Information Retrieval List Digest 339 (January 6, 1997) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-339.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 January 6, 1997 Volume XIV, Number 1 Issue 339 ********************************************************** I. QUERIES 1. Four-T-Nine-R(sm): Data Mining of Web and non-Web Bibliographic Databases II. JOBS 1. Dalhousie University: SLIS: 2 positions 2. Emporia State U.: SLIM, Assistant Professor 3. Sigma Theta Tau Int'l. Honor Society of Nursing: Electronic Library: Librarian III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. FARNET's Washington Update B. Meetings 1. Digital Resources in the Humanities '97 2. SLA Winter Education Conference C. Miscellaneous 1. Enhanced Competitive Analysis 2. Index Morganagus ********************************************************** I. QUERIES I.1. Fr: Gerry McKiernan Re: Four-T-Nine-R(sm): Data Mining of Web and non-Web Bibliographic Databases Four-T-Nine-R(sm) Data Mining of Web and non-Web Bibliographic Databases For a planned review and clearinghouse, I am interested in learning of projects, research, products and services that have applied Data Mining technologies to Web or non-Web _bibliographic_ data bases or datasets. I am particularly interested in the application to MARC data records. At this time I am _not_ interested in other applications of Data Mining. There are a number of excellent Web resources available to those who desire additional information about Data Mining. One of the best is KD Mine at URL: http://info.gte.com/~kdd/index.html Relevant efforts will be profiled in a new clearinghouse entitled Four-T-Nine-R(sm) at the following URL: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/4T9R.htm As always, any and all suggestions, reactions or critiques are most welcome. Regards, Gerry McKiernan Curator, CyberStacks(sm) Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Bertrum H Macdonald Re: Dalhousie University: SLIS: 2 positions DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY School of Library and Information Studies * Two faculty positions are available at Dalhousie University. * * The first position for an appointment in 1997 is described * * below; the second position for an appointment in 1998 will * * be posted soon. * The School of Library and Information Studies in the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University invites applications for a tenure track appointment at the level of assistant or associate professor from those with teaching and research interests in any two of the following areas: (i) information organization, (ii) classification & indexing, (iii) bibliographic control, (iv) information environment, (v) information needs & uses, (vi) user behaviour, and (vii) organizational management. The rank is open depending on qualifications. A Ph.D. is expected with demonstrated excellence in teaching and research, appropriate for the level. The salary is competitive. The start date is July 1, 1997 or by arrangement for a beginning teaching date of September 1997. To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by March 1, 1997. Preliminary interviews can take place at the meeting of the Canadian Council of Library Schools, held in conjunction with the annual conference of the Association of Library and Information Studies Education in Washington, D.C. February 12-14, 1997. Send a current resume and the names of three referees and their contact addresses to: Dr. Bertrum H. MacDonald, Director School of Library and Information Studies Faculty of Management Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3J5 Phone: (902) 494-2472 Fax: (902) 494-2451 E-mail: Bertrum.MacDonald@dal.ca The School of Library and Information Studies is a unit in the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University along with the Schools of Business Administration, Public Administration, and Resource & Environmental Studies. The School offers a two year Master of Library & Information Studies degree, a combined MLIS/LLB, and provides opportunities for specialization within the Faculty of Management, and interdisciplinary links with other graduate departments. Further information about the School and Dalhousie University is available at the following addresses: the School: http://www.mgmt.dal.ca/slis/ the Faculty of Management: http://www.mgmt.dal.ca Dalhousie University: http://www.dal.ca Halifax & Nova Scotia: http://www2.dal.ca/aboutDal/Halifax&NS/ In accordance with immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian Citizens and Permanent Residents of Canada. Dalhousie University is an Employment Equity/Affirmative Action Employer. The University encourages applications from qualified women, aboriginal peoples, racially visible minorities, and persons with disabilities. ********** II.2. Fr: Karla Voanchen Re: Emporia State U.: SLIM, Assistant Professor Emporia State University, School of Library and Information Management is seeking an assistant professor whose talent, interests and knowledge areas will expand our program in information management. This could include such knowledge areas as information brokering, global information services, entrepreneurial services, policy, economics of information, and management. Applicants should be committed to working with master s students who are interested in creating their own businesses as well as those who would bring new ideas into corporate, academic, school or public libraries. The successful candidate s research interests and record must demonstrate an eagerness and ability to teach in the doctoral program. This is a nine-month, tenure-track faculty position to be filled no later that August, 1997. Candidates must have a doctorate, or be nearing completion of a doctorate, in library information science or a related area; be able to teach effectively in doctoral and distance learning programs; and be willing to provide leadership in professional service. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Review of applications will begin December 1. Submit a letter of application, current resume, and names of three professional references to Dr. Martha Hale, Chair, Search Committee, School of Library and Information Management, Campus Box 4025, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas 66801-5087; telephone 316-341-5320; FAX 316-341-5233; e-mail address Re: Sigma Theta Tau Int'l. Honor Society of Nursing: Electronic Library: Librarian Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing has a leadership Librarian position available for its electronic library, The Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library. The Library is housed at the Center for Nursing Scholarship in Indianapolis Indiana. We would appreciate your assistance in this search by sharing the job description and other informational materials with anyone you think might be interested in the position. In place or under development are data, information, and knowledge services. Current primary knowledge services include a Registry of Nursing Research (Nurse researchers, their research studies, and study results) and a peer-reviewed electronic journal of critical reviews of research on practice problems (The Online Journal of Knowledge Synthesis for Nursing) distributed via OCLC. POSITION: LIBRARIAN OF CENTER FOR NURSING SCHOLARSHIP REPORTS TO: Executive Officer POSITION LEVEL: Executive Staff I. POSITION DESCRIPTION: The Librarian is responsible to the Executive Officer for furthering the goals of Sigma Theta Tau International through the oversight of the administration of department activities and the effective utilization of Sigma Theta Tau resources allocated to the department. The Librarian is further responsible for regularly consulting and collaborating with experts in nursing informatics to plan and develop the potential of the library and its services. II. RESPONSIBILITIES: A. Library Administration (50%) 1. Directs operations of the Virginia Henderson Library. 2. Oversees staffing needs of Library including delineation of staff authority and assignment. 3. Oversees budgetary development and monotoring for Library. 4. Directly supervises Library Coordinator and professional specialists in fulfillment of their responsibilities. 5. Oversees archives of the Society. B. Library Implementation (30%) 1. Manages strategic plan for Virginia Henderson Library, implementing activities and evaluating as appropriate. 2. Assesses periodically effectiveness of Library services in meeting organization goals. 3. Directs acquisition of library resources (research, publication, archives). 4. Directs implementation of library services. 5. Publishes scientific work of Library in appropriate publications. 6. Serves as primary liaison for Library Committee and other Society committees as their activities relate to the Library. 7. Represents Society with other organizations and groups in the promotion of services for Library, including attendance and presentations at Society meetings. C. Library Planning and Development (20%) 1. In consultation with nursing informatics experts: participates in developing the services of the Virginia Henderson Library in keeping with identified needs. 2. Plans, formulates and recommends Library programming. 3. Recommends policy and appropriate action to Executive Officer as related to planning and development of Library services. III. POSITION REQUIREMENTS: A. Education 1. Has a masters degree in library science and a minimum of 5 years experience as administrator of library services. Related education and experience will be considered. Experience with health-related librarianship highly preferred. National and nonprofit association experience desirable. CONTACT: Carol Perry, Human Resources Coordinator (carol@stti-sun.iupui.edu, or Judith Graves, Informatics Director, Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library (judith@stti-sun.iupui.edu). ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Heather Boyles Re: FARNET's Washington Update FARNET's Washington Update --- December 22, 1996 IN THIS ISSUE: o Timeline for Internet indecency case at the Supreme Court o WIPO conference dealing with copyright and GII issues ends this week >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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 ********** III.B.1. Fr: lou@vax.ox.ac.uk Re: DRH '97 D R H '97 St Annes College Oxford 14-17 September 1997 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97 Bringing together the creators, users, distributors, and custodians of Digital Resources in the Humanities. MISSION: DRH97 aims to become a new forum for all those affected by the digitization of our common cultural heritage: the scholar producing or using an electronic edition; the teacher using digital media in the seminar room; the publisher finding new ways to reach new markets; the librarian, curator, art historian, or archivist wishing to improve both access to and conservation of the digital information that characterizes contemporary culture and scholarship. FORMAT: The conference will take up three intensive days of academic papers, panel discussions, technical reports, and software demonstrations, held this year in a comfortable Oxford college. The atmosphere will, we hope, encourage a lot of energetic discussion, both formal and informal. Leading practitioners of the application of digital techniques and resources in the Humanities, from the worlds of scholarship, librarianship, and publishing will be there, exchanging expertise, experience, and opinions. SPONSORS: The conference is sponsored by the British Library, the Office for Humanities Communication, the Arts and Humanities Data Service, the Centre for Computing in the Humanities of Kings College London, the International Institute for Electronic Library Research of de Montfort University, the Library of University College London, and the Humanities Computing Unit of Oxford University. TIMETABLE: Proposals are invited for academic papers, themed panel sessions and reports of work in progress. Extended abstracts (1500 to two thousand words) should be submitted by April 7th 1997. All proposals will be reviewed by an independent panel. Full versions (2 to 4 thousand words) of accepted papers will be required by July 7th 1997 for inclusion in the conference proceedings. THEMES: Creation of digital resources, textual, visual, and time-based; integration of digital resources as multimedia; policies and strategies for electronic delivery, both commercial and non-commercial; cataloguing and metadata aspects of resource discovery; pedagogic implications of digital resources and electronic delivery; encoding standards; intellectual property rights; funding, cost-recovery, and charging mechanisms; digitization techniques and problems. COST AND ACCOMMODATION: We hope to hold the conference fee at last year's level (225 pounds, covering lunches, dinners, and the whole academic programme). For accommodation, delegates can choose between ensuite rooms at 45 pounds/day or study/bedrooms with shared bathroom at 30 pounds/day for B & B. All accommodation is on campus in modern purpose-built blocks adjoining the quadrangle and within a few minutes walk of all conference facilities. The conference banquet will cost an additional 40 pounds. FURTHER INFORMATION: The conference web site at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97 will be regularly updated, and will include full details of the procedure for submitting proposals, the programme, and registration information. Bookmark it now! ********** III.B.2. Fr: Re: SLA Winter Education Conference Don't miss the opportunity to learn the latest technology trends from experts in the library and information profession during the Special Libraries Association's 1997 Winter Education Conference! "Riding the Technology Tidal Wave" January 26-28 Fort Lauderdale, Florida The three-day conference includes a variety of half-day workshops, full-day courses, exhibits and demonstrations of the latest products and services designed to enhance your special library. Also featured will be the 1997 Technology Fair, showcasing today's most prestigious companies displaying the latest technologies in the information field. Sunday courses: *Enterprise: Wide Access to CD-ROM, Magnetic & Internet-Mounted Databases *Coach's Corner: Leadership Skills and Techniques *The IntraNet: Strategic Planning Workshop Monday courses: *Building the Corporate IntraNet Center *Communicating with Users in the Changing Technology Environment *Copyright in the Electronic Age Tuesday courses: *Partnering with MIS *Building the Corporate IntraNet Knowledge Center *Copyright Update for Corporate Librarians Also offered will be the "Technology and Applications" unit of the Middle Management Institute! For more information, check out the SLA World Wide Web page at www.sla.org, under professional development, or call Gianna Renzulli, SLA Manager, Professional Development at 1/202/234-4700, ext. 649, or by e-mail at gianna@sla.org. ********** III.C.1. Fr: Kimberly Kertis <102414.715@CompuServe.COM> Re: Enhanced Competitive Analysis - short course An "Enhanced Competitive Analysis" short course will be presented by the Chemical Marketing and Resources Association (CMRA) at the Westin Oaks Hotel in Houston Texas on February 9-11, 1997. Competitive Intelligence Professionals, Corporate Planners, Business Development Managers, Market Research Managers, R&D Managers, Sales and Marketing Managers will all benefit from this intensive interactive course that will cover all of the relevant aspects of Competitive Intelligence from a "hands on" approach. A partial list of the topics covered in this course includes: - Systems for gathering and analyzing competitor information - Online sources of competitive company information - Competitors goals - Competitors growth strategies - Competitors markets & marketing strategies - Competitors technological capabilities - Competitors pricing strategies - Competitors supplier & purchasing strategies - Maximizing your strength vis-a-vis your competitors The approach will be one of "analysis" and "how-to". The course material will be presented by an all-star faculty from Wall Street, Industry and the Academic community. For information and registration please see the CMRA URL http://www.cmra.org/cmra or contact Mary Carrick at: CMRA 60 Bay Street Staten Island, NY 10301 718-876-8800 718-720-4666 FAX estrauss@gwis.com ********** III.C.2. Fr: Eric Lease Morgan Re: Index Morganagus Please try Index Morganagus, a freetext and field searchable, fulltext index of 34 library-related electronic serials at: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/~emorgan/morganagus/ The Index is a demonstration of the Harvest technology and an alternative to the collection of electronic serials. Recent publications have stated that electronic serials are not making an impact on the scholarly communications process. I believe this to be true because electronic serials are not indexed and easily accessible. Yes, electronic serials abound, but no one is going to browse individual issues for articles of interest. Collections of electronic serials must be brought together and indexed collectively. Index Morganagus is an attempt to do just that. If the Index proves useful, then other indexes can be created for other disciplines. Once these other indexes are created, they can be combined with other Harvest indexes. The sum total of these indexes could prove to be the equivalent of Academic Index while individual indexes could be the equivalent of publications like Library Literature, Biology Abstracts, and MLA Bibliography. If it can be demonstrated to the scholarly community that electronic publications are a viable means of scholarly communication, then maybe more scholarly communication will take place through freely available electronic serials. Index Morganagus is one demonstration of what can be done. The Index was created by first using FileMaker Pro to maintain a database of serials. Records from this database were combined using relational database techniques to generate descriptions of Harvest "gatherers" and "brokers." Reports were run against these descriptions to create Perl scripts. These scripts were then uploaded to the Sunsite machine where they were executed and thus created real Harvest gatherers and brokers. Using this model, upkeep of the Index is reduced to maintaining a valid list of serials. Everything else is done "automagically." At the very least, please consider completing the survey found on the Index's home page. This survey will help determine whether or not to continue the service beyond Easter '97. Eric Lease Morgan NCSU Libraries http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/ ********************************************************** 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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