Information Retrieval List Digest 309 (June 3, 1996) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-309 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 June 3, 1996 Volume XIII, Number 22 Issue 309 ********************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Ferris State U.: Collection Development/Acquisitions 2. Ferris State U.: Deptartment Head, Library Systems and Operation III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for Organizing the Web 2. Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory Publications 3. FARNET's Washington Update 4. JASIS 47:7 (July 1996): ToC B. Meetings 1. NT-ASIS Upcoming Conference 2. 3rd South American Workshop on String Processing 3. SIGIR '96 Workshop: Multilingual IR Workshop ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Dick Perrin Re: Ferris State U.: Collection Development/Acquisitions POSITION: Collection Development and Acquisitions Coordinator; Library Systems and Operations Department RESPONSIBILITIES: Administers collection development, preservation, and gifts and exchange policies of the library. Manages approval program; monographic, serial and media verification and ordering; materials receiving and invoice payment; monitoring, reporting and control of materials funds expenditures. Coordinates selection activities of liaison librarians. Monitors vendors for fiscal and quality control. Supervises conservation and bindery operations. Reports order status information to faculty and requestors. Supervises and trains paraprofessionals and students in their work. QUALIFICATIONS: Required: MLS or equivalent from a library/ information science program accredited by the American Library Association; one year of library experience in collection development, book trade, purchasing, procurement, and library automation with aspects of bibliographic control; and two years of supervisory experience. Evidence of strong communication, interpersonal and organizational skills, and service orientation. Preferred: Additional graduate degree in business or related discipline. Knowledge of current national trends in publishing and library acquisitions issues. SALARY: Salary is dependent upon qualifications, $29,000 minimally, competitive with Michigan's academic libraries for a 12- month tenure-track faculty appointment with rank and standard benefits. APPLICATION: Apply with letter addressing qualifications as related to the responsibilities of the position, resume and three references from supervisors or colleagues solicited for this position. Please include their names, current addresses and telephone numbers with your application. Transcripts will be required for candidates invited to interview at FSU. APPLY TO: Collection Development/Acquisitions Search Committee. Attn: Joan Boroff, Administrative Services Ferris State University Timme Library 1201 South State Street Big Rapids, MI 49307 APPLICATION DEADLINE: August 30, 1996 or until filled, whichever is sooner. ********** II.2. Fr: Dick Perrin Re: Ferris State U.: Deptartment Head, Library Systems & Operation POSITION: Department Head Library Systems and Operations Department RESPONSIBILITIES: Overall administrative direction with budgetary responsibility for the Library Systems and Operations Department consisting of cataloging and classification; collection development and maintenance; conservation and preservation; library technologies and serials. Leadership in planning, implementing and evaluating departmental services. Duties also include report writing; project planning and management, and liaison to the computer center. Participation in the Libraries' information and instructional programs may be expected. QUALIFICATIONS: Required: MLS or equivalent from a library/ information science program accredited by the American Library Association. Increasing administrative skills with demonstrated proficiency in a technical services area - 3 years minimally. Expertise with integrated library systems, local area network(s) and bibliographic utilities. Evidence of strong communication and organizational skills. Ability to work with faculty and staff in a collegial, consultive, collaborative team environment. Preferred: Additional master's degree or a doctorate; experience with Z39 and document delivery systems; hands-on experience with Intel, UNIX and Novell. Experience with report writing, and project planning and management. SALARY: Salary is dependent upon qualifications, $45,000 minimally, competitive with compensation at Michigan's academic libraries for a non-faculty, administrative, 12-month appointment, with standard benefits. APPLICATION: Apply with letter addressing qualifications as related to the responsiblilities of the position, resume and three references from supervisors or colleagues solicited for this position. Please include their names, current addresses and telephone numbers with your application. Transcripts will be required for candidates invited to interview at FSU. APPLY TO: Library Systems & Operations Search Committee Attn: Joan Boroff, Admiministrative Services Ferris State University Timme Library 1201 South State Street Big Rapids, MI 49307-2747 ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Gerry McKiernan Re: Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for Organizing the Web Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for Organizing the Web I have pleased to announce the establishment of a clearinghouse for Web sites that have applied or adapted standard or (non-standard) classification system or controlled vocabulary for organizing Net resources. Beyond Bookmarks is located at URL: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/CTW.htm Currently only classification schemes have been incorporated in the site, but sites that make use of LCSH and MESH will be added in the near future. Selected sites are organized by major type of organization (e.g. alphabetical, numeric, alphanumeric). With each respective group, sites are organized with the scheme used for organization (e.g. Dewey). Within a scheme grouping, sites are listed (and hotlinked) to the specific page which provides access to the noted classification system. I wish to express my thanks to all who contributed or recommended source sites for this project. Any and all additional sites that are appropriate for this clearinghouse will be very much appreciated. Gerry McKiernan Curator, CyberStacks(sm) Iowa State University and Coordinator, Science and Technology Section, Reference and Instructional Services Department Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu ********** III.A.2. Fr: Ben Shneiderman Re: Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory Publications Technical Reports and Video Reports are available from the University of Maryland's Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory. TECHNICAL REPORTS may be ordered or found online at the website http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hcil/ "User needs assessment for the Library of Congress National Digital Library" "Visual and textual consistency checking tools for graphical user interfaces" "Life cycle of user interface techniques: The DJJ information system design process" "Information and process integration from user requirements elicitation: A case study of a social services agency" "Designing information-abundant websites" "Exploring LifeLines to visualize patient records" "Survival of the fittest: The evolution of multimedia user interfaces" "User controlled overviews of an image library: A case study of the Visible Human" "Windows of opportunity in electronic classrooms" "Social impact statements: Engaging public participation in information technology design" "Query previews in networked information systems" "Life Lines: Visualizing personal histories" "Elastic windows: Improved spatial layout and rapid multiple window operations" VIDEO REPORTS may be ordered: "Introduction," Ben Shneiderman "Elastic Windows for Rapid Multiple Window Management," Eser Kandogan "Life-Lines: Visualizing Personal Histories," Brett Milash, Catherine Plaisant, Anne Rose "Designing Interfaces for Youth Services Information Management," Jason Ellis, Anne Rose, Catherine Plaisant "Query Previews in Networked Information Systems: The Czse of EOSDIS," Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Khoa Doan, Tom Bruns "Baltimore Learning Communities," Gary Marchionini "Visual Information Seeking Using the FilmFinder" (extract from the HCIL1994 Video Report), Christopher Ahlberg, Ben Shneiderman FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Janet Sumida HCIL AV Williams Building University of Maryland/HCIL College Park, MD 20742-3244 ********** III.A.3. Fr: Heather Boyles Re: FARNET's Washington Update FARNET's Washington Update --- May 31, 1996 IN THIS ISSUE: o FY97 Science authorizations, appropriations and allocations under scrutiny >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Written from FARNET's Washington office, "FARNET's Washington Update" is a service to FARNET members and other interested subscribers. We gratefully acknowledge EDUCOM's NTTF and the Coalition for Networked Information for additional support. If you would like more information about the Update or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Heather Boyles at heather@farnet.org. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Heather Boyles Director, Policy and Special Projects FARNET 1112 16th Street, NW Suite 600 Washington, DC 20036 202-331-5342 phone 202-872-4318 fax http://www.farnet.org/ ********** III.A.4. Fr: Richard Hill Re: JASIS July Table of Contents Journal of the American Society for Information Science Volume 47, Number 7 JULY 1996 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN MEMORIAM Ian A. Mcleod, February 15, 1943---December 15, 1995, Robert G. Crawford, 487 SPECIAL TOPIC ISSUE: CURRENT RESEARCH IN ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS SYSTEMS GUEST EDITORS: MICHELINE BEAULIEU AND CHRISTINE L. BORGMAN A New Era for OPAC Research: Introduction to Special Topic Issue on Current Research in Online Public Access Systems, Micheline Beaulieu and Christine L. Borgman, 491 Why Are Online Catalogs Still Hard to Use? Christine L. Borgman, 493 User Goals on an Online Public Access Catalog, Carol A. Hert, 504 Failure Analysis of Subject Searches in a Test of a New Design for Subject Access to Online Catalogs, Karen M. Drabenstott and Marjorie S. Weller, 519 Ordering Author and Work Records: An Evaluation of Collocation in Online Catalog Displays, Allyson Carlyle, 538 Cheshire II: Designing a Next-Generation Online Catalog, Ray R. Larson, Jerome McDonough, Paul O'Leary, Lucy Kuntz, and Ralph Moon, 555 Rethinking Online Monitoring Methods for Information Retrieval Systems: From Search Product to Search Process, Christine L. Borgman, Sandra G. Hirsh, and John Hiller, 568 ERRATUM, 584 COVER: Top--Limbourg Brothers, Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry Map of Rome, 15th Century French manuscript, Chantilly Musee Conde Giraudon, Art Resource, New York. Bottom--Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. Is this vision of Rome a precurser to the global village, or a desire to "get back to the garden?" Is a dictionary a "garden of words" from which comes a garden of verses? Adrienne Weiss, designer Richard Hill Executive Director, American Society for Information Science 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 rhill@cni.org http://www.asis.org ********** III.B.1. Fr: NT-ASIS@lis.unt.edu Re: NT-ASIS Upcoming Conference Students in the Information Sciences: Have you thought about the impact you can make as a member of a new generation of information professionals? We, a group of students in Texas, have. Our continuing mission is to seek out and explore the ever-widening frontier of information. Please join us at Info-Trek: the Next Generation, a conference by and for students in the information disciplines. This will be the second international student conference sponsored by the North Texas Student Chapter of the American Society for Information Science (NT-ASIS) in Denton, Texas. Like its parent orga nization, NT-ASIS seeks to bridge theory and practice in a variety of disciplines concerned with information theory, organization, and access. This conference is planned as a forum in which student s in the information sciences can present paper, projects, and as to an audience of their peers. Students from all information disciplines--information science, computer science, management infor mation systems, library science, communications, education, and related areas--are welcome. Over two full days, June 14 - 15, 1996, the program will be packed with presentations in three "treks"--theory, technology, and practice--and highlighted by prominent guest speakers. Papers will be refereed and published in conference proceedings. Come to present, come t learn, come to have fun. Don't miss this exciting chance to network with people from other institutions who are and will be your professional colleagues. Slip out in the eve ning to dance at a honky tonk in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. We are the next generation, and it's time to .... engage! ********** III.B.2. Fr: rbaeza@dcc.uchile.cl Re: Third South American Workshop on String Processing Third South American Workshop on String Processing August 08-09, 1996 Recife, Brazil The Third South American Workshop on String Processing (WSP'96) will take place in Recife, Brazil, jointly with several computer science conferences organized for the same week by the Brazilian Computer Society. The First and Second Workshops were held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in September 1993, and in Valparai'so, Chile, in April 1995, respectively. This event is intended to provide a forum for discussion among researchers interested in all aspects of String Processing. Papers presenting original research on that are sought. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest include: Data Retrieval, Dictionary Algorithms, DNA sequencing, String Searching, and Pattern Alignment. There will be a number of invited speakers, to be announced opportunely. People willing to be included in a mailing list to receive information about the event, please send e-mail to WSP96@di.ufpe.br. CHAIR OF PROGRAM COMMITTEE: LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Nivio Ziviani (DCC/UFMG) Katia Guimaraes (DI/UFPE) Caixa Postal 702, Belo Horizonte, MG Caixa Postal 7851, Recife, PE 30161-970 BRAZIL 50732-970 BRAZIL E-mail: nivio@dcc.ufmg.br E-mail: WSP96@di.ufpe.br Phone: +55 31 443-4088 Phone: +55 81 271-8430 Fax: +55 31 443-4352 Fax: +55 81 271-4925 URLs: http://www.di.ufpe.br/simposios/wsp96.html ftp://ftp.di.ufpe.br/pub/export/wsp96 ********** III.B.3. Fr: G. Grefenstette Re: SIGIR '96 Workshop: Multilingual Information Retrieval Workshop 2nd Call for Participation SIGIR'96 Workshop on Cross-Linguistic Multilingual Information Retrieval Workshop August 22, 1996 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: As more and more information sources are becoming available on the Web, the portion of internationally available non-English text is slowing growing, and surely the numbers of non-English speaking users is growing much faster. The problem of accessing unrestricted information with queries expressed in a language different from the source language of the documents will become more widespread. This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on this problem of cross-linguistic multilingual information retrieval. We invite papers describing implementations of cross-linguistic retrieval; use of bilingual dictionaries, of parallel corpora, or of non-parallel comparable bilingual corpora applied to the retrieval problem; or providing answers to any of the following questions: Does automatic translation solve the problem? Are word-to-word correspondances sufficient? How should ambiguity in translation be dealt with? What kind of user interaction can help resolve ambiguities? How can test collections be built for multilingual information retrieval? How can retrieved documents in different languages be scored and ranked in a comparable fashion? What unique features are required by multilingual user interfaces? What can be learned from four decades of machine translation for the cross-linguistic retrieval problem? WORKSHOP FORMAT: A limited number of papers will be accepted for presentation. 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