LIBRES Table of Contents v7n01 (March 31, 1997) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/libres/libres-v7n01-contents.txt.txt LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal ISSN 1058-6768 1997 Volume 7 Issue 1; March 31 Quarterly LIBRE7N1 CONTENTS ____________________________________________________ (Please note that issue LIBRE6N4 was not published). TABLE OF CONTENTS: RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS SECTION (peer-reviewed) _________________________ Designing an Ergonomic Circulation Desk: A Case Study Scott Seaman Norlin Library University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. USA seaman@spot.colorado.edu (This is a multimedia article which needs to be viewed with Netscape or IE from the Libres web sites. It contains Quicktime video sequences. The plain text version is available from the usual sources.) (available as LIBRE7N1 SEAMAN) ftp - ftp.curtin.edu.au/pub/libres/LIBRE7N1/SEAMAN www - http://www.lib.lsu.edu/epubs/libres/libre7n1/seaman.html www - http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/dept/sils/libres/libre7n1/seaman.htm ------- Data Sources for Library and Information Science Research: Presentation for Library Research Seminar I November 1-2, 1996 Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida USA Robin Rice Special Librarian, Data and Program Library Service University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA rice@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu (available as LIBRE7N1 RICE) ftp - ftp.curtin.edu.au/pub/libres/LIBRE7N1/RICE www - http://www.lib.lsu.edu/epubs/libres/libre7n1/rice.html www - http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/dept/sils/libres/libre7n1/rice.htm ------- ESSAYS AND OPINIONS SECTION _______________________________________ Library Cafes: Next Logical Step William Pierce Salina Public Library Kansas, USA (available as LIBRE7N1 PIERCE) ftp - ftp.curtin.edu.au/pub/libres/LIBRE7N1/PIERCE www - http://www.lib.lsu.edu/epubs/libres/libre7n1/pierce.html www - http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/dept/sils/libres/libre7n1/pierce.htm ------- The Nature of Journals of Librarianship: A Review Gaby Haddow Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia gaby@biblio.curtin.edu.au (available as LIBRE7N1 HADDOW) ftp - ftp.curtin.edu.au/pub/libres/LIBRE7N1/HADDOW www - http://www.lib.lsu.edu/epubs/libres/libre7n1/haddow.html www - http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/dept/sils/libres/libre7n1/haddow.htm REVIEWS SECTION _______________________________________ (available as LIBRE7N1 REVIEWS) ftp - ftp.curtin.edu.au/pub/libres/LIBRE7N1/REVIEWS www - http://www.lib.lsu.edu/epubs/libres/libre7n1/reviews.html www - http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/dept/sils/libres/libre7n1/reviews.htm A Dictionary of Ancient Egypt Margaret Bunson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. & A Dictionary of the Roman Empire. Margaret Bunson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Reviewed by: Elizabeth Malia. Television: an International History. Anthony Smith, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Reviewed by: Elizabeth Malia. SLA Biennial Salary Survey. L. Sayer. (Comp. & ed.). Washington, DC: Special Libraries Association, 1996. Reviewed by: Marylou Hale. Women Composers: Music Through the Ages, Volume 1. Composers Born Before 1599. Edited by Martha Furman Schleifer and Sylvia Glickman. NY: G.K Hall, 1996. Reviewed by: Barbara Cressman Dada: The Coordinates of Cultural Politics. Stephen C. Foster (ed.). New York: G.K. Hall, 1996. Reviewed by: Terry Skeats. Index to Black Periodicals 1995. New York: G.K. Hall & Co., 1996. Reviewed by: Kimberly Hill NEWS FROM OTHER JOURNALS SECTION _________________________________________ (available as LIBRE7N1 JOURNALS) ftp - info.curtin.edu.au/pub/libres/LIBRE7N1/JOURNALS www - http://www.lib.lsu.edu/epubs/libres/libre7n1/journals.html www - http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/dept/sils/libres/libre7n1/journals.htm 1. version 6 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2. Call for contributions to a special issue of Interacting with Computers 3. Vol 2, no. 2 of Information Research 4. D-Lib Magazine: October 1996 November 1996 January 1997 5. ERCIM News - special theme issue on "Digital Libraries" 6. ARL announces Transforming Libraries 7. Journal of Internet Cataloguing 8. New Review Journal: Counterpoise 9. InterNIC News, vol 1, issue 8, Nov 1996 10. JASIS December 1996 February 1997 March 1997 April 1997 11. The Information Society 12 (3) 12 (4) 13 (1) 12. Current Cites, Feb 1997 13. New: International Journal on Digital Libraries 14. JoDI (Journal of Digital Information) NEWS SECTION _______________________ (available as LIBRE7N1 NEWS) ftp - info.curtin.edu.au/pub/libres/LIBRE7N1/NEWS www - http://www.lib.lsu.edu/epubs/libres/libre7n1/news.html www - http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/dept/sils/libres/libre7n1/news.htm NEWS: Table of Contents 1. International Graduate Summer School (IGSS) on Electronic Libraries Department of Information and Library Studies, University of Wales 2. IAT Infobits - October 1996 3. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 4. Electronic Government Information - UK and Europe 5. Government of Canada GILS Pilot Project 6. Two new CIRCIT Policy Research Papers 7. Telematics for libraries 8. Distributed Digital Library in Germany 9 The Scout Report - November 22, 1996 10. The Web version of BL Res and Innov. Report 10, Information Behaviour 11. World list of departments, etc... 12. US researchers: major research instrumentation program 13. InfoTrends IS Issue 60 14. Text retrieval Conference (Jan - November 1997) 15. Book and CDROM - Proc 2nd International Conference on Distance Education in Russia 16. eLib supporting study call: collection description 17 National Library of Australia SCOAP Guidelines CONFERENCES and MEETINGS SECTION ________________________ (available as LIBRE7N1 MEETINGS) ftp - info.curtin.edu.au/pub/libres/LIBRE7N1/MEETINGS www - http://www.lib.lsu.edu/epubs/libres/libre7n1/meetings.html www - http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/dept/sils/libres/libre7n1/meetings.htm CONTENTS MEETING 1 ) 13-16 APRIL 1997 CAUSE IN AUSTRALASIA 97 Second Call for papers Melbourne Australia MEETING 2) 14-16 APRIL 1997 ICCC/IFIP CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING Call for papers University of Kent at Canterbury, UK MEETING 3) 21-23 APRIL 1997 THE ROLE OF LIBRARIANS IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT First announcement and call for papers Slovenia MEETING 4 ) 6-8 MAY 1997 ELVIRA 4: THE 4TH UK DIGITAL LIBRARIES CONFERENCE First call for submissions Milton Keynes, UK MEETING 5) 6-9 MAY 1997 IASSIST/IFDO'97 DATA FRONTIERS IN THE INFOSCAPE Odense, Denmark MEETING 6 ) 7-9 MAY 1997 AUSTRALIAN WWW TECHNICAL CONFERENCE Call for participation Brisbane, Queensland, Australia MEETING 7) 7-9 MAY 1997 IEEE ADL'97 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES Advance program Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA MEETING 8 ) 12-14 MAY 1997 SCHOOL FOR SCANNING: PRESERVATION AND ACCESS IN A DIGITAL WORLD Berkeley, California, USA MEETING 9) 12 - 15 MAY 1997 8TH JOINT EUROPEAN NETWORKING CONFERENCE (JENC8) Call for papers Edinburgh, Scotland MEETING 10) 13-15 MAY 1997 NATIONAL ONLINE MEETING 1997 Call for papers New York Hilton, USA MEETING 11) 26-27 MAY 1997 1ST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL SEMIOTICS First announcement and call for papers Leonardo da Vinci University, Paris, France. MEETING 12) 3 - 5 JUNE 1997 IDT 97 Call for papers Paris, France MEETING 13) 7-15 JUNE 1997 FOURTH INTERNATION CONFERENCE: "CRIMEA 97" Second announcement and call for papers Yalta, Republic of Crimea, Ukraine MEETING 14) 16-18 JUNE 1997 6TH INTERNATIONAL STUDY CONFERENCE ON CLASSIFICATION RESEARCH: KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL University College, London, UK MEETING 15) 18-19 JUNE 1997 SHIMR 97 - THIRD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT RESEARCH Call for papers Sheffield, England, UK MEETING 16) 18-22 JUNE 1997 CANADIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE Abstracts for papers Ottawa, Canada MEETING 17) 20 - 21 JUNE 1997 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY 1997 (ISTAS'97) Call for papers University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland MEETING 18) 23-24 JUNE 1997 2ND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON NETWORKED LEARNER SUPPORT Call for papers Sheffield England MEETING 19) 26 JUNE - 3 JULY 1997 REFERENCE RESEARCH FORUM AT THE ALA CONFERENCE Call for papers San Francisco, USA MEETING 20) 6-11 JULY 1997 INTL ASSN OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANSHIP, ASSN TEACHER LIBRARIANSHIP, Canada: Bridging the gap. Call for proposals University of BC, Vancouver, Canada MEETING 21) 15-18 JULY 1997 SSD '97: 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPATIAL DATABASES Call for papers Berlin, Germany MEETING 22) 23-36 JULY 1997 ACM DIGITAL LIBRARIES '97 Call for participation Philadelphia, Pa, USA MEETING 23) 27-31 JULY 1997 SIGIR '97 Call for papers Philadelphia, Pa, USA MEETING 24) 10-22 AUGUST 1997 SECOND INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON THE DIGITAL LIBRARY Tilburg University, The Netherlands MEETING 25) 23-25 AUGUST 1997 IJCAI-97 WORKSHOP ON ONTOLOGIES AND MULTILINGUAL NLP Call for submissions Nagoya, Japan MEETING 26) 24-29 AUGUST 1997 IFLA PRE SESSION: BRIDGING INFORMATION GAPS THROUGH TECHNOLOGY Call for expressions of interest Denmark MEETING 27) 31 AUGUST - 5 SEPTEMBER 1997 IFLA PRE SESSION: WOMEN AND LIBRARIANSHIP Call for papers Copenhagen, Denmark MEETING 28) late AUGUST 1997 IFLA PRE SESSION: SECTION OF SOCIAL SCIENCES OPEN SESSION Call for papers Copenhagen, Denmark MEETING 29) 7-11 SEPTEMBER 1997 ECSCW '97: FIFTH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE NETWORK 2nd call for participation Lancaster UK MEETING 30) 7-11 SEPTEMBER 1997 2ND NORTHUMBRIA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT IN LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SERVICES Northumberland, England MEETING 31) 8-17 SEPTEMBER 1997 ACADEMIC LIBRARY PLKANNING AND DESIGN: CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE British Council International Seminar Sunderland, England MEETING 32) 14-17 SEPTEMBER 1997 D R H '97 (DIGITAL RESOURCES IN HUMANITIES) Conference announcement St Annes College, Oxford, England MEETING 33) 16-17 SEPTEMBER 1997 SECOND IEEE METADATA CONFERENCE Call for papers NOAA, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA MEETING 34) 26-28 SEPTEMBER 1997 THE ETHICS OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION Call for papers University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA MEETING 35) 27-28 SEPTEMBER 1997 THE FUTUREPROOF INDEXER Katoomba, NSW Australia MEETING 36) 13-17 OCTOBER 1997 INFO '97 IN CUBA Havana, Cuba MEETING 37) 15-18 OCTOBER 1997 COSIT '97: CONFERENCE ON SPATIAL INFORMATION THEORY First call for papers laurel Highlands, Pennsylvania, USA MEETING 38) OCTOBER 97? FID/II INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMEs Lisbon, Portugal (MEETING 39) 1-6 NOVEMBER 1997 ASIS 97 Call for participation Washington, DC, USA MEETING 40) 2 NOVEMBER 1997 CLASSIFICATION RESEARCH Call for participation Washington, DC, USA MEETING 41) 2-12 NOVEMBER 1997 THE MANAGEMENT OF ARCHIVES AND RECORDS: THE IMPACT OF ELECTRONICS AND THE INTERNET British Council International Seminar Liverpool, England MEETING 42) 13-14 NOVEMBER 1997 THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GREY LITERATURE Announcement Luxembourg MEETING 43) 11-17 OCTOBER 1998 49TH FID GENERAL ASSEMBLY, CONFERENCE AND CONGRESS Preliminary announcement New Delhi, India _______________________________ _________________________________ LIBRES Editorial Board Kerry Smith (Editor-in-Chief) Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia kerry@biblio.curtin.edu.au Andy Exon (Editor-in-Chief Emeritus) Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia andy@biblio.curtin.edu.au Diane K. 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