Archive: 08-09
Programs
Rescuing Voices in Cultural Institutions, by Dr. David Carr
Join us as Dr. Carr presents on the unique ability and responsibility of libraries and museums to bring people together.
Carr says that through times of crisis, cultural institutions remain the instruments best able to approach the complexities, passions, empathies, curiosities, and ambiguities of experience. In museums and libraries, we are at our best when we work toward complexity; we relate knowledge to our lived experiences, and we embrace the tentative. This is how we transform evidence and information into knowledge, and experience into story. We are learning at our best when we expand our language and extend our tentative ways of understanding toward the lives of others. When we do these things, we increase the likelihood that we will have the words to say the complex things we have not said before. Not to speak or break through in this way is to be a captive of the unspoken.
Presented by Dr. David Carr, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel
Hill
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library
Program Flyer (pdf)
Past Programs
The Presidential Records Act and Transparency in Government
On January 21, 2009, President Barack Obama overturned Executive Order 13233,
by which former President George W. Bush had restricted access to presidential records
in 2001. Join us as Dr. Sullivan discusses the Presidential Records Act, the history
of access to presidential records and government information, and the role he played
in reversing EO13233.
Beverages and light refreshments will be served.
Presented by: Dr. Terry Sullivan
Thursday, February 26, 2009
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Pleasants Family Assembly Room,
Wilson Library
Program Flyer (pdf)
Building Shared Data Collections
presented by SILS Professors Reagan Moore and Richard Marciano,
of the Data Intensive Cyber Environments (DICE) group
Thursday, January 15, 2009
10:00 -11:00 a.m.
Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library
Program Flyer
Fall Social
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
10:00-11:30 a.m.
The Anne Queen Faculty Commons
at the Campus Y
See Flyer for Details (pdf)