University Libraries/LIS Lecture Series Speaker Archives

November 14, 2022
Dr. Kawanna Bright, Assistant Professor of Library Science at East Carolina University.
"Similar, Yet Different: Assessing Academic Libraries' DEIA Efforts"
April 4, 2017
Mark Puente, Director of Diversity and Leadership Programs, Association of Research Libraries (ARL).
"Diversity 2.0: The New Imperative for Inclusion in Academic Libraries and Archives"
March 17, 2016
Doug Boyd, Director of the Louis B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries.
"The Power and Future of Oral History"
November 12, 2015
Jill Strand, President of the Special Libraries Association.
March 4, 2015
Adam Murray, Dean of the University Libraries at Murray State University.
February 20, 2014
Donna Lanclos, Library Ethnographer at the J. Murrey Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte.
November 12, 2013
Amy Rudersdorf, Assistant Director for Content at the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
March 7, 2013
Char Booth, Instruction Services Manager & E-Learning Librarian at the Claremont Colleges Library.
"Quixotic Ferocity: Confronting the Library Crisis Narrative"
December 5, 2012
Rachel Frick, Director of the Digital Library Federation Program at the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR/DLF)
"Networked, Data-Driven, Hyper-Local, Community-driven Hacker Space: AKA The Library"
November 4, 2011
Haipeng Li, University Librarian, Hong Kong Baptist University
"Diversity Through a Global Lens: Hong Kong Academic Libraries"
February 22, 2011
Eric Childress, Consulting Project Manager at OCLC Research
"OCLC Research: Shared Issues, Collaborative Work for Libraries and Beyond"
March 2, 2010
Dennis Meissner, Head of Collections Management at the Minnesota Historical Society
"MPLP: What it's REALLY About and Why it Matters to Archivists, Librarians, and Researchers"
November 14, 2010
Mario A. Ascencio, James V Carmichael Jr., Trae Middlebrooks, and Polly Thistlethwaite.
November 2, 2009
Fred Stutzman, UNC Chapel Hill.
February 11, 2009
Kathleen de la Peña McCook, Distinguished University Professor in the School of Library and Information Science, University of South Florida
"Human Rights: a New Model for Librarianship."
September 8, 2008
Michael Stephens, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University
"Transforming Academic Libraries"
March 17, 2008
Camila Alire, Simmons College, Boston, and San José State University, CA
"Diversity in Libraries"
October 24, 2007
Kimberly Armstrong, Assistant Director, Center for Library Initiatives (CLI), Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC)
"The Impact of the Google Books Project on Libraries"
April 19, 2007
Kenneth D. Crews, Indiana University School of Library and Information Science
"The Changing Role of Copyright in Libraries: New Law and New Opportunities"
October 25, 2006
Elizabeth Aversa, Professor and Director of the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alabama
"Federal Support for Libraries: Past, Present and Future"
February 10, 2006
R. David Lankes
"Customer Service in Academic Libraries"
October 17th, 2005
Sarah Michalak, University Librarian and Associate Provost for University Libraries, UNC Chapel Hill
"The Scholarly Work of Digital Libraries"
April 20th, 2005 (Inaugural Speaker)
Cathy DeRosa, Vice President for Marketing and Customer Services at OCLC
"Thriving in the Amazoogle Environment"