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Five minute lightning talks
Part of the Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene:
A Colloquium, 2017
Presenter Info
Jan Zastrow
Jan Zastrow is a certified archivist, librarian, researcher, writer and futurist trained at the Manoa School of Futures Studies at the University of Hawaii. She writes the “Digital Archivist” column for Computers in Libraries.
Presentation Title: “Back to the Future: Everything Old is New Again”
Jennifer Bonnet
Jen Bonnet is a Social Sciences and Humanities librarian at the University of Maine’s Fogler Library, where she engages in a wide range of outreach, develops course-integrated library instruction, teaches a 3-credit information literacy course, and provides in-depth consultations for the campus community. Jen holds an M.S.I. degree in Library and Information Services from the University of Michigan, and an M.A. in Counseling and Personnel Services from the University of Maryland.
Presentation Title: “Engaging with the Human Dimensions of Climate Change”
Monica Berger
Monica Berger is Associate Professor, Instruction and Reference Librarian, NYC College of Technology, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, where she is chair of her library’s scholarly communications committee and manages her local institutional repository, Academic Works. Her scholarship is currently on predatory publishing and she supports the growth of a more equitable and meaningful culture of scholarly communications. John Carey is Associate Professor and Head of the Health Professions Library at Hunter College, CUNY, New York City. His research interests include open access, open science, and scholarly communications as well as librarianship in developing and transition countries.
Presentation Title: (with John Carey) “Open Scholarship and Climate Change: The Imperative for a New Information Ecosystem for the Anthropocene”
John Carey
John Carey is Associate Professor and Head of the Health Professions Library at Hunter College, CUNY, New York City. His research interests include open access, open science, and scholarly communications as well as librarianship in developing and transition countries.
Presentation Title: (with Monica Berger) “Open Scholarship and Climate Change: The Imperative for a New Information Ecosystem for the Anthropocene”
Robert Chen
Robert S. Chen, PhD, is director and senior research scientist at CIESIN, the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University’s Earth Institute in New York and manager of the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), part of NASA’s network of earth science data centers. He received his PhD in geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, holds BS and MS degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is a member of the Governing Council of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan and the Council of the American Geographical Society.
Presentation Title: “Enabling Interdisciplinary Use of Scientific Data on Human Interactions in the Environment”
Hannah Hamalainen
Hannah Hamalainen is the Geospatial and Earth Sciences Librarian at the University of New Hampshire, and previously worked at the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library, the Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park Library and was a rural newspaper reporter in North Carolina. She is currently the president of the Geoscience Information Society.
Presentation Title: “Humanitarian Crisis Mapping in the Library”