• December , 2001
  Professor wins Provost's Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence (ACIE) Award — Supporting Learning from Examples in a Programming Course
  From University of Pittsburgh Teaching Times, October 2001.
  Peter Brusilovsky, School of Information Sciences, has a deep interest in teaching and research in computer science education. Having taught programming subjects for 15 years, he knows the importance of providing students with examples to illustrate concepts. His ACIE project, Supporting Learning from Examples in a Programming Course, will enable him to develop a rich Web-based database of programming examples that students can explore at their own pace. Although this software is initially targeted for an undergraduate course, Data Structures and Programming Techniques, it will support teaching and learning in any programming class. more >>
  What are the ACIE Awards?
  
  
• December, 2001
  Professor who Helped Establish Information Ethics Course at the University of Pittsburgh to Retire
  Press release, December 3, 2001
  Stephen Almagno, professor of library and information science in the School of Information Sciences (SIS) at the University of Pittsburgh who helped establish the School's information ethics course in 1990, will retire from the University this month to assume leadership of the worldwide education programs of the Franciscan Order of the Roman Catholic Church. Almagno, a Franciscan friar, will be headquartered in Rome. more >>
  
  
• November, 2001
  New SIS Colloquium Series on Digital Libraries
  The School of Information Science presents a series of colloquia that explore the meaning, applications, and future of digital libraries. To open the series, Michael Lesk will speak on "Expanding Digital Libraries: It's Not Just Text Any More." Dr. Lesk is currently Division Director, Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation. He is a well-known researcher in information systems and the author of Practical Digital Libraries: Books, Bytes and Bucks.
  
  
• November, 2001
  In Memoriam: Dr. Elizabeth (Libby) Esler Duncan more >>
  From University Times, November 8, 2001
  
  
• November, 2001
  Dr. Richard J. Cox has recently published two lengthy articles, one in an encyclopedia and the other a review essay in a major new journal in archival studies. "The Archivist and Collecting," Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, vol. 70, supp. 33 (New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2002), pp. 1-21 is a comprehensive analysis of how archivists have viewed the matter of collecting in the context of appraising and forming archival holdings. "Review Article: Nicholson Baker, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper," Archival Science, 1 (2001): 183-217 is a detailed review of Baker's controversial book, focusing on the implications of this book for international archival work. Dr. Cox has a book-length response to Nicholson Baker in press with Greenwood.
  
  
• November, 2001
  A new book on archival administration has appeared, featuring an essay by one of our faculty, Richard J. Cox. The book is Bruce W. Dearstyne, ed., Leadership and Administration of Successful Archival Programs (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2001). According to the book, Strong archival programs are rare because the archival field has not given sustained attention to program leadership and management issues over the years. This collection of essays from eight of the archival field's "notably successful leaders" provides first-hand accounts of how to carry out planning, build coalitions and alliances, garner resources, empower and inspire program personnel, change program direction, and take programs in new, dynamic directions. Richard Cox's essay, "Leadership and Archival Education," is the lead essay in the volume and considers the matters of the role of graduate education in producing leaders and whether leaders are born or made.
  
  
• October
  Former Pitt Professor to Receive Honorary Degree From Clarion University
  press release, October 11, 2001
  E. J. Josey, emeritus professor of Library and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Sciences, will receive the Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters degree from Clarion University at its Winter 2001 Commencement, Saturday, Dec. 15. more >>
  
  
• October
  Pitt's Visual Information Systems Center Receives $1.1 Million State Grant
  press release, October 9, 2001
  The Visual Information Systems Center (VISC) in the University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Sciences has received a $1.1 million renewal grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. more >>
  
  
• Pitt's Visual Information Systems Center Receives $1.1 Million State Grant
  press release, October 9, 2001
  The Visual Information Systems Center (VISC) in the University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Sciences has received a $1.1 million renewal grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. more >>

              September

• SIS publishes book to mark centennial
  from University Times, September 27, 2001
  As part of a year-long celebration of its first 100 years, the School of Information Sciences (SIS) has published Carol Bleier's book, "Tradition in Transition." more >>
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• Martin B. Weiss, associate professor and co-director of Pitt's telecommunications program, has been named chair of the Department of Information Science and Telecommunications in the School of Information Sciences. Executive duties for the telecommunications program have been assumed by co-director Richard A. Thompson, who is now program director. Prior to joining Pitt in 1988, Weiss was a senior consultant for Deloitte, Haskins and Sells, now Deloitte and Touche. He also was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories and MITRE Corporation. He earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University; his master's in computer, information and control engineering from the University of Michigan, and his Ph.D. in engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University.
  from "People of the Times," University Times, September 27, 2001
  
  
• Peter Brusilovsky, DIST Assistant Professor, was named a co-chair of the 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web Based Systems to be held in Malaga, Spain, next May.
  
  
• Scarecrow Press has just published Professor Stephen Almagno's edition of Esdaile's Manual of Bibliography. Arundell Esdaile (1880-1956) asked his student, Roy Stokes, to edit the text for future editions, and Professor Stokes (1915-1995) asked his student, Stephen Almagno, to edit the text for future editions. Three SIS graduates assisted Professor Almagno in preparing this edition: W. G. Heverly and M. L. Miller (both of whom are at the University of Pittsburgh) and B. Rockenbach (Yale University). The 464-page book is considered a classic in the field of historical and critical bibliography.
  
  
• Julianne Buchsbaum, an MLIS student, has had a book of poems published. The volume is entitled, Slowly, Slowly, Horses, and was published by Ausable Press. The volume contains more than 40 poems in its 86 pages. Buchsbaum has already published poems in numerous journals, including: The Gettysburg Review, the Iowa Review, Parnassus, the Colorado Review, and The Seneca Review.
  
  
• Martin B. Weiss Named Information Sciences and Telecommunications Chair
  from Pitt Campaign Chronicle September 10, 2001
  Martin B. Weiss, associate professor and codirector of the Telecommunications Program at the University of Pittsburgh, has been named chair of the Department of Information Science and Telecommunications in Pitt’s School of Information Sciences (SIS).
  
  
• Former SIS Faculty Member is Honored for Textbook
  from Pitt Campaign Chronicle September 10, 2001
  Understanding Operating Systems, a textbook by former University of Pittsburgh professor Ida Flynn and Ann McIver McHoes, was awarded the 2001 Textbook Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association (TAA) during the association’s recent awards banquet in San Antonio.
  
  
• Dr. Richard J. Cox chaired a session at the Society of American Archivists annual conference in Washington, D.C. highlighting the recent research activities of DLIS current and former doctoral students working with him on archives and memory topics. Entitled "Capturing the Context of Memory: The Development of Archives in Support of the Cultural Memory of Communities," the session featured presentations by Jeannette Bastian, a former student and now assistant professor at Simmons, and current students Bernadette Callery, Jennifer Marshall, and Tywanna Whorley. Over
  one hundred people attended the August 31st session. Dr. Cox also made a presentation to the SAA's Archival History Roundtable on "Revisiting Archival History: Again," on the same day.
  
  
  August
  

• Pitt's Faculty Recruits: New Faces on Campus.
  from University Times, August 30, 2001
  Read about SIS's new faculty: José-Marie Griffiths, Karen Gracy, and Vladimir Zadorozhny.
  
  
• Pittsburgh ranks 13th in 'cool places' survey
  from Pittsburgh Business Times, August 27, 2001
  In a survey of America's "coolest places to live and work" for Generation X'ers, Pittsburgh and its surrounding communities ranked 13th in the nation. more >>
  
  
• Recently Published
  Richard J. Cox, Elizabeth Yakel, David Wallace, Jeannette A. Bastian, and Jennifer Marshall. "Archival Education in North American Library and Information Science Schools," Library Quarterly 71 (April 2001): 141-194.
  
  
  July
  
  
• On-line: First Class of 35 Students Taking "FastTrack" to MLIS Degree
  from Pitt Campaign Chronicle, July 23, 2001
  Randi Kepecs of Ithaca, N.Y., is a mother of two who has worked primarily in fund-raising, following completion of her undergraduate degree in historic preservation and urban planning. more >>
  
  
• 2001 Miriam L. Hornback Scholarship winners named
  The American Library Association (ALA) has named two people to receive the Miriam L. Hornback Scholarship. The recipients are Jane E. Hamilton of Scarborough, Maine and Cynthia A. Gibbon of Gettysburg, Penn. The $3,000 award is given to an ALA or library support staff person to finance studies toward a master's degree in library and information studies. The scholarship was named in memory of a longtime ALA staff member who was secretariat to the ALA Council and Executive Board.
  
  Hamilton has worked in a library environment for fourteen years. Currently she is the children's librarian at Prince Memorial Library. She says she has a strong commitment to preserving intellectual freedom and to providing access to people of all ages. She enjoys interacting with people, but especially with children and teens. She will be attending the University of South Carolina.

  Gibbon has held a number of positions with increasing responsibilities the past four years at the Musselman Library, Gettysburg College. Currently she works as the access service manager at the Musselman Library. While working at the Musselman Library, she has accomplished innovation in implementing improved policies and procedures. She will be attending the University of Pittsburgh.

  Both winners were recognized in June during the Annual Conference of the American Library Association.
  
  
  June

• SIS Receives 2001 Chancellor's Affirmative Action Award
  from Pitt Campaign Chronicle, June 25, 2001
  The 2001 Chancellor’s Affirmative Action Award was presented to the School of Information Sciences (SIS) Affirmative Action Committee. The award honors an “outstanding University of Pittsburgh program area or individual that has made a significant contribution in affirmative action.” more >>
  
  
• SIS Wins Affirmative Action Award
  from University Times, June 14, 2001
  The affirmative action committee of the School of Information Sciences (SIS) has received the 2001 Chancellor's Affirmative Action Award honoring the "outstanding University of Pittsburgh program area or individual that has made a significant contribution in affirmative action." more >>
  
  
• Pitt’s School of Information Sciences Receives Chancellor’s Affirmative Action Award
  from University of Pittsburgh media relations, June 11, 2001
  The 2001 Chancellor’s Affirmative Action Award honoring the “outstanding University of Pittsburgh program area or individual that has made a significant contribution in affirmative action” today was awarded to the Affirmative Action Committee of the School of Information Sciences (SIS). more >>
  
  
• Once Upon a Time . . . The Story of Maggie Kimmel
  from Pitt Campaign Chronicle, June 12, 2001
  In the steel town of Gary, Ind., there once was a young girl, Margaret Mary Kimmel, whose family gave her a gift so wonderful that she has devoted a lifetime to sharing it with as many people as possible. more >>
  
  
• Simon Healey, Pittsburgh MLIS Student Wins Century Scholarship for 2001
  This year's recipient of the American Library Association ASCLA Division Century Scholarship is Mr. Simon Healey, a graduate student in the MLIS program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences. Mr. Healey will be awarded his Century Scholarship on Sunday, June 17, 2001, at 8:30 am, at the ASCLA President's Program and Award Ceremony at the ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco, Parc 55 Hotel, Barcelona II Room. All conference attendees, especially members of ALA's leadership, are most cordially invited to come share the excitement and to meet and congratulate Mr. Healey, our Century Scholar for 2001!
  
  
• "Pitt School Has a Record Worth Celebrating"
  editorial from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 6, 2001
  In the current information explosion, society needs qualified professionals who can separate the data from the din, the essence from the ersatz. The University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences is dedicated to producing such people with a devotion to public service. more >>
  
  
• And We "Quote": Quotations from Vartan Gregorian's May 31 Lecture in Honor of SIS's Centennial Celebration
  from Pitt Campaign Chronicle, June 4, 2001
  
  
• Librarians Get Truth-in-Internet Challenge
  from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 1, 2001
  Vartan Gregorian, called the savior of the New York Public Library during his tenure as director, gave a pep talk yesterday to librarians everywhere at a ceremony in the Carnegie Lecture Hall.
  
  
  May
  
  
• The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has granted $971,623 to Hassan Karimi of information science and telecommunications to maintain and extend the Technology Resources Database, the Technology Atlas, the Technology Opportunity Model and Mapping system and to provide related consulting on telecommunications and technology infrastructure in Pennsylvania.
  From the University Times, May 31, 2001.
  
  
• New DLIS Faculty Member Announced!
  Karen Gracy will join the SIS faculty as an assistant professor in DLIS starting in August 2001. She is completing her PhD at UCLA and her research is related to archives and preservation.
  
  
• Director of BSIS Program Announced!
  Bob Perkoski, after a one-year visiting position with the IST department, has accepted a non-tenure stream faculty position as Lecturer and Director of the BSIS Program.
  
  
• MLIS 2001 Graduate Maria Hudson Carpenter will be a panelist at ALA Annual Conference (San Francisco) program "The Spectrum Initiative - Our Scholars' Perspectives on 3 Years of Progress."
  Program chair: Dr. James F. Williams. Monday, June 18, 2001, 9-10:30 am, Moscone Convention Center, Room 232-234.
  
  
• Don W. King Named Research Professor in DLIS & DIST. More...
  
  
• DLIS Professor Margaret Kimmel Named Dominican University Distinguished Alumna of the Year 2001
  Dr. Margaret Mary Kimmel, professor in the Department of Library and Information Science at the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, has been chosen as Dominican University's Distinguished Alumna of the Year for the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Recipients of this honor must demonstrate excellence in their profession and a commitment to service, both to Dominican University and the community.
  
  
  April
  
  
• Peter Brusilovsky, Assistant Professor in DIST, will be a keynote speaker at the PEG'2001 conference (June 23-26 in Tampere, Finland). The topic of his talk is Adaptive Educational Hypermedia. (For over a decade the PEG international conferences have explored ideas at the cutting edge of developments in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Epistemology, Psychology, and Education in relation to the interaction between the teacher, the learner, the curriculum, and the technology.)
  
  
• New DIST faculty member announced! Vladimir Zadorozhny will be joining the Department of Information Science and Telecommunications in the fall of 2001, as a tenure-stream Assistant Professor. His research interests include scalable architectures for wide-area environments with hetergeneous information servers, distributed databases, and semantic operability.
  
  
• In 1999, the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences was a co-sponsor with the Society of American Archivists, with support from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, of a major conference on graduate archival education. The proceedings of that conference have been published as a special issue of the AMERICAN ARCHIVIST 63 (Fall/Winter 2000): 220-391. Guest-edited by Elizabeth Yakel, then an assistant professor at SIS, the issue includes essays by David A. Wallace, a graduate of SIS's LIS doctoral program, and Richard J. Cox, SIS Professor.
  
  
• April 5, 2001: University Times "Carbo to Step Down as SIS Dean"
  
  
• April 5, 2001: University Times People of the Times: José-Marie Griffiths
  
  
• April 5, 2001: University Times "State Awards Grants to SIS Researchers"
  
  
• April 5, 2001: University Times Compiled list of SIS faculty who wrote or edited books or journals that were published in 2000
  
  
• April 5, 2001: University Times "US News & World Report Issues Rankings" DLIS rankings remain high
  
  
• April 3, 2001: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "What slump? Market turmoil, economic slowdown doesn't stop MBA grads from finding well-paying jobs" Read how Pitt Students with dual MBA/MSIS degrees can boast of salary offers and signing bonuses on par with or better than the class of 2000 received.
  
  
• April 2, 2001: Pitt Campaign Chronicle "Carbo to Step Down as Dean of the School of Information Sciences"
  
  
  March
  
  
• José-Marie Griffiths, named the first holder of the Doreen E. Boyce Chair in Library and Information Science. More...
  
  
• March 19, 2001: Pitt Campaign Chronicle "SIS Names First Doreen E. Boyce Chair in Library & Information Science" More...
  
  
• March 2, 2001: The Pitt News "Sun Microsystems Inc. Researcher Speaks at Pitt" More...
  
  
  February
  
  
• The School Library Certification Program received a $25,000 donation from Thomas Dubis to provide funding for key initiatives. This grant will help to update the curriculum and enhance the educational experiences of the SLCP students and practitioners.
  
  
• February 27, 2001: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Supercomputing center helping researchers animate 'digital humans' in almost scary detail" Read more about SIS Adjunct Professor Art Wetzel and the Visible Human Project.
  
  
• February 26, 2001: Pitt Campaign Chronicle "E. J. Josey: Firing the Shot Heard 'Round the World"
  
  
• February 26, 2001: Pitt Campaign Chronicle "Margaret Kimmel Receives ALSC Distinguished Award"