valued and respected by faculty and students. We send our condolences to his wife Susan DiMattia, also formally part-time faculty at SILS and accomplished librarian as well.

Friday, June 27, 2014 at 4:10pm EDT
Lepore makes a case that the idea of the moment--"disruptive innovation"--is just an idea with shaky evidence in reality http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/06/23/140623fa_fact_lepore?currentPage=all

Friday, June 27, 2014 at 1:04pm EDT
Street library and lawn chairs courtesy of the Tel Aviv public library

Friday, June 27, 2014 at 10:47am EDT
Guggenheim's Findings Blog features posts from current and former SILS students, including Tali Han, Sebastian Moya and Boni Joi Koelliker http://blogs.guggenheim.org/findings/

Thursday, June 26, 2014 at 1:32pm EDT
SILS Prof. Emily Drabinski is interviewed in Library Journal http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/06/people/academic-movers/academic-movers-2014-in-depth-with-emily-drabinski/

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at 4:33pm EDT
Congrats to SILS students Claudio Leon and Karen Hwang for receiving an ALA Spectrum Scholarship http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2014/06/ala-awards-50-spectrum-scholarships

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at 10:42am EDT
Wow!

Tuesday, June 24, 2014 at 5:51pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014 at 1:59pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Monday, June 23, 2014 at 2:38pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, June 20, 2014 at 4:03pm EDT
Email preservation to be discussed in this week's Projects in Digital Archives class. Appropriate timing too! http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/21/us/koskinen-testifies-before-house-committee-in-tax-case.html

Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 10:48pm EDT
Obama gets scanned by a 3D scanner, and the data and portraits become part of the Smithsonian collection.

Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at 11:25pm EDT
Misha Cocciolo entertains Wednesday night SILS students... in mild violation of campus rules.

Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at 3:39pm EDT
Image Collection Guide

Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 9:09pm EDT
Current student interested in attending this year's SAA Annual Meeting in Washington (Aug. 10-16)? Apply for funding from SAA@Pratt.

Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 8:38pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared their photo.
Going to ALA in Vegas? Come for the cake and stay for the company. ALISE/LIS Cooperative Alumni Reunion will be in ballroom A of the Las Vegas Hotel & Casino on Sunday 6/29th 5:30-7:30pm. There will be appetizers, cash bar and a Pratt cake. See you at ALA!

Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 4:39pm EDT
SILS student Bill Levay wins the F. Gerald Ham Scholarship from the Society of American Archivists. Congratulations Bill! http://www2.archivists.org/node/18927

Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 1:58pm EDT
Proud the business of literature isn't just business. Invitation to Read - Available FREE FOR EVERYONE http://www.hammerandcyclemessengerservice.com Critical Reviews Welcome

Sunday, June 15, 2014 at 9:40am EDT
Could have used an archivist here: how to navigate an abandoned space craft with no documentation http://nyti.ms/SX1ITi

Friday, June 13, 2014 at 11:38am EDT
Frick plans to expand, but not everyone is happy with the plan http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/13/opinion/david-masello-save-the-frick-collection.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=0

Thursday, June 12, 2014 at 12:33pm EDT
Vinette Thomas shared a link to Pratt Institute School of Information's Timeline.

Thursday, June 12, 2014 at 9:46am EDT
Most new technology spending will go toward Cloud Computing http://nyti.ms/1konXHW

Tuesday, June 10, 2014 at 1:12pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 at 12:44pm EDT
Going to ALA in Vegas? Visit Vinette at the Alumni Reception!

Tuesday, June 3, 2014 at 1:06pm EDT
Vinette Thomas shared a post to Pratt Institute School of Information's Timeline.

Tuesday, June 3, 2014 at 1:06pm EDT
Vinette Thomas shared a post to Pratt Institute School of Information's Timeline.

Monday, June 2, 2014 at 2:31pm EDT
An interview with Tanaquil LeClercq--digitized in LIS 665 Projects in Digital Archives--is heavily used in the documentary film about her life and dancing. http://www.afternoonofafaun.com/

Monday, June 2, 2014 at 9:20am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, May 30, 2014 at 11:46am EDT
Important to all of us who deal with people, which basically means all of us:

Friday, May 30, 2014 at 11:11am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, May 30, 2014 at 9:23am EDT
Ian Frazier compares NYPL's failed plan to kids moving in with the parents http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2014/06/02/140602taco_talk_frazier?utm_source=tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weeklyemail&mbid=nl_Weekly%20(38)?mobify=0&intcid=full-site-mobile&mobify=0

Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at 3:13pm EDT
Re-live the Pratt SILS 2014 Showcase on Storify https://storify.com/silssa/2014-sils-student-showcase-and-graduation/

Tuesday, May 27, 2014 at 7:29pm EDT
Turns out it's quite simple.

Friday, May 23, 2014 at 11:46am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, May 22, 2014 at 7:22pm EDT
Metro spotlights SILS graduate (Dec. 2013) Theo Roth.

Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at 5:31am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Anthony Cocciolo.
Prof. Anthony Cocciolo presenting on 3 SILS web archiving projects at the IIPC General Assembly (International Internet Preservation Consortium) at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris http://netpreserve.org/general-assembly/2014/Overview

Saturday, May 17, 2014 at 9:27am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Pratt Institute Alumni's photo.
Peace!

Saturday, May 17, 2014 at 9:21am EDT
A video about the Brach Libraries from NYMag http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/05/libraries-now-new-york-video.html

Friday, May 16, 2014 at 2:56pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information at Radio City Music Hall.
SILS faculty on stage of Radio City wishing all our grads much success!

Thursday, May 15, 2014 at 1:50pm EDT
Prof. Cocciolo is presenting 3 SILS projects next week at the IIPC General Assembly (International Internet Preservation Consortium) at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris http://netpreserve.org/general-assembly/2014/Overview

Friday, May 16, 2014 at 10:20am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information added 6 new photos to the album: SILS Showcase 2014, Graduation Party, Beta Phi Mu Theta Induction — with Irene Lopatovska at Pratt Institute School of Information.

Thursday, May 15, 2014 at 10:10am EDT
Tonight only #PrattSILSshow! Learn about LIS, UX, archives, and more from Pratt SILS students. 5-7pm, reception to follow. Schedule at http://research.prattsils.org/blog/announcements/2014-showcase-program/

Thursday, May 15, 2014 at 9:18am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Chris Alen and 5 others.
The SILS faculty gather for a toast to celebrate with Dr. Cristina Pattuelli, who was awarded tenure by the Pratt Board of Trustees. Congratulations to Dr. Pattuelli on this hard earned promotion and thank you for all her many contributions to SILS.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at 8:34pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared their photo.
SILS Graduation party- open wine bar + lots of food- 7-9pm on Thursday, May 15

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at 3:55pm EDT
Join SILS and SILSA tomorrow at 5pm for our annual #PrattSILSshow of amazing student work! http://research.prattsils.org/blog/announcements/2014-showcase-program/

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at 1:44pm EDT
Join us tomorrow from 5-7pm for our annual #PrattSILSshow of amazing student work (program below)

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at 11:54pm EDT
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/05/19/140519fa_fact_wilkinson

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at 8:14am EDT
European court requires that Google delete links at request of users concerned about privacy http://nyti.ms/1gysWp0

Monday, May 12, 2014 at 10:25pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information with Anthony Cocciolo.
LIS 668 all warped up for the semester

Monday, May 12, 2014 at 10:23pm EDT
SILS student work for the Archives of the Center for Puerto Rican studies ready to be delivered tomorrow.

Thursday, May 8, 2014 at 10:34am EDT
AALL (American Assoc. for law librarians) 2014 legal literature award goes to the book Law Librarianship in the Digital Age. The book includes a chapter by SILS alum Julie Krishnasawmi, is edited by SILS part-time faculty Ellyssa Kroski. Congratulations!

Wednesday, May 7, 2014 at 9:54pm EDT
Good news from Brooklyn: Main building is starting to be occupied after the terrible fire in 2013

Wednesday, May 7, 2014 at 5:14pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Wednesday, May 7, 2014 at 1:14pm EDT
Free event on Cybersecurity and Information Management, TOMORROW, Thursday 10 AM to 4 PM. Registration info at the link.

Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at 11:35pm EDT
Oral history project about Irish conflict continue to highlight the need for archival privilege http://nyti.ms/1nhUIxn

Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at 8:00am EDT
EU rejects international solution to library and archive copyright problems; causes collapse of WIPO meeting.

Monday, May 5, 2014 at 5:43pm EDT
Yoko Ono to receive honorary doctorate at Pratt commencement, among several others. https://www.pratt.edu/news/view/2014-commencement-speaker-and-honorary-degree-recipients-announced

Monday, May 5, 2014 at 5:40pm EDT
Graduation has been moved to RadioCity Music Hall https://www.pratt.edu/events/commencement/

Sunday, May 4, 2014 at 9:40am EDT
Marketing in libraries.

Saturday, May 3, 2014 at 4:58pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, May 2, 2014 at 11:45am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared their photo.
The deadline to submit to SILS Student showcase is May 8 at 11:59 pm! Current students submit here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mo_B0c87odTvCv0idQX4QoWo8QqMuuPsPxVcFcEBowQ/viewform

Monday, April 28, 2014 at 10:23pm EDT
SILS students playing video games after hours at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art.

Monday, April 28, 2014 at 11:30am EDT
the 7,000 images available online at images.library.amnh.org/digital were accessible only at the museum’s fourth floor research library.

Sunday, April 27, 2014 at 8:48am EDT
May 2 in NYC, looks like a great program

Saturday, April 26, 2014 at 9:43am EDT
Congrats to co-authors Amber Billey (SILS alum) and Emily Drabinski (SILS part-time faculty) of their article (along with K.R. Roberto)

Friday, April 25, 2014 at 9:22am EDT
Warhol Computer Art Discovered on 1985 Floppy Discs http://hyperallergic.com/122381/warhol-computer-art-discovered-on-1985-floppy-discs/

Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 12:02am EDT
Whitney Biennial is oh so good as usual; Stuart Comer's 3rd floor is particularly compelling; full of queer Los Angelesness and more. See it before it closes on May 25. http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2014Biennial

Monday, April 21, 2014 at 3:29pm EDT
The "How to Serve Your Diverse Community" panel at the Uniondale Public Library in the Uniondale section of Long Island, New York takes place TOMORROW morning at 9 AM. This is for all librarians and those interested in librarianship to support because this dialogue is much needed. It was originally slated for February but postponed due to one of the many aggravating snow storms in the tri-state area.

Sunday, April 20, 2014 at 9:40am EDT
Prof. Cocciolo teaching a workshop at METRO NY Library Council - Unix Commands and Batch Processing for the Reluctant Librarian or Archivist http://metro.org/events/501/

Friday, April 18, 2014 at 11:04am EDT
National Archives to release a trove of documents from the Clinton administration. http://nyti.ms/Qt0v4M

Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 4:51pm EDT
All types of libraries -- school, public, and academic -- form a library ecosystem that provides and supports lifelong learning.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 3:45pm EDT
Pratt Students- Please take a few moments to answer this survey regarding SILSSA's activities this past semester: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LJFTGZ6

Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 10:43am EDT
"Remember when everything on the interwebz was supposed to be free? Just like a public library? "

Monday, April 14, 2014 at 6:20pm EDT
Become a National Digital Stewardship Resident - Application deadline is May 30 http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/

Saturday, April 12, 2014 at 9:09pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared their photo.
Horses on campus - April 22 - behind the Brooklyn campus library - 9:30-3:30pm

Saturday, April 12, 2014 at 3:32pm EDT
Just missed it, but looks really interesting.

Friday, April 11, 2014 at 5:21pm EDT
Coming up next week!

Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 8:09pm EDT
Interested in Radical Archives? Attend the conference at NYU.

Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 8:09pm EDT
Checkout this workshop hosted by ASIS&T@Pratt

Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 6:38pm EDT
SILS students Rachel Smiley and Allison Piazza guest blog at the DeskSet http://thedeskset.org/hello-from-library-school/

Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 9:32am EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 8:47am EDT
Susan Sontag's born-digital life is made accessible at UCLA http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/04/09/300614977/the-new-age-leaving-behind-everything-or-nothing-at-all

Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at 11:42am EDT
Scholarship opportunity - MLEAD2 - Application due May 5 https://www.pratt.edu/academics/information-and-library-sciences/grant-scholarship-internship/

Monday, April 7, 2014 at 6:24pm EDT
Congratulations to SILS students Corina Bardoff, Leah Honor and Bill Levay. The video tutorial they created for NYPL map division, explaining how to use the Map Warper,is now available on the NYPL website. This tutorial was created as part of the coursework for LIS 652 - Information services and sources. More about the project here: http://wp.me/pMIOW-aO

Monday, April 7, 2014 at 4:28pm EDT
SILS faculty and students presented last week at Museums and the Web 2014 in Baltimore, MD. Presentations include: Craig MacDonald, Seth Persons, Samantha Raddatz, Irene Lopatovska - A Rubric for Assessing the User Experience (UX) of Online Museum Collections: Preliminary Findings and Future Directions http://mw2014.museumsandtheweb.com/proposals/a-rubric-for-assessing-the-user-experience-ux-of-online-museum-collections-preliminary-findings-and-future-directions/ Irene Lopatovska - User expectations for museum digital collections http://mw2014.museumsandtheweb.com/proposals/7509/ Tula Giannini and Jonathan Bowen - The Brooklyn Visual Heritage Website: Brooklyn’s Museums and Libraries Collaborate for Project CHART http://mw2014.museumsandtheweb.com/proposals/the-brooklyn-visual-heritage-website/

Monday, April 7, 2014 at 11:43am EDT
Things to keep in mind what working with big data:

Sunday, April 6, 2014 at 12:37pm EDT
Please take a moment to recognize the support staff that keep our institutions going:

Friday, April 4, 2014 at 2:18pm EDT
Interested in Sound Archives? Be sure to attend this event on April 10 at 6:30p at Pratt Manhattan, hosted by SAA@Pratt and Archivists Roundtable of Metro NY http://www.nycarchivists.org/calendar?eventId=876789&EventViewMode=EventDetails

Thursday, April 3, 2014 at 12:48pm EDT
Where's our cut of the revenue?

Wednesday, April 2, 2014 at 4:58pm EDT
Some give tips on secure searching (2.27min)

Monday, March 31, 2014 at 5:27pm EDT
Milstein and Maps are jointly hosting an open house event titled New York City History Day, this Saturday April 5th. A component of that day is a morning of presentations by librarians and archivists from Brooklyn Historical Society, BPL, Queens Public Library Archives, and NYPL (the Milstein Division and Manuscripts and Archives). Phil Sutton (NYPL SILS alum) will moderate the session. Ivy Marvel (BPL and SILS alum) will be talking about their digitizing the rest of the Brooklyn Eagle, so that should be interesting, other highlights are the QPL Archives, a real treasure trove for Long Island research.

Monday, March 31, 2014 at 3:07pm EDT
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Pratt Institute Libraries's photo.
Checkout the 16mm film screening on April 1 at the Brooklyn campus library.

Monday, March 31, 2014 at 1:37pm EDT
16mm Film Screening for Green Week Tuesday, April 1st from 4:30-6pm at MMB on the Lower Level of the Pratt Institute Library in Brooklyn. Cookies and coffee provided. Max. 20 attendees RSVP to video.library@pratt.edu

Sunday, March 30, 2014 at 8:41am EDT
English follows the French: The planning of this years’ tour is good in progress. The route will be from Montpellier to Lyon, France. The planned date is in August (6-14)

Saturday, March 29, 2014 at 10:11am EDT
Call for papers: Sixteenth International Conference on Grey Literature, December 8-9, 2014 in Library of Congress, Washington DC http://www.textrelease.com/gl16callforpapers.html

Friday, March 28, 2014 at 11:39am EDT
"Hooray for Art Spiegelman: a picture speaks a thousand words. And I don't think the Central Library Plan can survive this drawing"

Wednesday, March 26, 2014 at 10:14am EDT
Check-out Pratt's redesigned website http://www.pratt.edu/ Love it? Hate it?

Wednesday, March 26, 2014 at 10:09am EDT
Race, Gender, Class, Technology—and their Intersections, in Libraries and Archives March 28, 3pm at Pratt Institute School of Information & Library Science. RSVP here: http://plg.prattsils.org/2014/03/race-gender-class-technology-and-their-intersections-in-libraries-and-archives/

Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 9:52pm EDT
Last semester, students in LIS 665 Projects in Digital Archives collaborated with the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS), which is directed by SILS visiting professor Susan Malbin, to enhance the "Jews in America" portal. The portal aims to pull together Jewish collections across the United States (e.g., small historical societies) into one unified portal: http://www.jewsinamerica.org/ Students worked with a variety of collections, and this month content from the College of Charleston and the Rauh Center in Pittsburgh was made available in the Jews in America portal, both of which were datasets assembled by SILS students. Students in the class worked to collect metadata from these institutions, starting out with emails and phone calls, and finally incorporating their metadata into the portal. Students who participated in the project include: Alexandra Bickel, Arielle Cohen, Kate Digirolomo, Michael Gressel, Tali Han, Rich Lee, Suzanne Lipkin, Nora Meyer, Emily Pagano, Genna Sarnak, Jordan Sears-Zeve, Karen Spitzer and Noreen Whysel. To top it off, AJHS has received a grant this month from the Council on Library & Information Resources (CLIR) to even further develop this project.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 11:02am EDT
Checkout the event hosted by SAA@Pratt in collaboration with Archivists Rountable of Metro NY about sound archives. http://www.nycarchivists.org/calendar?eventId=876789&EventViewMode=EventDetails

Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 7:51am EDT
Crowdsourcing to locate Flight 370 . . .

Friday, March 21, 2014 at 11:31pm EDT
SILS alum Jack Martin on his plans for the Providence Public Library http://www.pbn.com/Five-Questions-With-H-Jack-Martin,95841

Thursday, March 20, 2014 at 10:55pm EDT
Detroit bookstore named second best in the world . . .

Wednesday, March 19, 2014 at 8:26am EDT
It takes less than two minutes to send your message supporting NY's Libraries via NYLA's Online Advocacy Center.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014 at 8:33pm EDT
Amsterdam to Brussels: Cycling for libraries -unconference 18 – 26 June 2013

Tuesday, March 18, 2014 at 5:06pm EDT
The guy eating chicken in the viral photo of the NYPL speaks up:

Tuesday, March 18, 2014 at 2:31pm EDT
As seen at NYPL The New York Public Library - still good advice

Tuesday, March 18, 2014 at 12:23pm EDT
Access Services Librarian position available at New York Medical College in Westchester: Job Summary: The Access Services Librarian manages daily activities of the access services department including management of policies and procedures; analyze user activity; assure best use of departmental resources and the functionality of the library facility; reference services; educational media training and backup support. Full description & application instructions:

Tuesday, March 18, 2014 at 8:07am EDT
SILS alum ('13) Gretchen Nadasky authors an article on preserving auction catalogs using web archiving at the Frick http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march14/nadasky/03nadasky.html

Monday, March 17, 2014 at 3:55pm EDT
To Lunch: At the Library, Something You Don’t Have to Return Like many cultural institutions, the Brooklyn Public Library is enhancing its food offerings. It has created a partnership with Four & Twenty Blackbirds, a Gowanus pie company, to run the revamped cafe on the main library’s ground floor. There will be sandwiches, salads and other savories by the Brooklyn chefs John and Mike Poiarkoff, and Stumptown coffee. The library chose March 14, Pi Day, a toast to mathematics that started in 1988 in San Francisco, to open the cafe. It couldn’t resist the pun: Central Library, Brooklyn Public Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Prospect Heights; 718-230-2100; bklynpubliclibrary.org.

Monday, March 17, 2014 at 1:48pm EDT
Happy sunshine week: Promote open access to information.

Sunday, March 16, 2014 at 10:28am EDT
Call to SILS students: Met a distinguished teacher at Pratt? Nominate her or her here for Pratt's highest faculty recognition. http://www.prattsenate.org/dta/

Sunday, March 16, 2014 at 9:05am EDT
SILS Prof. Irene Lopatovska and alum (2013) Bobby Smiley, publish an article "Proposed model of information behaviour in crisis: the case of Hurricane Sandy" Congratulations!

Saturday, March 15, 2014 at 9:35am EDT
4:19 min podcast: Did you know: Data collected from students taking the common core tests allows the data collection contractor, "disturbing access to student records, from kindergarten throughout their academic career, without parental knowledge or consent."

Saturday, March 15, 2014 at 8:57am EDT
Congratulations to Erin Shea, SILS alum (2011) and Library Journal Mover & Shaker for 2014:

Friday, March 14, 2014 at 2:58pm EDT
Very interesting results from the Pew study: Broadly speaking, adults with higher levels of education and household income are more likely to use public libraries than those with lower household incomes and lower levels of education. However, among those who have used a library in the past year, adults living in lower-income households are more likely to say various library services are very important to them and their families than those living in higher-income households.

Friday, March 14, 2014 at 1:25pm EDT
Met a distinguished teacher at Pratt? Nominate her or her here. http://www.prattsenate.org/dta/

Thursday, March 13, 2014 at 5:50am EDT
It only took 124 years, but SILS now has a Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_Institute_School_of_Information_and_Library_Science

Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at 9:57pm EDT
If you are in the DC area on April 8, there's a free event on digital stewardship at National Library of Medicine. For more information and to register . . .

Monday, March 10, 2014 at 4:27pm EDT
Congrats to SILS Prof. Emily Drabinsky - she is a 2014 Library Journal Mover & Shaker http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/03/people/movers-shakers-2014/emily-drabinski-movers-shakers-2014-advocates/

Saturday, March 8, 2014 at 2:36pm EST
Boston Public Library is getting a bold new renovation http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/08/us/breaking-out-of-the-library-mold-in-boston-and-beyond.html?src=me&ref=general

Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 10:30am EST
Article by SILS alum Brandy Zadrozny

Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 11:42pm EST
Getty Images . . . No pay wall . . . More information about Getty's embed tool: http://www.gettyimages.com/Creative/Frontdoor/embed

Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 6:18pm EST
From SAA@Pratt and PLG: Join us for a panel on archives and ways of thinking about activism and democratization in archives on Friday, March 14th from 5:30-7:00 pm. Archivists from five organizations that preserve the work of independent content creators, activists, and artists discuss their collections, opportunities, and challenges.

Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 4:39pm EST
From SILSSA: it isn't too late to sign up for the tour of the The New York Public Library's exhibit: Why We Fight: Remembering AIDS Activism, taking place this Friday at 2PM! More info can be found here: http://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/why-we-fight/more and sign-up here (space is limited!): http://tinyurl.com/ny86mvh

Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 3:51pm EST
METRO announces its new cohort of researchers-in-residence, including two SILS alums: Caroline Gabrielli and Louis Muñoz. Congratulations!

Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 11:34am EST
Congrats to SILS students Kathleen Dowling, Laura Marte Piccini, and Matthew Schofield - their exhibition launched today on the Digital Public Library of America. http://dp.la/info/2014/03/05/new-exhibitions-launch-on-dpla/

Tuesday, March 4, 2014 at 11:39am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared their photo.
Prof. Rabina is presenting this week at the IConference 2014 at Humboldt Universität Berlin https://www.conftool.com/iConference2014/index.php?page=browseSessions&search=Rabina

Monday, March 3, 2014 at 9:47pm EST
Have anyone in the SILS department or Pratt see my ID card? I cannot find it and I fear it is lost.

Monday, March 3, 2014 at 5:46pm EST
http://www.newsweek.com/another-blow-free-labor-columbia-university-halts-academic-credit-internship-230554

Monday, March 3, 2014 at 3:56pm EST
Not likely, but if you haven't been following HONY and/or NYPL renovation news . . .

Monday, March 3, 2014 at 3:06pm EST
Good news Pratt students! The LACUNY Institute has just posted student registration rates--$30 for a day keynoted by Barbara Fister. This is a great local conference worth checking out, at the CUNY Grad Center on April 4th.

Sunday, March 2, 2014 at 4:54pm EST
Besides this being a very nice story, the subplot is one of copyright and how piracy jump-started a music career that had been dormant for 44 years: "more than 30 years later, an ardent fan named Michael Piper got in touch to tell her that he’d reissued the album, without permission. “Thank God he did,” she says. “He built an audience. I thought it was still on the shelf at Universal. I had no idea it was all over the world.”

Sunday, March 2, 2014 at 9:16am EST
1000 St. Nicholas Avenue (at W. 160th St.), Manhattan, NY

Thursday, February 27, 2014 at 9:51pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, February 27, 2014 at 8:28am EST
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/27/arts/design/library-renovation-plan-awaits-word-from-de-blasio.html?ref=arts

Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at 11:44am EST
Yet another snowy day... sigh.

Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at 8:14am EST
Prof. Pattuelli is teaching a workshop today at the Vatican School of Library Science (Scuola Vaticana di Biblioteconomia). The workshop is titled Linked Open Data (LOD) per Biblioteche, Archivi e Musei: Principi, Metodi e Applicazioni.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at 11:41am EST
Nice idea, and very cute dogs. “Our main goal is to get people information. We’re just doing it in different ways.”

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at 11:38am EST
Not just any publishers, but Springer and IEEE, considered two of the more stellar of scientific publishers.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at 11:26am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Humans of New York's photo.
"I work at this library... It's my favorite place in the world"

Monday, February 24, 2014 at 1:35pm EST
No local NARA at work?

Friday, February 21, 2014 at 10:46am EST
Update to the PDF/A file format complicates its ability to act as a digital preservation standard. http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/02/new-ndsa-report-the-benefits-and-risks-of-the-pdfa-3-file-format-for-archival-institutions/

Wednesday, February 19, 2014 at 9:53pm EST
Generation Like - Watch now on Frontline http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/generation-like/

Tuesday, February 18, 2014 at 7:23pm EST
Preserving films made by women - Event tomorrow night

Tuesday, February 18, 2014 at 5:17pm EST
Don't forget to nominate your work from Fall semester for the student showcase! Nomination link is here: http://bit.ly/1mqXMY8 and the deadline for submitting Fall work is March 3rd!

Tuesday, February 18, 2014 at 5:06pm EST
The Paris Review gives a shout-out to SILS alum Susannah Broyles. Actually they call her work excellent!

Saturday, February 15, 2014 at 11:11pm EST
New exhibit from the British Library charts the course of data dissemination across the centuries...

Saturday, February 15, 2014 at 1:44pm EST
Beautiful project in digitization and digital humanities, take the time to explore.

Thursday, February 13, 2014 at 8:31am EST
All classes canceled today for inclement weather. And, something on the lighter side http://flavorwire.com/387224/25-vintage-photos-of-librarians-being-awesome/

Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at 12:35pm EST
Do you have pictures from SILS events or classes that you think are great representations of what the program is all about? Send them our way! We are seeking photos that reflect the spirit of SILS in preparation for Pratt's institute-wide website redesign, and we would love your input. Photos must be a minimum of 1280 x 520 px and 72 dpi, and all submissions must be received by 4:00 pm on Monday, February 17th. Please send all photos to infosils@pratt.edu. Thank you for your help!

Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at 11:15am EST
Occupy Wall Street People's Library reports on what they did with all that money:

Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at 10:25am EST
An important development that all who work (or plan to work) with P-12 populations should note: implementation of Common Core Standards is being delayed in NY State. Read more here.

Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at 8:03pm EST
Please take the time to read each quote, they are beautiful.

Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at 1:44pm EST
... You create games, design communications interfaces, make work go faster and smarter. You find ways to parse data for the next generation. You make information and entertainment accessible for people. Librarians have been doing these same tasks for years. We give people knowledge, entertainment, skills, inspiration. We are both outlet and portal. We are the human interface on the great sum total of (wo)mankind’s knowledge and sometimes we can offer ...

Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at 11:48am EST
NYC-based institutions will be hosting the National Digital Stewardship Residency program, which are 9 month paid residencies for recent LIS graduates to work on digital preservation projects. If interested in being a resident, you are encouraged to attend the webinar on Feb. 19 at 3p. http://metro.org/events/475/

Monday, February 10, 2014 at 7:43pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Saturday, February 8, 2014 at 1:26pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Friday, February 7, 2014 at 1:39pm EST
On the challenges facing archivists on the road to digitization:

Thursday, February 6, 2014 at 10:02pm EST
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon - Outcome of most recent event in article - next one is on March 30

Thursday, February 6, 2014 at 2:21pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Thursday, February 6, 2014 at 10:03am EST
Walking by Macys on 34th? Checkout the windows - knitwear by Pratt fashion students http://www.pratt.edu/news/view/organic_matter_woven_artwear_by_pratt_fashion_to_travel_to_macys_herald_squ/

Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at 10:50am EST
The GL16 conference will take place at The Library of Congress Dec. 8-9. Please consider submitting a paper. For more information, contact SILS prof. D. Rabina

Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at 11:07pm EST
SILS student Doris Straus blogs for NYPL http://web.nypl.org/blog/2014/02/03/macbeth-gallery-art-pamphlet-files

Monday, February 3, 2014 at 3:20pm EST
SILS classes starting at 3p or after are cancelled for Monday, Feb. 3 because of inclement conditions.

Monday, February 3, 2014 at 11:10am EST
Academic freedom in NY State, or the lack thereof and and escalating debate on the boycott of Israeli academics:

Friday, January 31, 2014 at 5:55pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared a link.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 12:01pm EST
[from James Jacobs, Stanford library] maybe libraries' problem is the field seems to think it needs to pay high salaries to lure corporate CEO types -- which has the hugely negative effect of neoliberalizing our libraries (my boss Chris Spitzer Bourg has a good post on the "neoliberal library" that expands on this thinking http://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/2014/01/16/the-neoliberal-library-resistance-is-not-futile/ ). But if we instead had salaries for library directors -- not to mention university presidents and other directors of educational/memory institutions too! -- more in line with our librarians and staff, we'd perhaps lure people with like-minded ideals who wouldn't insist on running their libraries like businesses; who wouldn't insist on destroying collections and services and staffs in order to open coffee shops and computer labs (yes I'm aware of the gross over-simplification). Rather they'd run our institutions as something more, something better, as institutions with long-term vision focusing on access to and preservation of our culture. There's so much more to our libraries than ROI.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 11:50am EST
In this month's myMETRO spotlight, we interview Kai Alexis Smith, a 2014 ALA Emerging Leader, a recent recipient of ARLIS/NA's Wolfgang Freitag Award, and a Class of 2013 graduate of Pratt's School of Information and Library Science. Keep up the great work, Kai!

Monday, January 27, 2014 at 9:40am EST
An oral history project is subpoenaed (the legal system does not recognize "archival privilege") http://chronicle.com/article/Secrets-from-Belfast/144059

Monday, January 27, 2014 at 9:08am EST
Archiving motion pictures challenged by move away from film http://www.npr.org/2014/01/26/266515266/paramount-cuts-film-giving-the-starring-role-to-digital

Sunday, January 26, 2014 at 9:31pm EST
Christina Meninger shared a link to Pratt Institute School of Information's Timeline.

Friday, January 24, 2014 at 12:52pm EST
A rare book that can be read 6 different ways http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/01/this-16th-century-book-can-be-read-six-different-ways/

Friday, January 24, 2014 at 10:14am EST
The Mac turns 30 :-) http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/01/24/265238567/at-30-the-original-mac-is-still-an-archetype-of-innovation?utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook

Friday, January 24, 2014 at 10:12am EST
Pratt Institute School of Information shared Pratt Institute Health and Counseling Center's photo.
Pratt health and counseling services are open to all SILS students.

Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 9:00am EST
Johanna Drucker on scholarly publishing and the humanities

Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 8:43am EST
A quick visualization of what a PhD does http://www.businessinsider.com/the-illustrated-guide-to-a-phd-2012-3

Wednesday, January 22, 2014 at 7:20pm EST
Pratt Institute School of Information added 2 new photos — with Chris Alen and 5 others.
SILS professors Lopatovska, Sula, MacDonald and Rabina, along with SILS alum Julie Graves-Krishnawsami (via Skype) and Queens College professors Cool and Li, presenting at the ALISE conference. Panel topic: Developing research culture within LIS Master degree programs

Wednesday, January 22, 2014 at 11:42am EST
The cover of this month's Archival Outlook comes from the Lesbian Herstory Archives, which is celebrating it's 40th Anniversary this year. Students in LIS 668 Projects in Moving Image and Sound Archiving will be working with and visiting the archive this semester. http://www2.archivists.org/archival-outlook

Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at 4:55pm EST
New place to eat near the other (Brooklyn) campus: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/dining/sea-salts-spiked-with-chile-italian-hot-chocolate-and-more.html?src=rechp

Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at 11:22am EST
Snow day- All SILS classes beginning 2pm and after are canceled

Sunday, January 19, 2014 at 10:01am EST
Unix Commands and Batch Processing for the Reluctant Librarian or Archivist - new in Code4Lib Journal from Prof. Cocciolo http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9158

Saturday, January 18, 2014 at 9:12am EST
Pratt creative writing prof. writes about James Baldwin in Paris http://nyti.ms/1atBgGD

Thursday, January 16, 2014 at 12:34pm EST
Read about Profs. Rabina and Sula's Visualizing First Amendment project in Prattfolio Fall/Winter 2013

Thursday, January 16, 2014 at 11:22am EST
Archivists really hate tape http://preservearchives.tumblr.com/post/73422066648/tape-is-evil-archivists-and-conservators-both

Wednesday, January 15, 2014 at 6:44pm EST
Net Neutrality petition. Not exactly sure how old this is, but it came across my FB feed today.

Wednesday, January 15, 2014 at 11:36am EST
SILS New Student Orientation is this Thursday. Welcome to our new students. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kpaulus/6808292074/

Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at 7:42pm EST
ALA reacted to the decision by saying it “This ruling, if it stands, will adversely affect the daily lives of Americans and fundamentally change the open nature of the Internet, where uncensored access to information has been a hallmark of the communication medium since its inception.”

Monday, January 13, 2014 at 9:26am EST
SILS Prof. Cocciolo featured in Pratt's Differentiate by Design magazine http://issuu.com/prattinstitute/docs/dxd_no._2/32

Friday, January 10, 2014 at 1:49pm EST
Please join: February 1, 2014 12pm-6pm Eyebeam, 540 West 21st Street, NYC From the site: Join us in New York City for an all day communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to contemporary art and feminism. We will provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, reference materials, childcare and refreshments. Bring your laptop, powercord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. For the editing-averse, we urge you to stop by to show your support. More info: http://eyebeam.org/events/art-feminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon

Thursday, January 9, 2014 at 11:29pm EST
Congrats to Laura Marte Piccini, Matthew Schofield and Kathleen Dowling: their exhibition The Show Must Go On! American Theater in the Great Depression will be included on the Digital Public Library of America website in mid-February http://www.dp.la

Thursday, January 9, 2014 at 4:02pm EST
Congrats to Eloise Flood, Julia Marden and Lauren Reinhalter! Documents to the People, the ALA journal for government information librarianship, just published its annual best student papers issue. Flood, Eloise (2013). Solyndra: Rhetoric and reality in a partisan age. Documents to the People 41 (4): 41-46. Marden, Julia (2013). Occupy Wall Street: A brief history of the 99 percent. Documents to the People 41 (4): 47-52. Reinhalter, Lauren (2013). The Gowanus canel: A superfund site – 150 years of stagnation in South Brooklyn. Documents to the People 41 (4): 35-40.

Saturday, January 4, 2014 at 12:09pm EST
Kirsten Clark, Government Documents librarian, speaks about legislation to curb the National Security Agency’s data gathering practices. Here is a link to the bill in question: http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th/house-bill/3361

Thursday, January 2, 2014 at 4:53am EST
The steam whistle at Pratt blows for its last New Years http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/31/a-new-years-traditions-last-ear-splitting-blast/?_r=0