Information Retrieval List Digest 330 (October 28, 1996) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-330.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 October 28, 1996 Volume XIII, Number 43 Issue 330 ********************************************************** I. QUERIES 1. CD Lan Solutions 2. Intranets II. JOBS 1. National Digital Library Federation: Program Director 2. NE Ohio Universities College of Medicine: Archivist 3. Western Carolina U.: Hunter Library, Dir. Public Services III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. E-Journal Citation Analysis Article 2. Katharine Sharp Review: CFP 3. NewsFlashes/Libraries FAQ B. Meetings 1. Digital Libraries '97 2. Computer Symposium 3. NEASIS Fall Program 4. ACRL/NY Annual Symposium IV. PROJECTS D. Initiatives & Proposals 1. Federation of American Research Networks (FARNET) in '97 ********************************************************** I. QUERIES I.1. Fr: Debbie Lords Re: Query CD Lan Solutions We are replacing our current CD LAN/WAN system. Will any LAN/WAN Manager who is willing to discuss your setup please send *me* mail: DLORDS@LIBRARY.UTAH.EDU Please include your phone number and the best time to reach you? Thanks very much in advance. Debra Lords dlords@library.utah.edu Systems Division Marriott Library University of Utah Phone: (801) 581-3753 ********** I.2. Fr: Alan Schroeder Re: Intranets Is anyone out there using, or developing, an Intranet? I am very interested to here about successes and failures. +/-. etc. Reply here or at our Web Page www.scups.edu, bottom of page. Thank you. Alan T. Schroeder, Jr. Research Librarian Southern California University for Professional Studies 1840 East 17th Street, #240 Santa Ana, CA 92705-8605 (714) 480-0800 ext.210 ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Paul Evan Peters Re: National Digital Library Federation: Program Director PROGRAM DIRECTOR, NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY FEDERATION The National Digital Library Federation (NDLF), a group of research libraries dedicated to establishing, maintaining, expanding, and preserving a distributed collection of digital materials accessible by scholars at all levels, is seeking a Program Director to lead and manage its programs and projects. Reporting to the Policy Committee of the Federation through the President of the Council on Library Resources, Preservation and Access, the Program Director will play a critical role in charting a course for NDLF in its first years and in the formation and implementation of the Federation's programs over time. The Federation seeks candidates with significant experience in research libraries, higher education, or technology organizations; experience in digital library applications preferred; excellent communications, facilitation, and coordination skills; adeptness at working in decentralized and multi-institutional environments; demonstrated experience in successful program or project leadership and management; familiarity with electronic publishing and the information marketplace, and sufficient technical knowledge to enable effective coordination of tasks to be accomplished and make a contribution to program and project results. Relocation to Washington, D.C. desirable, but not required. While a permanent appointment is preferred, a minimum two-year term appointment may be possible. Appointment date: April 1, 1997 or as soon as possible thereafter. Salary and benefits commensurate with experience. Applications received by December 15, 1996 will be given preference in consideration. Nomination and applications should be sent to: Search Committee for NDLF Program Director,1400 16th.St, NW, Suite 740, Washington, DC, 20036. ********** II.2. Fr: Larry S. Ellis Re: Western Carolina U.: Hunter Library, Director, Public Services DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICES. Hunter Library, Western Carolina University Provide leadership for reference, instruction, electronic information access, circulation and document delivery. Important elements of this leadership include: Support of an environment in which delivery of quality service is the pre-eminent shared value; Communicating to the campus the library's vision of its role in teaching and learning; Maintaining a cooperative and consultative environment within the library as well as with other segments of the university, particularly those with instructional technology responsibilities; Strategic planning, policy development, and budgeting. The Director of Public Services will participate in reference staffing (including evenings and weekends), bibliographic instruction, and will also serve as a subject liaison to at least one academic department. Public services includes five full-time and two part-time librarians, eight full-time support staff (including the Head of Circulation), and three part-time support staff. The Position reports to the University Librarian. QUALIFICATIONS: ALA-accredited MLS required. Strongly preferred : five years of reference experience which demonstrate a strong commitment to customer- oriented service; experience in teaching and assisting in the use of the full range of printed and electronic reference sources and on-line services; the ability to work collegially and communicate effectively with internal and external constituencies. Preferred: Basic understanding of the use of computer technology in reference and circulation services; demonstrated capacity to lead and manage professional and support staff. This is a twelve-month, faculty rank, tenure-track position. Salary range: $40,000-$43,400. Applications received by November 15 will be given first consideration. Position available June 1, 1997. Please send a letter of application, resume, and names and phone numbers of three references to Sandra Klein, Hunter Library. Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723. Hunter library has an operating budget of $2.4 million, a staff of 43, including 16 librarians and serves a student body of approximately 6000. Through the Western North Carolina Library Network, the libraries of Western Carolina University, Appalachian State University and The University of North Carolina at Asheville share an on-line system, a common bibliographic and patron database, a delivery system (ABC Express) and other services. Western Carolina University, located between the Great Smoky Mountains and the Blue Ridge Mountains approximately 55 miles west of Asheville, North Carolina, is one of the sixteen senior institutions of the University of North Carolina and an affirmative action/ equal opportunity employer. http://www.wcu.edu/library/hunter.htm ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Re: E-Journal Citation Analysis Article The Public-Access Computer Systems Review Volume 7, Number 5 (1996) ISSN 1048-6542 ----------------------------------------------------------------- REFEREED ARTICLES Stephen P. Harter, The Impact of Electronic Journals on Scholarly Communication: A Citation Analysis This article reports hard empirical data on the impact of the first wave of e-journals on the scholarly communities they serve. A citation analysis was conducted for 39 scholarly journals that began electronic publication no later than 1993. Citation data for these journals were tabulated and analyzed. For journals that publish both print and electronic versions, citations to articles published prior to parallel publication were eliminated. The eight most highly cited e-journals were identified. Citation and publication data for three high ranking e-journals in the study were compared to similar data for print journals in the same fields. The seven most highly cited articles from the e-journals in the study were determined. o HTML file World-Wide Web: Re: NewsFlashes/Libraries FAQ available WHAT IS NEWSFLASHES/LIBRARIES? NewsFlashes/Libraries is a headline news service for the library community, posted most business days before noon EST by GraceAnne A. DeCandido, Editor & Director of the H. W. Wilson World Wide Web Site. Occasionally a few days are missed because the Editor is out of the office, or is otherwise preoccupied. The H. W. Wilson Company has provided this service free of charge since NewsFlashes was instituted in mid-March 1996. WHAT'S IN NEWSFLASHES? Brief announcements and news notes of all kinds. They include, but are not limited to, breaking news of the library world, book awards, new positions accepted, and stuff not easily categorized but deemed, in the opinion of the Editor, to be of interest to the online library community. The entire FAQ for NewsFlashes/Libraries, the daily headline news service from H. W. Wilson, is available on the web at http://www.hwwilson.com/newsfaq.html ********** III.B.1. Fr: Fern E Brody Re: Digital Libraries '97 ........... ACM Digital Libraries '97 .......... ............... CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ............... 2ND ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES Philadelphia, Pa July 23 - 26, 1997 http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~diglib97/ diglib97@sis.pitt.edu ACM Digital Libraries is an international conference which is building a community of individuals from diverse fields to study research and development in digital libraries. The collection, access and use of electronic information in a variety of formats requires solutions to problems ranging from the technical to the social, incorporating knowledge and experience from many fields. Individuals with an interest in library and information science, digital information technology, education, information policy and economics, information behavior and other fields contributing to digital library development are invited to participate. ACM DL '97 will immediately precede ACM SIGIR '97 in Philadelphia. The ACM DL series is sponsored by ACM, through SIGIR and SIGLINK. In Cooperation With ACM DL: ASIS (American Society for Information Science) CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) D-Lib (Digital Library Forum) NAL (National Agricultural Library) NLM (National Library of Medicine) SLA (Special Libraries Association) TOPICS: We welcome technical papers, posters, demonstrations, videos,=20 as well as proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials.=20 Research is welcome on any aspect of Digital Libraries including but not limited to the following: - economic and social implications - education, learning, and collaboration - electronic journals, textbooks, and catalogs - evaluation methods and user testing - hypertext and hypermedia - image, graphical, GIS, and multimedia information=20 - indexing and classification - information storage and retrieval - intellectual property rights - metadata and knowledge representation - online museums, galleries, and studios - scanning and digital preservation - world-wide web=20 - user interfaces, visualization, browsing, and searching - user behavior and information needs analysis DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS ARE POSTED ON: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~diglib97/=20 OR MAY BE REQUESTED FROM diglib97@sis.pitt.edu IMPORTANT DATES: January 14, 1997: Submissions due to appropriate Chair March 4, 1997: Notification of acceptance April 28, 1997: Revised papers due to Program Chair ********** III.B.2. Fr: Roy Tally Re: Federation of American Research Networks (FARNET) in 1997 FARNET CHARTS COURSE FOR 1997: ADVANCING INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION COMMUNITIES Washington, DC -- FARNET (The Federation of American Research Networks) announced today that it plans to focus on a broad range of initiatives in 1997 to facilitate the transfer of next-generation Internet technologies, applications and services to the research, education and related non-profit communities. FARNET will build on its efforts of the past year that included a highly successful workshop for the higher education community held in August in Colorado Springs. That workshop, along with a previous meeting in April co sponsored by FARNET, laid much of the groundwork for the development of "Internet II" -- a proposal released by 34 universities last week that aims to bring the next generation of networking to the nation's top research universities. "As we push the envelope of networking technology, it is important that we broadly share what we learn from the leading edge. FARNET's focus for 1997 is right on target," said George Strawn, Division Director for Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure at the National Science Foundation. In 1996, FARNET helped catalyze the higher education community's efforts to push forward that leading edge. In 1997, FARNET will turn its attention to ensuring that the broader research and education and related communities, including K-12, libraries, colleges and universities realize the full potential of evolving Internet technologies. In addition, said Jim Williams, FARNET's Executive Director, "We need to find solutions which are both financially sustainable and responsive throughout the research and education community, and it is to this goal that FARNET intends to turn its attention." FARNET will pursue this agenda in 1997 by holding a series of workshops and strategy sessions bringing together the broad research and education community in both regional meetings and a nationally focused meeting in Washington, DC in April of 1997. "One of the many keys to this initiative is broad participation from within the Internet community," said Dr. E. Michael Staman, FARNET's President and President of CICNet, "and we are very interested in exploring ways in which leaders of other educational organizations, professional societies and the like can work with us to insure the greatest success possible." Among the organizations that will participate is the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). Paul Peters, Executive Director of CNI, explained, "FARNET and CNI share a commitment to a global information infrastructure that serves all of the sectors and addresses all of the needs of the research and education community. It's a big job, one that's tailor made for the sort of strong partnership that we already have and which I look forward to expanding in the coming year." FARNET has already begun an NSF-funded project to develop a database of networking initiatives for the delivery of educational, government and other public services at the state and local levels. This resource is being developed to aid policy makers at the state and local level in their information infrastructure planning. FARNET is a not-for-profit membership organization established in 1986 by state and regional networks involved in the development of the NSFNet. The membership of FARNET also includes commercial Internet service providers, network service providers, and local and long-distance telecommunications companies. The mission of FARNET is national advocacy for Internetworking with a primary focus on the education, research and related communities. FARNET is an executive forum for the exchange of information about the Internet and its applications and services, and acts as a catalyst for the transfer of leading-edge information infrastructure technology. More information about FARNET can be found at http://www.farnet.org ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. Send subscription requests and submissions to: NCGUR@UCCMVSA.UCOP.EDU Editorial Staff: Clifford Lynch calur@uccmvsa.ucop.edu Nancy Gusack ncgur@uccmvsa.ucop.edu The IRLIST Archives is set up for anonymous FTP. Using anonymous FTP via the host ftp.dla.ucop.edu, the files will be found in the directory /data/ftp/pub/irl, stored in subdirectories by year (e.g., data/ftp/pub/irl/1993). 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