The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and School of
Government (SOG) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC-
CH) will hold a day-long symposium called “Government Bits:
Stewardship of Public Information in a Changing Digital Landscape” on
March 16, 2012 from 8-4:30 in Room 2601 of Knapp-Sanders Building on
the UNC-CH campus. The symposium will include panel discussions and
other interactive sessions related to lessons and strategies for
professionals to engage in public information stewardship. The regular
rate for the symposium is $60 per person. The student rate is $40 per
person. Registration includes a continental breakfast (8-9 am), lunch,
and beverages.
Online registration for the symposium is available at
http://cfx.research.unc.edu/res_classreg/browse_single.cfm?
New=1&event=E8661CA4F537B1D326C269CB2A8187A7FE107726. The
Symposium web page is available at
http://ils.unc.edu/esopi21/symposium2012.html.
Panelists will contribute insights based on extensive experience in a
variety of professional contexts. They include:
• Richard Barry, Principal, Barry Associates
• Earl Bunting, Director (retired), Information Technology Services,
City of Jacksonville, NC
• Daphne DeLeon, Division Administrator/State Librarian, Nevada
State Library and Archives
• Duncan Friend, Director of Enterprise Technology Initiatives,
Kansas Department of Administration
• Alex Hess, Librarian of the Joseph Palmer Knapp Library, SOG,
UNC-CH
• Sarah Koonts, Acting State Archivist, State of North Carolina
• Cal Lee, Associate Professor, SILS, UNC-CH
• Denny McGuire, Technical Policy Manager, State of North Carolina,
Office of Information Technology Services
• Richard Marciano, Professor and Director of Sustainable Archives
and Leveraging Technologies group (SALT), SILS, UNC-CH
• Theresa Pardo, Director of the Center for Technology in
Government, Albany, NY
• William Rivenbark, Professor of Public Administration and
Government/ Director, Master of Public Administration Program, SOG,
UNC-CH
• Helen Tibbo, Professor, SILS, UNC-CH
• Shannon Tufts, Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for
Public Technology, SOG, UNC-CH
Themes of the day will include challenges in the stewardship of
electronic records; current solutions for digital records environments;
moving from a paper-based environment to a digital environment;
information stewardship strategies for public administrators; and
building information systems for information stewardship.
The symposium is part of Educating Stewards of Public Information in the
21st Century (ESOPI-21), which is a three-year collaboration between
SILS and the SOG at UNC-CH, sponsored by the Institute for Museum
and Library Services (IMLS).
ESOPI-21 is based on the belief that the stewardship of public
information is a fundamental responsibility of a democratic society.
Public information (e.g. agency records, government publications,
datasets) serves as evidence of governmental activities, decisions, and
responsibilities at the local, county, state, and federal levels. Providing
appropriate access to public information promotes accountability, rights
of citizens, effective administration of policy, and social memory.
Public officials and public servants must increasingly make and enact
decisions related to information systems; this requires an understanding
of the ways in which people, information and technology can best
complement each other. At the same time, information professionals are
increasing required to engage in policy discussions and processes, in
order to carry out their duties responsibly and effectively; this requires
an understanding of the history, principles, processes and methods of
public administration.
ESOPI-21 and ESOPI2 are developing educational and professional
engagement opportunities to prepare for the stewardship of public
information and the integration of policy with information technology
solutions and workflows. They are funding graduate-level Fellows, who
pursuing dual degrees at SILS and the SOG, and they are providing
internships for the Fellows at the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA), North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources,
Archives and Records Section (NC-ARS), UNC-CH’s University Archives,
the Town of Chapel Hill, NC, North Carolina’s Orange County Office of the
CIO, NC-LIVE, UNC’s Environmental Finance Center, and the Odum
Institute for Research in Social Science. The project builds on the work
and accomplishments of the DigCCurr I & II (Digital Curation Curriculum)
[LINK TO DIGCCURR SITE] projects, which were also funded by the IMLS.
ESOPI is also benefiting from the extensive knowledge of experts who
compose its Advisory Board, and who are serving as panelists at the
March 16 symposium.
For more information on registration, please contact Wake Harper at
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For questions regarding the symposium, please contact Lori Richards at
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