Information Retrieval List Digest 254 (May 8, 1995) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-254 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 May 8, 1995 Volume XII, Number 17 Issue 254 ********************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Microsoft Network: Program Manager, Information Retrieval III. NOTICES B. Meetings 1. 4th Int'l. Conference: Int'l. Society for Knowledge Organization 2. CAIS '95 3. Digital Libraries '95 ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Bob Powell Re: Microsoft Network (MSN): Program Manager, Information Retrieval The Microsoft Network (MSN) is currently accepting applications for the position of Program Manager, Information Retrieval. If you posess a vision for the full potential of online information access and distribution, this position offers a great opportunity to realize it. Primary responsibility is driving all aspects of product development from design and implementation through release for Microsoft Network information retrieval services. This includes writing product functional specifications; driving products through development, testing, user education, and localization; communicating with internal and external groups; and ensuring that the team ships the product on time. Qualifications include a minimum of 3 years commercial software design experience, a minimum of 2 years project management experience, and demonstrated work experience with the full product delivery cycle from initial requirements to final technical discipline preferred. If interested, please reference job number 49695 and send your resume. Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way, STE 303 Redmond, WA 98052 y-wait@microsoft.com Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity. ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.B.1 Fr: Rebecca Green Re: Knowledge Organization and Change (ISKO 4) International Society for Knowledge Organization Fourth International Conference July 15-18, 1996, Washington, DC CALL FOR PAPERS Knowledge organization in the coming century will differ markedly from that of this past century. Continued information and document growth, expansion and change in user needs and information-seeking behaviors, and changes in technological, political, economic, educational, and social environments mandate increased development and improvement in knowledge organization tools, techniques, schemes, and systems. In light of the challenges and promises of this situation, the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) will hold its 4th International Conference (ISKO 4), sponsored by the Library of Congress, and in cooperation with OCLC Forest Press, the Classification Research Special Interest Group of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS SIG/CR) and the College of Library and Information Services (CLIS) of the University of Maryland, at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, USA, July 15-18, 1996 to address the theme: KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION AND CHANGE. Papers and panels addressing Knowledge Organization and Change from any of the following interlocking perspectives are invited: From an Environmental Perspective: the impact of ongoing changes in technological, political, economic, educational, and social environments on how knowledge is produced, organized, and used. From an Information/Knowledge Perspective: the challenges created by changing views of knowledge (e.g., theories of knowledge, stores of knowledge) across time, cultures, languages, disciplines, users, and uses. From a Document Perspective: new methods of creating and presenting documents (e.g., collaborative documents, hypertext, multimedia); changes in text composition, genres, and discourse; dynamic documents; managing document versions, variants, and views. From a User Perspective: expansion of and change in user needs and user information-seeking behaviors; the effect of user interface design on users' abilities to access and assimilate information; the effect of discourse and interpretive communities, disciplinary/interdisciplinary communication, and network communications on users' conceptions of knowledge. From a Knowledge Organization Systems Perspective: new developments in knowledge organization tools, techniques, schemes, and systems; natural language processing and expert systems; response of knowledge organization theory and practice to change in other arenas; management of change in knowledge organization schemes and systems. The conference will also celebrate the 120th anniversary of the Dewey Decimal Classification, and papers addressing the conference theme with respect to DDC are especially welcome. Prospective speakers or panels are asked to submit extended abstracts of 500-1000 words by September 30, 1995 to Rebecca Green, Program Chair (see contact information below; electronic submissions welcome--please mention ISKO in subject line). An international program committee will review the papers, and authors will be notified of acceptance decisions by January 31, 1996. The deadline for submission of papers for the printed conference proceedings will be March 31, 1996. Conference chair: Sarah Thomas, Director of Cataloging, Collections Services Library of Congress, LM 642 (COLL/O) Washington, DC 20540-4300, USA phone: +1 202 707-5333; fax: +1 202 707-6269 internet: stho@loc.gov Program chair: Rebecca Green College of Library and Information Services Hornbake Bldg. (So. Wing), Rm. 4105 University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-4345, USA phone: +1 301 405-2050; fax: +1 301 314-9145 internet: rgreen@umd5.umd.edu Local arrangements chair: Jolande Goldberg Cataloging Policy and Support Office Library of Congress, LM 556 (COLL/CPSO) Washington, DC 20540-4305, USA phone: +1 202 707-4386; fax: +1 202 707-6629 internet: goldberg@mail.loc.gov ********** III.B.2. Fr: 1995 CAIS CONFERENCE Re: CAIS '95 Conference Registration CAIS/ACSI 95 Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science CONNECTEDNESS: INFORMATION, SYSTEMS, PEOPLE, ORGANIZATIONS 7-10 June 1995 to be held at the School of Library and Information Studies University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta ABBREVIATED CONFERENCE PROGRAM THURSDAY, 8 JUNE 1995 Keynote Speaker: Vincent Mosco School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton: Information and political economy rethinking and renewal. Session 1: Interdisciplinarity in information science theory science. Concurrent Sessions: Session 2: Interdisciplinary methodology. Session 3: Computer networking and information policy. Concurrent Sessions: Session 4: Bibliographic naming. Session 5: Collaboration and partnerships in three contexts FRIDAY, 9 JUNE 1995 Invited speaker: Clare Beghtol FIS, U of Toronto: Within, among, between: three faces of interdisciplinarity. Session 6: Organizational issues. Session 7: Publishing. Session 8: Interdisciplinary praxis. Concurrent sessions: Session 9: The bibliographic interface. Session 10: Collaboration and partnerships. SATURDAY, 10 JUNE 1995 Invited speaker: Mary Dykstra SLIS, Dalhousie U: Hanging together or hanging separately: survival through collaboration. Session 11 Session 12: User-oriented technology. Invited speaker: Douglas Foskett, O.B.E., Director, Central Library Services, U of London (retired) Librarians and information systems: a fruitful partnership. FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: cais95@slis.ualberta.ca or CAIS/ACSI 95 School of Library and Information Studies 3-20 Rutherford South University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2J4 ********** III.B.3. Fr: Paul Evan Peters