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About DLIS / Archives / News
and Events for 1998
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- Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg cordially invites you
to a program and reception honoring Dr. Doreen E. Boyce
and The Buhl Foundation on the establishment of a Chair
for Library & Information Science on Wednesday, December
2, 1998 at 4:30 PM in IS 501. Reception will begin at
5:00 PM.
- DLIS Colloquium:Friday, November 20 from 12:00 - 1:00
in Room 501
- DLIS Colloquium: 12:00-1:00 on Wednesday, Sept. 23
in IS 501
Speaker: Blane Dessy, Executive Director, National
Library of Education
Title: "Creating a new Virtual National Library:
Experiences from the U.S. Department of Education"
- DLIS Colloquium at 4:00 on July 14, 1998
Colloquium:
Intellectual Freedom and the Law: A Canada/U.S. Comparison
Speaker: Ann Curry, Associate Professor, School of
Library, Archival, and Information Studies, University
of British Columbia.
- DLIS Students Publish!
Congratulations to Jonathan Estrin and Harold Thiele
who were well represented in the recent Winter 1998 issue
of the _Katherine Sharp Review_ published by the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library
and Information Science.
Jonathan published two essays -- "Instructional
Communication as a Core Competency: A Call for Curricular
Change in Professional Library Education" and "From
Bibliographic Instruction to Instructional Management:
A Process-Oriented Approach for Reengineering Library
Instruction Programs" -- and Harold published "Appraisal,
Provenance, and the Computer Revolution: An Examination
of Organizational Records in the Electronic Age." Congrats
to these two doctoral students.
- Archival Studies Program Web pages now available!
- Department gets Highmark Minority Health Link Grant!
- Robert B. Croneberger 1937-1998
Robert Croneberger taught as an adjunct professor in
the Department of Library and Information Science for
ten years and was a member of the Board of Visitors at
the time of his death. He will be greatly missed.
Tribute to Robert B. Croneberger by Liane Ellison Norman.
Robert B. Croneberger Endowed Book Fund created by Friends
of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
- ISO 1998 Dinner a Success!
- Mister Rogers Visits SIS!
- New Scholarship!
A new scholarship for part-time students honors "Beginning
with Books" co-founder!
- Dr. E. J. Josey wins the 1998 Humphrey/OCLC/Forest
Press Award! (to be awarded June 29, 1998)
- Second Plate Arrives at SIS!
The long awaited Second
Plate Food Service will be open for business on Monday,
March 9 beginning at
8:00 a.m. It will be located on the Second Floor
of the IS Building in the Student Lounge.
Their service will include breakfast items such as
bagels, sweet rolls, coffee, etc. Lunch will include
hot soups and sandwiches. The Second Plate will be
open until 6:00 p.m. Monday - Thursday to accommodate
the evening students.
- Invitational Workshop on Information Retrieval Tools
Department
Chair, Dr. Edie Rasmussen, and Dr. Robert Korfhage from
the Department of Information Science
and Telecommunications are co-chairing this workshop
which will take place on March 20 and 21, 1998!
- University Times Article Online:
Head of National Security
Archive says librarians are civilization's 1st defense
against totalitarianism
This article covers the Information Ethics Lecture
given by Tom Blanton on October 27.
- The Online Bibliofile Newsletter!
At last, the long-awaited
event has occurred! The Bibliofile Newsletter is now
online! Thanks to Joan
Soulliere
(1998 editor of Bibliofile), the student newsletter
of the Department will now be published in both print
and online. Start reading the Bibliofile online!
- Congratulations!
Congratulations to Professor Blanche
Woolls, who has been named Director of the School of
Library and
Information Science at San Jose State University.
Dr. Woolls has been on the faculty of the Department
of Library and Information Science since 1973, and
she will be missed by colleagues and students at
the University of Pittsburgh.
- New Information Ethics Web Site!
The School of Information
Sciences is proud to announce the new Information Ethics
Web Site which was developed
by Barbara Rockenbach, our first Information Ethics
Fellow. Amanda Utts has been chosen as the Information
Ethics Fellow for the Fall term, and she will continue
to develop the Web site which Barbara Rockenbach has
started.
- New Faculty Members!
Dr. Hong
Xu received her MLIS from Wuhan University,
P.R. China, and Ph.D from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. She comes to SIS from the Department
of Computer Science at the State University of New
York at Oswego where she has been teaching courses
in database management systems and online information
systems.
Dr. Elizabeth Yakel received an AMLS from the University
of Michigan, School of Library and Information Studies,
and her Ph.D from the School of Information. She has
been working on the Medical Collaboratory Project at
the University of Michigan; and teaching in the areas
of archives, preservation and records management.
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For more information
about the Library and Information Science Program,
please call 412.624.9420 or e-mail Debbie Day
School of Information
Sciences, University of Pittsburgh,
135 North Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Tel: 412.624.3988 | Fax: 412.624.5231
For information about Admissions & Financial Aid, please
contact
Shabana Reza at 800.672.9435
Information Science & Technology Email: isinq@sis.pitt.edu
Telecommunications Email: teleinq@sis.pitt.edu
Library & Information Science Email: lisinq@sis.pitt.edu
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