March 1, 2004

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

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

Associate Professor Amanda H. Spink and Jansen, B. J. published "Autonomous Web Agents: What Are They Doing Out There?" IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Oct. 5-8, 2003, Washington, D.C.

Associate Professor Amanda H. Spink, Ozmutlu, S., and Ozmutlu, H. C. published "Multitasking Web Searching: Implications for Design."ASIST 2003: Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Oct. 18-22, Long Beach, CA.

Associate Professor Amanda H. Spink and Lorence, D. P. published "Assessment of Preferences for Classification Detail in Medical Information: Is Uniformity Better?" Information Processing and Management 39.3 (2003): 465-77.

Professor Richard J. Cox published "Contesting Photographs (And Other Things)" in Records & Information Management Report 20 (Feb. 2004): 15-16.

Associate Professor Amanda H. Spink, Ozmutlu, S., and Ozmutlu, H. C. published "Are People Asking Questions on General Web Search Engines?" Online Information Review 6 (2004): 396-406.

Associate Professor Amanda H. Spink, Ozmutlu, S., and Ozmutlu, H. C. published "A Day in the Life of Web Searching: An Exploratory Study." Information Processing and Management 40.2 (2004): 319-45.

Professor Emeritus Anthony Debons published "Information Counseling" in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Vol. 74. New York, N.Y.: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2004.

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS & PRESENTATIONS

Associate Professor Amanda H. Spink was appointed as a Reviewer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2003-2004.

Associate Professor Amanda H. Spink was appointed to the Peer Review Committee, Fulbright Senior Specialist Program, Information Technology, 2002-2004.

Professor Richard J. Cox spoke to the Association of Records Managers and Administrators, Pittsburgh Chapter, on the topic of "The Place of Corporate Archives in the Digital Age" at the Engineers Club on February 11th, 2004.

IN THE NEWS

An interview with Professor Emeritus E. J. Josey, "Black History Recovered: A Conversation with Black-Librarian Scholar E.J. Josey," was published in the "News & Views" section of the Feb. 11th, 2004, edition of the Pittsburgh City Paper.

STUDENT & ALUMNI NEWS

MLIS Alumna Mabel K. Minishi-Majanja published "Mapping and Auditing Information and Communication Technologies in Library and Information Science Education in Africa: A review of the literature." Education for Information 21.2-3 (2003): 159-79.
More information is available at: http://iospress.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=0167-8329&volume=21&issue=2&spage=159

MLIS Alumna Deirdre Scaggs, a member of the 2003 class of graduating archival students, published "The Appraisal of Amateur Photography," in Records & Information Management Report 20 (Feb. 2004): 1-14. Professor Richard J. Cox wrote an introduction to the essay. Deirdre recently accepted a position at the University of Kentucky as a photographic archivist.

Congratulations to M.L.I.S. Alumnus Norman Horrocks on a well-deserved honor, an ALA honorary membership.
The details are as follows:

ACTIONS OF THE ALA COUNCIL, 2004 ALA MIDWINTER MEETING
ALA Council I. Monday, January 12, 2004, 10:00-11:15 a.m., San Diego Convention Center, Room 6 A/B, VOTED, to bestow ALA honorary membership upon Sanford Berman and Norman Horrocks.

Shuju Wu, a Ph.D. student in the Telecommunications Department, won the best paper award at the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) this year, for her paper entitled "Improving the Performance of Overlay Multicast with Dynamic Adaptation."