From rlitwin at gmail.com Fri Jul 1 10:38:15 2016 From: rlitwin at gmail.com (Rory Litwin) Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 07:38:15 -0700 Subject: [Sighfis-l] Robert Montoya wins the 2016 Litwin Books Award for Ongoing Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information Message-ID: We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2016 Litwin Books Award for Ongoing Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information. We are granting this year?s award to Robert Montoya of the UCLA Department of Information Studies, based on his dissertation project, tentatively titled, ?Articulating Composite Taxonomies: Epistemology and the Global Unification of Biodiversity Databases.? Montoya's nominating faculty member wrote: "Our field, information studies, is often misunderstood as a field in which technocrats and managers impose standards on data or records for the purpose of implementing tasks that make it easier for people to find and use information or cultural legacy materials. This misapprehension ignores the complex and profound inquiry into the nature of knowledge models, epistemological discourse, and the historicity of these models and discourses across fields, disciplines and professions. Robert Montoya?s work on classification and nomenclature is relevant to scholars and scientists working with the identification and assessment of species viability. Perhaps more importantly for the Information Studies community, his work on classification used in the natural sciences is going to offer insights into the ways classification systems and knowledge organization meet a specific set of conditions in application and use. His dissertation should also be of interest to those working in the history of science, cultural history, bibliographical study, and discourse analysis from a philosophy of knowledge perspective." The award consists of a certificate suitable for framing and $1000 check. Since this award is for ongoing research, other applicants who are still working on their dissertations will be eligible to enter their work next year, and we strongly encourage them to do so. For more information about the award, please visit http://litwinbooks.com/award.php. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rlitwin at gmail.com Wed Jul 6 11:40:45 2016 From: rlitwin at gmail.com (Rory Litwin) Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 08:40:45 -0700 Subject: [Sighfis-l] CFP reminder: Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene: A Colloquium Message-ID: Call for Proposals **Proposals due August 1st** Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene: A Colloquium May 13-14, 2017 New York University As stewards of a culture?s collective knowledge, libraries and archives are facing the realities of cataclysmic environmental change with a dawning awareness of its unique implications for their missions and activities. Some professionals in these fields are focusing new energies on the need for environmentally sustainable practices in their institutions. Some are prioritizing the role of libraries and archives in supporting climate change communication and influencing government policy and public awareness. Others foresee an inevitable unraveling of systems and ponder the role of libraries and archives in a world much different from the one we take for granted. Climate disruption, peak oil, toxic waste, deforestation, soil salinity and agricultural crisis, depletion of groundwater and other natural resources, loss of biodiversity, mass migration, sea level rise, and extreme weather events are all problems that indirectly threaten to overwhelm civilization?s knowledge infrastructures, and present information institutions with unprecedented challenges. This colloquium will serve as a space to explore these challenges and establish directions for future efforts and investigations. We invite proposals from academics, librarians, archivists, activists, and others. Some suggested topics and questions: ? How can information institutions operate more sustainably? ? How can information institutions better serve the needs of policy discussions and public awareness in the area of climate change and other threats to the environment? ? How can information institutions support skillsets and technologies that are relevant following systemic unraveling? ? What will information work look like without the infrastructures we take for granted? ? How does information literacy instruction intersect with ecoliteracy? ? How can information professionals support radical environmental activism? ? What are the implications of climate change for disaster preparedness? ? What role do information workers have in addressing issues of environmental justice? ? What are the implications of climate change for preservation practices? ? Should we question the wisdom of preserving access to the technological cultural legacy that has led to the crisis? ? Is there a new responsibility to document, as a mode of bearing witness, the historical event of society?s confrontation with the systemic threat of climate change, peak oil, and other environmental problems? ? Given the ideological foundations of libraries and archives in Enlightenment thought, and given that Enlightenment civilization may be leading to its own environmental endpoint, are these ideological foundations called into question? And with what consequences? Formats: Lightning talk (5 minutes) Paper (20 minutes) Proposals are due August 1, 2016. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by September 16, 2016. Submit your proposal here: http://goo.gl/forms/rz7uN1mBNM Planning committee: Casey Davis is Project Manager at the American Archive of Public Broadcasting at WGBH and co-founder of ProjectARCC: Archivists Responding to Climate Change. Madeleine Charney is Sustainability Studies Librarian at UMass Amherst and co-founder of the Sustainability Round Table of the American Library Association. Rory Litwin is a former librarian and the founder of Litwin Books, LLC (Colloquium sponsor) For more information about the colloquium, including a profile of our keynote speaker, Roy Scranton, go to: http://litwinbooks.com/laac2017colloq.php -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From buckland at ischool.berkeley.edu Mon Jul 11 12:49:56 2016 From: buckland at ischool.berkeley.edu (Michael Buckland) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 09:49:56 -0700 Subject: [Sighfis-l] Proceedings from the Document Academy Message-ID: <3df3f016-2ede-5f0b-440e-6bdc8ce5c159@ischool.berkeley.edu> The Document Academy (DOCAM), an informal association concerned with theorizing documents, now has its proceedings published (open access!) by the University of Akron. http://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/ The proceedings of two annual conferences have appeared this way and the latest issue is a collection of essays to mark the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the program in Documentation Studies at the University of Troms?, Norway. SIG-HFIS members are likely find the papers of interest. Michael Buckland -- Michael Buckland Emeritus Professor, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/