Kris Kasianovitz

Government Information Librarian, State, Local and International Documents

Contact

krisk11@stanford.edu
(650) 683-5235

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Location

Cecil H. Green Library

Room:

SSRC 123E

Kris's role in the library

I collect state, local and international government information (reports, data, statistics, legislative and regulatory publications) for the Stanford University Library. I also provide research and instruction support in the use of these collections.

Topic Guides by Kris

Guide	Last Updated	Subject tag
Urban Studies	2014-10-06	Human Geography, Government information, Population studies, Public opinion, Public policy, Sociology
Government Information (Jonsson)	2015-10-27	Foreign government information, International government organizations, Local government information, State government information, US federal government information
Decennial Census Manuscript Resources	2013-03-21	American history, Local government information, State government information, US federal government information
What's Cooking at the UN? Cookbooks, Food Programs and Policies of the United Nations	2013-10-24	International government organizations, International relations and politics, Public policy
Protests and Demonstrations	2015-08-25	American history, Communication and journalism, Public opinion, Race and ethnicity studies
CISAC Honors Program, 2015-16	2015-09-18	Economics and business, Foreign government information, International government organizations, International relations and politics
UN Day 2015, The UN at 70	2015-11-04	International government organizations, International organizations, International relations and politics

Course Guides by Kris

Course number	Term	Guide	Instructor
SOC 151 / 251	Spring 2013	From Cradle to Grave: How Demographic Processes Shape the Social World - Sociology 151/ 251	Saperstein, A.
COMM 143, 243	Spring 2014	Communication 143/243 Communication Policy and Regulation	James T. Hamilton, Anita Varma (TA)
Legal Studies	Summer 2015	Legal Rhetoric	Cosovano, L.

Professional activities

American Library Association's Government Documents Roundtable Member, 2000 to current.

Free State Government Information - Putting State Docs in the Public Domain, 2012 to current.

Externanl Advisory Board Member for Integrated Digital Event Archiving and Library (IDEAL) Events Archive Project, 2013 - current.

Stanford University Library's Concierge Project Adisory Group (CPAG), 2012-2015.

Stanford University Library Web Archiving Team, 2013 - current.

Stanford University Library Stanford Digital Repository (SDR) Advisory Team, 2015.

Selected publications

Kasianovitz, Kris M. and Roberts, Regina L. (2015). No Data, No Computation, No Replication or Re-use: the Utility of Data Management and Preservation Practices for Computational Journalism. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/zh188pk0040. Paper and Presentation for the 2015 C+J Sypmposium, Columbia University School of Journalism.

Small, H., Kasianovitz, K., Blanford, R., & Celaya, I. (2012). What Your Tweets Tell Us About You: Identity, Ownership and Privacy of Twitter Data. International Journal of Digital Curation, 7(1). doi:10.2218/ijdc.v7i1.224

Kasianovitz, K. (2008). “Why Care About Copyright?” Documents to the People, 36(2), pp. 12-14. http://wikis.ala.org/godort/images/d/d0/DttP_36n2_web.pdf

Kasianovitz, Kris. (2005). “Homeless Statistics.” Documents to the People. 33(2), 10-11. http://wikis.ala.org/godort/images/c/c4/Dttp_v33n2.pdf

Turnbow, D. Kasianovitz, K. Gilbert, D. Snyder, L. Yamamoto, D. (2005). “Usability Testing for Web Redesign: A UCLA Case Study”, OCLC System & Services. 21(3), 226-234. DOI: 10.1108/10650750510612416

Kasianovitz, Kris. (2003). “E-Government: Good for Citizens, Bad for Libraries? The Impact of State & Local E-Government on Library Collections.” Documents to the People. 31(3/4),D 10-12. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/godort/dttp/dttponline/31n3%264_web.pdf