Inside ASIST

Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Oct/Nov 2003

* Partha Bhattacharya, executive consultant (Information & Documentation) FITT, IIT Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, India, "Advances in digital library initiatives: A developing country perspective."

* Albert Arko-Cobbah, Vista University, P.O. Box 380, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa, "The role of libraries in student-centered learning: The case of students from the disadvantaged communities in South Africa."

* Joseph Kaduda, network manager, Centre of Geographical Medicine Research, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Labs, Kilifi, Kenya, "A digital library in a rural malaria research centre in Africa: The Kenyan experience."

The winning papers were selected from among 51 papers received for this year's competition. Each winner will receive a two-year individual membership in ASIST. The first and second place winners of the competition will also receive a travel grant to attend the 2003 ASIST Annual Conference in Long Beach, California. These winning papers and other submitted papers for the competition will be considered for publication by the Bulletin and Elsevier's International Information and Library Review.

The following were members of this year's contest committee: Sue O'Neill Johnson, chair of SIG/III; Yunfei Du, chair of the International Paper Contest Chair; Hong Xu, University of Pittsburgh; Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto; Liwen Vaughan, University of Western Ontario; Suzie Allard, University of Tennessee; Gretchen Whitney, University of Tennessee; and Nathalie Leroy, United Nations.

News about ASIST Members

Charles W. Bailey, Jr., assistant dean for systems at the University of Houston, has been appointed assistant dean for digital library planning and development at the University of Houston Libraries. In 1989, Bailey established PACS-L, a mailing list about public-access computers in libraries, and The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, one of the first scholarly electronic journals published on the Internet. Bailey was profiled in Library Journal's Movers & Shakers 2003: The People Who Are Shaping the Future of Libraries.

Dick Hartley, head of the Department of Information and Communications at Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom, has been awarded the title of Professor of Information Science.

Ronald Rousseau, Belgium, was international program chair of the 9th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, held in August in Beijing. He was also co-editor of the conference proceedings, published by Dalian University of Technology Press (ISBN 7-5611-2098-2). In addition to Rousseau, the following ASIST members gave oral presentations at the conference: Henry Small, USA; Subbiah Arunachalam, India; Michael Nelson, Canada; Liming Liang, China; Leo Egghe, Belgium; Liwen Vaughan, Canada; Mike Thelwall, UK; Heting Chu, USA; Peter Ingwersen, Denmark; and Alastair Smith, New Zealand.

Henry Small was elected as the new president of ISSI, the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics.