Vita

 

Revised  January 11, 2010

Terrence Alan Brooks

Associate Professor
University of Washington
The Information School
Box 352840
Seattle, WA 98195-2840
Voice: (206) 543-2646
Fax: (206) 616-3152
Send me a message at tabrooks@u.washington.edu

Education

Ph.D. Library Science, 1981
Dissertation: "An Analysis of Library-Output Statistics"
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

MBA Business Administration, 1975
York University, Toronto, Ontario

MLS Library Science, 1971
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

Post-Basic Degree Teaching Certificate, 1969
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia

BA English/Philosophy, 1968
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia

Employment

Associate Professor, October 1991-
Assistant Professor, 1986-1991
Graduate School of Library and Information Science,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Assistant Professor, 1982-1986
School of Library and Information Science,
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Lecturer, 1982
Teaching Assistant, 1979-1981
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Business-Economics Librarian, 1976-1978
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Personnel Librarian, 1975-1976
El Paso Public Library, El Paso, Texas

Catalog-Reference Librarian, 1971-1973
Halifax City Regional Library, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Journal Articles

·         “An abandoned web page finds its audience”  With Brian P. Flaherty, Department of Psychology, University of Washington.  The International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, April 2-4, 2007 Las Vegas, NV, edited by Shahram Latifi.  IEEE Computer Society, 2007. pps. 445 – 450.

·         “No Bad Web Pages: Reader Empowerment and The Web” Information Research, 11(3) paper no. 257 [HTML]

·         “The Nature of Meaning in the Age of Google” Information Research, 9(3) paper no. 180  [HTML]

  • “Web Search: How the Web has Changed Information Retrieval”  Information Research, 8(3) paper no. 154. [HTML]     Kurt Cagle’s comments
  • “The Semantic Web, Universalist Ambition and Some Lessons from Librarianship”  Information Research, An International Electronic Journal, v. 7 (4),  July 2002  [HTML]   Editor's introduction to the special issue on The Semantic Web. [HTML]
  • “Where is meaning when form is gone? Knowledge representation on the Web.” Information Research, An International Electronic Journal, v. 6 (2), January 2001 [HTML]      Listing as a “high hit” paper
  • “Still the frontier: Information science at the Millennium”  Introduction to the Millennium issue of JASIS.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 52 (1), January 2001. [HTML]
  • "How Good Are The Best Papers of JASIS?" Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 51 (5), March 15, 2000. [HTML] [pdf]
  • "Relevance Auras: Macro Patterns and Micro Scatter" Proceedings of the 10th ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, October 31, 1999; pps. 27-43. [pdf]
  • "Post-modern Information Science and its 'Journal'" Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 50 (11), September 1999, 1030-1031.
    • Accepted version Accepted for publication in the 50th Anniversary issue of JASIS.
  • "JASIS 2010" - A vision statement for JASIS - Journal of the American Society for Information Science. [pdf] [HTML] An invited vision statement requested by John Wiley, the publisher of JASIS.
  • "The Semantic Distance Model of Relevance Assessment." Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of ASIS, Pittsburgh, PA, October 25-28, 1998: Information Access in the Global Information Economy, Vol. 35 (pp. 33 - 44) [pdf] [HTML]
  • "The Effect of Textual Aesthetics on Information Retrieval" in R.D. Hersch, et al. (Eds.), Electronic Publishing, Artistic Imaging, and Digital Typography: 7th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, EP '98, St. Malo, France, March 30-April 3, 1998 (pp. 454 - 463). Berlin: Springer-Verlay, 1998.
  • "Orthography as a Fundamental Impediment to Online Information Retrieval" [pdf] [HTML] Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v.49(8), 1998, 731-741.
  • "The Relevance Aura of Bibliographic Records." Information Processing and Management, v.33(1), 1997, 69-80.
  • "Topical Subject Expertise and the Semantic Distance Model of Relevance Assessment." Journal of Documentation, v.51(4), December 1995, 370-387.
  • "The Literature of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS): Continuing Changes in Publication Patterns and Subject Access." With Esther G. Bierbaum, School of Library and Information Science, University of Iowa. The Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 46 (7), August 1995, 530-536.
  • "People, Words and Perceptions: A Phenomenological Investigation of Textuality." The Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 46 (2), March 1995, 103-115.
  • "All the Right Descriptors: A Test of the Strategy of Unlimited Aliasing." The Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 44 (3), April 1993, 137-147.
  • "Subject Control of the Literature of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)." With Esther G. Bierbaum, School of Library and Information Science, University of Iowa, and Robert M. Brooks, Alameda Hospital, Alameda, CA. Information Processing and Management, v. 28 (1), 1992, 89-98.
  • "Literature Core Zones Adjusted by Impact Factors." Journal of Information Science, v. 16 (1), 1990, 51-57.
  • "Clustering in Comprehensive Bibliographies and Related Literatures." Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 41 (3), April 1990, 183-192.
  • "Perfect Bradford Multipliers: A Definition and Empirical Investigation." In: Leo Egghe, Ronald Rousseau, eds., Informetrics 89/90, A Selection of Papers Submitted for the 2nd International Conference on Bibliometrics, Scientometrics and Informetrics, London, Ontario, 5-7 July 1989. Amsterdam: Elsevier 1990, 45-55.
  • "Core Journals of the Rapidly Changing Research Front of 'Superconductivity'." Communication Research, v. 16 (5), October 1989, 682-694.
  • "The Model of Science and Scientific Models in Librarianship." Library Trends, v. 38 (2), Fall 1989, 237-249. Selected for publication in Cuadernos de ADAB (la Asociacion de Diplomados y Alumnos de Biblioteconomia y Documentacion, Universidad de Salamanca), v. 1 (1), 1993, 103-119. [Translated to Spanish]
  • "Repetitive Bibliographical Information in Relational Databases." Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 39 (1), January 1988, 2-7.
  • "Bradford Analysis of Authorship Dispersion for Database Design." Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science 50th Annual Meeting, v. 24. Medford, NJ: Learned Information, 1987, 20-23.
  • "Database Management Systems: New Homes for Migrating Bibliographic Records." With Esther G. Bierbaum, School of Library and Information Science, University of Iowa. Library and Information Science Research, v. 9 (4), October-December 1987, 327-339.
  • "Four Approaches to Relational Database Design." Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science, Mid-year Meeting, Portland, OR, May 11-14, 1986. [Published on microfiche]
  • "Evidence of Complex Citer Motivations." Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 37 (1), January 1986, 34-36.
  • "Smoothing Forecasting Methods for Academic Library Circulations: An Evaluation and Recommendation." With John Forys, Engineering Library, University of Iowa. Library and Information Science Research, v. 8 (1), January-March 1986, 29-39.
  • "Designations, Characteristics and Associations in Relational Database Design." Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science 48th Annual Meeting, v. 22. White Plains, NY: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1985, 97-99.
  • "Relational Database Design in Information Science Education." Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, v. 26 (1), Summer 1985, 3-15.
  • "Private Acts and Public Objects: An Investigation of Citer Motivations." Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 36 (4), July 1985, 223-229.
  • "Using Time-Series Regression to Predict Academic Library Circulations." College and Research Libraries, v. 45 (6), November 1984, 501-505.
  • "Naive vs. Sophisticated Methods of Forecasting Public Library Circulations." Library and Information Science Research, v. 6 (2), April-June 1984, 205-214.
  • "Retrieving Information with Interactive Videodiscs." With Joan M. Sustik, Weeg Computer Center, University of Iowa. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 34 (6), November 1983, 424-432.
  • "The Systematic Nature of Library-Output Statistics." Library Research, v. 4 (4), Winter 1982, 341-353.

Information Research columns

·         Watch this: Probe the Semantic Web with SPARQL   14(4) December 2009

·         Watch this: LOD – Linking open data  13(4) December 2008

·         Watch this: LINQ shifts the paradigm of query 13(2) June 2008

·         Watch this: Webified metadata  12 (4), October 2007

·         Watch this: Artisanal animation   12(2), January 2007

·         Watch this: Ajax, YUI and Web 2.0  11(4), July 2006

·         Watch this: Greasemonkey the Web 10(4), July 2005

·         Watch this: Help for sick pages  10(2), January 2005

·         Watch this: Forms Take Center Stage  9(2), January 2004

·         Watch this: Web Services 8(1), October 2002

·         Watch this: Corralling Wild Bits 8(2), January 2003

Research Reports

  • "A Report of the Survey of Adult Library Users of the King County Library System." With Karen Barnes et al. Seattle, WA: King County Library System, 1993.
  • "Iowa Public Library Salary and Benefits Statistics 1985." Public Library Statistics 1984-85. Des Moines, IA: State Library of Iowa, 1986, 69-71.
  • "Predicting Academic Library Circulations: A Forecasting Methods Competition." With John Forys, Engineering Library, University of Iowa. Council on Library Resources, June 1984. Eric Document ED 243 489.

Book Chapters

  • "The Education of Collection Developers." In: Collection Management: A New Treatise, edited by Charles B. Osburn and Ross W. Atkinson. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1991, 145-158.
  • "Database Management Systems." In: Information Technology Applications, edited by Nancy Lane and Margaret Chisholm. G.K. Hall, 1991. 209-226.
  • "Relational Databases." Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Volume 45, Supplement 10, 1990. 333-339.
  • "Citer Motivations." Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Volume 43, Supplement 8, 1987, 48-59.

Book  and Dissertation Reviews

·         Tufte, E. Beautiful evidence. 2006. Journal of Academic Librarianship, January 2008

·         Feldt, K.C. Programming Firefox.  O’Reilly, 2007.  Information Research (http://informationr.net/ir/reviews/revs270.html)

·         Gorman, G.E., ed. Scholarly Publishing in an Electronic Era: International Yearbook of Library and Information Management 2004-2005.

·         Iverson, Will.  Real World Web Services.  O’Reilly, 2005.  Information Research (http://informationr.net/ir/reviews/revs153.html)

·         Brown, John Seely & Duguid, Paul. The Social Life of Information. Harvard Business School Press, 2002.  The Journal of Academic Librarianship, September 2002, p.340

·         Heinle, Nick & Pena, Bill. Designing with JavaScript: Creating Dynamic Web Pages.  O’Reilly, 2002.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, v.53(11), 2002, p. 968-969.

·         Hayles, N. Katherine.  How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics.  The University of Chicago Press, 1999. Library Quarterly, April 2001, 71(2), p. 292

·         Ware, Colin.  Information Visualization: Perception for Design.  Morgan Kaufmann, 2000.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v.51(11), 2000

·         Becker, Howard S. Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It. The University of Chicago Press, 1998. Journal of Academic Librarianship, v.26(2), March 2000, p. 143-4.

·         Bowker, Geoffrey C. and Star, Susan Leigh. Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences. The MIT Press, 1999. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, v.51 (12), October 2000, p. 1149-1150.  [Comment]

·         Baeza-Yates, R. and Ribeiro-Neto, B. Modern Information Retrieval. ACM Press, 1999. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 51 (5), March 15, 2000. p.490.

·         Nardi, B.A. and O'Day, V. L. Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart. The MIT Press, 1999. Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy, v.9(5), 1999, pps. 415-6.

·         Taylor, Arlene G. The Organization of Information. Libraries Unlimited, 1999. Journal of Academic Librarianship, v.25(5), September 1999, pp.413-4.

·         Stein, Lincoln. Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm: The Standard for Building Web Scripts. Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy, v.9(3), 1999, pps.253-4.

·         Pratt, Allan D. Information of the Image, 2d ed. Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 1998. Journal of Academic Librarianship, v. 24, no.5 (September 1998), p. 411.

·         Lamberts, K. & Shanks, D. Knowledge, Concepts, and Categories. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1997. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(7), 1998

·         Stonier, Tom. Information and Meaning: An Evolutionary Perspective. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1997. Information Processing & Management, v.34 (4), p. 505-506.

·         Information Seeking in Context, Proceedings of an International Conference on Research in Information Needs, Seeking and Use in Different Contexts, 1996, Tampere, Finland. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(6), 1998.

·         Hagler, Ronald. The Bibliographic Record and Information Technology. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1997. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, v. 24, no. 2 (March 1998), pp. 174-5.

·         Tufte, Edward R. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1997. Journal of Academic Librarianship July 1997, p. 333.

·         Kingma, Bruce R. The Economics of Information: A Guide to Economic and Cost-Benefit Analysis for Information Professionals. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1996. Journal of Academic Librarianship, January 1997, p. 54.

·         Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Conference on the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics. Medford, NJ: Learned Information, 1995. The Library Quarterly, v.67 (1), January 1997, p. 93-95.

·         Coyne, Richard. Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age, From Method to Metaphor. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 47(9), September 1996, p. 719-720.

·         Tague-Sutcliffe, Jean. Measuring Information. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1995. Journal of Academic Librarianship, March 1996, p. 147.

·         Diodato, Virgil. Dictionary of Bibliometrics. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 1994. The Library Quarterly, v. 66 (1), January 1996, 103-105.

·         Information Retrieval: New Systems and Current Research. Proceedings of the 15th Research Colloquium of the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group, Glasgow, 1993. London: Taylor Graham, 1994. The Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 46(9), October 1995, 713-714.

·         Lancaster, F. Wilfrid and Warner, Amy J. Information Retrieval Today. Arlington, VA: Information Resources Press, 1993. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 45 (10), December 1994, 800-801.

·         Ingwersen, Peter. Information Retrieval Interaction. London: Taylor Graham, 1992. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 44 (5), June 1993, 303-304.

·         Wrenn, Thomas Tunnell. "Citation Analysis and Emerging Technologies: Foundational Technical Developments in Optical Disk Technology." Ph.D. dissertation, West Virginia University, 1989. Library and Information Science Research, v. 13 (3), July-September 1991, 302-304.

·         Main, Linda Young. "Computer Simulation Modeling and Circulation: An Exploration of Some of the Factors that Inhibit the Adoption of Computer Simulation Models in Libraries." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989. Library and Information Science Research, v. 14 (1) January-March 1992, 107-109.

·         McClure, Charles R. and Hernon, Peter, eds. Library and Information Science Research: Perspectives and Strategies for Improvement. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing, 1991. Library Quarterly, v. 62 (1), January 1992, 116-118.

·         Al-Sabbagh, Imad A. "The Evolution of the Interdisciplinarity of Information Science: A Bibliometric Study." Ph.D. dissertation, The Florida State University, 1987. Library and Information Science Research, v. 13 (2), April-June 1991, 159-161.

·         Warner, Amy. "Quantitative and Qualitative Assessments of the Impact of Linguistic Theory on Information Science." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987. Library and Information Science Research v. 12 (2), April-June 1990, 220-221.

·         Thornburg, Gail Ellen. "LOOK: Implementation of an Expert System in Information Retrieval for Database Selection." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987. Library and Information Science Research, v. 12 (1), January-March 1990, 122-124.

·         Schwartz, Carolyn Susan. "A Study of the Application of Post-Retrieval Clustering in Bibliographic Databases." Ph.D. dissertation, Syracuse University, 1986. Library and Information Science Research, v. 11 (1), January-March 1989, 75-77.

·         Al-Dosary, Fahad Misfer. "Characteristics of Research Literature used by Political Scientists: A Study of the Influence of Differences in Research Approaches on Citation Behavior." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986. Library and Information Science Research, v. 11 (3), July-September 1989, 316-318.

·         Yoder, Cornelia Marie. "An Expert System for Providing On-Line Information Based on Knowledge of Individual User Characteristics." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987. Library and Information Science Research, v. 10 (1), January-March 1988, 113-114.

·         Eisenberg, Michael Bruce. "Magnitude Estimation and the Measurement of Relevance." Ph.D. dissertation, Syracuse University, 1986. Library and Information Science Research, v. 10 (4), October-December 1988, 459-461.

·         Prabha, Chandra G. "A Comparison of Scatter of Citing and Cited Literature for the Subject of Desalination." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1984. Library and Information Science Research, v. 9 (2), April-June 1987, 132-134.

·         Rorvig, Mark E. "An Experiment in Human Preferences for Documents in a Simulated Information System." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1985. Library and Information Science Research, v. 9 (2), April-June 1987, 134-135.

·         Wallace, Danny P. "The Relationship Between Journal Productivity and Obsolescence in a Subject Literature." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1985. Library and Information Science Research, v. 8 (3), July-September 1986, 290-291.

·         Badran, Odette. "A Probabilistic Approach to Information Retrieval." Ph.D. dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 1984. Library and Information Science Research, v 8 (1), January-March 1986, 103-104.

·         "Videodisc and Optical Digital Disk Technologies and their Applications in Libraries." A report to the Council on Library Resources by Information Systems Consultants, Inc. Washington, DC. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 37 (2), March 1986, 89.

·         Afsharpanah, Shahrokh. "Interdisciplinary Structure of Information Science." Ph.D. dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 1984. Library and Information Science Research, v. 7 (4), October-December 1985, 385-386.

·         Pontigo-Martinez, Jaime. "Qualitative Attributes and the Bradford Distribution." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1984. Library and Information Science Research, v. 9 (1), January-March 1987, 61-62.

Editorial

"Ivory Towers." Library and Information Science Research, v. 8 (2), April-June 1986, 115-116.

Computer Software

“Piers Plowman, XML editor” A computer program to facilitate the editing of the 600-year old Middle English Poem.

“ActionDesigner”  A computer program that can be used to design web pages

“AestheticsDesigner” A computer program that presents a series of aesthetic challenges.

"Query Tutor"
A set of computer programs written in Java that maintain online searching syntax skills with Dialog, DataStar and OCLC EPIC. It is used as instructional support for LIBR503 Bibliographic Databases.

Click to advance to the Query Tutor

"The Bibliometrics Toolbox"
A set of computer programs written in Turbo Pascal that measure the bibliometric aspects of a literature such as Bradfordity, productivity ranks, degree of clustering, and indices of concentration. Reviewed by John P. McLain, Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v.41 (1), January 1990, 70-71. Listed in the "Resources Guide", Centre for Library and Information Studies, Department of Information and Library Studies, Loughborough University of Technology, August 1995. It is freeware available from the following FTP address:

Research Grants and Applications

·         Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, Associate Professor Crossdisciplinary Research Initiative 2007.  Miceal Vaughan of English and Comparative Literature is the Principal Investigator, I am his Peer Consultant.

·         Web Writing: How Culture Changes Web Technology

·         The Post-Alphabetic Web.  An application to the Royalty Research Fund, September 2001.

·         Enhanced Writing Functionality and Scholarly Journals on the Web. An application for a grant from the Online Computer Library Center, OCLC, January 1999.

  • "Bibliographic Relevance Auras: A Replication Study". An application for a grant from the Online Computer Library Center, OCLC, May 1996. Not funded.
  • "An Investigation of Enriched Indexing using a Strategy of Unlimited Aliasing" with Charles R. Hildreth and Edmond Mignon. An application for a grant from the Online Computer Library Center, OCLC, March 1993. Not funded.
  • "An Investigation of Enriched Indexing". An application for a grant from the Special Libraries Association, February 1992. Not funded.
  • The University of Washington Graduate Research Fund support for the project "A Bibliometric Analysis of the Literature of AIDS," 1990.
  • The University of Washington Graduate Research Fund support for the project "Economical Representation of Bibliographic Data in Relational Databases," 1987.
  • National Institutes of Health, Biomedical Research Support Grant Application, "Information Resources and Independent Health Science Libraries", October 1985. Not funded.
  • Old Gold Summer Fellowships, The University of Iowa, 1983 and 1986.
  • Instructional Improvement Award for course LS21:247 Information Storage and Retrieval, The University of Iowa, 1984.
  • Council on Library Resources, Faculty/Librarian Cooperative Research Grant with John Forys, Engineering Librarian at the University of Iowa, 1983.

Invited Lectures

  • “Where is Meaning when Form is Gone?” Presented April 7th, 2000 at the UW Comparative Literature Graduate Student Colloquium Writing Machines: Communication, Technology and Literature.
  • "The Semantic Distance Model of Relevance Assessment" Presented October 26, 1998 at the 61st Annual Meeting of ASIS, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • "The Effect of Textual Aesthetics on Information Retrieval" Presented April 2, 1998 at the 7th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, EP '98, St. Malo, France.
  • "The Semantic Distance Model of Relevance Assessment." Presented September 20, 1996 at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, McGill University, PQ.
  • "Journal Frequency Analysis of the Literature of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), 1987-1989." Presented November 7, 1990 at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Toronto, Ontario.
  • "The Derivation of Minimum Perfect Bradford Multipliers." Presented July 6, 1989 at the 2nd International Conference on Bibliometrics, Scientometrics and Informetrics, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
  • "Current Issues in Bibliometrics" a half-day workshop, May 22, 1988 at the Medical Library Association, New Orleans, LA.
  • "Bradford Analysis of Authorship Dispersion for Database Design." Presented October 6, 1987 at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Boston, MA.
  • "Statistical Methods for Public Librarians" three one-day workshops, February 5, 19, and 26, 1987 in Seattle, Spokane and Ellensburg, WA,.
  • "Integrating Instruction in Database Management into Information Science Programs" presented May 14, 1986 at the mid-year meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Portland, OR.
  • "Four Approaches to Relational Database Design" presented May 15, 1986 at the mid-year meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Portland, OR.
  • "Designations, Characteristics and Associations in Relational Database Design." Presented October 22, 1985 at the 48th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Las Vegas, NV.
  • "Smoothing Forecasting Methods for Academic Library Circulations: An Evaluation and Recommendation." Presented July 9, 1985 at the Library Research Round Table Research Forum, American Library Association, Chicago, IL.
  • "Database Design in a University Environment" presented February 20, 1985 at INFO SOFTWARE (Information Management Exposition and Conference for Software) Chicago, IL.
  • "Teaching Bibliometrics" presented January 4, 1985 at a continuing education workshop, ALISE Conference, Washington, DC.
  • "Libraries and the Learning Society." Library and Information Science Education Seminar participant, hosted by the School of Library and Information Studies, The University of California-Berkeley, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, February 8-9, 1984.
  • "Library Education and A Nation at Risk." [Radio Talk] Faculty Comment Series, The University of Iowa, February 1984.
  • "Videodisc Applications for Librarians: Storage, Retrieval, Instruction." April 14, 1983 meeting of the Iowa Library Association Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
  • "The New Information Society." [Radio Talk] Faculty Comment Series, The University of Iowa, June 1983.
  • "The Minnesota State University System Online Catalog Access System." System demonstration at Online Public Access Catalogs: the User's Needs, Iowa Memorial Union, September 19, 1983.

Honors

University Fellowship, 1980-82
Fellow of the Graduate School, 1980
Nominee for Texas Excellence in Teaching Award, 1982
The University of Texas at Austin

Dr. G. R. Lomer Scholarship, 1970
McGill University

Activities in Professional Organizations

Memberships

American Society for Information Science
Association for Computing Machinery

Activities

North American editor of Information Research

Member of the Shoreline Library Board, Shoreline, Washington, April 2000 – 2004
Chairman, Best Information Science Book Award, ASIS 1998.
Book Review Editor, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1995 -
Member of program committee of Fifth International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics, River Forest, Illinois, June 7-10, 1995.
Member of the editorial board of Library Quarterly, 1993-.
Member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1991-
"Research Record Column" editor, Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 1986 - 1990
Moderator, ALISE Research Awards Program, Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, January 16, 1986
Chair of the Research Committee, ALISE, 1985-86
Member of the ALISE Research Committee, Research Paper Competition, 1984
Member of the Editorial Review Committee of the Iowa Library Review, 1985-86.
Member of the University Library Committee, The University of Iowa, 1984-86.
Member of the ALISE Research Committee, Doctoral Student Forum, 1983-84
Coordinator of Workshop: "How to Conduct a Library Use/Library User Survey," The University of Iowa, 1984.
Member of the Review Committee of the Iowa Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries, 1983