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New members of the board of editors
LISR 18, SS(1998)
New Members of the Board of Editors We are pleased to welcome two new distinguished members to the LISR Board of Editors. Gary Marchionini is a professor in the College of Library and Information Services at the University of Maryland, where he teaches courses in computer applications, human-computer communication, and research methods. He also has an appointment in the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory of the University’s Center for Automation Research. His Ph.D. is from Wayne State University in mathematics education with an emphasis on educational computing. Dr. Marchionini’s research interests are in information seeking in electronic environments and human-computer interaction. He is the Director of Evaluation for the Perseus Project (a large-scale hypermedia corpus) and served for two years as the General Editor of Hypertext Publications for the Association of Computing Machinery. He is a member of a team of information scientists developing model information centers for developing countries, and has worked in Sri Lanka and India. Dr. Marchionini has had grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, the Council on Library Resources, the National Library of Medicine, the Library of Congress, and NASA, among others. He has published over fifty articles, chapters and reports in a variety of books and journals. He serves on the editorial board of Hypermedia Journal, the Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Information Processing & Management, Library Quarterly, and the Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia. He is author of the book Information Seeking in Electronic Environments (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Professor Howard D. White joined Drexel University’s College of Information Studies after taking his Ph.D. in librarianship at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1974. He designed and teaches the basic course in reference and information services in the master’s program, using as textbook For Information Specialists (Ablex, 1992), which he co-authored with Marcia Bates. Dr. White also teaches research collection development, resources in the social sciences, survey research methodology, and quantitative methods for doctoral students. In 1987 he initiated the idea of “brief tests” for evaluating subject collections and verifying Conspectus collection levels, resulting in his new book Brief Tests of Collection Strength (Greenwood, 1995). Dr. White has also published in the areas of bibliometrics and co-citation analysis, evaluation of reference services, expert systems for reference work, innovative online searching, social science data archives, library publicity, American attitudes toward library censorship, and literature retrieval for meta-analysis. In 1993 he received the Research Award of the American Society for Information Science for diverse distinguished contributions in his field.
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New Members of the Board of Editors We are pleased to welcome two new distinguished members to the LISR Board of Editors. Gary Marchionini is a professor in the College of Library and Information Services at the University of Maryland, where he teaches courses in computer applications, human-computer communication, and research methods. He also has an appointment in the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory of the University’s Center for Automation Research. His Ph.D. is from Wayne State University in mathematics education with an emphasis on educational computing. Dr. Marchionini’s research interests are in information seeking in electronic environments and human-computer interaction. He is the Director of Evaluation for the Perseus Project (a large-scale hypermedia corpus) and served for two years as the General Editor of Hypertext Publications for the Association of Computing Machinery. He is a member of a team of information scientists developing model information centers for developing countries, and has worked in Sri Lanka and India. Dr. Marchionini has had grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, the Council on Library Resources, the National Library of Medicine, the Library of Congress, and NASA, among others. He has published over fifty articles, chapters and reports in a variety of books and journals. He serves on the editorial board of Hypermedia Journal, the Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Information Processing & Management, Library Quarterly, and the Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia. He is author of the book Information Seeking in Electronic Environments (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Professor Howard D. White joined Drexel University’s College of Information Studies after taking his Ph.D. in librarianship at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1974. He designed and teaches the basic course in reference and information services in the master’s program, using as textbook For Information Specialists (Ablex, 1992), which he co-authored with Marcia Bates. Dr. White also teaches research collection development, resources in the social sciences, survey research methodology, and quantitative methods for doctoral students. In 1987 he initiated the idea of “brief tests” for evaluating subject collections and verifying Conspectus collection levels, resulting in his new book Brief Tests of Collection Strength (Greenwood, 1995). Dr. White has also published in the areas of bibliometrics and co-citation analysis, evaluation of reference services, expert systems for reference work, innovative online searching, social science data archives, library publicity, American attitudes toward library censorship, and literature retrieval for meta-analysis. In 1993 he received the Research Award of the American Society for Information Science for diverse distinguished contributions in his field.
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