All educators occasionally wrestle with the matter of travel or other interruptions during the academic semester that take them away from the classroom. This posting offers a turnkey way for information science teachers to productively fill the gap: Hold an Information Science Video Festival!
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The video Learn Information Behavior, 1980s-Style! opens to Lauper’s famous melody and goes on to feature four great information behavior luminaries from the 1980s and their contributions. Specifically, Brenda Dervin’s Sense-Making (1983), Carol Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process (1988), Marcia Bates’ Berrypicking (1989), and Elfreda Chatman’s multiple social theories (1996) are the stars.
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Today, the world of comics and graphic novels is a vast landscape encompassing an array of genres, styles, and storytelling techniques. From fantasy and science fiction to memoirs and historical accounts, comics and graphic novels have proven to be a versatile and engaging medium for people of all ages, particularly children.
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“What is Library and Information Science?” in a 5-minute video. LIS is cast as the mediating force between publications and people. Further, the video distinguishes the academic discipline (library and information science) from the related concepts of its institution (the library) and profession (librarianship). Along the way, several key concepts are defined, such as the reference interview, reader’s advisory, bibliographic control, and information retrieval. Three distinct types of libraries are named (public, academic, special).
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The new 12-episode video series at INFIDEOS, Visual Research Methods, is designed for anyone who may wish to incorporate images, such as photographs or drawings, into a research project.
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AI (Artificial Intelligence) is coming at humanity fast and furious. Shalini Urs discusses the new epoch of AI with one of the fathers of the Internet, Vint Cerf.
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This episode of InfoFire is in conversation with Gautam Menon, Professor of Physics and Biology and Dean of Research and heads the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability (3CS) at Ashoka University, who believes that climate change is a settled science and requires an interdisciplinary approach to mitigate its worst consequences. This will involve cutting-edge research into ecological shifts, monitoring local environments, socio-economic issues connected to climate change, sustainable lifestyles, and the development of effective teaching and awareness tools.
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In this episode of InfoFire, listen to Mark Maybury on Commercializing AI. Maybury is a C-Suite Executive and Board Member with leadership success across public and private sectors with expertise in executive management, innovation commercialization, venture investment, defense and intelligence, cybersecurity, and AI/ML.
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Listen to Sid Mookerji, Founder and Managing Partner of Silicon Road Ventures, Atlanta, USA, in this episode of InfoFire. A successful entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, Mookerji shares his perspectives on “Venture Capital in the US and India: Synergistic Investing.” Here we chat about a range of issues: Sid’s journey from an entrepreneur to a venture capitalist; the nexus between businesses, VCs, government, and academia; why and how technology and innovation fuel the VC landscape; the India story; and what constitutes a healthy ecosystem for VC, amongst others.
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Season’s Greetings from INFIDEOS, a YouTube channel of educational videos about Information Science. Information Science Macarena is a short (2-minute), light-hearted, holiday-themed celebration of some of our field’s colorful characters and their ideas. It was created with students in mind, but is a holiday gift to all enthusiasts of Information Science.
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