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Factotem : What Is Information Access For? Feinberg, Melanie

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Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC iSchool. In this talk, I seek to understand what we mean by information access, and what it means to provide information access in a responsible way. Specifically, I examine the idea of facts. How should providers of information deal with facts? To examine this question, I consider the 2017 protest slogan “Librarians for Facts.” What does this slogan really mean? Ultimately, I suggest that information providers need to determine what they are for, and orient information access mechanisms toward that goal.

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Factotem : What Is Information Access For?
Creator
Feinberg, Melanie
Contributor
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Date Issued
2017-10-27
Description
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC iSchool. In this talk, I seek to understand what we mean by information access, and what it means to provide information access in a responsible way. Specifically, I examine the idea of facts. How should providers of information deal with facts? To examine this question, I consider the 2017 protest slogan “Librarians for Facts.” What does this slogan really mean? Ultimately, I suggest that information providers need to determine what they are for, and orient information access mechanisms toward that goal.
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Moving Image
Language
eng
Date Available
2017-11-01
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0357429
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/63519
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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