Carlos Ovalle's Honestly Intentionally Simple Site

My name is Carlos Ovalle. I am a full time member of the technology staff, a lecturer, and a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin School of Information. I manage the IT Lab with the help of the great graduate students who are really responsible for its success. I also do general tech support, licensing, compliance, and the great catch-all of "other duties as assigned." I am an American Library Association Copyright Scholar. I have been the faculty advisor for the UT Anime Club. I am lucky enough to be married to Holly Ovalle.

I am not at the dissertation stage yet, but I am planning to write about the effects of copyright law on the missions and practices of public and cultural institutions such as schools, libraries, archives, and museums.

Some sites where I can be found:

• copy this blog, my weblog; I occasionally write at librarycopyright.net and was a guest blogger at Collectanea
• Copyright Module, one of the modules I wrote for INF 312 (old site link, new one is being updated);
• INF 312, Information in Cyberspace, the course I sometimes teach (author of the Desktop Security module, the Introduction to Unix and Linux module, and the Introduction to Copyright module);.
• I also participate on and maintain the ALA Library Copyright website.

Some of my non-coursework presentations:

• P2P, the RIAA and You, INF 312, Information in Cyberspace, Austin, TX, 7/12/08
• Copyright @ the Magic Lantern Workshop (which had an AWESOME group of middle schoolers), Austin, TX, 6/26/08
• Examining Legal Issues at the Video Game Archive at the University of Texas at Austin, Society of Southwest Archivists annual meeting, Houston, TX, 5/23/08
• Copyright in Collection Management, INF 384D Collection Management, Austin, TX, 4/6/08
• P2P, Class Notes, and Fair Use: Thinking about Copyright, webcast, INF 312 Information in Cyberspace, Austin, TX, 4/5/08
• First Sale and Recent Challenges, INF 390N.2 Seminar in Information Policy, Austin, TX, 2/27/08
• Thinking about Copyright, webcast, INF 312 Information in Cybespace, Austin, TX, 11/6/07
• Creators vs. Consumers: The Rhetoric, Reality, & Reformation of Intellectual Property Law (Comments on Tom W. Bell's "Copyright as Intellectual Property Privilege") Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 10/26/07
• Copyright for School Librarians, Weslaco Independent School District, Weslaco, TX, 8/11/07
• Copyright for Conservators, Records & Information Management for Conservators, American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works, Online Chat, 5/17/07
• Digital Libraries and copyright, INF 385S Digital Library Principles and Development, Austin, TX, 4/27/07
• Thinking about Copyright, webcast, INF 312 Information in Cyberspace, Austin, TX, 4/10/07
• Copyright in the Digital Context, Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC), Los Angeles, California, 3/7/07
• Copyright: What Incoming Students Should Consider, INF 218C Technology Tools for Academic Success, Austin, TX, 2/8/07
• Copyright in K-12 Education, Region One workshop, Edinburg, TX, 12/8/06
• Introduction to Copyright, panel and webcast, INF 312 Information in Cyberspace, with Georgia Harper and Gretchen Hoffman, Austin, TX, 11/14/06
• Copyright and Audio Digitization, INF 385T Audio for the Internet, Austin, TX, Fall 2006
• Introduction to Copyright, webcast, INF 312 Information in Cyberspace, Austin, TX, Summer 2006
• Copyright in Libraries, INF 387C Managing Information Services and Organizations, Austin, TX, Spring 2006
• Introduction to Copyright, webcast, INF 312 Information in Cyberspace, Austin, TX, Spring 2006
• Copyright, Education, and Technology, presented at Region One's 12th Annual Technology Conference, South Padre Island, Texas, 5/17/06
• Copyright and Digitization, in INF 385T Information Science and Knowledge Systems: Creating and Using Digital Media Collections, Austin, TX, 2/24/06
• Introduction to Copyright, INF 312 Information in Cyberspace, webcast, Austin, TX, Fall 2005
• Conversations on Copyright, ALA/TLA Student Chapter at UT's School of Information, Austin, TX, 10/13/05
• Beyond Blackboard: Scaling Online Instruction to Meet Student Demand, Innovations in Online Learning Conference, with Sam Burns, Kayla Jackson, Quinn Stewart, and Patrick Williams, Austin, TX, 6/2/05
  
• Scaling Information in Cyberspace: A Framework for Developing Online Instruction to Meet the Demands of Large Classes, Educause SW Regional Conference, with Lori Eichelberger, Kayla Jackson, Quinn Stewart, and Patrick Williams, Austin, TX, 2/17/05
  

Assisted in:

• Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) 2007 Blog Distillation, with Miles Efron and Don Turnbull

Courses as a doctoral student:

• Appraisal and Selection of Records, Pat Galloway
• Systems of Human Inquiry, Norvell Northcutt
• Independent Study: Copyright Issues at the Video Game Archive of the Center for American History, Pat Galloway
• INF 383D: Mathematical Foundations for Information Studies, Miles Efron
• Public Policy and the Internet, Gary Chapman
• Doctoral Research and Theory II, Randolph Bias
• Doctoral Research and Theory I, Philip Doty
• Independent Study: DSpace on Gentoo and the HRC, Pat Galloway
• Problems in the Permanent Retention of Electronic Records, Pat Galloway

Current Research Projects:

• Copyright Issues at the University of Texas Video Game Archives
• How will we know if it worked? Examining the University of Texas's involvement with the Google Books Project.

Organizations:

• American Library Association (Copyright Scholar)
• EFF-Austin (Board of Directors)
• Society of American Archivists

Hobbies include copyright, anime, games, books, tech, and watching movies (especially at the Alamo Drafthouse).

Some of my email addresses:

• support@ischool.utexas.edu
• cjovalle@ischool.utexas.edu
• i312co@ischool.utexas.edu
• cjovalle@alumni.utexas.net