Person
Who is the first director of U of I's school of library information science (iSchool)
Katherine Sharp
What library shows the importance of indexing information?
Library of Babel?
What term is the opposite of censorship?
Open Acces
What is cultural genocide?
The destruction of indigenous schools and languages which erases culture
What were the clay writing surfaces used by ancient Mesopotamians to record information?
What Argentinian translator wanted to create a library holding all possible information?
Jorge Luis Borges
This form of information storage is similar to museums but less inclined to tourists?
Archives
Which right guarantees free, uncensored access to information for everyone?
Right to Education.
What is it called when knowledge is destroyed?
Epistimicide
What is it called when you remove someone from history?
Damnatio Memoriae
Who were the people that secretly preserved manuscripts from the threat of the terrorists.
Librarians of Timbuktu
What was the name of the place that held information and was destroyed in the 3rd century due to fires?
Library of Alexandria
What are the 3 parts of information retrieval?
Complete, Searchable, Accessible
What is the difference between active and passive censorship?
Active = Banning by other
Passive = Leaving things out
What classification system uses index cards and provides a standard classification template for libraries?
Dewey Decimal System.
Who helped mechanism the retrieval process for microfilms?
Phyllis Mander-Jones
What term means that every node of a network is connected to every other node in a few steps?
Small World Network
Radical Cataloging
What system of inequality is reinforced when censorship hides historical oppression?
Structural Racism
What is it called when you cherry pick biased data?
Data Massaging
Which Swedish politician and philosopher wrote the law of establishing press freedom and public access to government records.
Anders Chydenius
What does the FDLP stand for and what is its purpose?
Federal Depository Library Program.
Have access to U.S. government information and federal documents.
What 3 main contexts does solutionism ignore when trying to have a technical fix to an issue?
Social, Cultural, Historical
Politics of Freedom of Information
What is the difference between Dublin and Darwin core?
Dublin = standardized metadata effective for digital searching
Darwin = Classifying data for environmental research