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[CONF] CAIS/ACSI 98 Programme
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terry Kuny)
Tue Apr 21 20:41:55 1998
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 19:11:17 -0500
From: Terry Kuny <Terry.Kuny@xist.com>
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CAIS/ACSI '98 PROGRAMME
"Information Science at the Dawn of the Next Millennium"
26th Annual Conference of the=20
Canadian Association for Information Science/
Association canadienne des sciences de l'information
3-5 June 1998, Universite d'Ottawa
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1998 =20
8:30-10:00 Welcome
Plenary I:=20
Edie Rasmussen, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-12:30 Session 1: Information Policy
Schrader, Alvin M., University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
"In search of the perfect filter: a critique of Internet blocking=20
and rating products grounded in indexing theory."
Veeder, Stacy B., Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA.
"Methodological obstacles to empirical research in information privacy."=20
Buchwald, Cheryl Cowan, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.=20
"Public policy theory as a framework for studying information policy:
the case of Canada's Coalition for Public Information."
Dowding, Martin, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON and=20
Nilsen, Kirsti University of Western Ontario, London, ON.
"Defining information policy in the Canadian context"
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Session 2a: Information Management
Bergeron, Pierrette, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, QC.=20
"The concept of integration and coordination in the practice of=20
information management: toward a better understanding of=20
organizational information structure"
Detlor, Brian, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
"Basing intranet design on the organizational information environment=20
and user information behaviour." =20
Session 2b: Information Use
Ross, Catherine Sheldrick, University of Western Ontario, London, ON.=20
"Making choices: what readers say about choosing books to read for=
pleasure."=20
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-5:00 Session 3: Information Theory
Zhang, Xiangmin, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
"Methodological issues in mental models in information science."=20
McKechnie, Lynne, University of Western Ontario, London, ON and=20
Pettigrew, Karen E, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
"Theories for a new millennium: the origins and growth of theory in LIS
research."=20
THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1998 =20
8:30-10:00 Session 4: Informetrics
Dufour, Christine and Tabah, Albert N., Universite de Montreal, Montreal,=
QC.=20
"Information epidemics and the transformation of science."=20
Yang, Sharon, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ, USA.
"Characteristics of materials used by English speaking linguists in=20
their publications: a citation study of literature requirements,=20
citing functions and citing trends."=20
Chen, Hsiang, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA.
"Dual acceptance of web diffusion: reciprocal interdependence=20
between clients and servers."
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-12:30 Session 5: Information Representation/Organization I
Thomas, Keith and Vulpe, Michael, Infrastructures for=20
Information Inc., Toronto, ON.
"SGML and reusable information objects."
Campbell, Grant, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS. =20
"Discourse analysis and document analysis: SGML, scholarly=20
publishing and structuralist theory."
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Goodrum, Abby A., Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.=20
"Task-based representation of moving images."=20
Kopak, Rick, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
"System representation of information objects and the browsing=20
behaviour of users."=20
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12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Session 6: Information Representation/Organization II
Hudon, Michele, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, QC.
"The usefulness of standardized definitions in thesauri: an assessment=20
through inter-indexer consistency measurement."
Mai, Jens-Erik, Royal School of Library and Information Science,
Copenhagen, Denmark.
"Organization of knowledge: an interpretative approach."
Olson. Hope A., University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
"The army of the mob: old metaphors that limit our representation of
information."=20
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-5:00 Session 7: Information Representation/Organization III
Howarth, Lynn C. and Stoyanova, Penka I., University of Toronto, Toronto,=
ON.=20
"Twice removed: access to electronic serials from the user's point of view."=
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Duff, Wendy, Univerity of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
"Users' opinions of archival display."
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FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1998 =20
8:30-10:00 =20
Session 9: Information Retrieval I
Large, Andrew, Beheshti, Jamshid, Bracewell, Bob and=20
Breuleux, Alain, McGill University, Montreal, QC.
"Interface navigation by grade-six students: a case study of=20
three multimedia CD-ROM products."
Ihadjadene, Majid, Centre d'=82tude et de Recherche en Science
de l'Information, Cedex, France.
"Accessing and surfing a WWW-OPAC: the case of remote users"
Khoo, Christopher S.G., Liew, Soon-kah, Nanyang Technological=20
University, Singapore and Poo, Danny C.C. & Toh, Teck-Kang,=20
National University of Singapore, Singapore.
"Development of search strategies for an expert system web=20
interface to online catalogs."
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-12:30 Session 10: Information Retrieval II
Dimitroff, Alexandra and Wolfram, Dietmar. University of=20
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
"Comparison of contributing factors in system affective response in a=20
boolean and hypertext bibliographic database environment."
Marcoux, Yves and Dufour, Christine, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, QC.=
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"Towards a comparison of structured and unstructured text retrieval."=20
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Downie, Stephen J. University of Western Ontario, London, ON.=20
(Winner of the Best Student Submission)
"Informetrics and music retrieval: an informetric examination of a folk
song."=20
Nelson, Michael J., University of Western Ontario, London, ON.=20
"Statistical power and effect size in information retrieval experiments."=20
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Session 11: Information Retrieval III
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Spink, Amanda, Bateman, Judy & Greisdorf, Howard, University of=20
North Texas, Denton, TX, USA.
"Successive searching behavior during interactive information=20
retrieval (IR): development of a new line of research."
Logan, Elisabeth, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.=20
"Is searching the Internet really different? Search process models=20
for two electronic environments.
Brown-Syed, Christopher, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA.=20
"SOS calls, breaking stories, network disinformation and the process=20
of scholarly communication: implications for information intermediaries."=20
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-5:00 Plenary II:=20
Charlie Meadow, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto. =20
NOTE: Conference organizers reserve the right to revise this program.
For information about paper submission details, registration and conference
locale
consult: http://www.mgmt.dal.ca/slis/cais98
Registration fees:
CAIS members: $140
CAIS non-members: $190
Students: $55
CAIS is meeting under the umbrella of the Federation of Social=20
Sciences and Humanities of Canada.=20
