 Professor
Emerita Arlene Taylor served an appointment as a Fulbright
Senior Specialist in the Department of Information Science
at Bar-Ilan University in Israel this April. She presented
two workshops and a colloquium. The first workshop,
titled "Practical Applications of Metadata", and the
second, titled "Ontologies and Taxonomies: Theory
and Practice." were attended by Bar-Ilan master's
and doctoral students from the Information Science department.
Also in attendance were faculty who teach in the field,
practicing professional catalogers, database managers,
bibliographers, and library managers from around Israel.
Taylor's colloquium was titled "Modern Tools for
the Organization of Information."
It was attended
by many Bar-Ilan faculty members and students and
also by practicing librarians from the area.
For Taylor, it was wonderful to be introduced by Sara
Fine (pictured here on the left), Professor Emerita of
the University of Pittsburgh, now teaching at Bar-Ilan.
Professor Fine showed the audience pictures of Pittsburgh
and Pitt where Taylor and Fine had taught together for
about five years during the 1990s.
Of her presentations, Taylor remarked, "Some attendees
stated that the presentations helped them to understand
how basic principles of information management, which
have been used for centuries in classical approaches,
are now being reflected in current online initiatives.
It was also suggested that some changes might be made
in some courses (at Bar-Ilan) due to knowledge gained.
It is gratifying to feel that one has been able to help
in this way."
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