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News and Events for 1998

• Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg cordially invites you to a program and reception honoring Dr. Doreen E. Boyce and The Buhl Foundation on the establishment of a Chair for Library & Information Science on Wednesday, December 2, 1998 at 4:30 PM in IS 501. Reception will begin at 5:00 PM.
• DLIS Colloquium:Friday, November 20 from 12:00 - 1:00 in Room 501
• DLIS Colloquium: 12:00-1:00 on Wednesday, Sept. 23 in IS 501
  Speaker: Blane Dessy, Executive Director, National Library of Education
  Title: "Creating a new Virtual National Library: Experiences from the U.S. Department of Education"
• DLIS Colloquium at 4:00 on July 14, 1998
  Colloquium: Intellectual Freedom and the Law: A Canada/U.S. Comparison
  Speaker: Ann Curry, Associate Professor, School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies, University of British Columbia.
• DLIS Students Publish!
  Congratulations to Jonathan Estrin and Harold Thiele who were well represented in the recent Winter 1998 issue of the _Katherine Sharp Review_ published by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Jonathan published two essays -- "Instructional Communication as a Core Competency: A Call for Curricular Change in Professional Library Education" and "From Bibliographic Instruction to Instructional Management: A Process-Oriented Approach for Reengineering Library Instruction Programs" -- and Harold published "Appraisal, Provenance, and the Computer Revolution: An Examination of Organizational Records in the Electronic Age." Congrats to these two doctoral students.
• Archival Studies Program Web pages now available!
• Department gets Highmark Minority Health Link Grant!
• Robert B. Croneberger 1937-1998
  Robert Croneberger taught as an adjunct professor in the Department of Library and Information Science for ten years and was a member of the Board of Visitors at the time of his death. He will be greatly missed.
  Tribute to Robert B. Croneberger by Liane Ellison Norman.
  Robert B. Croneberger Endowed Book Fund created by Friends of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
• ISO 1998 Dinner a Success!
• Mister Rogers Visits SIS!
• New Scholarship!
  A new scholarship for part-time students honors "Beginning with Books" co-founder!
• Dr. E. J. Josey wins the 1998 Humphrey/OCLC/Forest Press Award! (to be awarded June 29, 1998)
• Second Plate Arrives at SIS!
  The long awaited Second Plate Food Service will be open for business on Monday, March 9 beginning at 8:00 a.m. It will be located on the Second Floor of the IS Building in the Student Lounge.
  Their service will include breakfast items such as bagels, sweet rolls, coffee, etc. Lunch will include hot soups and sandwiches. The Second Plate will be open until 6:00 p.m. Monday - Thursday to accommodate the evening students.
• Invitational Workshop on Information Retrieval Tools
  Department Chair, Dr. Edie Rasmussen, and Dr. Robert Korfhage from the Department of Information Science and Telecommunications are co-chairing this workshop which will take place on March 20 and 21, 1998!
• University Times Article Online:
  Head of National Security Archive says librarians are civilization's 1st defense against totalitarianism
  This article covers the Information Ethics Lecture given by Tom Blanton on October 27.
• The Online Bibliofile Newsletter!
  At last, the long-awaited event has occurred! The Bibliofile Newsletter is now online! Thanks to Joan Soulliere (1998 editor of Bibliofile), the student newsletter of the Department will now be published in both print and online. Start reading the Bibliofile online!
• Congratulations!
  Congratulations to Professor Blanche Woolls, who has been named Director of the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University. Dr. Woolls has been on the faculty of the Department of Library and Information Science since 1973, and she will be missed by colleagues and students at the University of Pittsburgh.
• New Information Ethics Web Site!
  The School of Information Sciences is proud to announce the new Information Ethics Web Site which was developed by Barbara Rockenbach, our first Information Ethics Fellow. Amanda Utts has been chosen as the Information Ethics Fellow for the Fall term, and she will continue to develop the Web site which Barbara Rockenbach has started.
• New Faculty Members!

  Dr. Hong Xu received her MLIS from Wuhan University, P.R. China, and Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She comes to SIS from the Department of Computer Science at the State University of New York at Oswego where she has been teaching courses in database management systems and online information systems.

  Dr. Elizabeth Yakel received an AMLS from the University of Michigan, School of Library and Information Studies, and her Ph.D from the School of Information. She has been working on the Medical Collaboratory Project at the University of Michigan; and teaching in the areas of archives, preservation and records management.