From rhill at asis.org Wed Nov 2 08:51:19 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 08:51:19 -0400 Subject: [Sighfis-l] Irene Farkas-Conn passes Message-ID: <41b401d23507$cf99c4d0$6ecd4e70$@asis.org> Word was recently received of the passing of Irene Farkas-Conn. Irene was a long time member of ASIST, from the days when it was ADI, The American Documentation Institute. She served on numerous committees, including Nominations, International Relations, and Publications. In 1977 she won the Watson Davis Award for service to the society. In 1990 she published "From Documentation to Information Science: The Beginnings and Early Development of the American Documentation Institute-American Society for Informati0on Science, which we received permission to digitize and is available here: http://adi-asist.accessinn.com/ >From the Washington Post, with one presumed correction at the end: FARKAS - CONN IRENE FARKAS-CONN, Ph.D. (Age 89) A Hungarian refugee who helped thousands of fellow Hungarian Jews escape from the Holocaust in a self-rescue operation and later became a leading figure in information science in the United States, died October 11, 2016 in Arlington, VA. During World War II, she and members of her family used the Glass House, the Budapest headquarters of the family glass business, to cram more than 3,000 Jews into all available space, using chairs, desktops, stairs, closets, to shield them from the constant Nazi deportations to death camps. Meantime, the adjacent Swiss legation issued 7,500 protective passes (Schutzpasse) and as deportations accelerated, a second batch of 7,500 passes. But then the Swiss stopped issuing passes. With increasing pressure of deportations, volunteers and Jewish Glass House employees began working around the clock forging more protective passes. Many people used the passes to escape to Palestine, the future Israel, then a British mandate. While stories about the Glass House have emerged, easily accessed on the internet, many are filled with errors, she said shortly before she died. "There was a strong tradition in our family that one does the right thing, privately and quietly. For this reason, neither of my two uncles who were instrumental in the success of this self-rescue operation, nor my mother, had written anything about it. Yet this is a story that should be told: of bravery, of Jews standing up under adversity and organizing an operation in a desperate attempt to save their people." In 1947, she emigrated to New York, where she graduated Barnard College, got her Master's degree in chemistry from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and later earned her Ph.D. in library science from the University of Chicago, IL. In 1977, Dr. Farkas-Conn won the prestigious Watson Davis Award from the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) "for continuous dedicated service to the membership of ASIS." She served on numerous ASIS committees as well as on information-science-related committees of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, (AIChE) where her husband, Arthur L. Conn, was a past president. She also traveled widely on information science projects including trips to Cuba, China and Iran, as well as to Europe and South America. After Arthur Conn died in 1995, she married Ira Rosenthal, MD of Chicago. Dr. Farkas-Conn was a retired management consultant who was also a former adjunct professor at the University of Chicago Booth Business School. She was a former member of the boards of several organizations concerned with information management. She is survived by her daughter, Elizabeth Ortmayer of Arlington; son, Andrew Farkas, MD of Detroit, MI; stepdaughter, Elizabeth Magnus, Ph.D. of Beloit, WI; two stepsons, Robert Conn of Winston-Salem, NC and Alex P. Conn, Ph.D. of Boston, MA, and eight grandchildren, Abigail Ortmayer and Torin Ortmayer of VA, Jonathan Farkas of NY, Nissim Lieb Farkas and Raizel Leah Farkas of Edison, NJ, Naomi Magnus of Madison, WI, Julia Conn Espitia of Chester, NJ and Nina Conn of Boston, MA. Her funeral was held on May [RH: October] 13, 2016 in Arlington. Richard B. Hill Executive Director ASIS&T 8555 16th Street, Suite 850 Silver Spring, MD 20910 v. (301) 495-0900 f. (301) 495-0810 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From buckland at ischool.berkeley.edu Wed Nov 2 22:06:39 2016 From: buckland at ischool.berkeley.edu (Michael Buckland) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 19:06:39 -0700 Subject: [Sighfis-l] Irene Farkas-Conn passes In-Reply-To: <41b401d23507$cf99c4d0$6ecd4e70$@asis.org> References: <41b401d23507$cf99c4d0$6ecd4e70$@asis.org> Message-ID: Irene Farkas-Conn was a strong supporter of the move to add history to what was then SIG FIS. At the Annual Meeting in 1991, in what may have been the first SIG FIS session to include history, Irene spoke of Watson Davis and Herbert Goldberg talked about his father Emanuel Goldberg to a packed conference room. Michael -- Michael Buckland Emeritus Professor, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/ From rhill at asis.org Thu Nov 3 10:37:19 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (=?utf-8?Q?Richard=20Hill?=) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 14:37:19 +0000 Subject: [Sighfis-l] =?utf-8?q?Falling_Short_of_Their_Profession=27s_Needs?= =?utf-8?q?=3A_Education_and_Research_in_Library_=26_Information_St?= =?utf-8?q?udies=C2=A0?= Message-ID: MEET THE AUTHOR SERIES Falling Short of Their Profession's Needs: Education and Research in Library & Information Studies Join us for a webinar on Nov 04, 2016 at 12:00 PM EDT. FREE for ASIS&T members; $15 for non-members REGISTER NOW! (http://asist.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de58424ef2e609298efbb4a00&id=ed62692591&e=4d1b1eec4b) In Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library (2015), Dr. Wayne A. Wiegand discovers people love their public libraries for three main reasons: access to practical information; the library as a place; and the transformative potential commonplace stories have for library readers. Because conventional LIS research and education mostly focus on the first, and largely overlook and undervalue the last two, he argues that by not having core courses in "reading and libraries" and "library as place" in American Library Association-accredited programs, and by not conducting much more research on the effects of both, LIS research and education fall short of the profession's needs. Come and join ASIS&T and Dr. Wiegand for what will be a riveting discussion. As a primer, this fascinating article will get you thinking about the salient attributes public libraries provide, not only for information studies, but sociologically and politically as well [more (http://asist.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de58424ef2e609298efbb4a00&id=5654342618&e=4d1b1eec4b) ]. 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URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Fri Nov 25 09:00:15 2016 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 15:00:15 +0100 Subject: [Sighfis-l] Fwd: [icie] IRIE CfP Information Ethics from a Marxian Perspective In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [icie] IRIE CfP Information Ethics from a Marxian Perspective Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 08:49:28 +0100 From: Rafael Capurro Reply-To: rafael at capurro.de To: icie at zkm.de Dear colleagues, The CfP for IRIE Information Ethics from a Marxian Perspective is online. Guest Editors: Marco Schneider and Ricardo M. Pimienta. Deadline for extended abstracts: 31st Feb 2017 Notification of acceptance to authors: 15th Apr 2017 Deadline for full articles: 30th June 2017 Deadline for revised articles: 31st July 2017 Publication: August 2017 http://www.i-r-i-e.net/call_for_papers_27.htm Please spread the news. Rafael -- Prof.em. Dr. Rafael Capurro Hochschule der Medien (HdM), Stuttgart, Germany Capurro Fiek Foundation for Information Ethics (http://www.capurro-fiek-foundation.org) Distinguished Researcher at the African Centre of Excellence for Information Ethics (ACEIE), Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Chair, International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE) (http://icie.zkm.de) Editor in Chief, International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE) (http://www.i-r-i-e.net) Postal Address: Redtenbacherstr. 9, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany E-Mail: rafael at capurro.de Voice: + 49 - 721 - 98 22 9 - 22 (Fax: -21) Homepage: www.capurro.de ----- Aucun virus trouv? dans ce message. Analyse effectu?e par AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2016.0.7924 / Base de donn?es virale: 4664/13466 - Date: 24/11/2016 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr Mon Nov 28 04:41:16 2016 From: fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr (IBEKWE-SANJUAN Fidelia) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 10:41:16 +0100 Subject: [Sighfis-l] Investigating the European origins of Information Science Message-ID: Dear all I have been the lucky recipient of this year's ASIST History Research Fund award for a research on a book project on "Information Science: Origins, theories and paradigms. A Comparative approach" This book which I will co-author with Thomas Dousa (PhD, iSchool of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana) will be anenglish adaptation of a book I write in French in 2012 on the origins of the French Information Science (IS) but with a broader ans comparative scope. The first part of this book will be dedicated to tracing the origins of IS in its modern sense, as a discipline in the higher education system in Europe. Some scholars attributed to Jean Meyriat (1981) the efforts of defining the building blocks of French IS in the higher education system in the 1970s and especially of coining the term ?/informatologie/?. However, it appears that the term had already been in use in other parts of Europe for the same purposes (Bozo Te?ak in Croatia in 1961 apparently borrowed the term from Bj?rn Tell in Sweden,..). At the time when I wrote my French book in 2012, I could not investigate this trail further in order to unearth the web of ?term and concept borrowings? which helped shape this higher education discipline. I would now welcome the opportunity to further investigate how European pioneers of IS may or may have not influenced each other in how they defined the IS discipline ?at home? and how this had influenced the paths taken by IS in the different European countries. This, to my knowledge, is still an uncharted ground. Note that my investigation will not cover the already well covered Briet, Otlet & Lafontaine period. I'm solely interested in how the higher education programs in IS came about in different european countries from the 1970s upwards. I would be grateful for any help you can render me in uncovering: 1) Relevant archival materials (early articles written by pioneers in your home country) 2) Resourceful people to interview who may have known some of the founding figures of IS in your country or even those founding figures themselves 3) If the resources available warrant it, I can make a trip to the country to personally interview or access the materials 4) I have some small funds to cover travel expenses and translations of materials that are not in english or french (the two languages I can speak and read). Tentatively, I have listed these countries as potential places where such materials and resources could be found: Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Croatia, Italy, Germany, Ireland but if other countries have interesting materials, I'm of course willing to consider them. Ideally, I would like to carry out this field work in the first quarter of 2017. Finally, I'm very grateful to Special Interest Group on the History & Foundations of Information Science (SIG HFIS) for awarding this grant to me which will make this research possible (https://www.asist.org/groups/history-foundations-of-information-science-hfis/). Best regards -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (Ph.D.) Full Professor (Professeur des Universit?s) School of Journalism & Communication (EJCAM) http://ejcam.univ-amu.fr/en Aix-Marseille University - France. 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Sincerely, Jenna *Jenna Hartel, Ph.D., Associate ProfessorFaculty of InformationUniversity of Toronto140 St. George StreetToronto, Ontario M5S 3G6*website: www.jennahartel.info see also: www.iSquares.info *(NEW!)*see also: Metatheoretical Snowmen email: jennahartel at hotmail.com or jenna.hartel at utoronto.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: