ASIS&T 2004 Annual Meeting

Association for Information Science and Technology

Annual Meeting
November 12-17, 2004
Providence, Rhode Island

“Managing and Enhancing Information:
Cultures and Conflicts”

Conference Program

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Overview
Thursday	Check-in (click here for on-site registration hours)
Friday	Pre-conference Seminars; check-in
Saturday	Pre-conference Seminars; check-in
Sunday	Pre-conference Seminars; check-in
	Conference begins at 1pm, Plenary Speaker, JC Herz
	Leadership Development Program at 5pm
	Welcome Reception at 6:30pm (click here for all Social Events)
Monday	Sessions begin at 8am
	Plenary Speaker, Tim Berners-Lee at 10am
	Alumni Reception 6:30pm; International Reception 8pm
Tuesday	Sessions begin at 8:30am
	Awards Luncheon at 12noon
	Annual Business Meeting at 3:30pm
	SIG Con at 8pm
Wednesday	Sessions begin at 8:30am
	Annual President’s Reception at 6pm

Detailed Program
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12
9am - 5pm	Seminars: *Managing User-Centered Design Projects* *Taxonomies for Indexing - A Hands on Approach (Introduction)*

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13
8:30am - 5pm	Workshop: *SIG Classification Research (CR) Workshop*
9am - 5pm	Seminars: *Building an Institutional Repository Using DSpace* *Collaborating with Colleagues Across DIsciplinary, Organizational and Geographic Boundaries: Lessons Learned* *Essential Pre-Implementation Planning for Successful Web Content Management* *Taxonomies for Indexing - A Hands on Approach (Intermediate)*
1-6pm	Workshop: *SIG Information Needs, Seeking & Use (USE) Workshop*

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14
8:30am-12noon	Seminars: *Personal Information Management in Theory and in Practice* Social Informatics Workshop for LIbrary and Information Science Research
11:30am-12:30pm	New Members and First Time Attendees Brunch

CONFERENCE BEGINS
1-3pm	PLENARY Session - J.C. HERZ
3:30-5pm	Sessions by Track:
Disciplinary Issues	Digital Libraries	User Behavior	System Design	Information Organization
E-Science: The New Environment for Scientific and Technical Information Management (SIG STI) Santae Kim, National Science Foundation, Gary Foley, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Neil Beagrie, Joint Information Systems Committee (UK) Moderator: Pat Flanagan, Worcester Polytechnic	Important Technical Issues for Digital Libraries With Multiple Collections, Different Languages, and Diverse Audiences (SIGs III, DL). Gregory M. Shreve, Kent State University Lois Mai Chan, University of Kentucky Marcia Lei Zeng , Kent State University Daqing He , University of Maryland Coordinator: Yin Zhang, Kent State University	Empowering Users: Cultures and Conflicts from Social Informatics Perspectives (SIG USE) . Kristin Eschenfelder, University of Wisconsin, Madison Noriko Hara, Indiana University Bin Li, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Brendan Luyt, University of Western Ontario Pnina Shachaf, Haifa University Barbara Wildemuth, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Information Visualization: Highlights, Histories and Futures (SIG VIS). Howard Griesdorf, University of North Texas Corinne Jorgensen, Florida State University Peter Jorgensen, Florida State University Diane Neal, University of North Texas Brian O'Connor, University of North Texas Ray Uzwyshyn, University of Miami Libraries	Interdisciplinary Concepts of the 'Work' Entity—Crossing Cultural Boundaries for Information Retrieval Richard P. Smiraglia, Long Island University Birger Hjørland, Royal School of Librarianship, Denmark	Posters 1: Information Organization and Access
5-6:30pm	Leadership Development Program
6:30pm	Welcome Reception and SIG Rush

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15
8-9:30am	Sessions by Track:
Disciplinary Issues	Digital Libraries	User Behavior	System Design	Information Organization
Scholarly and Scientific Communication (contributed papers). ●Web-Based and Print Journal-Based Scholarly Communication in the XML Research Field: A Look at the Intellectual Structure. Dangzhi Zhao, Florida State University ●The Cultural Shaping of Scholarly Communication: Explaining E-Journal Use Within and Across Academic Fields. Jenny Fry, Networked Research and Digital Information, Netherlands; and Sanna Talja, University of Tampere, Finland ●Use of Electronic Science Journals in the Undergraduate Curriculum: An Observational Study. Carol Tenopir and Peiling Wang, both University of Tennessee, Knoxville	Use of a Virtual Community to Enhance Communication and Improve Student Learning Outcomes (SIG DL). Vicki L. Gregory, University of South Florida Diane Austin, University of South Florida Tom Terrell, University of South Florida	Web Searching Behavior (contributed papers). ●"I Still Prefer Google": University Student Perceptions of Searching OPACs and the Web. Karl V. Fast and D. Grant Campbell, both University of Western Ontario ●Re-Finding Information on the Web: What Do People Do and What Do They Need? William Jones, and Harry Bruce, both University of Washington; and Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research ●Information Task Switching and Multitasking Web Search (SIGS CR, HFIS). Amanda Spink and Minsoo Park, both University of Pittsburgh; and Bernard Jansen, Pennsylvania State University	Image Retrieval (contributed papers). ●A Multiple Thumbnail Image Browsing Interface Tester: Design, Implementation and Preliminary Results in a Face Recognition Test. Peter Jörgensen, Florida State University ●Free Sorting of Images: Attributes Used for Categorization. Abebe Rorissa and Samantha K. Hastings, both University of North Texas ●The Visual Indexing Vocabulary: Developing a Thesaurus for Indexing Images Across Diverse Domains. Corinne Jorgensen, Florida State University	Thesaurus Development (contributed papers). ●Task-based Evaluation of Associative Thesaurus in Real-Life Environment. Marainne Lykke Nielsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark ●Issues in the Development of a Thesaurus for Patients' Chief Complaint in the Hospital Emergency Department. Stephanie W. Haas and Debbie A. Travers, both University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ●Integrating Log-Based and Text-Based Methods Towards Automatic Web Thesaurus Construction. Hsiao-Tieh Pu, Academica Sinica, and Lee-Feng Chien, National Taiwan University	Posters 1: Information Organization and Access (continued)
10am-12noon	PLENARY Session - TIM BERNERS-LEE “Semantic Web - the Web of Machine Processable-data”
1:30-3pm	Sessions by Track:
Disciplinary Issues	Digital Libraries	User Behavior	System Design	Information Organization
National Security Policies: Implications for Information Flow and Scholarly Exchange (SIG III, IFP). Lee Strickland, J.D., University of Maryland Shelly Warwick, Queens College, CUNY Brian Cantwell Smith, University of Toronto Michel Menou Don Kraft, Louisiana State University Moderator: Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto	Assessing Digital Libraries: Evaluation Strategies, Practices, and Issues. John Carlo Bertot, Florida State University Charles R. McClure, Florida State University William E. Moen, University of North Texas	Emotional Design: The Influential Role of Affect in Information Behavior (SIG USE). Dania Bilal, University of Tennessee Allison Druin, University of Maryland Sanda Erdelez, University of Missouri - Columbia Karen Fisher, University of Washington Diane Nahl, University of Hawaii	Increasing Relevance in IR (contributed papers). ●Cross Evaluation—A Pilot Application of a New Evaluation Mechanism. Ying Sun, Paul Kantor, and Nina Wacholder, all Rutgers University, Tomek Strzalkowski,SUNY Albany ●Adjectives as Indicators of Subjectivity in Documents. Nina Wacholder, Paul Kantor, Ying Sun, all Rutgers University, Kwong Bor Ng, Queens College, CUNY, Tomek Strazalkowski, SUNY, Albany ●An Approach to Document Relevance Based on Clustering. Amanda Spink and Monica Desai, both University of Pittsburgh	Why Can't Johnny File? And What Can We Do to Help? (SIGs CR, USE). Marcia J. Bates, University of California at Los Angeles William Jones, University of Washington (Moderator) Carol C. Kuhlthau, Rutgers University Jens-Erik Mai, University of Washington Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Posters 2: Information Science Issues and Practices
3:30-5pm	Sessions by Track:
Disciplinary Issues	Digital Libraries	User Behavior	System Design	Information Organization
International Issues (contributed papers). ●The Role of Information in Uganda's Reduction of HIV/AIDS Prevalence: The Rakai Project and World Vision Cases. Kendra S. Albright and Dick Kawooya , both University of Tennessee, Knoxville ●Information in the Namibian National Liberation Struggle (1966-1989): Applying a Model. Paul Sturges, Loughborough University ●The United Nations Development Program: From a Hierarchy to an Information Based Network Organization. Anne Holohan, University of California at Los Angeles	Building Digital Libraries Through Collaboration Within and Between Nations (SIGs DL, III). Ching-chih Chen, Simmons College Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Vrije Universiteit Brussels Ana Pavani, PUC-Rio de Janeiro Coordinator: Suzie Allard, University of Tennessee	User-Based Relevance (contributed papers). ●Users’ Video Relevance Criteria—A Pilot Study. Meng Yang and Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ●Relevance Judges’ Understanding of Topical Relevance Types: An Explication of an Enriched Concept of Topical Relevance. Xiaoli Huang and Dagobert Soergel, both University of Maryland ●The Institutional Dimension of Document Quality Judgments. Bing Bai and Paul Kantor, both Rutgers University; Tomek Stralkowski, SUNY Albany, and Kwong Bor Ng, Queens College, CUNY	Design for Web Searching (contributed papers). ●An Architecture for SCS: A Specialized Web Crawler on the Topic Of Security. H. Cenk Ozmutlu and Seda Ozmutlu, both Uludag University (Turkey) ●Visual Search Editor for Composing Meta Searches. Anselm Spoerri, Rutgers University ●Neural Network Applications for Automatic New Topic Identification on Excite Web Search Engine Data Logs. H. Cenk Ozmutlu, Faitih Cavdur, and Seda Ozmutlu, all Uluday University, (Turkey),and Amanda Spink, University of Pittsburgh	Document, Record, Work: The Basic Units of Analysis in Information Studies (SIG HFIS). Richard P. Smiraglia, Long Island University Gregory S. Hunter, Long Island University Birger Hjørland, Royal School of Librarianship and Information Science, Denmark	Posters 2: Information Science Issues and Practices (continued)
6:30pm	Alumni Reception
8pm	International Reception

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16
8:30-10am	Sessions by Track:
Disciplinary Issues	Digital Libraries	User Behavior	System Design	Knowledge Management and Use
Studying Scientometric Collaboration: Part 1: Methodology for Investigation Collaboration (SIG Metrics and International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics). Henry Small, ISI Elie Geisler, Illinois Institute of Technology Chaomei Chen, Drexel University Jian Qin, Syracuse University Ji-Hong Park, Syracuse University Sofia Liberman and Jane M, Russell, both Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Blaise Cronin, commentator, Mari Davis, The University of New South Wales Caroline Haythornwaite, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	Digital Library Education and Training (SIG DL). Susan G. Braun, The Aerospace Corporation Luz Quiroga, University of Hawaii Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Vrije Universiteit Brusse Ingrid Hsieh-Yee, Catholic University of America Javed Mostafa, Indiana University Jeffrey Pomerantz, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Moderator: Deborah Barreau, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	Perspectives of Information Seeking and Gathering Behavior in High-Risk Professions. Brian O’Connor, University of North Texas David Blair, University of Michigan Laurie J.Bonnici, Georgia Southern University Bradley S.Chilton, University of North Texas Baris Aksakal, University of North Texas	Facilitating Searching (contributed papers). ●The Appropriate (and Inappropriate) Use of Query Operators and Their Effect on Web Search Results. Caroline M. Eastman, University of South Carolina, and Bernard J. Jansen, Pennsylvania State University ●A Learning Approach to the Database Selection Problem in the Presence of Dynamic User Interests and Database Contents. Snehasis Mukhhopadhyay and Pooja Bajracharya, both Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis ●Reading and Searching Electronic Documents. Andrew Dillon, Lisa Kleinman, Randolph Bias, Gil Ok Choi, and Don Turnbull, all University of Texas at Austin	Information Related Management Issues: Examining the Applicability of Research Methodologies (SIGs KM, MGT). Bill Edgar, University of Arizona Julie A. Hersberger, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Joseph Kasten, Dowling University Don Turnbull, University of Texas at Austin Moderator: Maureen Mackenzie, Dowling University	Posters 3: Information Seeking and Use
10:30am-12noon	Sessions by Track:
Disciplinary Issues	Digital Libraries	User Behavior	System Design	Knowledge Management and Use
Studying Scientometric Collaboration: Part 2: Collaboration in Action: Research Papers (SIG Metrics and International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics). Caroline Haythornwaite, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Kelly L. Maglaughlin, University College of Borås Diane H. Sonnenwald, Göteborg University Concepcion S. Wilson, The University of New South Wales Mari Davis, The University of New South Wales Caroline Wagner, Amsterdam School of Communications Research Linda Marion, Drexel University of New South Wales	Digital Memories / Mediated Memories: Influences on the Creation of Archival and Cultural Web Sites (SIG DL). Jeannette Bastian, Simmons College Gregory Colati, Tufts University Elizabeth Yakel, University of Michigan Kelly Drake, Mystic Seaport	Social Behavior and Effects (contributed papers). ●Public Access to Information and the Creation of an "Information Commons." Robert Rao, Erica Wiseman and Kimiz Dalkir, all McGill University ●The Cultural Influences of Information Flow at Work: Manager Information Behavior Documented. Maureen Mackenzie, Dowling University ●The Hidden Impacts of Anti-Spam Measures and their Contributions to the Digital Divide: An Exploratory Study. Christopher Lueg, University of Technology, Sydney	Diligently Seeking Collaboration: Cooperation and Communication Between System-Centered and User-Centered Designers. Tefko Saracevic, Rutgers University Sanda Erdelez, University of Missouri - Columbia Myke Gluck, Virginia Military Institute Boryung Ju, Louisiana State University Lisl Zach, Louisiana State University	Blogs and K-Logs in Knowledge Management (SIG KM). Jessica Baumgart, Harvard University Office of News and Public Affairs Garrett Eastman, Rowland Institute, Harvard University Christina Pika, APL, Johns Hopkins University Moderator: Kris Liberman, Fidelity Investments	Posters 3: Information Seeking and Use (continued)
12noon-1pm	Awards Luncheon
1:30-3pm	Sessions by Track:
Disciplinary Issues	Digital Libraries	User Behavior	System Design	Knowledge Management and Use
Student Paper Winners (SIG ED). Winners of the Pratt Severn, ISI Dissertation Proposal, and Proquest Dissertation Awards. Barbara Wildemuth, coordinator	Digital Library Repository Service Planning and Development. Leslie Johnston, University of Virginia Margret Branschofsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Mental Models of Information Retrieval Systems (SIGs USE, DL, HCI, CR). Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, University of Washington David G. Hendry, University of Washington Pamela Savage-Knepshield, US Army Research Laboratory Carol Tenopir, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Peiling Wang, University of Tennessee, Knoxville	Design for Helping Users (contributed papers). ●How Can IR Help Mechanisms Be More Helpful to Users? Colleen Cool, Queens College, CUNY; and Hong (Iris) Xie, University of Wisconsin ●Investigating Automated Assistance and Implicit Feedback for Searching Systems. Bernard J. Jansen and Michael D. McNeese, both Pennsylvania State University ●Bringing Together Children and Books: An Initial Descriptive Study of Children's Book Searching and Selection Behavior in a Digital Library. Kara Reuter and Allison Druin, both University of Maryland	Managing Information from Scientific Research Projects: Exposing Hidden Knowledge (SIG STI). Suzanne Cristina, United Technologies Jayne Dutra, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Robert Allen, University of Maryland Joseph Busch, Taxonomy Strategies, Moderator	Third Global Information Village (SIG III). Nadia Caidi, Michel Menou
3:30-5:30pm	Annual Business Meeting
5:30-7pm	Sessions by Track:
Disciplinary Issues	Digital Libraries	User Behavior	System Design	Knowledge Management and Use
Sounding out the Members -- A Discussion of the 2003 ASIS&T Membership Survey Trudi Bellardo Hahn, University of Maryland Liwen Vaughan, University of Western Ontario	Diffusion of Knowledge in the Field of Digital Library Development: How Is the Field Shaped by Visionaries, Engineers, and Pragmatists? (SIGs HFIS, DL). Marija Dalbello, Rutgers University Tefko Saracevic, Rutgers University Carole Palmer, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign Mentor Cana, Rutgers University	Methodologies for User Studies (contributed papers). ●Survey of Learners’ Knowledge Structures: Rationales, Methods and Instruments. Peiling Wang, Stephen Bales, Jason Reiger, and Yan Zhang, all University of Tennessee at Knoxville ●Measuring the Affective Information Environment of Web Searchers. Diane Nahl, University of Hawaii ●Effect of Task on Time Spent Reading as an Implicit Measure of Interest. Melanie Kellar, Carolyn Watters, Jack Duffy and Michael Shepherd, all Dalhousie University	Information Visualization for Searching and Browsing: Theories and Applications (SIG HCI). Javed Mostafa, Indiana University Ramana Rao, Inxight Software Xia Lin, Drexel University Jin Zhang, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Dietmar Wolfram, University of Wisconsin, Madison Allison Druin, University of Maryland	Challenges in Knowledge Management Education. Suliman Hawamdeh, University of Oklahoma Thomas J. Froehlich, Kent State University Taverekere Srikantaiah, Dominican University Yun-Ke Chang, University of Oklahoma Miguel Morales-Arroyo, University of Oklahoma	Knowledge, Information and Behavior: A Tribute to Patrick Wilson (SIG HFIS). Brian O’Connor, University of North Texas David Blair, University of Michigan Howard White, Drexel University Francis Miksa, University of North Texas Jens-Erik Mai, University of Washington Coordinator: Shawne Miksa, University of North Texas
8:00pm	SIG CON: “Managing and Enhancing Information Middle-of-the-Road Islands of Information Provenance”

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17
8:30-9am	Sessions by Track:
Disciplinary Issues	Digital Libraries	User Behavior	System Design	Information Organization	Resources and Services
Outside Theory on the Inside of LIS (SIGs HFIS, CR, ED). Julian Warner ,The Queen’s University of Belfast Jack Anderson, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen Shawne D. Miksa, University of North Texas David Blair , University of Michigan Laurie J. Bonnici, Georgia Southern University, Francis Miksa, University of Texas at Austin	Digital Preservation: Spanning the Distance from Past to Future (SIGs DL, STI) Neil Beagrie, British Library/Joint Information Systems Committee Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins University Amy Friedlander, CLIR/Library of Congress - Charles Myers, Adobe Coordinator: Suzie Allard, University of Tennessee	Communication and Interaction Behavior (contributed papers). ●Socio-Technical Interaction Networks as a Tool for Understanding Digital Libraries. Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University ●A Case Study of Communication Channels in a Higher Education Institution. Sheng-Cheng Huang, Chao-Hsiu Chen, and Hsin-Liang Chen, all University of Texas at Austin ●Blogarians—A New Breed of Librarian. Judit Bar-Ilan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Language-Based Design (contributed papers). ●Designing and Developing an Automatic Interactive Keyphrase Extraction System With Unified Modeling Language (UML). Min Song, Yeil Song and Xiaohua Hy, all Drexel University ●Exploring the Use of Natural Language Systems for Fact Identification: Towards the Automatic Construction of Healthcare Portals. Frederick Peck, Suresh Bhavani, and Dragomir Radev, all University of Michigan; and Marilyn H. Blackmon, University of Colorado ●Implementing an Ontology-Based Knowledge Management System in the Korean Financial Firm Environment. Hyun Hee Kim and Woo Kwon Chang, both Myongji University (Seoul); Tae Kyoung Ahn, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy; and Soo Young Rieh, University of Michigan	Metadata and Ontologies to Support Training and Learning Processes (SIG DL). Tom Terrell, University of South Florida Margret Branschofsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wen-Yuan Hsiao, Syracuse University Sara Tarr, Syracuse University Jian Qin, Syracuse University Coordinator: Luz M. Quiroga, University of Hawaii	Reference Services and Knowledge Bases: When is Help Helpful? (SIG STI). Peter Armenti, Library of Congress Boris Katz, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT R. David Lankes, Syracuse University Information Institute Scott Nicholson, Syracuse University Information Institute
10:30am-12noon	Sessions by Track:
Disciplinary Issues	Digital Libraries	User Behavior	System Design	Information Organization	Resources and Services
The State of Libraries and Information Services in Developing Countries (SIG III). Andrea Goncalves, SciELO / BIREME, Brazil P.K. Jain, University Of Delhi Enclave, India Merlyna Lim, Social deConstruction of Technology (SCoT) Research Group, Indonesia Qihao Miao, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of Shanghai, China Duncan Omole, The World Bank Group Moderator: Nathalie Leroy, United Nations Office at Geneva	The Concept of the Source in a World of Multiple Channels (SIG DL). Mariam Ginman, Åbo Akademi University (Finland) Yves Marcoux, University of Montreal Diane Sonnenwald, Göteborg University and University College of Borås Sanna Talja, University of Tampere (Finland) Isto Vatanen, Åbo Akademi (Finland) Elisabeth Davenport, Napier University	Conceptions of Task as a Methodological Issue: Scandinavians on Information Seeking and Retrieval Research (SIG USE). Marianne Lykke Nielsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark Louise Limberg, University College of Boras, Sweden Nils Pharo, Oslo University College, Norway Olof Sundin, University College of Boras, Sweden Commentators: Nick Belkin and Carol Kuhlthau, both Rutgers University Katriina Byström [Moderator], University College of Boras, Sweden	Hot Topics Panel: Advances in 3D Image Applications (SIG VIS) James G. Jones, Creative Realities Elise Lewis, University of North Texas Bill McDonald, Arius 3D, Inc. Sam Quigley, President Museum Computer Network, Harvard University Museums Paul Roy, Arius 3D, Inc. Guenter Weibel, Research Libraries Group (RLG) Moderator: Samantha K. Hastings, University of North Texas	Metadata and Standards (contributed papers). ●Metadata Practices and Implications for Federated Collections. Carole L. Palmer and Ellen M. Knutson, both University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ●Encoded Archival Description (EAD): Adoption and Implementation. Elizabeth Yakel and Jihyun Kim, both University of Michigan ●Enhancing the Virtual Storytelling Experience with Metadata Driven Voice Enabled Conversational Agents. Elizabeth Figa, Paul Tarau, and Jesse Ephraim, all University of North Texas	Journal Performance and Impact (contributed papers). ●Rank-Normalized Impact Factor: A Way To Compare Journal Performance Across Subject Categories. Alexander I. Pudovkin, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Eugene Garfield, ISI ●An Integrated Approach for the Analysis of Factors Affecting Journal Citation Impact in Clinical Neurology. Weiping Yue and Concepción S. Wilson, University of New Sotuh Wales ●Can Web Citations Be a Measure of Impact? An Investigation of Journals in the Life Sciences. Liwen Vaughan, University of Western Ontario, and Debora Shaw, Indiana University ●Mapping the Chinese Science Citation Database. Loet Leydesdorff, University of Amsterdam Jin Biha, Library of Chinese Academy of Science, Bejing
1:30-3pm	Sessions by Track:
Disciplinary Issues	Digital Libraries	User Behavior	System Design	Information Organization	Resources and Services
Disciplinary Changes (contributed papers). ●Evolution of the Interdisciplinary Characteristics of Information and Library Science. Rong Tang, Catholic University of America ●Contribution of Information Professionals in the Multidisciplinary World of Web Information Systems (WIS). Christine Dufour and Pierrette Bergeron, both University of Montreal ●Can the Research Presented at the Annual Conference Help to Define the Association? An Exploratory Study. Maureen L. Mackenzie, Dowling University	Access to Multiple Library Resources (contributed papers). ●Library Portals: The Impact of the Library Information Environment on Information Seeking Success. Brian Detlor and Vivian Lewis , both McMaster University ●Design, Development, and Implementation of a Texas Library Directory Database: A Multipurpose Database for the Library of Texas. Irene V. Lopatovska, Fatih Oguz, and William E. Moen, all University of North Texas ●Evaluation of a Statewide Collaborative Chat-Based Reference Service: Approaches and Directions. Jeffrey Pomerantz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Charles R. McClure, Florida State University	Cognitive Work Analysis: The Study of Work, Actors, and Activities (SIGs CR, USE). Raya Fidel, University of Washington Hanne Albrechtsen, Risø National Laboratory, Denmark Annelise Mark Pejtersen, Risø National Laboratory Jens-Erik Mai, University of Washington	The NISO Metasearch Activity (NISO and ASIS&T Standards Committee). Mark H. Needleman, coordinator	Information Use and Re-Use (contributed papers). ●The Potential of the Metasearch Engine. Brian D. Davison, Lehigh University ●Speak Now and Forever Record Your Piece: Information Use in Technical Trouble Tickets. David W. Marlow, Ball State University, and James M. Nyce, Emporia State University ●Information at the Intersections of Discovery: Case Studies in Neuroscience. Carole L. Palmer, Melissa H. Cragin, and Timothy P. Hogan, all University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Library Management and Evaluation (contributed papers). ●Managing and Assessing Internet Service Needs and Use of Under-served Populations at Public Libraries. Yunkeum Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison ●A Theoretical Approach to University Library Strategy. Bill Edgar, University of Arizona ●A Conceptual Framework for the Holistic Measurement and Cumulative Evaluation of Library Services. Scott Nicholson, Syracuse University
3:30-5pm	Sessions by Track:
Disciplinary Issues	Digital Libraries	User Behavior	System Design	Information Organization	Resources and Services
Ain't Ms. Behavin': More Pioneering Women in Information Science (SIG HFIS). Laurie J. Bonnici, Georgia Southern University Maurice Blaustein, Upromise Kathryn La Barre, Indiana University Shawne D. Miksa, University of North Texas Elizabeth Figa, University of North Texas	Digital Libraries for Consumer Health Information (SIG DL). Brian Hilligoss, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Javed Mostafa, Indiana University Zuzana Hlavackova, Leslie Wood & Xin Chen, all University of Hawaii Shona R. Dippie, University of Utah	Social Network Analysis as a Means of Exploring "Users" (SIG USE). Anabel Quan Haase, The University of Western Ontario Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Julie Hersberger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Catherine Johnson, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee David Robins, University of Pittsburgh, Moderator	Beyond the Sandbox: Wikis and Blogs That Get Work Done (SIG STI). Cameron Marlow, Electronic Publishing Group of the MIT Media Laboratory Sunir Shah, MeatballWiki Ross Mayfield, Socialtext Moderators: K.T.L. Vaughan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Jon Jablonski, University of Oregon	Social Informatics: A Rubric With An Identity Crisis? Blaise Cronin (chair), Indiana University David Blair, University of Michigan Kristin Eschenfelder, University of Wisconsin Ron Day, Wayne State University Elisabeth Davenport, Napier University (Scotland)	LibQUAL+: Library Service Quality Assessment (SIG MGT, KM). Colleen Cook, Texas A&M University Libraries Yunkeum Kim, University of Wisconsin – Madison
6:00pm	Annual President’s Reception

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