IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 January 1, 1996 Volume XIII, Number 1 Issue 288 ********************************************************** II. JOBS 1. U. Massachusetts: 4 Job Postings 2. Stanford U.: Medical Center: Assoc. Librarian III. NOTICES B. Meetings 1. Digital Libraries '96 2. IATUL '96 ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Jean Ziemba Re: U. Massachusetts: 4 Job Postings The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) specializes in the theoretical development and implementation of systems for text retrieval, extraction and filtering software for large databases (URL = http://ciir.cs.umass.edu). Grant-funded positions, guaranteed for one year; further employment contingent on available funding. The following positions are available: -- Senior Software Engineer/Lab Manager -- Responsible for the design, installation and maintenance of systems hardware, software, utilities and enhancements to support the lab research activities, including the supervision of undergraduate students and other staff. Requires M.S. in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience and 2-4 years of working experience in the areas of systems administration, programming and networking. Experience required in UNIX system administration including TCP-IP Networks, X11, shell script programming, and in C programming. MAC & PC software & hardware installation experience would be a plus. Hiring salary range: $34,106-$45,474. Normal starting salary: $34,106-$39,790. Respond to Search #37929. -- Senior Software Engineer -- Responsible in a leadership role for the design, installation and maintenance of systems software, utilities and enhancements; supervision of debugging and code documentation; participation in experimentation and research; interaction with industrial partners in support of technology transfer. Requires an M.S. in Computer Science with two to four years of related work experience desirable, expertise in C programming, experience with utilizing low-level system primitives (UNIX preferred) and building software systems, and demonstrated ability to provide effective leadership of a programming team. Hiring salary range: $34,106-$45,474. Normal starting salary: $34,106-$39,790. Respond to Search #37926. -- Software Engineer -- Duties include the design, implementation and maintenance of systems software, utilities and enhancements, debugging and code documentation; assists in experimental evaluation of new techniques; interacts with industrial partners in support of technology transfer. Requires an M.S. in Computer Science (or a B.S. with equivalent experience), and experience in C programming, utilizing low-level system primitives (UNIX preferred) and building software systems. Hiring salary range: $27,711-$36,948. Normal starting salary: $27,711-$32,330. Respond to Search #37923. -- Associate Software Engineer -- Duties include assisting in the design, implementation and maintenance of systems software, utilities and enhancements, debugging and code documentation, and coding. Requires a B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience, experience in C programming, and familiarity with utilizing low-level system primitives (UNIX preferred). Hiring salary range: $22,424-$29,899. Normal starting salary: $22,424-$26,162. Respond to Search #37920. TO APPLY: Send a resume with cover letter and three letters of recommendation to: Search # (fill in appropriate number) Employment Office, Room 167, Whitmore Administration Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-8170. Review of applications will commence December 2nd, and will continue until the positions are filled. The University of Massachusetts at Amherst is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. ********** II.2. Fr: Elizabeth V. Brolan Re: Stanford U. Medical Ctr.: Assoc. Librarian/Librarian Stanford University Medical Center, L109, Route 3 Stanford, California 94305-5323 Phone (415) 723-7197, Fax (415) 725-2238 Email: admin@krypton.stanford.edu Position: Information Services Librarian Classification: Associate Librarian/Librarian (C06/07) Salary Range: C06: $37,800 - $42,500 / C07: $43,500 - $50,000 Classification and salary commensurate with level of subject and library experience. Lane Medical Library serves the Stanford University Medical School, the Stanford Health Services, the Lucille Packard Children's Hospital, and the Stanford community. We are committed to the provision of electronic information and nowledge management services, as well as traditional collection-based library ervices. We are looking for an intermediate-level or senior-level biomedical librarian to join our Information Services team. Each of the 7 Information Services librarians leads a major area of responsibility. The responsibilities for this position include: 1. Subject specialist in the biomedical sciences. 2. Online services including overall program development, class development, scheduling, promotion, instruction, online mediated searching, in-house training of new searchers. 3. Expert reference and online searching consultation by appointment. 4. General and end user reference at the reference desk. 5. Collection development for electronic information resources. QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Biomedical subject knowledge. Masters or graduate course work in biochemistry, genetics or cell biology highly desirable. MLS or equivalent. 3. A combination of subject/library experience such as: 3 or more years of study or work experience in the biomedical field; 3 or more years of reference and online/CDROM/Internet searching experience in a health sciences library with increasing responsibility. 4. Effective and creative teaching skills for class presentations, and development of print and computer-aided instruction for various types of learners. 5. Demonstrated analytical, management, and organization skills. 6. Ability to work and consult in a highly automated, networked environment. 7. Ability to evaluate, compare and recommend electronic information systems. 8. Positive, flexible, creative and innovative attitude to challenges in a complex, changing environment. 9. Interpersonal skills and strong team spirit. 10.Knowledge of medical informatics desirable. Please send letter, resume with 3 references to: Elizabeth Brolan, Office Manager, Lane Medical Library Stanford University Medical Center, L109, Route 3 Stanford, CA 94305-5323 Phone (415) 723-7198 Fax (415) 725-2238 Email: admin@krypton.stanford.ed Stanford University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.B.1. Fr: Alan Inouye Re: Digital Libraries '96 ADVANCE PROGRAM DIGITAL LIBRARIES '96: 1st ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES March 20-23, 1996 Hyatt Regency Bethesda, Maryland USA AN INVITATION FROM THE CONFERENCE CHAIR: Welcome to DL '96! Digital libraries meld the storage and retrieval power of computing, the communication capabilities of electronic networking, and the structures and practices of physical libraries and archives. Much of the excitement related to digital libraries comes as a result of the interactions among disparate communities of scholars coming together to address common problems of information organization, access, and use. This meeting builds on two conferences held in Texas in 1994 and 1995 and initiates a series of ACM-sponsored research conferences devoted to digital library research and development. Gary Marchionini IMPORTANT DATES February 5, 1996 --- Advance registration ends March 20, 1996 --- DL `96 Tutorials March 21-22, 1996 --- DL `96 Technical Program March 23, 1996 --- DL `96 Workshops CONFERENCE PROGRAM o Featured Speakers Opening Plenary Session. Thursday, March 21, 8:00-9:30 am. Dr. Barry M. Leiner, Assistant Director, Information Technology Office, Advanced Research Projects Agency. "Interoperability Issues in Digital Libraries." Banquet Speaker. Thursday, March 21, 7:00-9:30 pm. Ann S. Okerson, Associate University Librarian, Yale University. "How Will We Know When It Is a Library?" o TUTORIALS Wednesday, March 20, 1996 1A. Information Retrieval and Hypertext Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech Robert Akscyn, Knowledge Systems, Inc 1B. Foundations of the Organization of Information Elaine Svenonius, University of California, Los Angeles organizing information in very large online databases. 2A. Z39.50 Tutorial Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress Clifford Lynch, University of California 2B. Documents and Digital Libraries David M. Levy, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center o TECHNICAL PROGRAM Wednesday, March 20 Reception (included with registration) Thursday, March 21 Opening Plenary Session: Keynote Speaker: Dr. Barry M. Leiner, Assistant Director, Information Technology Office, Advanced Research Projects Agency "Interoperability Issues in Digital Libraries." PAPER SESSION 1: Multimedia Digital Libraries. Chair: Cliff McKnight, Loughborough University, UK. "Building a Digital Library: The Perseus Project as a Case Study in the Humanities" Gregory Crane, Tufts University. "Towards the Digital Music Library: Tune Retrieval from Acoustic Input" Rodger J. McNab, Lloyd A. Smith, Ian H. Witten, Clare L. Henderson, and Sally Jo Cunningham University of Waikato, New Zealand. "VISION: A Digital Video Library" Wei Li, Susan Gauch, John Gauch, and Kok Meng Pua University of Kansas. D-LIB WORKING SESSION 1A: Metadata to Describe Information in Digital Libraries. Terence R. Smith, University of California, Santa Barbara. D-LIB WORKING SESSION 1B: User Needs Assessment and Evaluation. Nancy A. Van House, University of California, Berkeley. PAPER SESSION 2: Library and Information Science Perspectives. Chair: David Levy, Xerox PARC. "The Role of Intermediary Services in Emerging Digital Libraries" Allen Brewer, Wei Ding, Karla Hahn, and Anita Komlodi University of Maryland, College Park. "Toward the Bibliographic Control of Works: Derivative Bibliographic Relationships in an Online Union Catalog" Gregory H. Leazer, University of California, Los Angeles, Richard P. Smiraglia, Long Island University. D-LIB WORKING SESSION 2A: Social Aspects of Digital Libraries Christine L. Borgman, University of California, Los Angeles. D-LIB WORKING SESSION 2B: Repository Interactions William L. Scherlis, Carnegie Mellon University. PAPER SESSION 3: Human-Computer Interaction: Browsing and Visualization. Chair: Catherine Marshall, Texas A&M University. "Graphical Table of Contents" Xia Lin University of Kentucky, Lexington. "Visual Relevance Analysis" Nikos Pediotakis and Mountaz Zizi Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, CNRS-URA410, Univ. Paris-sud, France "A Browsing Tool of Multi-lingual Documents for Users without Multi-lingual Fonts" Tetsuo Sakaguchi, Akira Maeda, Takehisa Fujita, Shigeo Sugimoto, and Koichi Tabata University of Library and Information Science, Ibaraki, Japan. Posters: To be announced Banquet: Banquet Speaker: Ann S. Okerson, Associate University Librarian, Yale University "How Will We Know When It Is a Library?" Friday, March 22 Breakfast (included with registration) PAPER SESSION 4: Human-Computer Interaction: Images and Spatial Organization Chair: Su-Shing Chen, University of North Carolina, Charlotte "User Controlled Overviews of an Image Library: A Case Study of the Visible Human" Chris North, Ben Shneiderman, and Catherine Plaisant University of Maryland, College Park "A Spatial Approach to Organizing and Locating Digital Libraries and Their Content" Jason Orendorf and Charles Kacmar Florida State University D-LIB WORKING SESSION 3A: Digitization and Conversion M. Stuart Lynn, University of California, Office of the President D-LIB WORKING SESSION 3B: Naming Objects in the Digital Library William Y. Arms, Corporation for National Research Initiatives PAPER SESSION 5: Documents Chair: Henry Gladney, IBM Almaden Research Center "Index Structures for Structured Documents" Yong Kyu Lee, Seong-Joon Yoo, Kyoungro Yoon, and P. Bruce Berra Syracuse University "Toward Active, Extensible, Networked Documents: Multivalent Architecture and Applications" Thomas A. Phelps and Robert Wilensky University of California, Berkeley "Physical Objects in the Digital Library" Richard Furuta, Catherine C. Marshall, Frank M. Shipman III, and John J. Leggett Texas A&M University Paper Session 6: Information Retrieval Chair: Bruce Schatz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "Natural Language Information Retrieval In Digital Libraries" Tomek Strzalkowski, GE Corporate Research & Development Jose Perez Carballo, Rutgers University Mihnea Marinescu, New York University "Interactive Term Suggestion for Users of Digital Libraries: Using Subject Thesauri and Co-occurrence Lists for Information Retrieval" Bruce R. Schatz, Eric H. Johnson, and Pauline A. Cochrane, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona "Information Product Evaluation as Asynchronous Communication in Context: A Model for Organizational Research" Lisa D. Murphy Indiana University PAPER SESSION 7: Document Indexing and Analysis Chair: Nancy Ide, Vassar College "Text to Hypertext: Can Clustering Solve the Problem in Digital Libraries?" Robert B. Kellogg, PRC., Inc., Reston, VA Madhan Subhas, Virginia Tech "Indexing Handwriting Using Word Matching" R. Manmatha, Chengfeng Han, E. M. Riseman, and W. B. Croft University of Massachusetts, Amherst "Building a Scalable and Accurate Copy Detection Mechanism" Narayanan Shivakumar and Hector Garcia-Molina, Stanford University PANEL: Digital Library Research at the U.S. National Libraries Representatives from the Library of Congress, National Agricultural Library, and National Library of Medicine. D-Lib Working Sessions are based on continuing activities by the working groups. Before coming to the sessions, conference participants need to read the working group materials. They are available at: http://www.dlib.org o WORKSHOPS: All workshops are scheduled for Saturday, March 23, from 9:30 am through 3:30 pm and include a box lunch. Each workshop is intended for researchers or practitioners with an active interest in the subject matter. WORKSHOP A: Text Encoding Initiative Nancy Ide, Vassar College Judith Klavans, Columbia University Jean Veronis, Universite de Provence, France Please send a brief statement of interest to ide@cs.vassar.edu if you would like to attend Workshop A. WORKSHOP B: User Needs Assessment and Evaluation Ann Bishop, University of Illinois Nancy Van House, University of California, Berkeley David Levy, Xerox PARC People interested in participating in Workshop B should email a statement of their experience and interest to Nancy Van House by February 5. Please do not register for this workshop until you have been invited to attend. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Further information is available at: http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DL96/ or contact Linda Hill, Registration Chair, email: lhill@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov ********** III.B.2. Fr: Julia Gelfand Re: IATUL '96 To: ncgur@uccmvsa.ucop.edu IATUL, June 24-28, 1996 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - PAPERS, POSTER SESSIONS, DISCUSSION GROUP LEADERS IATUL is a voluntary international nongovernmental organization of a group of libraries, represented by their library directors or designated staff of managers who have responsibility for information services and resource management in the applied sciences. It is a small enough organization for individual members to be able to develop a close relationship, yet widespread enough to cover the interests of libraries operating in virtually all modern social, economic and political situations. Furthermore, many of the members provide library services, not only to the teaching and resarch staff and students of a university, but also to the industrial organizations and national research institutions in their country. IATUL's main objective is to provide a forum where library directors and science managers can meet to exchange views on matters of current significance and to provide an opportunity for them to develop a collaborative approach to problems. It also welcomes organizations into membership who supply services to university libraries and wish to be identified with IATUL's activities. The next meeting of the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES - IATUL - will meet June 24-28, 1996 at the University of California, Irvine, USA. The overall theme of the conference is "NETWORKS, NETWORKING AND IMPLICATIONS FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES" and thematic sessions will be held on the following topics for which conference papers (20 minutes) are invited by DECEMBER 1, 1995, and small group discussion leaders are sought (30 minutes) and poster sessions will take place: I. Networked Technologies II. Social Networks & Professional Responsibility III. Policy and Organizational Perspectives IV. Digital Library Developments & Experiences V. Interactive Learning & Multimedia VI. Libraries & Academic Liaison: Computing, Administration, Science Faculties VII. Networks of Libraries, Scholarly Communication & the Commercial Marketplace VIII. The INTERNET, Distance Education & New Communication Networks Notification of acceptance of papers is expected by FEBRUARY 1, 1996 and full papers are due by MAY 1, 1996. Proceedings of papers will be published in 1996-97 in IATUL Proceedings, 2d series. The language of the conference is English. Registration Costs cover all meals, social events, local transportation, field trips and conference materials and are: $400.00 for IATUL members when paid by 1 May 1996 $450.00 for IATUL membersafter 1 May 1996 $500.00 for nonmembers when paid by 1 May 1996 $550.00 for nonmembers after 1 May 1996 $250.00 for accompanying persons Full Conference brochures are available and will be updated on the IATUL Webpage for which the URL is: http://www.lib.chalmers.se/IATUL/iatulhp.html FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Julia Gelfand IATUL 1996 Coordinator Science Library University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92713-9556, USA FAX: 714-824-3114; TELEPHONE: 714-824-4971 E-mail: jgelfand@uci.edu ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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