IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 March 25, 1996 Volume XIII, Number 13 Issue 300 ********************************************************** I. QUERIES 1. Looking for X.500 Directory Experts 2. School Library Research 3. Reference Interview Communication Research II. JOBS 1. Apple Computers, Inc.: Information Access Research Positions III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. WWW: Global Change, Human Interactions in Environment 2. Table of Contents: FARNET's Washington Update 3. Search/Browse IR-L on the Web B. Meetings 1. 1996 ASIS Mid-Year Conference - Preliminary Program Highlights C. Miscellaneous 1. Opening of "The Global Library: http://www.nypl.org" exhibit IV. PROJECTS C. Fellowships, Grants, Scholarships 1. GSLIS Research Awards ********************************************************** I. QUERIES I.1. Fr: Susan O'Neill Johnson Re: School Library Research I'm doing qualitative research work about school libraries in a secondary schools. If you have any publications, questions, suggestions, interesting bibliographies, ... I will be very grateful if you would share them with me. Thank you. NURIA LORENZO RAMIREZ Departament de Didactica i Organitzacio Educativa Universitat de Barcelona Baldiri Reixac, s/n, bloc D, 4t pis 08028 Barcelona Telf. (93) 333 34 66 ext. 3389 e-mail: Nuria.Lorenzo@doe.d5.ub.es ********** I.3. Fr: Gerry White Re: Apple Computers, Inc.: Information Access Research Positions APPLE COMPUTER, INC. INFORMATION ACCESS RESEARCH POSITIONS The Information Access research program in Apple Computer's Advanced Technology Group (ATG) has one permanent position and two summer internships available. ATG is Apple's research division, located on Apple's research & development campus in Cupertino, California. SENIOR SCIENTIST Description: Join a team conducting research on new approaches to finding, sharing, organizing, and manipulating information for content-aware systems. Emphasis on implementation of experimental information and communication systems. Requires: MS/PhD in Computer Science with 1-4 years of work experience, or BS with 3-5 years of work experience, with strong programming skills. Experience in information retrieval, hypertext, or related field. Awareness of human-computer interaction issues. Preferred: Familiarity with common text-indexing methods. Experience with any of the following: Internet-based information access, statistical analysis, distributed systems, client-server protocols. E-mail resume (ASCII-only) to infotech-recruit@apple.com, subject "Senior Scientist," or send to address listed below. SUMMER INTERN Description: Work with senior researchers on building tools to evaluate text retrieval and indexing techniques, and enhancing users' interaction with a text retrieval system. Requires: Graduate or upper division undergraduate student in computer science, cognitive science, information retrieval or other relevant program. C++ programming experience. Familiarity with common text-indexing methods. Preferred: Macintosh application programming experience. E-mail resume (ASCII-only) to infotech-intern-recruit@apple.com, subject "Summer Intern 1," or send to address listed below. SUMMER INTERN Description: Work with senior researchers to develop prototypes for an experimental distributed information management system Requires: Graduate or upper division undergraduate student in computer science, cognitive science, information retrieval or other relevant program. C++ programming experience. Interest in information access and human-computer interaction issues. Preferred: Knowledge of protocols for client-server and/or Internet services. Macintosh application programming experience. Note: For this position, include in your cover letter a description (one-page at most) of how you would ideally like to interact with information in the future. E-mail resume (ASCII-only) to infotech-intern-recruit@apple.com, subject "Summer Intern 2," or send to address listed below. You may also contact us by physical mail or fax: ATG Information Access Recruiting Attn: Laura Tognoli Apple Computer, Inc., MS 301-4A One Infinite Loop Cupertino, CA 95014 Fax 408-974-5505 Apple Computer, Inc. is an equal-opportunity employer. ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Marie-Lise Shams Re: Table of Contents: FARNET's Washington Update FARNET's Washington Update --- March 22, 1996 Table of Contents o NSF FY97 Budget Request made for $3.3B o Supercomputer Center Re-compete Program gets scrutiny from the Hill o Senate Commerce Committee keeps tabs on FCC progress implementing Telecom Act o Trial gets under way on Internet "indecency" law o Senate will hold hearings on NII copyright issues Written from FARNET's Washington office, "FARNET's Washington Update" is a service to FARNET members and other interested subscribers. We gratefully acknowledge EDUCOM's NTTF and the Coalition for Networked Information for additional support. If you would like more information about the Update or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Heather Boyles at heather@farnet.org. Heather Boyles Director, Policy and Special Projects phone: (202) 331-5342 FARNET, Inc. fax: (202) 872-4318 1112 16th Street, NW Suite 600 email: heather@farnet.org Washington, DC 20036 web: http://www.farnet.org ********** III.A.3. Fr: Nancy Gusack Re: Search/Browse IR-L on the Web Thanks to the efforts of Mark Sanderson at Glasgow University, you can search or browse archived IR-L Digest issues at the URL: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/idom/irlist/ ********** III.B.1. Fr: American Society For Information Science - HQ Re: Opening of "The Global Library: http://www.nypl.org" exhibit I am very pleased to announce the opening of the "The Global Library: http://www.nypl.org" exhibition at the New York Public Library, an exhibition for which I am curator, and for which Craig Summerhill, CNI's systems coordinator and program officer, and Lisa Browar, NYPL's Brooke Russell Astor Chief Librarian for Rare Books and Manuscripts, are assistant curators. This is the second of NYPL's major Centennial exhibitions, and it presents the digital revolution within the context of a 5,000 year history of communications. On view at the Center for the Humanities, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, and at http://globallib.nypl.org, from March 23 to August 17, the exhibitions offers visitors both a guided tour of the World Wide Web and a timeline of seminal moments in the history of humankind's collective memory of accumulated knowledge and received wisdom. I hope you will find time over the next few months to take in the exhibition, and that when you do you will share whatever comments or questions that come to mind with me. Best, Paul PS: The Website Craig and I developed for this exhibition looks best when viewed through Netscape 2.0. It also contains a collection of images that are best viewed via a direct rather than a dial-up link to the Internet. Paul Evan Peters paul@cni.org Executive Director fax 202-872-0884 Coalition for Networked Information 202-296-5098 21 Dupont Circle ftp://ftp.cni.org/ Washington, DC 20036 gopher://gopher.cni.org:70/ USA http://www.cni.org/CNI.homepage.html ********************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. Fr: Bernd Frohmann