Faculty News
Richard J. Cox published “Changing Worlds: An Institutional
Study,” in Records & Information Management Report 18 (May 2002): 14-16.
The article is a review of Sally F. Griffith’s Serving History in a Changing
World: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania in the Twentieth Century (Philadelphia:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, distributed by the University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2001).
Richard J. Cox presented a public lecture at the University
of Maryland at College Park on November 14, 2002. Dr. Cox's lecture,
"Flowers After the Funeral: The Meaning of Libraries, Archives, and Museums
in the Post 9/11 World," was co-sponsored by the University of Maryland College
of Information Studies, University of Maryland Libraries, Student Archivists
at Maryland, MidAtlantic Regional Archives Conference Maryland Caucus and
MARAC Washington DC Caucus.
Richard J. Cox published the following: Richard J. Cox
and David A. Wallace, eds., Archives and the Public Good: Accountability
and Records in Modern Society (Westport, Conn: Quorum Books, May 2002).
Dr. Wallace, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School
of Information, is a 1997 PhD graduate from SIS.
Richard J. Cox has published the following: Richard
J. Cox and David A. Wallace, eds., Archives and the Public Good: Accountability
and Records in Modern Society (Westport, Conn: Quorum Books, May 2002).
Dr. Wallace, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School
of Information, is a 1997 PhD graduate from SIS.
Richard J. Cox has been appointed Society of American Archivists'
Publications Editor. In this position he will work with the SAA Publications
Board and the Director of Publishing to acquire new titles for SAA to publish
or distribute, and to assess the viability of manuscripts and other prospective
publications. This is a three-year appointment which becomes effective immediately.
He succeeds Harold Thiele who resigned after nine months due to a career
change.
Richard J. Cox published "Records Management and Distance Learning:
Weighing the Options," RECORDS & INFORMATION MANAGEMENT REPORT 18 (June
2002): 1-14 and "Fighting the Good Fight: Records and the Digital Future,"
RECORDS & INFORMATION MANAGEMENT REPORT 18 (June 2002): 15-16 [Review
of Bryan Bergeron DARK AGES II: WHEN THE DIGITAL DATA DIE (2002) and Susan
S. Lazinger, DIGITAL PRESERVATION AND METADATA: HISTORY, THEORY, PRACTICE
(2001)].
Richard J. Cox was profiled in the Summer 2002 Towson University
Alumni Magazine. Dr. Cox is a 1972 graduate of Towson.
Richard J. Cox published Vandals in the Stacks? A Response to
Nicholson Baker’s Assault on Libraries (Greenwood Press, August 2002).
The Society of American Archivists' 2002 Waldo Gifford Leland Award for writing
of superior excellence and usefulness in the field of archival history, theory,
or practice was recently presented to Richard J. Cox for his provocative
monograph, "Managing Records for Evidence and Information" (Quorum Books,
2001).
Richard J. Cox presented a plenary paper, "Appraisal as an Act
of Memory," III Coloquio Internacional de Ciencias de la Documentacion and
III Congreso de Archivos de Castilla y Leon, University of Salamanca, Spain,
October 10, 2002. He also taught a Workshop, "The Practice of Appraisal,"
III Coloquio Internacional de Ciencias de la Documentacion and III Congreso
de Archivos de Castilla y Leon, University of Salamanca, Spain, October 11,
2002.
Richard J. Cox was one of the four principal speakers at Archival
Appraisal Alchemy,"Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village Symposium, November
1-3, 2002, Dearborn, Michigan.
Richard J. Cox has been named as a plenary speaker for the Association
of Canadian Archivists Toronto June 10-14, 2003. The conference’s theme is,
What's History Got To Do With It?
Karen Gracy is the 2002 recipient of the Eugene Garfield - Association
of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Doctoral Dissertation
Award, for her dissertation, entitled, "The Imperative to Preserve: Competing
Definitions of Value in the World of Film Preservation" (University of California,
Los Angeles, 2001). She will receive the award at the annual conference in
January 2003.
José-Marie Griffiths has been selected to receive the
Women in International Scientific Collaboration (WISC) travel grant award
supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation. This award will
fund Dr. Griffiths’ travel to Australia in early 2003 to enable her to build
upon her ongoing research into the influences of the digital revolution on
the conduct of scientific research.
José-Marie Griffiths, as Director of the Sara Fine
Institute for Interpersonal Behavior and Technology has received funding
from the Collegis Leadership Alliance to conduct a study focusing on the
criteria for determining the success of IT programs and environments from
the perspectives of the executives of higher education institutions. The
study will target the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Academic Officer, Chief
Financial/Business/Administrative Officer, Chief Research Officer and the
Chief Information/Technology Officer of institutions.
The study will address: a) how academic executives define successful
IT programs, environments and best practices; and b) whether criteria for
IT success vary (and by how much) by area of responsibility, type of institution
(Carnegie class), or other variable (size, organization of IT function, presence
of a CIO, etc.). Results will be available April-May, 2003.
José-Marie Griffiths has recently been selected as a
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
In April, the University of Pittsburgh Press published Wilderness Boy by
Margery Evernden, English; edited by Margaret Kimmel. Published under
the Golden Triangle imprint, this young-adult novel tells the story of a
16-year-old boy riding through the woods of Washington County in 1794. Jonathan,
the protagonist, must deal with issues of
loyalty, freedom, and the birth of a new nation.
Margaret Kimmel, a professor in the Department of Library and
Information Science (DLIS) in the School of Information Sciences at the University
of Pittsburgh, is one of four local women to be honored by the Pittsburgh
Children’s Museum for dedicating their lives to children’s literacy issues.
Kimmel received the 2002 Outstanding Friend of Children Award during the
Children’s Museum’s 12th annual benefit celebration June 1. The award is
given each year to individuals who have made a positive impact on the lives
of children. Past award recipients have included Fred Rogers, T. Berry Brazelton,
and C. Everett Koop. For more than 20 years, Kimmel has influenced countless
lives as a teacher, author, and storyteller and has been a major influence
in librarianship, particularly in the area of service to children. She has
served as a leader in the American Library Association, the Association for
Library Service to Children, the International Board on Books for Young People,
and the Pittsburgh community. She is a consultant to Family Communications,
Inc., which produced Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. Kimmel, who chaired DLIS,
received the Bachelor of Arts degree in history and the Master of Library
Science degree from Dominican University in River Forest, Ill.; she earned
the Ph.D. in Library and Information Science degree from Pitt.
Donald W. King is providing support to the Drexel University
W. W. Hagerty Library on a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library
Services (IMLS). The study was designed to establish the impact of
a library’s shift to electronic journals on users, staff and costs.
The study developed a detailed cost model of the electronic collection and
a readership survey to determine its affect on information-seeking and readership
patterns. Preliminary results are found in: “Comparing Library and
User Related Costs of Print and Electronic Journal Collections,” Carol Hansen
Montgomery and Donald W. King. D-Lib Magazine, October 2002. David
Robins is working on analysis and comparisons of vendor/publisher, library
server and survey readership use data. King and Montgomery also collaborated
with Carol Tenopir and Peter Boyce in aggregating 2000 to 2002 science readership
survey results from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee
and American Astronomical Society members. A metric framework and initial
results are reported in “ Library Economic Measures: Examples of the Comparison
of Electronic and Print Journal Collections and Collection Services,” Donald
W. King, Peter Boyce, Carol Hansen Montgomery, and Carol Tenopir, Library
Trends, Winter 2002.
Donald W. King and Hong Xu recently completed a study
of library consortia and licensing arrangements between publishers and libraries
funded by Ingenta Institute in the U.K. The study was supported by
the assistance of Visual Information System Center and Sara Aerni.
Mr. King presented study results in keynote papers at the Royal Society in
London and at a pre-22nd Annual Charleston Conference. The 120 page
report by King and Xu, “Library Consortia and Electronic Journal Services,”
and conference proceedings were published in November 2002.
The Consortium Site License: Is it a sustainable model? Oxford. Ingenta Institute,
2002. ISBN 0-9541867-1-0
The University Library System (ULS) is planning a large-scale migration
to electronic journal collections. The Sara Fine Institute, Donald
W. King and José-Marie Griffiths are performing a study
with ULS staff to establish library costs and information-seeking and readership
patterns prior to implementation of the migration to electronic journals.
This initial phase will involve detailed cost finding of journal-related
library operations and readership surveys of faculty, staff and students.
A second phase will be to repeat the first benchmark phase to determine the
effects of change on library operations and library users. The study
is designed to facilitate ULS decision-making as it progresses in electronic
journal involvement and to assist electronic journal readers in how best
to use this new service.
"Bridging Library Resources Across the Pacific: The Characteristics of U.S.
Academic Users and Their Use of a Gateway Service" by Hong Xu and
J. Pang will be published in The Electronic Library in Vol 21, No 1, 2003.
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Last updated October 30, 2002