A biography and festschrift of *Prof. Arlene G. Taylor *is published
in the *Librarianship
Studies & Information Technology *blog. It is available at the below link.
URL: https://www.librarianshipstudies.com/2020/07/arlene-g-taylor.html
*Abstract*: Biography and festschrift of Prof. Arlene G. Taylor. It can be
divided into three parts: 1) Introductory Video, 2) Biography Part, 3)
Festschrift Part
*1. Introductory Video:*
A 4-minute video highlighting the life and contributions of Dr. Taylor.
This video is included at the top of the biography. It is also available
separately on YouTube at https://youtu.be/Ls_NUy-bcZQ
*2. Biography Part: *
Dr. Arlene G. Taylor (born December 22, 1941) is Professor Emerita from the
School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, where she taught
for 12 years prior to retiring, and holds an honorary appointment as a
Distinguished Adjunct Professor at University of North Carolina School of
Information and Library Science. Her career as a library school educator
lasted more than 30 years, and included teaching at Columbia University and
the University of Chicago.
She is lead author or co-author of widely-used texts, including
Introduction to Cataloging and Classification (6th to 11th editions) and
The Organization of Information (four editions). She has an extensive
publication record of refereed articles, books and book chapters, and
research reports, and she has given more than 90 guest presentations for
national, state, and regional library associations, as well as library
schools.
Taylor's international activities include serving as a workshop leader,
teacher, and/or consultant in Brazil, England, Thailand, and Israel. For
her work in the latter two countries, she received Fulbright Senior
Specialist Program Grants. She has held leadership positions on many
professional association committees, including the ALA/ALCTS Catalog Form
and Function Committee (Chair, 1995–1998) and the ALA/ALCTS/CCS Subject
Analysis Committee (Chair, 1992–1994).
Her professional contributions have been recognized with the ALA/ALCTS
Margaret Mann Citation, the ALA/Highsmith Library Literature Award for The
Organization of Information, and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and
Information Science Alumni Association, among other honors.
Prior to earning her Ph.D. at UNC, she had worked in libraries as a school
librarian and as a cataloger at the Library of Congress, Christopher
Newport College (now University), and Iowa State University.
Taylor longed to return to North Carolina from the time she left in 1981.
After she retired from teaching, she and her husband moved to Chapel Hill
in 2007. She continues to write, working with former students on research
articles and on new editions of her textbooks. She also enjoys
“cataloging” her many pictures of parents, grandparents,
great-grandparents, and great-great grandparents, and their families.
*3. Festschrift Part:*
In this part friends and associates of Dr. Arlene G. Taylor speak about her
life and works, and her influence on LIS research and researchers, whether
at the level of the individual, institution, or the field of librarianship
with special reference to cataloging, metadata, and information
organization.
Includes here tributes by Blanche Woolls, Professor Emerita, University of
Pittsburgh, Linda C. Smith, Professor Emerita, School of Information
Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Barbara B. Tillett,
Former Chief of the Library's Cataloging Policy & Support Office, Library
of Congress, Prof. Dr. Essam Mansour, Professor, Department of Libraries
and Information, South Valley University, Egypt, Barbara Paff, Former
Cataloger, Iowa State University, and by Salman Haider, creator,
Librarianship Studies & Information Technology blog.
Salman Haider
The intention seems to be automatic development of resource centers. Extra emphasis may add to the burden on the exchequer
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From: "Vasumathi Sriganesh (QMed)" <vasu(a)qmedkf.org.in>
Sent: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 23:39:24 GMT+0530
To: Dr Anand Byrappa <anand.byrappa(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] New education policy and libraries
Dear Dr Anand
Thank you for your inputs:
Related to libraries, Policy should have stressed on two important issues
at least:
a) Every educational institution must have a well equipped library
b) library should be managed only by professionally qualified staff.
I have not read the policy yet, but I definitely agree to your points. I
would add that the following details
1) Clearly list the objectives of libraries (as applicable in the modern
age) - a centre that is well equipped, be a training and research zone as
well
2) Professionally qualified staff managing the libraries will be regularly
retrained to be able to handle varied print and electronic resources, aid
in teaching research and are involved in the implementation of the
curriculum in the institution
Completely my views.
Vasumathi Sriganesh
QMed Knowledge Foundation
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 12:25 PM Dr Anand Byrappa <anand.byrappa(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Dear professional friends,
>
> Thought of sharing my views on new NEW EDUCATION POLICY on libraries (page
> 61 and 62 of the document)
>
> I went through Library related policy content. Following are my
> observations:
>
> Nothing new in it to bring transformation in libraries. However, overall
> education policy is good and it surely brings in transformation IN
> education system
>
> Related to libraries, Policy should have stressed on two important issues
> at least:
> a) Every educational institution must have a well equipped library
> b) library should be managed only by professionally qualified staff.
>
> I believe, the above two will address all other needs and libraries will be
> impactful in society
>
> Would like to hear from others.
>
> (Views expressed are of my personal and not related my organization)
>
> Regards
> Anand Byrappa
> Indian Institute of Science
> Bangalore.
>
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Sent: 31 July 2020 12:20
Second International Conference on Science & Technology Metrics (STMet 2020)
Chinese Academy of Sciences, and University of Macau, Macau
December 07-09, 2020
(www.socio.org.uk/stm<http://www.socio.org.uk/stm>)
Due to the COVID 19 impact, the conference will be organized ONLINE.
Building metrics is the key to science and technology measurement and translating the measures to work better. Metric is not confined to draw numbers and analyze. Selecting a metric depends on synthesizing multiple directions and evidence-based data. Producing benchmarks and standards in science and technology evaluation and implementing them with real data, mark the full-fledged system. Quite recently, we are witnessing the emergence of new metrics-based models aiming to reflect science and technology growth. The proposed Science and Technology Metrics (STMet 2020) conference is concerned with how the use of many metrics may involve the assessment of different aspects of science and technology which are best expressed using different approaches. Besides the standard conference track and the Doctoral Symposium, the STMetrics will host a number of workshops and tutorials related to the theme of the conference. The purpose of the workshops is to provide participants with a friendly, interactive atmosphere for presenting novel ideas and discussing their application of metrics in Science and Technology System. The goal of the tutorials is to enable the participants to familiarize themselves with theoretical as well as practical aspects and application of metrics.
The proposed conference consists of invited talks, presentations, tutorials, workshops and discussions. The STMet has tracks on specialized topics. The STMet address the below themes, not limited.
Citation-based metrics
Ranking of Journals, Institutions, and Countries
Discipline and Domain Analysis
Economic factors
Databases and datasets for evaluation
Evaluation Tools and Indicators
Web-based metrics
Visibility and impact
Internationalization
Text-based Metrics
Innovation indicators
Wearable Devices
Open data
Scientific Collaboration and cooperation analysis
National Evaluation Systems
Open access and open publishing
New indices for evaluation
Altmetrics
Web-based metrics
Data Science and Digital Repositories
Scientific Visualization
e-Science in the Cloud
Scientific Journalism
Scientific Publications
All submitted papers will be reviewed by a double-blind (at least three reviewers), and participative peer review. The review process will enable the selection process of those that will be accepted for their presentation at the international conference. Authors of accepted papers who registered in the conference can have access to the evaluations and possible feedback provided by the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their papers, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers.
Mentoring support is available to young researchers and authors of developing countries.
The post-conference modified versions of the papers will be published in the following journals.
1. Journal of Digital Information Management
2. Frontiers in Research Metrics
3. Journal of Scientometric Research
4. Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science
5. International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research
There is no publication fee for the papers selected for the above journals.
Keynote: Henk Moed, Elsevier, Netherlands
General Chairs
Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau
Grant Lewison, King’s College, UK
Vijayakumar Varadarajan, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Organizing Chair
Gloria Li Tengyue, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Program Chairs
Ramesh Kundra, NISTADS, India
Daisy Jacobs, University of Zululand, South Africa
Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Labs., UK & India
Program Co-Chairs
Kazuyuki, Motohashi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Amir Reza Asnafi, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
Important Dates
Submission of papers- September 25, 2020
Notification-October 25, 2020
Registration-November 25, 2020
Camera-ready-November 25, 2020
Conference Dates-December 07-09, 2020
Contact: stm(a)socio.org.uk<mailto:stm@socio.org.uk>
