IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 February 20, 1995 Volume XII, Number 8 Issue 245 ********************************************************** There will be no IR-L Digest issued for Monday, 2/27. Publication will resume 3/4/95. ********************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Indiana U.: LIS, Asst. or Assoc. Professor 2. U. Louisville: Electronic Information Coordinator 3. Kent State U.: Director of LIS III. NOTICES B. Meetings 1. DTIC Western Regional Conference 2. Workshops on Librarianship & Information Science 3. 4th Annual Symposium on Document Analysis & Information Retrieval ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: George W. Whitbeck Re: Indiana U.: LIS, Ass't. or Assoc. Professor The School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University seeks applications for a full-time faculty position with appointment at the assistant or associate level with salary commensurate with experience. Demonstrable research and teaching capabilities in the following areas required: classification and categorization theory, applied classification and indexing, knowledge representation and organization. Highly desirable qualifications include: Ph. D. (or pending) in information and library science or relevant field, evidence of scholarly activity or potential, ground-breaking research agenda and grantsmanship skills, rigorous grounding in relevant theory base, and ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary environment. Teaching responsibilities would be four courses per academic year and participation in doctoral student research and seminars. Starting date will be August of 1995. Applications to be reviewed starting March 1st, 1995 To apply, send a letter of application and resume to Dr. George Whitbeck, Chair of the Search and Screen Committee, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405. ********** II.2. Fr: Phil Sager Re: U. Louisville: Kersey Library of Engineering, Physical Sciences, & Technology, Electronic Information Coordinator ELECTRONIC INFORMATION COORDINATOR Kersey Library of Engineering, Physical Sciences and and Technology University of Louisville DUTIES: Plan and administer multimedia and electronic information resources. Provide information and reference services to library patrons utilizing electronic information resources, online searching and print literature sources. Train and assist users, and library staff in use of electronic information resources. Assist in collection development activities in physical sciences and engineering; includes some night and weekend duties. Requires ALA-accredited MLS, knowledge of or experience with physical sciences and engineering literature, and experience with electronic information resources. Strong organizational, written and oral communication skills are essential. Preferred candidate will have a degree in engineering or the physical sciences or library experience in working with these disciplines. Non- tenure track position. Salary minimum: $27,000. The University has an attractive, comprehensive benefits package. To apply send a resume, cover letter, and the names, addresses, telephone numbers of three references to: University Personnel Services, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292. Review of applications will begin on March 17, 1995 and will continue until the position is filled. Women and minority candidates are encouraged to apply. Phil Sager Univ. of Louisville Ekstrom Library Reference Phone: (502) 852-8742 / (502) 852-6747 Fax: (502) 852- 8753 Internet: pesage01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu Bitnet: pesage01@ulkyvm ********** II.3. Fr: Thomas J. Froehlich Re: Kent State U: School of Library & Information Science Director Position DIRECTOR School of Library and Information Science Kent State University Kent State University is seeking a dynamic and forward-looking Director to provide vision and leadership for one of the largest ALA accredited schools of library and information science in the United States. The School of Library and Information Science is one of 11 academic units within the College of Fine and Professional Arts. The appointment will be available as of July 1, 1995. The school maintains linkages with other disciplines on campus, most notably through its dual MLS/MBA degree program and its membership in the University's cluster of information-related disciplines. The Director is the chief administrator and academic officer of the school and administers personnel and academic matters for the program on the Kent campus as well as a full academic program on The Ohio State University campus in Columbus, Ohio. As executive administrator of the school, the director will report to the Dean of the College of Fine and Professional Arts in the performance of educational and administrative responsibilities. There are 12 full-time faculty (three in Columbus) and approximately 525 students (including 150 in Columbus). The doctorate in Library and/or Information Science or a related field is required as well as a master's degree in Library and/or Information Science from an ALA accredited school. The successful candidate is also expected to have a notable record of research and publication, teaching experience on an academic level, managerial and administrative ability, and ability to represent the school both within and outside the University. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, financial and human resource management, academic program development and evaluation, leadership in research and professional development, and maintenance of a strong professional presence beyond the campus. Salary is commensurate with credentials and experience. The school will receive nominations and applications until the position is filled. The Search Committee will begin considering applications on March 1, 1995. Applications should include a letter of interest, vita, and names, addresses, and telephone numbers of five references. Nominations or letters of application should be sent to the following: Chair, School of Library and Information Science Director Search College of Fine and Professional Arts 204 Taylor Hall Kent State University Kent, Ohio 44242 Nominations of and applications by women and minorities are especially encouraged. Kent State University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.B.1. Fr: Marie O'Mara Re: DTIC Western Regional Conference DTIC REGIONAL CONFERENCE The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) is holding its Western Regional Conference at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California on March 14-15. THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR ATTENDING this meeting. DTIC is the central source within the Department of Defense for scientific and technical information. DTIC services are available to U.S. Government agencies and their contractors and potential contractors as well as participants in the Small Business Innovation Research Program. An overview of DTIC and its products and services will be presented on the morning of March 14. This is your opportunity to find out who we are, what we do, how you can make use of our extensive collection of technical reports and management data and our gateway system and Internet resources to reach other valuable information sources that may be of interest to you. In the afternoon training on how to access the DTIC RDT&E Online system (DROLS) will be provided with a major emphasis on the formulation of search strategies. The following day will be devoted to accessing the Internet. DTIC's home pages, WAIS service, listservs and gopher will be discussed in addition to other Internet sources of interest to the DoD community. Please contact Ms. Esther Dunn of the Naval Postgraduate School at 408-656-2342 or Ms. Patti Miller of DTIC at 703- 274-3848 if you wish to attend the conference. Ms. Dunn's fax number is 408-656-2842; Ms. Miller's fax number is 703- 274-9274. She can also be reached by email at confinfo@dgis.dtic.dla.mil. Future regional conferences will be held as follows: April 4-5 - Titusville, FL April 25-26 - Chicago, IL May 16-17 - Boston, MA July 11 - Alexandria, VA ********** III.B.2. Fr: Christine Borgman Re: Training in Library & Information Sciencets. CALL FOR PROPOSALS Workshops on Librarianship and Information Science to be presented in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union June - December, 1995 Please respond directly to: Open Society Institute Regional Library Program Arvacska 6 H-1022 Budapest, Hungary PHONE : 36-1-2122029 FAX : 36-1-2122092 The Regional Library Program, Open Society Institute, invites proposals to conduct three to five day workshops in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union between June 1 and December 15, 1995. We anticipate offering a total of 8 workshops in the following countries: Belarus, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania and Slovenia during this period. These workshops will be a part of a continuing series that began in 1994; other workshops may be planned for 1996 as well. The mission of the Open Society Institute (OSI) is to develop, plan and implement regional programs and policy initiatives in the areas of education,economic, legal, and social reform in Central and Eastern Europe. As an umbrella organization, OSI provides administrative and financial support to various Soros organizations in the region. Funding for the training workshops in librarianship and information science is immediately available. The Regional Library Program has targeted five topics: * Project Management * Managing Change in Libraries and Information Services * Budget Management * Personnel Management * Collection Development These workshops should enable the participants to: accomplish the following: * Implement a new project within a library and deal effectively with any stress brought on by this new project * Negotiate effectively with a supervisor or group * Devise new job descriptions * Implement new marketing strategies for libraries * Deal effectively with all levels of library personnel * Analyze costs within a library on a variety of subjects such as book collections, automation, personnel, buildings, etc. Qualifications and experience in the topic will be given the highest priority in evaluation. You are invited to send a program description for each of the workshops and how they would be conducted. The successful prospectus will be advertised by the local Soros Foundations in each of the eight countries. It is up to the local library coordinator and the library board to select a topic from the five targeted subjects. These workshops should be as practical as possible and concentrate on real problems rather than grand theory. Developing professional links with Western European and American librarians and librarianship will be an important benefit of the workshops and should be addressed. The workshops will include prior visits to libraries in the region by workshop leaders so they can understand local conditions. The Open Society Institute in consultation with the local Soros Foundations will advertise the workshops, select the delegates (usually 20 per workshop); arrange for translation of workshop materials; pay for accommodation for the trainer(s) and delegates; and provide local expenses for the workshop leaders. The courses will be conducted in English. Translators will be provided. It is hoped that a significant body of training materials will emerge from these workshops, which could then be further distributed within the region. Please submit a budget with your proposal which includes the following costs: personnel, development, delivery, materials and overhead. It will be up to the trainers to arrange their air travel (which OSI will cover.) OSI will also cover hotel accommodation, per diem ($25 per day) and in-country travel. Your submission should also consist of a prospectus including the names and credentials of workshop leaders, experience working in CEE and/or FSU and other training experience in non-English speaking countries. The timeline for the selection process is as follows: * February 15, 1995 Call for Proposals distributed * April 1, 1995 Proposals due * April 15, 1995 RLP decision on bids given * June-December, 1995 Workshops given Please remember that all proposals: * MUST BE SUBMITTED BY APRIL 1 * MUST INCLUDE WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TOPICS: PROJECT MANAGEMENT, MANAGING CHANGE IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES, PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT, BUDGET MANAGEMENT, COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT. PLEASE DESCRIBE HOW EACH WORKSHOP WOULD BE CONDUCTED * MUST INCLUDE A BUDGET WHICH INCLUDES COSTS FOR PERSONNEL, DEVELOPMENT, DELIVERY, MATERIALS AND OVERHEAD COSTS * MUST INCLUDE THE NAMES AND CREDENTIALS OF WORKSHOP LEADERS, EXPERIENCE WORKING IN CEE AND/OR FSU AND OTHER TRAINING EXPERIENCE IN NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES Please send proposals to: Open Society Institute Regional Library Program Arvacska 6 H-1022 Budapest HUNGARY PHONE : 36-1-2122029 FAX : 36-1-2122092 ********** III.B.3. Fr: Debra Wallace Re: SDAIR '95 Advance Program Fourth Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval April 24 - 26, 1995 Desert Inn Hotel Las Vegas, Nevada Sponsored by the Information Science Research Institute and The Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering University of Nevada, Las Vegas CONFERENCE SCHEDULE MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1995 WELCOME: *Donna Harman, Chairperson National Institute of Standards and Technology *William R. Wells *Thomas A. Nartker INVITED SPEAKER: Spoken Document Retrieval - A Multimedia Tool Karen Sparck Jones University of Cambridge, United Kingdom SESSION 1: *Automatic Extraction of Information From Printed Documents *Dynamic Hypertext Links for Highly Degraded Data in TELLTALE *Space and Time Improvements for Indexing in Information Retrieval SESSION 2: *Textual Database Lexicon Used as a Filter to Resolve Semantic Ambiguity Application on Multilingual Information Retrieval *Domain Terminology Patterns in Different Disciplines: Evidence From Abstracts *Corpus-Specific Stemming Using Word Form Co-Occurrence *Information Retrieval Based on Word Senses INVITED SPEAKER: Character Segmentation in Document OCR: Progress and Hope Dr. Richard G. Casey IBM Almaden Research Center (Retired) SESSION 3: *A Word-Level Deciphering Algorithm for Degraded Document Recognition *The Recognition of Noisy Polyfont Printed Text Using Combined HMMs POSTER SESSION: *Combining Statistics and Heuristics For Language Identification *Functional Decomposition of Business Letters *Generating Synthetic Data for Text Analysis Systems *Key-Relation Technology for Text Retrieval *Lexical Assistance at the Information-Retrieval User Interface *Query and Retrieval in Multimedia Databases: A New Perspective *Representing Dimensioning Annotation in Engineering Drawings Using Flat Matrix Grammar *Retrieving Captioned Pictures Using Statistical Correlations and a Theory of Caption-Picture Co-Reference *Using Natural Language Processing for Identifying and Interpreting Tables in Plain Text SESSION 4: *Validation and Estimation of Document Degradation Models *Perfect Document Layout Ground Truth Generation Using DVI Files and Simultaneous Word Segmentation from Document Images *Efficiently Identifying the Faces of a Wireframe Reconstructed >From Three-View Engineering Drawings TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1995 WELCOME: Donna Harman, Chairperson National Institute of Standards and Technology INVITED SPEAKER: New Directions in Clustering Dr. Abraham Bookstein University of Chicago SESSION 5: *Recognition of Tables Using Table Grammars *Schema-Independent Retrieval from Heterogeneous Structured Text *A Retrieval System for Graphical Documents SESSION 6: *Text Categorization of Low Quality Images *A Neural Network Approach to Topic Spotting *Text Categorization of Scanned Documents Applying a Rule-Based Approach *Text to Information: Sampling Uncertainty in an Example From Physician/Patient Encounters INVITED SPEAKER: Full-Text Search and Document Recognition of Japanese Text Dr. Hiromichi Fujisawa Central Research Lab, Hitachi, Ltd. SESSION 7: *Structuring a Large Lexicon for Word Recognition *Document Reconstruction: A Thousand Words From One Picture *Neural Network Classifiers for Optical Chinese Character Recognition SESSION 8: *An Adaptive Metaclassifier for Word Recognition Based on Multiple Independent Classifiers *Evaluation of OCR Accuracy Using Synthetic Data WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1995 ISRI WELCOME: Thomas A. Nartker, Director Information Science Research Institute Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering University of Nevada, Las Vegas FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Symposium Manager Information Science Research Institute Telephone (702)895-4571 University of Nevada, Las Vegas Fax (702)895-1183 4505 Maryland Parkway Emailsdair@isri.unlv.edu Box 454021 Las Vegas, NV 89154-4021 ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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