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Eric Meyer Presents Talk on the Blockchain Movement

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On Friday, September 8th, Eric Meyer, Dean and professor at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin and graduate of the ILS program, joined the Department of Information and Library Science to deliver a talk on his current work with blockchain. 

Meyer’s talk, titled Blockchain as a Computerization Movement and Blockchain Technologies as Socio-Technical Networks, was part of a series hosted by the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics.  

Technologies are socially constructed as they are brought into widespread use. In his talk, Dr. Meyer considered blockchain and its underlying technologies as both a macro-level computerization movement and a micro-level socio-technical interaction network. He also discussed specific examples of his team’s creation of a blockchain-based medical identity tool, Medilinker, to consider broader issues of how digital technologies that replace non-digital equivalents evolve in use. Meyer made sure to stress that this was a work-in-progress talk, welcoming comment and critique from the audience.  

Rosemary Pleva Flynn to be Inducted as Fellow of the Society of American Archivists

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Rosemary Pleva Flynn (C.A.)

From the press release:

“Rosemary Pleva Flynn, principal librarian and archivist at the University of North Dakota, will be inducted as a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) on July 27 during an awards ceremony at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists and SAA in Washington, DC. The distinction of Fellow is the highest honor bestowed on individuals by SAA and is awarded for outstanding contributions to the archives profession.”

View the full press release here!

Ms. Flynn (MLS’00) serves on the Luddy School Alumni Board. Prior to her current position at the University of North Dakota, Ms. Flynn served as Project Archivist here at Indiana University for Phase II of the Indiana University Electronic Records Project.

IU alums hope to make impact with new digital collection creation tool

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Collection Builder LogoTwo ILS department alums, Devin Becker (MLS ’10) and Olivia Wikle (MLS ’18) are part of a team out of the University of Idaho that created and maintain CollectionBuilder, a new free tool for publishing online digital collections. 

See what they’re up to and read more about their project here!

** For further information about CollectionBuilder visit their website. Devin Becker and Olivia Wikle are happy to help anyone considering using or teaching CollectionBuilder. Contact information can also be found on the CollectionBuilder website. ** 

IU Faculty and Doctoral Students Present at International Conference

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Back in person for the first time since 2020, ILS faculty and students started the new year off big by attending a major international conference in Hawaii earlier this month.

From Jan. 3-6, Prof. Pnina Fichman, along with Information Science doctoral students Meredith Dedema and Holly Lopez Long, attended the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Another IU Information Science professor, Susan Herring, also had a paper at the conference. 

 The HICSS is an annual event focused on the areas of information, computer, and system sciences. More than 1,100 scientists, hailing from more than 45 countries, attended this year’s conference, which was held in Kaanapali, on the island of Maui. From the 1,429 papers submitted to this year’s iteration of the HICSS only 678 were accepted. 

Read about their experience and research here!

 

 

ILS Professor Ron Day speaks at Cosmopolitanism conference in Paris

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This past October, Indiana University Information and Library Science Professor Ron Day delivered a keynote talk at an international symposium examining the contributions of key figures of Cosmopolitanism during the early 20th century.

The conference “Instruments for Peace? Albert Kahn, Henri Bergson and the Legacy of Belle Époque Cosmopolitanism,” took place on Oct. 25, 2022, at the Albert Kahn Museum in Paris, France.

View the full article on his keynote address here.

Meet our newest faculty!

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Dr. Rongqian Ma Dr. Allan Martell

Professors Rongqian Ma and Allan Martell are first year ILS faculty members this year. We caught up with both of them a few months into their time here at IU to ask a few questions about their thoughts on IU, Bloomington, and their work so far.

Read the full Q&A here!

Fall 2022 Doctoral Student Research Forum

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Our Fall 2022 Doctoral Student Research Forum was a hit!

Each of the six participating students was recognized for their hard work and professionalism.

4 November 2022, 12pm | Geology Building Room 1050

The top three awards were given to:

Alex Wingate – “From Inventory to Database: Sharing data in Book History” (first place)
Shohana Akter – “Online Political Trolling: A study on 2016 and 2020 U. S. presidential election” (second place)
Haining Wang – “Protecting Author Identity with Artificial Intelligence Trained with the Bible” (second place)

The three students who were given honorary mention for professionalism are:

Megan Vladoiu – “Are Virtual References Color and Gender Blind? Service Equality Revisited”
Meredith Dedema – “Public engagement with science during and about COVID-19 via Twitter: Who, when, what, and how?”
Jieli Liu – “Service Equality in Public Libraries”

View the full article here.

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