Welcoming Laura Tatum

The Bancroft/KQED Lecture Series

Information Access Seminar

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Welcome to the Environmental Design Archive!

The Environmental Design Archives welcomes Laura Tatum. Laura is the project archivist for a two-year NEH-funded project entitled "The Moderns: Arrangement and Description of Bay Region Architectural Archives." The project will focus on the EDA's collections of material by architects William Wurster and William Turnbull and landscape architects Garrett Eckbo and Robert Royston. Laura comes to the EDA from Yale University, where she was the 2002 Kress Fellow in Art Librarianship. At Yale, she worked closely with the recently-donated papers of modernist architect Eero Saarinen. She has also worked in the Drawings and Archives division of Columbia's Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, as well as in the library of the Museum of Modern Art. Laura received her MSI in Library and Information Services from the University of Michigan in 2002.

Waverly Lowell
Environmental Design Archives

The Bancroft Library/KQED Lecture Series

The Friends of The Bancroft Library and KQED Radio (FM 88.5) invite you to a series of four lectures on the history of California. Distinguished historians J.S. Holliday and James Rawls will each present two lectures in the Heller Reading Room at The Bancroft Library.

Tuesday February 25, 2003, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
A Library for California, J.S. Holliday, Author and Historian Describing the expansion of The Bancroft Library from its origins with Hubert Howe Bancroft to the present

Tuesday, March 11, 2003, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Water Imperialism, J. Rawls, Author and Historian Describing California's massive construction projects to deliver water for its urban/agricultural growth

Tuesday, March 27, 2003, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
An Entrepreneurial Genius, J.S. Holliday, Author and Historian Recounting the career of Henry J. Kaiser as an outstanding example of California's culture of risk-taking and innovation

Tuesday, April 8, 2003, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Kick Out The Southern Pacific, J. Rawls, Author and Historian Recounting Hiram Johnson's campaign for Governor and the long-term impact of reforms achieved under his leadership.

All programs take place in The Bancroft Library, Heller Reading Room. Programs begin promptly at 6:00 pm. Lecture will conclude with a question and answer session. Each program will be recorded for broadcast on KQED Radio (FM 88.5).

William E. Brown, Jr.
Associate Director, Public Services
The Bancroft Library

Information Access Seminar

Friday, February 7, 3-5 pm

The Sociotechnical Construction of Open Source Software Nicholas Ducheneaut:

"Open Source Software (OSS) development is often characterized as a fundamentally new way to develop software. In many OSS projects developers work in geographically distributed locations, rarely or never meet face-to-face, and coordinate their activities over the Internet. In efforts to understand OSS development, social scientists have examined the socioeconomic, political and institutional aspects of this movement.

"However, few studies have paid close attention to the materiality of OSS projects. Indeed email, code and databases constitute the material means through which OSS projects are coordinated and also the material productions of OSS development efforts. It is crucial to take this notion seriously and make material things the focus of OSS studies in order to really understand how these online spaces function.

"I study software development by following the sociotechnical processes that produce, circulate, and transform the email, code and databases of OSS. My approach to studying OSS comprises two mutually informing activities: ethnography and the construction and use of software to visualize and explore the networks of humans and non-humans incorporated in the email, code and databases of OSS. This software's purpose is novel in that it serves both as a theoretical statement and as a tool.

"I hope to illustrate how the place of software in science and technology studies might be extended to support a practice of 'technography' -- a way to embody the findings of ethnographic work in a technical artifact, which in turn can be used as the starting point for further ethnographic research or a way of strengthening the insights of ethnographic analysis. During this talk I will describe this approach further and demonstrate the workings and visualizations of such a 'technographic' software."

The schedule for this series of lectures is found at www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is296a-1/s03/schedule.html.

Everyone interested is welcome!

Michael Buckland
School of Information Management & Systems