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About DLIS / Archives / News
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- 12.8.00 - (12:00 pm - 2:00 pm)
SIS DECEMBER 2000 GRADUATION
PARTY
ALL Graduates, Faculty and Staff are invited to the
December 2000 Graduation Party to be held at the
Frick
Fine Arts Cloister Please RSVP to Anna
Jean Williams by November 30, 2000
- 12.5.00 - (10:00 am)
SIS - COLLOQUIUM
"
Cyber Successes and Challenges at Sandia National Laboratories" presented
by J. Pace VanDevender, Chief Information Officer -
Sandia National Laboratories
Room 502 - IS Building
Bio: As Chief Information Officer at Sandia National
Laboratories, Dr. VanDevender is responsible for defining
and implementing corporate policies and processes that
plan, develop, implement, and maintain Sandia's information
asset and distributed information system. He is responsible
for the information infrastructure, for cybersecurity,
and for making information technology a compelling
advantage for doing science, engineering and manufacturing.
Abstract:
The scientists and engineers of Sandia National Laboratories
rely heavily on information sciences technologies
to help secure a free and peaceful world through technology.
Fulfilling that mission has led to significant accomplishes
and formidable challenges. The speaker will review
some of both in an effort to build some bridges between
Sandia and acadme.
- 11.29.00 - (11:00 am - 12:00 pm)
COLLOQUIUM:
"
The New South Africa: Observation Made at the Conference
of the Library and Information Association of South
Africa." presented by Dr.
E.J. Josey DLIS Professor
Emeritus.
Room 404 - IS Building
- 11.27.00 - (11:30 am - 1:00 pm)
The Tuskegee Syphilis
Study and the Politics of Memory
A presentation by Twyanna Whorley, Doctoral Student
and Teaching Fellow - DLIS Room 503 - IS Building
Between 1932 and 1972, the United States Public Health
Service (PHS) sponsored a human experimentation program
purporting to study the effects of untreated syphilis
on African-American males. The experiment conducted
for forty years involved more than 400 African-American
men in Macon County, Alabama and was known to the medical
profession as the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. The
public disclosure of the experiment generated national
press attention focusing on governmental involvement,
leading to closer scrutiny of many aspects of governmental
and overall research practices, specifically creating
safeguards for those who participate in human research
experiments. The Tuskegee syphilis study continues
to be a high profile incident today, offering an opportunity
to explore several archival issues relevant to the
archival community. This lecture will focus on how
this experience has refined the politics of memory
by using governmental archives, oral history, museums,
and public policy to continue to hold a government
accountable for its actions, underscoring how a community's
memory can function as a mechanism to ensure accountability.
- 11.17.00 - (11:00 am - 12:00 pm)
COLLOQUIUM:
"
Managing Information Security Risk in the 21st Century." presented
by Rich Feingold, First Vice President and Manager
of Mellon Corporate
Information. This presentation will examine the true
risks of today's networked environment
- dispelling the myths and urban legends; explore the
cultural, organizational and technical components
of a modern, effective program; and introduce timely
and relevant topics from current news.
Room 501 - IS Building
- 11.15.00 - (12:00 pm - 1:00 pm)
DLIS BROWN BAG LUNCH
"
Let's Get Together to Talk" with DLIS Chair, Dr.
Chris Tomer.
2nd Floor Student Lounge aka the "SWAMP".
For ALL DLIS students AND Faculty (including Adjunct).
Bring your lunch - COOKIES AND SOFT DRINKS PROVIDED.
- 11.3.00 - (6:00 pm - 8:00 pm)
"
Professional Development & Diversity in the MLIS
Program" Dinner event sponsored by the Student Chapters
of ALA, SLA. ASIS, SAA, and Minority Concerns Council
William Pitt Union - Dining Room A
Must RSVP by October 31, 2000 to Hillary Stevenson
Please include your name, organization affiliation, preference
of vegetarian or non-vegetarian meal, and contact information.
- 11.1.00
Dr.
David Wallace (DLIS alum) and Dr. Richard J. Cox,
DLIS Professor - will be co-editing a collection of
essays on Recordkeeping and Accountability: Lessons
from the Recent Past for Greenwood Publishing. The
volume will include essays on a wide range of topics,
including Swiss banks and Nazi gold, investigations
into alleged Nazi war criminals, the tobacco litigation,
the Internal Revenue Service records management controversy,
various human rights cases and recordkeeping issues,
forgery, custody of Martin Luther King, Jr. papers,
the documentary editing of the United States Foreign
Relations records, and recordkeeping and the Iran-Contra
Affair. The book will be published as a Quorum Books
imprint and is scheduled to appear in late 2001 or
early 2002. Dr. Wallace is an Assistant Professor at
the University of Michigan's School of Information.
- 11.1.00
Dr. Jeannette
A. Bastian (DLIS alum) and Assistant Professor
at Simmons College - GSLIS, will be publishing her
revised dissertation as a monograph with Greenwood
Publishing Group. The study, which will tentatively
be entitled Reconstructing the Past: Archives, Records
and Collective Memory, concerns the role that historical
records play in the construction of community memory
and focuses on a small island community - the U.S.
Virgin Islands, formerly a Danish colony and now a
U.S. possession - and access to the records by the
inhabitants of the islands. Dr. Richard J. Cox was
Dr. Bastian's dissertation advisor.
- 10.30.00 - (11:30 am)
"
Presidential Libraries" a presentation by Professor
Richard J. Cox
Room 503 - IS Building
- 10.25.00 - (12:00 pm)
Dean's Brown Bag Lunch with SIS students
Student lounge, 2nd floor - IS Building
- 10.24.00
Dr. Jeffrey Huber (DLIS alum) has recently
published Encyclopedic Dictionary of Aids-Related Terminology
(Haworth Press, 2000). Dr. Huber is currently an associate
professor at Texas Woman's University and is director
of the PhD program and the Medical Informatics concentration
at Dallas.
- 10.24.00
Professor Richard J. Cox has been named as
Co-Editor of the Records and Information Management Report,
a
technical report published ten times a year for archivists,
records managers, and other information professionals
by Greenwood Publishing Group. Dr. Cox has been a frequent
contributor to this publication since 1992. An extensive
description of basic print and WWW-based resources
regarding the topic of archival and records management
can be found on Dr. Cox's Web Page at: http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~rcox/RESOURCESPreface.htm
- 10.20.00
Professor Richard J. Cox publishes another
new book! : Closing an Era by Greenwood Press
- 10.13.00
Professor Margaret Kimmel named a "Woman of
Spirit" by
Carlow College
- 9.7.00 - (5:30 - 6:60 pm)
PIZZA PARTY: For New SIS Students.
- 8.24.00 and 8.25.00
New DLIS Student Orientation
- 8.1.00
Professor Arlene G. Taylor receives 2000 Highsmith Library
Literature Award at ALA 2000 Annual Conference
- 7.10.00
Join us at the Alumni Breakfast at the ALA
Annual Conference.
- 7.13.00 - Summer 2000 Graduation
Join us from 12:00
pm - 1:30 pm at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
for the Annual Summer Graduation Party . Please
RSVP to Kevin
Martin 412. 624. 7375 no later than Wednesday
July 5, 2000. Location/Map
- SIS - April Graduation Breakfast
April 30, 2000 at 10:30
am , Pittsburgh Mariott City Center , Marquis Ballroom
Please RSVP to Kevin
Martin by April 17, 2000
- Colloquium:
Paul Conway, Candidate for DLIS - Doreen
E. Boyce Chair
"
Preservation in Digital Preservation?" Digital
libraries that support research and teaching should
be expected to conform to standards that help ensure
their persistence over time. Proponents who emphasize
the benefits of enhanced access to resources in digital
form tend to challenge the preservation value of digital
products. Paul Conway will deconstruct the argument
between preservation and access and then define the
preservation components of a digital library. He will
conclude his presentation with an outline of some key
research questions that need to be investigated if
we want to bridge the gulf between preservation and
access in digital environment.
Monday, February 7, 2000.
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Room 501, IS Building
Reception to follow in Room 503
- Colloquium:
Paul B. Kantor, Candidate for DLIS - Doreen
E. Boyce Chair
"
AntWorld: Finding Information in Networked Environments"Existing
systems for finding information on the Web depend on
several concepts: content-bases indexing, expert indexing,
and web structure itself. All have been developed as
indicators of content and, by implication, relevance.
This project seeks to capture additional information
and to build a complementary index that improves access
to information. Conceptually, it is modeled on the
behavior of ordinary ants, which leave pheromone trails
to point towards food. In the Web, these markings must
be specific to the quest that motivates a particular
user. The marking is accomplished by recording information,
called a "Digital Information Pheromone" that
characterizes the quest, and indexes the judgments
that users provide about nodes, links or pages. In
operation, the AntWorld system links a present quest
to the most similar prior quests by others, and provides
suggestion lists, and iconic marking of links leading
to other materials likely to be relevant. The lecture
will explore some of the technical and social issues
surrounding the project, and report on preliminary
testing using groups of test subjects.
Monday, January 24, 2000.
3:00-4:00 pm in Room 501.
Reception to follow in Room 503.
- DLIS Colloquium
" The Development of Danish Public
Libraries 1960-2000"
Thursday, January 20, 2000
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Reception at 4:30 pm
Room 501 IS Building
- Spring 2000 New Student Orientation
Friday, January
7, 2000
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