Events at Luddy

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The Department of Information and Library Science David Kaser Endowed Lecture is a speaker series on topics relevant to the field of library and information science.

Established by colleagues and students to honor Distinguished Professor Emeritus  David Kaser, the series regularly invites a scholar to campus to deliver a lecture (followed by an open reception) and meet with students and faculty.

A beloved professor, Dr. Kaser taught at IU from 1973 until 1991 and remained active in the library and information science community until his death in 2017.

If you have questions about the Kaser Lectures, please email ilsmain@iu.edu.

• 2025 - Leo S. Lo, Dean of Libraries, Advisor to the Provost for AI Literacy, University Librarian, and Professor of Education at the University of Virginia: "AI Literacy and Libraries: Research, Upskilling, and the Five Tensions of Transformation"
  
  
• 2024- Nicole A. Cooke, Augusta Baker Endowed Chair and a Professor at the School of Library and Information Science, at the University of South Carolina: "The Competent Humility Model: Merging the Powers of Cultural Competence and Cultural Humility"
  
  
• 2023 – Kate Starbird, Associate Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) and Director of the Emerging Capacities of Mass Participation (emCOMP) Laboratory, University of Washington: "Participatory Disinformation during U.S. Elections: Deep Storytelling with an Online Audience."
  
  
• 2021 – Helen Nissenbaum, Professor of Information Science and Founding Director of the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech, New York City: "Contextual Integrity versus Privacy Tradeoff Imperatives."
  
  
• 2019 – Paul Edwards, William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at Stanford University and Professor Emeritus of Information and History at the University of Michigan: “Truth Under Siege: Making Climate Knowledge in an Age of Transparency, Skepticism, and and Science Denial”
  
  
• 2018 – Geoffrey Bowker, Professor of Informatics, University of California, Irvine: “How the West was Won by Data.”
  
  
• 2015 – James L. Mullins, ’84 Ph.D., Dean of Libraries at Purdue University: “How Long the Odyssey”
  
  
• 2012 – Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President and Chief Strategist of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC): “The Research Library: Scalabe Efficiency and Scalable Learning”
  
  
• 2010 - Jinnie Y. Davis, '81 Ph.D., Coordinating Consultant for The Ohio Board of Regents: "Academic Libraries in the For-Profit Sector"
  
  
• 2009 – John Richardson, Jr., ’78 Ph.D., Professor Emeritus at UCLA: “From Hand Printer to Ecological Informatician: Or, How I Discovered the Lost Ship of the Colorado Desert: - an autobiographical speculation on how the field has changed over my thirty plus year career with advice on focusing on the present, studying the past, and planning for the future..."
  
  
• 2008 – William Crowe, ’86 Ph.D., Librarian Emeritus at the University of Kansas: "The Research Library of the Future: A View from the 1960s Revisited"
  
  
• 2004 - Nicholas Basbanes, Author: "The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World"