Copyright during the Covid-19 crisis

Published: April 28, 2020

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, libraries and educational institutions are using online resources more than ever to serve their communities, students, and patrons. A major concern in the current crisis is providing access to print materials held in institutions’ physical collections. Because many of these works are copyrighted, academic institutions and libraries have evoked the…

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Taking advantage of e-books in the UCLA Library catalog

Published: April 1, 2020

While, sadly, we cannot take advantage of the many books available in UCLA Libraries and the IS Lab collection during this period of online instruction, many Information Studies materials are actually available as e-books. You can search for these materials in the catalog the same way you would normally search for items. Use the filtering…

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IS Lab’s Online Journals

Published: March 20, 2020

Several journals available in the IS Lab may be accessed online, either by open access or using the UCLA VPN. Even when you are sheltered in place, these online journals are a great resource you can use to stay connected to the Information Studies community and remain apprised of recent scholarly work. Open access journals…

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Perspectives on professional labor & library services to incarcerated people in Library Quarterly & Library Trends

Published: March 10, 2020

In this new series of blog posts, we highlight physical resources available for research and experimentation in the IS Lab . For our first blog post, we introduce The Library Quarterly and Library Trends, two longstanding journals of library and information research. Both journals and their editorial teams are composed of scholars with interdisciplinary backgrounds…

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Film Handling and Inspection Workshop

Published: March 10, 2020

Have you ever wanted to know how to handle film? In this workshop, participants will be introduced to the basics of film handling. Participants will first learn the properties of film, proper film storage techniques, and signs of film decay and damage before gaining hands-on experience handling and inspecting films of various formats held in…

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Maker Monday 02-03-2020: Introduction to R

Published: January 31, 2020

On the first Monday of every month, community members meet in the IS Lab to experiment with new technology and techniques that not only look great on the resume, but also enable LIS graduates to hit the ground running in their new professional positions. Our next Maker Monday session is Monday, February 3, 12:30 – 1:30…

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Sayers Lecture Book Club

Published: January 28, 2020

Join UCLA students and alumni for our 2nd Sayers Lecture Book Club! Join us right before the Sayers Lecture for some tea and coffee to discuss the works of Matt de la Peña! As the flyer says, choose any book by Matt de la Peña to read and discuss. This will take place right before…

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OpenUCLA #citeNLM Wikipedia Edit-a-thon – Wednesday, 11/20 from 10am-2pm

Published: November 15, 2019

Wednesday, Nov 20, 2019 – 10:00am to 2:00pm YRL – Main Conference Room OpenUCLA, a Centennial Initiative, will host the Fall 2019 #citeNLM Wikipedia edit-a-thon focused on Mental Health, held in conjunction with the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Pacific Southwest Region. Learn how to adjust and develop Wikipedia articles with scholarship from the UCLA…

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Historic Recordings from the Ottoman Diaspora: Music & Migration, Tuesday, October 29 1:00 PM

Published: October 18, 2019

When: Tuesday, October 29 @ 1:00 p.m. Where: UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive; 1630 Schoenberg Music Building Record Collector Ian Nagoski will address immigrant musical performers from present-day Turkey and Syria who recorded in the U.S. during the 1910s-1940s and present original research on the artists while considering them in the context of both their native and adopted…

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