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Nakata Lectures

The Nakata Lecture is given in honor of Yuri Nakata. Mrs. Nakata completed a distinguished career as documents librarian at UIC in 1979. During her thirteen-year affiliation with the library, she built a collection of over half a million government publications and developed a model for the public use of government documents that has been widely studied and implemented. In 1979, the Congressional Information Service and the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association honored her with its Documents to the People award.

Past Nakata Lectures

The UIC Library has held 27 Nakata Lectures:

  • 2007: "Libraries and E-Government: Current Status and Key Issues" by John Carlo Bertot
  • 2006: "Digital Knowledge Environments: A Grand Challenge for the Humanities and Social Sciences" by John Unsworth (available in streaming video or audio)
  • 2005: "Universities and the Ecology of Scholarly Publication", by R. Michael Tanner (available in streaming video)
  • 2004: "Unlocking the Value of Scientific Research", by Richard K. Johnson
  • 2001: "Click democracy: what does e-government mean to U.S. citizens and librarians?", by John Carlo Bertot
  • 2000: "We manage records at the White House", by Terry Good
  • 1999: "Privacy issues in the electronic age", by Marc Rotenberg
  • 1998: "Information ecologies", by Bonnie A. Nardi
  • 1996: "Access to and services for Federal information in the networked environment", by Joan Cheverie
  • 1994: "Cyberspace democracy: public information and partnerships for public access", by John H, Sulzer
  • 1993: "Education for the information and knowledge work environments
  • 1991: "Knowledge communities and information network policies", by Peter R. Young
  • 1990: "Alexandria in 2001", by Charles B Osborn
  • 1989: "Intellectual freedom in the Eighties: the past as prologue or what goes around comes around", by C.James Schmidt
  • 1988: "National productivity and information access issues--what can we expect from WHCLIS II?", by Patricia Wilson Berger
  • 1987: "Information policy: the new professional ethic", by Kathleen M. Heim
  • 1986: "Science, medical informatics, and the library", by Donald B. Lindberg, MD
  • 1985: "Working in the memory palace", by Barbara Evans Markuson
  • 1984: "Libraries and information in the learning society", by Toni Carbo Bearman
  • 1983: "The Academic library network", by Nina W. Matheson
  • 1982: "A quarter of a century in research libraries", by Y.T. Feng
  • 1981: "Congressional research service: Its research and information role in support of the U.S. Congress", by Gilbert Gude
  • 1980: "Whereas and Therefore: An appreciation of government publications for research", by Carol A. Nemeyer