These 50 slides presented in Plenary Session I: The Ethics of Global Interconnectivity, on Wednesday, January 12, at the 2005 ALISE Conference, explore the theme of information technology affecting life in the modern world. In answer to the question â How can networked information delivery add functionality and value to architectural space and urban public space?â the author explores the interactions of information technology (IT), architecture, and urban spaces, and claims that the interactions are subtle and complex, and have evolved over time. His statements concentrate on four aspects of information connectivity: 1) staged transformation from points of availability of new technology to continuous fields of availability, 2) fragmentation and recombination of building types and urban patterns, 3) new, valuable forms of human interaction result from injection of digital communication into face-to-face settings, and 4) the paradox of high tech space with a low tech look. Different stages of IT development are outlined as: Stage 1: the mainframe and minicomputer era, Stage 2: the Internet era, Stage 3: Portable wireless devices, Stage 4: Increased wireless functionality, and Stage 5: Ubiquitous connectivity. Many images are shown in support of the ideas presented.

This thesis explores the scientific controversy over the 'Anthropocene', a putative new epoch of geological time conceived in 2000 by atmospheric chemist and earth system scientist Paul Crutzen. I trace the conception of the Anthropocene and explore its spread through a range of disciplines from the earth sciences to the humanities. Particular attention is paid to the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) of the International Commission on Stratigraphy. This group was tasked with considering whether or not the Anthropocene should be subject to stratigraphic formalisation and be made 'real' insofar as the discipline of stratigraphy was concerned. The group's efforts, and the wide-ranging response to them, reveal the challenge of making sense of knowledge as it moves across different disciplines, settings, and contexts. While the AWG was tasked with producing a specifically stratigraphic response to the rising prominence of the Anthropocene, in performing their investigation the group took on board wide-ranging multidisciplinary expertise. As well as raising questions about the appropriate criteria for the group's investigation, the response to the group's efforts from a diverse range of disciplines illustrates the disunity of interdisciplinary work. The movement of the controversy from scholarly journals into an increasingly public sphere reveals further questions about the relationship between scientific authority and society as a whole. While different communities disagreed about the scientific value of the Anthropocene, many shared in their recognition of the role this scientific framing could play in fomenting a political response to anthropogenic global change. This thesis argues that scholarly debates about the Anthropocene illustrate questions about authority, epistemic privilege, and the relationship between disciplines that have ramifications beyond the controversy itself.

This thesis argues that there is a philosophical attempt directed at combating the fragmentation of the sciences that starts with Heidegger and continues today through Trish Glazebrook's interpretations of the former's concept of "reflection," and Carl Mitcham and Robert Frodeman's concept of "critical interdisciplinarity" (CID). This is important as the sciences are both more implicated in our lives and more fragmented than ever. While scientific knowledge is pursued for its own sake, the pertinent facts, meaning, and application of the science is ignored. By linking Heidegger's views on the fragmentation of the sciences to Glazebrook's interpretations of reflection and Mitcham and Frodeman's CID, I show that CID is a concrete realization of Heidegger's reflection.

Postmodern theorist Jean-François Lyotard expresses concern over a particular â slackeningâ or an implicit liberalization that is slowly pervading across disciplines as diverse as art history, philosophy, and politics. Thinkers, he believes, are witnessing the invasion of the postmodern and are accordingly battening down the hatches of the â uncompleted project of modernism.' By extension, one can easily assume that this is occurring across disciplines beyond those that Lyotard mentions explicitly. Accordingly, one may begin to see such ripples within the pond of archives that many of us dip our feet, wade, or completely submerge ourselves in. In this paper, I will primarily discuss Verne Harrisâ conceptions of the postmodern and their implications for the archival profession. I feel that a postmodern analysis of the archival is important, but we must still go further to create a radical conception of it. There is a large divide between theory and praxis in the archival world; while theory is definitely important, we must often step outside it to solve our problems. Rather than relying on it as a normative basis for archival practice we should continue to reevaluate and reconstruct our theories and practices into an â anarchivist program.â

This Microsoft PowerPoint presentation of 25 slides includes several pictures and quotations about and from the "Code for Classifiers: Principles governing the consistent placing of books in a system of classification" by William Stetson Merrill. Coleman briefly explores the problems of classification presented in the Code, the model of collaboration that was used to develop the principles documented in the various editions of the Code, and how the Code can be used to develop a federated classification (classifying) model for digital library organization. The discussion also makes it clear that early American library classification was not just a "mark and park" strategy for book shelving. Librarians and library educators of the time (early 1900s) were deeply interested in bibliographic classification as a solution to the many problems of knowledge organization for information retrieval.

Yes / This short paper celebrates the tenth year Anniversary of QROM by highlighting the importance of continuing to build community and support for qualitative researchers across the world. It also elaborates the relationship between the journal and the biennial international Qualitative Research in Management conference. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

This presentation (of 18 slides) at the Research SIG session titled "Intriguing Interdisciplinary Initiatives" was presented on Thursday, January 13, 2005 at the 2005 ALISE Conference, Boston, MA. It discusses a research study which investigated Small Business (SB) managersâ needs for information and library managers/staff perceptions to design appropriate service models.

This presentation (of 26 slides) at the Research SIG session "Intriguing Interdisciplinary Initiatives" was presented on Thursday, January 13, 2005 at the 2005 ALISE Conference, Boston, MA. Two interdisciplinary projects about digital inclusion (also known as digital divide) involving researchers from the following disciplines at Kent State University: Library and Information Science, Political Science, Nursing , Communication Studies, Adult Literacy, and Sociology are highlighted.

This presentation (of 26 slides) at the Research SIG session "Intriguing Interdisciplinary Initiatives" was presented on Thursday, January 13, 2005 at the 2005 ALISE Conference, Boston, MA. It presents an NSF-funded initiative in which five different academic units at Rutgers University collaborated to do interdisciplinary research with regard to undergrad studentsâ career choices.

A presente pesquisa estuda arte e moda buscando relacionar as duas áreas de conhecimento por meio das teorias interdisciplinares. A parte principal da pesquisa se concentra no estudo de três atos interdisciplinares ocorridos entre os artistas contemporâneos Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami e Vanessa Beecroft produzidos em parceria com Marc Jacobs, diretor criativo da Louis Vuitton. Esses casos de estudo foram selecionados levando em conta o encontro entre moda e arte que busca enfatizar a ação benéfica da arte no produto de moda e da moda no campo da arte. A partir desses casos são levantadas questões pertinentes aos campos da arte, do design e da moda, evidenciando a troca entre eles, em que permeiam a complexidade que demanda um processo integrativo. Há interesse em investigar a qual tipo de interdisciplinaridade cada ato interdisciplinar atende, bem como estudá-los sob um olhar filosófico, sociológico e também sob algumas teorias da arte. Entende-se que o estudo interdisciplinar da moda relacionado a outras áreas concorre para formalizar a pesquisa neste campo. / This research studied art and fashion trying to relate the two areas of knowledge through interdisciplinary theories. The main part of the research focuses on the interdisciplinary study of three acts occurring among contemporary artists Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami and Vanessa Beecroft produced in collaboration with Marc Jacobs, creative director of Louis Vuitton. These cases were selected taking into account the encounter between fashion and art that emphasizes the beneficial action of the art in fashion product and fashion in art. From these cases are raised issues pertaining to the fields of art, design and fashion, showing the exchange between them, in which permeate the complexity that demands an integrative process. There is interest in investigating which type of interdisciplinarity meets every act and study them under a philosophical, sociological look and also under some theories of art. It is understood that the interdisciplinary study of fashion related to other areas contributes to formalize research in this field.