Podcasts, Libraries and Technology, and Digital Preservation

In this 18 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Roger C. Schonfeld, Manager of Research at Ithaka, an independent not-for-profit organization with a mission to accelerate the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of higher education worldwide.

In this 13 minute recording, Bill Hogue sits down down with CLIR's Interim President, Susan Perry, for a discussion about digtial preservation, IT/Library collaboration, and much more.

In this 21 min minute recording, we'll hear from Chuck Dziuban, Director of the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida. Listen in as he shares some thoughts on information fluency, the importance of libraries and more.

See also:

• How Choice, Co-Creation, and Culture Are Changing What It Means to Be Net Savvy
• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
• An Interview with Roy Rosenzweig

In this 23 minute recording, we'll hear from Bill LeFurgy as he shares some thoughts on the Library of Congress and their National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). 

We'll hear a bit about the digtial collections that the Library of Congress and its partners have assembled -- including polling data, coverage of elections and hurrican katrina on the web, and materials from 9/11 (see my interview with Roy Rosenzweig for more on that).  We'll also hit on data provenance, demand-side selection/archival, the concept of data provenance, and the role for extrensic motivation for contributing to archival repositories.  The Forbes article mentioned in this recording is available here.


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Spring Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

In this 28 minute recording, I sit down with Denise Troll Covey, Principal Librarian for Special Projects at Carnegie Mellon University.  Tune-in as she shares some thoughts about her work covering the Orphan Works debate, insights on fair use and DRM, and close with some thoughts on social software. 


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Spring Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org