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Digital Rights Management: “Fair Use vs. Encryption”
March 21, 2007
Panel Discussions with:
Miriam Nisbet, ALA
Prof. Susanna Fischer, CUA
Kimberly Kelly, UMUC
Rob Kasunic, US Copyright Office & Visiting Prof

Click here to view Powerpoint of Kimberly Kelley's presentation

For those not able to attend the Digital Rights Management presentation on 3/21/07, the presentation is available online:

http://digitalmedia.cua.edu//calendar/event_dsp.cfm?event=3568

(go to calendar of events and choose the month of March and locate March 21st video tapings)

Life After SLIS: How to Manage Technology in Academic and Special Libraries
January 16, 2007
Presented by Professors David Shumaker and Bill Mayer

Click here to view PDF of Professor Shumaker's presentation

Career Day
April 5, 2006 at 6:30 PM, Life Cycle Building, Room 102

Eight librarians with diverse career paths shared their stories, provided tips on vital job skills, and answered questions from the audience. The ASIST speakers were:

Alan F. Lewis, Audiovisual Preservation Expert, private consultant, & formerly of the NARA Special Media Archives Services Division
Lydia Hellrich, Lexicographer for ERIC, the Education Resources Information Center.
Melissa M. Palus, Co-chair of the ASIST Potomac Valley Chapter
William A. Mayer, Associate University Librarian for Information Technology, George Washington University

Wally Grotophorst, Associate University Librarian for Systems at GeorgeMason University

“LOCKSS: The Purpose, the Project and the Protocol”

March 23, 2006 at 7:00 pm, Marist Hall Room 213

LOCKSS, a digital archiving project, which he has participated in since the early beta efforts. Wally described the underlying technology and discuss ways in which the original protocol are extended to solve a number of digital archiving needs.

To learn more about LOCKSS, click here http://www.lockss.com/

To view the presentation, click here http://deskbox.gmu.edu/cua_asist_lockss.html

David Shumaker, Manager of Information Services at MITRE and Information Professional in Residence at SLIS for the Fall 2005 term

"Knowledge Management and the Librarian of the Future."

December 6, 2005 at 7:30 pm, Marist Hall Room 208

The effective management and use of knowledge has been identified by writers from Peter Drucker to Thomas Davenport and others as a critical condition for success in contemporary organizations. But what's this got to do with librarians? Is it a threat, an opportunity, or simply a non-issue? In this informal talk, SLIS Information Professional in Residence Dave Shumaker presents a vision of librarians as vital contributors in achieving organizational advantage through managing knowledge. Come find out why this doesn't just apply to corporations, either.

Click here to view powerpoint of this presentation!

Edward Trudeau, Manager of Research and Academic Applications Development at the Catholic University of America

"Getting Cyber-Wise about Security"

September 20, 2005 from 7:30-8:30 in the LCI Auditorium

Edward Trudeau spoke about Internet Security. As information systems become more integrated into our daily lives, keeping abreast of current technology becomes an increasing challenge. It is equally difficult to determine and adopt appropriate measures to protect our privacy and critical data, especially as threats evolve in complexity and subtlety. How can we cut through the hype, invest our time and resources wisely, and develop a common sense approach to minimize our risk?

Sally McCallum, Chief of the Network Devolpment and MARC Standards Office at the Library of Congress

"Metadata from MARC to MODS to METS"

Tuesday, March 15, 2005, 4:00 pm. LCI Auditorium

Ms. McCallum illustrated how the classic MARC 21 is related to newer metadata devoplments, such as MARCXML, MODS, and METS. She discussed where they came from, the uses for these data formats and where they might be going in the future. She discussed other important new schemas such as DC, ONIX, and EAD into the landscape, from her perspective.

William A. Mayer, Associate University Librarian for Information Technology, George Washington University

Tuesday, April 5, 2005 3-4:00p.m.

"The Politics of Infrastructure: Managing Core Relationships to Provide Stable Services"

Mr. Mayer focused on multiple strageties available to librarians in order to understand the information technology enviroment supporting their organizations create and maintain effective relationships across campus departments to ensure stable services for the library and identify and champion enterprise-level efforts that include the library as a key campus stakeholder, both as a customer and a provider of information services.

He discussed elements of techno-stress, the library's relativity to campus-wide technology policies and projects, and the future of the university libraries' place on campus.