SLIS Network, Alumni Newsletter, Fall 2000
Katy Borner
Assistant Professor Katy Borner is offering a new course on information visualization. The course provides an overview of the latest developments in the emerging field of information visualization. It will highlight the process of producing effective visualizations that take the needs of users into account and illustrate practical visualization procedures. For more information, see http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/L697/ andhttp://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/L697/iv.jpg.
Blaise Cronin
Dean Blaise Cronin and Helen Barsky Atkins are the editors of The Web of Knowledge: A Festschrift in Honor of Eugene Garfield (see SLIS NEWs stories "Web of Knowledge" and "Honoring The Father Of Hyperlinking" ). Cronin co-authored two papers in the book, "The Scholar's Spoor," with Atkins, and "The Citation Network As a Prototype for Representing Trust in Virtual Environments," with Elisabeth Davenport.
Other recent papers authored by Cronin include "Strategic Intelligence and Networked Business." Journal of Information Science, 26(4), 2000, 131-136;"Semiotics and Evaluative Bibliometrics." Journal of Documentation, 56(3), 2000, 440-453; "Knowledge Management in Higher Education." Co-authored with Elisabeth Davenport. In: Bernbom, G. (ed.). Knowledge Management and the Information Revolution. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass (Vol. 3 Educause Leadership Strategies Series). 2000; "Quis Custodiet Custodes?" International Journal of Information Management, 20(4), 2000, 311-313; "Whatever Happened to Common Sense?" Library Journal, Sept. 1, 2000, 177; and "Accreditation: Retool It or Kill It." Library Journal, June 15, 2000, 54.
Cronin has also made several invited presentations during the last six months, including "Cultural Aspects of Knowledge Management" at Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K.; "Knowledge Management and Higher Education: Acknowledging Cultural Complexity" at Napier University, Edinburgh, U.K.; "Competitive Intelligence and Counter-intelligence: a Strategic Perspective," also at Napier; "e-Warfare," at Manchester Metropolitan University; and "Eros and Technology," at Leeds Metropolitan University, U.K.
In addition, Cronin was the keynote speaker at the tenth annual GCLC Support Staff Symposium in Cincinnati in October.
Cronin was recently appointed to the editorial advisory board of Scientometrics.
Andrew Dillon
Associate Professor Andrew Dillon presented a tutorial on Usability Test Design and Statistics at the ACM SIGCHI Conference in Amsterdam in the spring, and another tutorial on Human Factors in Interface Design for the ACM Digital Libraries Conference in San Antonio in June. Dillon presented a paper at the ACM DL00 Conference on Digital Libraries, co-authored with Misha Vaughan, that was subsequently published in the conference proceedings. The paper was titled "Learning the Shape of Information a Longitudinal Study."
Dillon has recently authored several articles, including "Spatial Semantics and Individual Differences in the Perception of Shape in Information Space."Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51 (6) 521-528; "Designing a Better Learning Environment with the Web: Problems and Prospects." Cyber-Psychology and Education 3 (1) 97-102; and "Genres and the Web Is the Home Page the First Digital Genre?" Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51 (2) 202-205. Co-authored with Barbara Gushrowski.
David Kaser
Distinguished Professor Emeritus David Kaser is the author of Just Lucky, I Guess: My Adventurous Life As a Hoosier Librarian [Vantage Press, Incorporated, NY, 2000]. The book chronicles Kaser's childhood in Indiana, his service in World War II, and his library work at a half-dozen universities, including Indiana. Kaser retired in 1991 after 18 years at SLIS. Kaser's former students may recall his classes in this account of his teaching days at SLIS: "I always attempted to address my instruction to the highest possible stage of their comprehension, where even the best students had to strive to benefit from it fully, and then I would do such remediation outside of class time as needy students were willing to take."
Rob Kling
Professor Rob Kling has been elected to the rank of fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He recently co-authored, with Roberta Lamb, "IT and Organizational Change in Digital Economies: A Socio-Technical Approach" in Understanding the Digital Economy Data, Tools and Research: 295-324. Edited by Brian Kahin and Erik School of Library & Information Science Faculty files Brynjolfsson (MIT Press). See http://mitpress.mit.edu/ude.html. He also is the author of "Asking the Right Questions about the Internet," Information Impacts. See http://www.cisp.org/imp/september_2000/09_00contents.htm and http://www.cisp.org/imp/september_2000/09_00kling-insight.htm.
Thomas Nisonger
Associate Professor Thomas Nisonger has been elected vice chair/chair-elect of the ALA's Library Research Round Table. He also received the SLIS TERA award for teaching excellence.
Nisonger is the author of several recent papers, including "Use of Journal Citation Reports for Serials Management in Research Libraries: An Investigation of the Effect of Self-Citation on Journal Rankings in Library and Information Science and Genetics." College & Research Libraries 61 (May 2000): 263-75; "Usage Statistics for the Evaluation of Electronic Resources." Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services 24 (Summer 2000): 299-302.
He was the issue editor of "Collection Development in an Electronic Environment." Library Trends 48 (Spring 2000): 639-926.
Alice Robbin
Associate Professor Alice Robbin, a political scientist specializing in the study of information policy design and analysis, was voted the winner of the 16th annual Bernard M. Fry/Journal of Government Information Award for the best article of 1999 in JGI. The award was announced in July at the ALA conference in Chicago. Robbin's article was titled "The problematic status of U.S. statistics on race and ethnicity: An imperfect representation of reality." Robbin is the first recipient of the award at IU, where the JGI was founded by former SLIS Dean Bernard M. Fry in 1973.
Howard Rosenbaum
Assistant Professor Howard Rosenbaum received two grants for the development of his electronic commerce/virtual economy course (see SLIS NEWs "Million-dollar research").
His most recent papers include "The Information Environment of Electronic Commerce: Information Imperatives for the Firm." Journal of Information Science 26(3), 161-171; "Social Informatics in the Information Sciences: Current Activities and Emerging Directions. Informing Science 3(2), co-authored with S. Sawyer. http://inform.nu/Articles/Vol3/indexv3n2.htm.
Rosenbaum has recently given papers or talks for the Indiana Library Federation, the Indiana Online Users Group, the Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians, and national/international conferences: "Supercomputing 2000," the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2000), the International Society for Knowledge Organization, the American Society for Information Science, and America's Conference on Information Systems.
He was appointed a fellow in the Syracuse University Center for Digital Commerce and a member of the Indiana University Electronic Commerce Task Force and has been re-elected to the HoosierNet Board of Directors.
Posted December 10, 2000