Learning In Retirement
The Learning in Retirement (LIR) program, continuing its seventh year, returns this  spring with the following free courses for Center constituents (retirees from UC Berkeley, UC Office of the President and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and their guests).Space is often limited and registration is required - contact the Center to sign up.
If you are interested in learning about the history of LIR click on the link below.
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a brief history and complete listing of LIR.
Libraries – The Intersection of Tradition and Innovation |
Organized by Ann Jensen, Head Librarian, Mathematics Statistics Library |
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Completed: John Ober – California Digital Library, Former Director of UC Office of Scholarly Communication
“From Scholarly Publishing to Scholarly Communication: Libraries’ New Partnerships with Scholars” |
Completed: Rosalie Lack – Director, Digital Special Collections, California Digital Library “From the Gold Rush to the Black Panthers: Discovering UC’s Vast Digital Collections”
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April 3: Charles Faulhaber – Professor and Director of the Bancroft Library“The Library of the Future (the Future is Now)”
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April 10: Ivy Anderson – Director of Collections, California Digital Library and Heather Christenson – Mass Digitization Project Manager, California Digital Library“Massively Digitizing UC Library Collections – Google, Microsoft, and more”
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Libraries are changing! Learn about large and small innovations that are expanding and challenging academic
libraries and scholarship during this time of transition. Lectures will be non-technical in nature, with many visual
examples.
The presentation on March 13th will focus on changing patterns and tools for scholarly communication. March
20th will feature digital versions of art, images, primary historical documents and more. The session on March 27th
session will be based on experience with the high profile partnerships that UC has recently undertaken to digitize
vast portions of their collections. Copyright, open access and new modes of discovering and using materials will be
discussed. The final lecture on April 3rd will pull it all together, as Professor Charles Faulhaber speaks from his own
research experience and from his years as Director of one of the premiere special collections libraries in the world,
the Bancroft Library.
The whole series should leave participants with a better understanding of how technological innovations are
helping to open the library doors to an ever widening community of users, while simultaneously enhancing
scholarship in exciting new ways. |
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New Models of Research Collaboration: How Can University, Industry, and Government Work Together to Advance Technology |
Organized by Professor Lawrence Waldron, Environmental Science Policy and Management |
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This course will take place in April – May. Please call the Center to pre-register. Dates, times, and locations will be
sent to you at a later date.
Scheduled Speakers include:
Carol Mimura, Associate Vice Chancellor, Intellectual Property and Industry Research Alliances (IPIRA)
David Hodges, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Gary Baldwin, Director, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) |
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For more information or to register contact the Center.
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