Friday, September 08, 2017

Short online talks on internet archive, refugees/information

The Information School of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs are presenting some free online talks: the format is 15 minutes presentation + 15 minutes discussion. Forthcoming are:
- September 12 5:30-6 pm USA Illinois time (11.30-midnight UK time), in English. Don Krummel, Professor Emeritus, iSchool, speaking on The Anatomy of Bibliography
- September 21 8-8:30 am Illinois time (2pm-2.30pm UK time), in Spanish, topic/speaker to be announced.
- September 26 5:30-6 pm USA Illinois time (11.30-midnight UK time), Karen Fisher, University of Washington, on information and technology services to refugees based on her work in Syria
For more information and the updated schedule, https://publish.illinois.edu/minitalks/
To attend, visit http://go.illinois.edu/minitalks-room - you need flash player
Past talks are archived e.g.
- August 29 in English. Elizabeth MacLeod, Manager of Satellite Digitization Services, Internet Archive, Wilmington, NC: The Community Webs project at the Internet Archive Talk archived at http://media.ischool.illinois.edu/dl/events/lllfa17/aug29_17.mp4


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