SLIS Colloquia

Spring 2008

The SLIS Colloquia for the Spring 2008 semester are currently in the planning stages. Further information should be posted here by February 4th.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 from 3:30-4:20pm

Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland

Shirley and Wayne Wiegand

In 1940, Oklahoma City police raided a progressive bookstore, seizing thousands of books and pamphlets and arresting twenty customers and proprietors. The resulting court cases and convictions caused a nationwide furor. In today's climate of shadowy foreign threatsalso full of unease about the way government curtails freedom in the name of protecting its citizensthe past speaks to the present.

Additional Information about the Presenters

Prior to joining the University of Oklahoma Law School faculty in 1988, Shirley Wiegand practiced law for five years in Lexington, Kentucky. At Oklahoma she was awarded tenure and received several student awards for her teaching and student involvement. ... In 1995, she joined the Marquette University Law School, where she taught litigation courses for eleven years. Her scholarship has focused on litigation-related issues and feminist jurisprudence. She is a member of the prestigious American Law Institute and Professor Emeritus at Marquette University.

Often referred to as the "Dean of American library historians," Wayne Wiegand is the F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies and Professor of American Studies at Florida State University. He also serves as Director of the Florida Book Awards. He teaches and writes in the area of library and book history, and he is editor or co-editor of nine books and author of five, three of which have been given the American Library Association's "Outstanding Contribution to Library Literature" award.

Information about the presenters and their talk is quoted from The 9th Annual First Amendment Congress website.

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 from 7:20-8:20pm

Thesis Research Presentation

Stacy Zemke - MSKM Candidate and SLIS Instructor

Stacy discussed her thesis experience and her research on how academic communities use Web 2.0 technologies in their knowledge sharing.

Where Did Knowledge Management Really Come From?

Dr. Danny Wallace - SLIS Professor

Knowledge Management (KM) is frequently thought of as having come into existence in the 1990s, but the real origins are much deeper than that and tie KM to many other fields, including library and information studies, business administration, education, and philosophy. This talk, based on Dr. Wallace's forthcoming book Knowledge Management: Historical and Cross-Disciplinary Themes, will explore the nature and origins of KM, its past and its future.

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