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View the Recording of the DLIS Colloquium Event on Participatory Heritage and 3D Archiving

Posted on by Kyle M. L. Jones

On Friday, March 24th the Department held its annual colloquium talk. This year, we highlighted the great interdisciplinary work between DLIS and the Media Arts and Sciences Program along with important community partnerships with Bethel Church, the Indiana State Archives, and Indiana State Library.

The abstract describes the panel talk:

Within weeks of a plan to close the doors on the Indianapolis Bethel AME (African Methodist Episcopal) Church, faculty and an alumnus from the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI worked to save the historic church’s troves of archival documents and objects.  Out of this significant contribution to the city’s storied past comes something for the future- a virtual 3-D walk-through of the church that will be open for public use- re-created by faculty and students from the School of Informatics and Computing.

To view the recording, please visit this link: http://disted.informatics.iupui.edu/event/colloquia/Virtual_Bethel_Church_Panel.php

Urgent Action Alert: Help Save Federal Library Funding and IMLS!

Posted on by Kristina Porter

All,

Please consider taking the time to read the following message from the president of the American Library Association regarding current funding concerns:

Dear ALA member,

The time is NOW!  If you’re a librarian, a library worker, anyone who cares about libraries, does business with a library, or if you depend on your library for accurate information, then your Congressperson needs to hear from you – and at least five more people that you mobilize – TODAY!  At least $210 million in federal library funding is on the budget-cutter’s chopping block. Our champions in Congress need your help to save it and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the agency that distributes most of those funds to every state in the country. Everything you need is at ALA’s Legislative Action Center now.

As detailed in the ALA Washington Office blog, the President of the United States effectively proposed eliminating all federal library funding and closing IMLS – the small, respected agency that administers $183 million of those funds through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). He also asked Congress to wipe out $27 million for Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL), which school libraries use to buy books and other materials for the nation’s poorest children. But our library champions in Congress have mobilized to fight back and they need your help to succeed.

Today, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ3) wrote to every Member of the House of Representatives asking them to support LSTA, and Reps. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX30), Don Young (R-AK), and Jim McGovern (D-MA2) circulated a similar letter asking support for Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL). Both letters urge their House colleagues to sign letters to the Appropriations Committee supporting library funding. The first so-called “Dear Appropriator” letter asks the Committee to fully fund LSTA in FY 2018 and the second does the same for IAL.

We know from many past funding fights that these Representatives’ requests of their colleagues simply will not be enough. Members of the House need to hear from their constituents before the April 3rd deadline. Please call your Representative and ask them to sign both the LSTA and the IAL “Dear Appropriator” letters our champions have circulated, otherwise the powerful Appropriations Committees will not make LSTA and IAL a priority, dramatically increasing the odds that they will be cut or eliminated next year.

ALA’s Legislative Action Center has everything you – and five of your friends, patrons, relatives, employees and customers – need to identify your  Member of Congress and to tell him or her by email, tweet or phone to sign the LSTA and IAL “Dear Appropriator” letters to protect those critical programs in the FY 2018 federal budget.

We MUST save federal library funding and IMLS!  If not you and your fellow library lovers, who?  If not right now, when?  Please, act right now!   

To read my full statement about the President’s draconian budget proposals, please visit ALA’s website.

Julie Todaro
ALA President

It’s Not to Late! Come to our Colloquia Series this Afternoon!

Posted on by Kristina Porter

Please attend the LIS Colloquia Series: Participatory Heritage in an Age of 3D Virtualization

Open to the Public: Today, Friday 3/24/2016, 1pm, IT 252

Beverages and Snacks provided

Within weeks of a plan to close the doors on the Indianapolis Bethel AME (African Methodist Episcopal) Church, faculty and an alumnus from the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI worked to save the historic church’s troves of archival documents and objects.  Out of this significant contribution to the city’s storied past comes something for the future- a virtual 3-D walk-through of the church that will be open for public use- re-created by faculty and students from the School of Informatics and Computing.

This panel brings together researchers, technologists, and community members to talk about their experiences, future opportunities, and advancement in research and technology.

 

Copeland is co-editor for “Participatory Heritage”

Posted on by Kristina Porter

How can heritage institutions work with their communities to build broader, more inclusive, and culturally relevant collections? Professor Andrea Copeland is co-editor for Participatory Heritage, a new volume of selected international case studies that addresses the question.

Copeland, associate professor in the Department of Library and Information Science at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI, worked with co-editor Henriette Roued-Cunliffe—assistant professor at the Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark—to explore research that looks at new challenges for cultural heritage institutions that are brought about by social media as a platform for facilitating human organization.

Read the article in its entirety here… https://soic.iupui.edu/news/copeland-participatory-heritage/

Dig Deeper This Summer with Advanced Information Sources Courses

Posted on by Kristina Porter

Once you’ve taken the beginning courses, it’s time to DIG DEEPER into the information sources available within specific disciplines.

The ADVANCED INFORMATION SOURCES cluster contains four courses focusing on information sources and services related to key disciplines. The courses address information needs and behavior patterns of users seeking these types of information. Students will analyze and evaluate research dealing with information channels, research methods, and library service in their areas of professional interest.

Increasingly, library users expect instant, virtual access to materials. While this course includes both print sources such as reference and trade books and electronic sources including bibliographic databases, government and organization websites, audio and video materials, and ebooks; emphasis is placed on how technology and specifically social media can be used to connect with users and provide high-quality service.

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