[Sigifp-l] SIG-IFP Chair-Elect Announced!

[John Gathegi]

Dear SIG Members,

At the recently concluded ASIST meeting in Charlotte, NC, Tom Lipinski 
of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was elected to Chair-Elect. Tom 
will succeed John Gathegi at the 2006 Annual Meeting in Austin. The 
following is Tom's bio for your information:

Tomas A. Lipinski was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, on November 16, 
1958.  After completing his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Marquette 
University Law School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he received the Master of 
Laws (LL.M.) from The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois, and 
the Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mr. 
Lipinski has worked in a variety of legal settings including the 
private, public and non-profit sectors. He has taught at the American 
Institute for Paralegal Studies and at Syracuse University College of 
Law. In summers he is a visiting associate professor at the Graduate 
School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign (1999-present), and at the Department of Information 
Science, School of Information Technology at the University of Pretoria, 
Pretoria, South Africa (1999-2003). 

 Professor Lipinski currently teaches, researches and speaks frequently 
on various topics within the areas of information law and policy, 
especially copyright, privacy and censorship issues in schools and 
libraries, and serves as Co-Director of the Center for Information 
Policy Research at the University of --Milwaukee and an Associate 
Professor at its School of Information Studies. Recent monographs 
include an ALA editions publication co-authored with Mary Minow: THE 
LIBRARY'S LEGAL ANSWER BOOK (2003); as well as COPYRIGHT LAW AND THE 
DISTANCE EDUCATION CLASSROOM (2005) (Scarecrow
Press, Inc.); and (forthcoming) THE COMPLETE COPYRIGHT LIABILITY 
HANDBOOK FOR LIBRARIANS AND EDUCATORS (Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc.).

On another note, please make sure you visit our new SIG web site (a work 
in progress) and provide us with feedback on how to make it serve your 
needs. Go to http://ci.fsu.edu/asist-ifp.

On yet another note, we are still entertaining ideas for papers and 
panel topics for the 2006 Meeting.

Let's keep the SIG-IFP spark alive!
John
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John N. Gathegi, PhD, JD
Chair, ASIST SIG-IFP
Associate Professor
College of Information
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
850-644-8104

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