February 2, 2004

s.i.s. faculty, student, & alumni news

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

Professor Arlene G. Taylor published The Organization of Information, 2nd Edition. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2004. 417 pages.

Associate Professor David Tipper and B. Jager published "Prioritized Traffic Restoration in Connection Oriented QoS Based Networks." Computer Communications 26.18 (Dec. 2003): 2025-36.

Professor Richard J. Cox published "Establishing and Reinventing Institutional Records Programs: Four Case Studies, Part Two." Records & Information Management Report 20 (Jan. 2004): 1-13 [Part One].

Professor Richard J. Cox published "Invisible Professionals." Records & Information Management Report 20 (Jan. 2004): 14-16.

Professor Richard J. Cox published No Innocent Deposits: Forming Archives by Rethinking Appraisal by Scarecrow Press. The official release date is January 2004. The book is described as follows: The public increase of interest in the past has not necessarily brought with it a greater understanding, by the public or scholars, about how archives are formed. To this end, Richard Cox takes a serious look at archival repositories and now collections come to be. No Innocent Deposits, which borrows its title from a description of archives by an oral historian, suggests that archives do not just happen, but are consciously shaped (and sometimes distorted) by archivists, the creators of records, and other individuals and institutions. In this series of essays, Cox offers archivists rare insight into the fundamentals of appraisal, and historians and other users of archives the opportunity to appreciate the collections they all too often take for granted.

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS AND PRESENTATIONS

Professor Arlene G. Taylor published the following paper in the proceedings of a conference: "L'insegnamento dell'authority control," In Authority Control: Definizione ed esperienze internazionali: Atti del convegno internazionale, Firenze, 10-12 febbraio 2003. Edited by Mauro Guerrini and Barbara B. Tillett, with the collaboration of Lucia Sardo. Florence, Italy: Firenze University Press, 2003. pp. 47-60.

Associate Professor David Tipper and C. Charnsripinyo published "Topological Design of Survivable Wireless Access Networks," Proceedings: Fourth International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks, (DRCN 2003). Banff, Canada. Oct. 20-22, 2003.

Associate Professor Ellen G. Detlefsen taught an all-day Continuing Education course on "Information Behaviors of Health Professionals" for 52 members of the Health Sciences Libraries Association of New Jersey on December 10, 2003, in Princeton, New Jersey. This course is accredited by the National Medical Library Association.

Associate Professor Ellen G. Detlefsen gave a talk on November 7, 2003, entitled "Locating and Evaluating Web-Available Health Information for Special Populations: A Problem in Consumer Informatics," in the Journal Club series of the Center for Biomedical Informatics, in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

STUDENT AND ALUMNI NEWS

Kimberly Barata, a former student of Professor Cox, has accepted the position of Parliamentary Records Manager, based in the House of Lord's Record Office in the United Kingdom. The position serves both houses of Parliament and will begin on February 9, 2004, pending a security clearance from both the U.K. and U.S. Congratulations to Kimberly on what she calls ?a new chapter in life!?

Alumna Colette Hochstein DMD, MLIS has an article on the web: "Household Products Database: Information on Health and Safety of Everyday Products," in the December 2003 issue of the e-publication The NIH Word on Health: Consumer Health Information Based on Research from the National Institutes of Health, available at http://www.nih.gov/news/WordonHealth/dec2003/household.htm.

DLIS Alumnus Jeffrey T. Huber, Ph.D. [and Jessica Smartt Gullion.] published "Complementary and Alternative Medicine as Represented in the HIV/AIDS Body of Knowledge: A Bibliometric Analysis." Medical Reference Services Quarterly 22.3 (Fall 2003): 23+.

MLIS Alumna Marsha Kmec [reviewer] ?Assessment and Accountability in Reference Work.? Medical Reference Services Quarterly 22.4 (Winter 2003): 100+.

MLIS Alumnus Nicola Cecchino [reviewer] ?Creative Planning for Library Administration: Leadership for the Future.? Medical Reference Services Quarterly 22.4 (Winter 2003): 102+.