In 2012, students at Pratt's MSLIS program were busy delivering presentations, writing articles for publication, and receiving awards. Some of this activity includes: I. PUBLICATIONS Anderson, Davis Erin (2012). An imperfect decade: The culture wars and the National Endowment for the Arts. Documents to the People 40:4 22-26. Anderson, Davis Erin, Dwyer, Grace & Leahy, Sean (2012): Fine-Tuning the Institutional Repository: Evaluating the Self-Archiving Behavior of Researchers in Music, The Serials Librarian, 63:3-4, 277-287. Chadwick, Rebecca (2012): Protecting Open Access to Taxpayer-Funded Research: The Rise and Defeat of the Research Works Act, The Serials Librarian, 63:3-4, 296-304. Gray, Kate (2012): Stealing From the Rich to Entertain the Poor?: A Survey of Literature on the Ethics of Digital Piracy, The Serials Librarian, 63:3-4, 288-295. [Written for LIS 611: Information Policy, Spring 2012] Lopatovska, I., Fenton, M., & Campot, S. (2012). Examining preferences for search engines and their effects on information behavior. Will be published in the Proceedings of the 75th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. [Paper based on a project conducted for LIS 630: Research Methods] Lopatovska, I., Pattuelli, M.C., Lange, L. & Ludas Orlofsky, V. (in print). E-books in Academia: Expectations and Challenges.To be published in the Proceedings of the i-Conference: Scholarship in Action: Data • Innovation • Wisdom, Feb. 12-15. Fort Worth, TX. Pattuelli, M.C. and Rubinow, S. (2012). Charting DBpedia: Towards a cartography of a major Linked Open dataset. In Categories, Contexts and Relations in Knowledge Organization, Proceedings of the 12th International ISKO Conference. Advances in Knowledge Organization, Vol. 13. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 75-82. [Research Project] II. PRESENTATIONS Bottoms, A. & Pollock, C. (2012). A Gallery for the Outlaw: Archiving the Art of the Iconoclast. Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, August 6-11, 2012, San Diego, CA. Favia, A., Sula, C.A., Edelstein, J., Sterman, L., Daly, M., Smiley, B. (2012). The degrees of bioethics: an analysis of journal articles (1970–2010) based on authors’ educational background. Poster presentation at the 14th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics + Humanities, Baltimore, MD, October 19, 2012. Lopatovska, I., Fenton, M., & Campot, S. (2012). Examining preferences for search engines and their effects on information behavior. Paper presented at the 75th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Baltimore, MA, Oct. 26-30, 2012. [Paper based on a project conducted for LIS 630: Research Methods] Macquarie,C., Nicholson, C., Pradt, K., Reporter, A. and Shenitz, B. (2012). New American Heritage: Designing Digital Collections for User Collaboration. Video presented at the panel Digital Liaisons at the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, October 26-30, 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia7G4tsoM24 [LIS 670: Cultural Heritage] Mey, C. (2012). CHARTing Our Progress: Pratt SILS Students and Project Chart. Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, August 6-11, 2012, San Diego, CA. Miller, M., Walloch, J., and Pattuelli, M. C. (2012). Visualizing Linked Jazz: A web-based tool for social network analysis and exploration. Poster presentation at the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, October 26-30, 2012. [Research Project] Miller, M. (2012). Linked Jazz Project. Presented at THATCamp, New York 2012, Lightning Talks, October 5, 2012. Radin, B. F. (2012). Digital Preservation Practices and the Rhizome ArtBase. EMG 2012, American Institute for Conservation, May 8-11, 2012, Albuquerque, NM. Radin, B. F. (2012). Preserving Born Digital Works of Art. Digital Preservation 2012, July 24-26, Arlington, VA. III. AWARDS Davis Erin Anderson, 2012 Change Agent, Library Journal Movers and Shakers Miller, Matt and Steinitz, A. (2012). Winners of the Student Design Competition at the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, October 26-30, 2012. Teresa Silva - 2012 ARL Career Enhancement Program Fellow -- Debbie Rabina, Ph.D, Associate Professor Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science 144 West 14th Street, 6th fl. New York, NY, 10011-7301 [log in to unmask] http://mysite.pratt.edu/~drabina/index.htm Un modere par habitude, un liberal par instinct. - Henri Bergson