{"id":3852,"date":"2017-09-10T20:14:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T03:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/asistsc\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=3852"},"modified":"2017-09-10T20:14:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T03:14:56","slug":"meet-the-author-documents-that-changed-the-way-we-live","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"http:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/asistsc\/event\/meet-the-author-documents-that-changed-the-way-we-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Author: Documents That Changed the Way We Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/JJanes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13529\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/JJanes-200x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/JJanes-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.asist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/JJanes-90x135.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.asist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/JJanes-150x225.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.asist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/JJanes-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.asist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/JJanes.jpg 333w\" alt=\"JJanes\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>In 1854, an epidemic of cholera struck the Soho area of London.\u00a0 The prevailing belief was that it was spread by \u201cmiasma,\u201d or noxious air.\u00a0 John Snow, a physician and miasma skeptic, began talking to local residents and then to plot the homes of those infected on a map of the neighborhood.\u00a0 This map revealed that cases were centered on a particular pump on Broad Street and illustrated a grim truth:\u00a0 turn left to get your water and your family likely dies, turn right and you live.\u00a0 After the pump was closed, the epidemic eased, providing one of the first solid pieces of evidence for the germ theory of disease and helping to give rise to epidemiology.<\/p>\n<p>This is but one example of information objects playing important roles in history:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The \u201cExaltation of Innana,\u201d a Sumerian hymn composed about 2300 BCE by the high priestess Enheduanna, likely the first known author<\/li>\n<li><em>Inter gravissimas<\/em>, the 1582 papal bull issued by Pope Gregory XIII which laid out the calendar system we still use<\/li>\n<li>the passage on slavery, deleted during the debate on the Declaration of Independence<\/li>\n<li><em>The Protocols of the Elders of Zion<\/em>, the 1903 anti-Semitic tract that in part laid the intellectual groundwork for the Holocaust<\/li>\n<li>the poorly designed Palm Beach County \u201cbutterfly ballot\u201d on which the 2000 US Presidential election may have hinged<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not all \u201cdocuments\u201d are textual or written, either:\u00a0 consider the Riot Act, which had to be read out to work, the first x-ray images in 1895 which prompted a movement to wear lead undergarments for privacy, the \u201cWe Can Do It!\u201d poster, widely \u2013 though erroneously \u2013 assumed to be a recruiting poster and image of Rosie the Riveter, the AIDS Quilt, the Zapruder Film, the missing 18\u00bd minutes of the Watergate tapes or even the supposed (though never produced) \u201clist\u201d of Communists claimed by Joseph McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>This webinar will tell the stories of documents, their creation and motivation, influence, importance, historical and social context, and connections to contemporary information objects, technologies, and trends. Revealing the power and importance of information through these stories raises awareness of the central and critical position that information holds and also tells the story of human society and its never ending evolution.<\/p>\n<p>After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.<\/p>\n<h3>About the Author<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_8006.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13531\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_8006-300x200.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_8006-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.asist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_8006-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.asist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_8006-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.asist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_8006-90x60.jpeg 90w, https:\/\/www.asist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_8006-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.asist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_8006.jpeg 1280w\" alt=\"Joe Janes\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joseph Janes is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington Information School. A frequent speaker in the US and abroad, he is the author of several books on librarianship, technology, and their relationship, including\u00a0<em>Library 2020,<\/em>\u00a0and has written a monthly column for\u00a0<em>American Libraries\u00a0<\/em>magazine since 2002. He is the creator and host of\u00a0<strong>Documents That Changed the World<\/strong>, a popular podcast series on the cultural impacts of historic documents. He holds the M.L.S. and Ph.D. from Syracuse University, and has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Toronto, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the State University of New York at Albany as well as at Syracuse and Washington.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free to ASIS&amp;T members. 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