Another option for Sunday afternoon is a tour of the public library's main branch. The tour (which is free to attend!) will focus on the history of building and library. (Transportation there is on your own.)
Meet inside the entrance of the Main (Oakland) branch building.
4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Directly following the Carnegie Library tour, take a short walk over to the University of Pittsburgh for a tour of the ULS (also free to attend)! Attendees will also get a tour of Pitt’s Cathedral of Learning / Nationality Classrooms as time permits.
Meet in front of Hillman Library main entrance steps. 3960 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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1. specific socio-technical factors that act as drivers in archival workflow creation
2. exemplar archives/library workflow diagrams we've produced
3. examples of eccentricities and similarities across 12 distinct archives and library environments
This snapshot will provide a glimpse into research data management initiatives at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In particular, this talk will highlight the challenges in promoting data sharing and data infrastructure within the unique confines of the National Nuclear Security Administration.
Issues of activism and social justice are currently on the minds of many library and archives leaders. Many in the profession see advocacy for diversity, inclusion, and social justice as part and parcel of the library’s mission to provide access to information and knowledge. Others in the profession, however, believe that explicit attempts at advocacy violate professional values of service and neutrality. And while we as a profession generally agree that libraries are public goods for everyone, how those ideas play out in practice is not without controversy. There are wide differences in interpretation of how we advance these values and first principles, and many in the profession perceive that our professional ethics and the political landscape around us are increasingly at odds.
This Taiga Forum will be a group exploration of what these tensions mean for library leaders in higher education. Through facilitated discussion, participants will share their own stories navigating institutional and personal ideologies, examine case studies of situations where they are at odds, and help each other think through these difficult yet essential issues. We invite library leaders at any level to attend, participate, and learn from one another.
What we want participants to leave with:
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Eira Tansey is the digital archivist and records manager at the University of Cincinnati's Archives and Rare Books Library. She has previously written about Cincinnati's public libraries, the visibility and compensation of archivist's labor, and the effects of climate change on archival practice. She is currently collaborating on a Society of American Archivists foundation grant to develop a comprehensive data set of American archives locations, in order to aid future spatial analysis of the field, and researching environmental regulatory recordkeeping.
Her talk is titled "The Necessary Knowledge," and will focus on the critical role that environmental information plays in environmental protection, drawing on stories from the last century of Pittsburgh's environmental history.
Watch it here: https://forum2017.diglib.org/livestream-recordings/
Issues of activism and social justice are currently on the minds of many library and archives leaders. Many in the profession see advocacy for diversity, inclusion, and social justice as part and parcel of the library’s mission to provide access to information and knowledge. Others in the profession, however, believe that explicit attempts at advocacy violate professional values of service and neutrality. And while we as a profession generally agree that libraries are public goods for everyone, how those ideas play out in practice is not without controversy. There are wide differences in interpretation of how we advance these values and first principles, and many in the profession perceive that our professional ethics and the political landscape around us are increasingly at odds.
This Taiga Forum will be a group exploration of what these tensions mean for library leaders in higher education. Through facilitated discussion, participants will share their own stories navigating institutional and personal ideologies, examine case studies of situations where they are at odds, and help each other think through these difficult yet essential issues. We invite library leaders at any level to attend, participate, and learn from one another.
What we want participants to leave with:
Possible discussion topics include:
Why Share: Politics and Possibilities for Successful Research Data Archives
Michael Lesk(1), Janice Bially-Mattern(2)Preservation and archiving of research data presupposes researchers who deposit in public repositories. However, neither funder-mandated requirements nor institutional support for data curation have persuaded many researchers to do so. What can librarians do? We discuss strategies for cultivating academic cultures of data sharing that support politically sustainable data archives.