1996 Annual Meeting Activities

Sessions Sponsored and Co-Sponsored
Theories of Information Science (SIG/HFIS and SIG/ED)
Theory Under Construction: Rethinking Frameworks for Scholarly and Scientific Communication in the Age of the Internet (SIG/HFIS)
Browsing Online and in the Stacks: What Is It and How Can It Be Facilitated? (SIG/CR, SIG/HCI and SIG/HFIS)
History of Information Science: Reminiscences and Assessments (SIG/HFIS and SIG/ED)
 


1996 Annual Meeting SIG/HFIS Session Descriptions


Theories of Information Science (SIGs/HFIS and ED)

 This session will provide a forum and a showcase for advances in theoretical work within information science. Three theoretical papers will be presented on a functional theory of information retrieval; semeiotics and information science; and information science as a rhetorical construct. 

  • Information Retrieval: Collections, Transformers and Partitioners. 

  • Christian Plaunt and Michael Buckland, University of California at Berkeley 
  • Information as Mediation: On the Potentially Fertile Coupling of Semeiotics and Information Science. 

  • Jean Umiker-Sebeok, Indiana University 
  • Information: A Rhetorical Construct. 

  • Martha M. Smith, Indiana University South Bend

Moderator: Michael Buckland, University of California at Berkeley

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Theory Under Construction: Rethinking Frameworks for Scholarly and Scientific Communication in the Age of the Internet (SIG/HFIS)

 This panel examines issues of how speed-of-light communication might impact our theoretical understanding of scientific communication. 

  • Research in Information Science and Scholarly Communication: How Each Field Can Inform the Other. 

  • Linda Schamber, University of North Texas 
  • Characterizing Electronic Scientific Discourse: What Revolution? 

  • Judy Bateman, University of North Texas 
  • Whither Invisible Colleges? Theoretical Constructs in the Age of Electronic Scholarly Communication. 

  • Steven L. MacCall, University of North Texas

Moderator: Robert V. Williams, University of South Carolina

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Browsing Online and in the Stacks: What Is It and How Can It Be Facilitated? (SIGs/CR, HCI and HFIS)

 Four speakers will address the questions of what browsing is, how it can be studied and what we hope to learn from such study. After the presentations, attendees will be encouraged to contribute to the debate. 

  • Dimensions Characterizing Browsing. 

  • Shan-Ju Chang, National Taiwan University 
  • Tending our Pastures: A Decade's Worth of Research on Browsing Fiction Collections.

  • Sharon (Shay) L. Baker, University of Iowa 
  • A Cognitive Definition of Browsing. 

  • Dee Michel, University of Wisconsin-Madison 
  • Browsing: Not Lazy Searching. 

  • Gary Marchionini, University of Maryland

Moderator: Dee Michel, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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History of Information Science: Reminiscences and Assessments (SIGs/HFIS and ED)

This session continues the on-going work of the sponsoring SIGs to the work being done in the history of information science. This year's program is a combination of presentations that focus on describing and assessing the work of specific companies, individuals, schools and the federal government in the development of information science and technology. 

  • They Had an Information Crisis and No One Really Cared: United States STINFO Policy and Professional Reactions, 1958-1980. 

  • Colin Burke, University of Maryland-Baltimore 
  • Weststat, Inc., and Information Science and Technology: Reminiscences and Assessment of the Early Years. 

  • Donald W. King 
  • Western Reserve's Documentation Program: Reminiscence and Assessment of the Early Years. 

  • Tefko Saracevic, Rutgers University 
  • The Davis Family and the Early Years of Documentation and Information Science.

  • Charlotte Mooers, daughter of Watson Davis and wife of Calvin Mooers, and Miles Davis, son of Watson Davis

Moderator: Robert V. Williams, University of South Carolina

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Last updated: 5/19/99
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