[Sigifp-l] FW: Bonnie Carroll to deliver GL8 Keynote Address

[Richard Hill]

[Forwarded.  Dick Hill]

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Subject: Bonnie Carroll to deliver GL8 Keynote Address

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Bonnie C. Carroll, President of Information International Associates Inc.,
will present the Keynote Address at the Opening Session of the Eighth
International Conference on Grey Literature. This year's conference is
titled "Harnessing the Power of Grey"; and if there is one informational
professional who can bring this to task, it is Bonnie Carroll. As President
of IIa, she supports government and industry in managing information as a
strategic resource.

She is Secretariat Director of CENDI, the federal scientific and technical
information (STI) managers' group and Consultant to USGS, supporting the
development of the National Biological Information Infrastructure and the
OSTP Biodiversity Informatics Working Group to promote interagency
coordination of national and international biodiversity informatics
initiatives. For over 3 decades, she has participated in research and
development projects including a major assessment of STI in the U.S. for the
National Science Foundation; the development of a topography of STI systems
for the Library of Congress; and the development of a system to provide
input to the DOE's Energy Science and Technology Database.  She helped
develop a National Information Strategy for the Kingdom of Jordan and has
done special studies for the International Atomic Energy Agency, UNESCO and
the World Bank.  Before starting IIa, Ms. Carroll worked at DOE's Office of
Scientific and Technical Information as Director of Program Development and
International Activities and Deputy and Acting Assistant Manager for
Information Services. She worked with contract research companies, Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, and Cornell University.  She served as President of the
American Society for Information Science &Technology and as Chair of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science Section on Information,
Computing and Communications. Ms. Carroll is currently the US National
Representation to International CODATA under the auspices of the
International Committee for Science (ICSU) and is on the editorial board for
the journal Information Services and Use.  She has an MS from Columbia
University and a BA from Cornell University. Ms. Carroll has been active in
grey literature research and management dating back to the early 1990s.

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Recent Keynote Addresses in the GL-Series were presented by:
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GL7 - Dr. Laurent Romary, National Centre for Scientific Research, France
GL6 - James G. Neal, Columbia University, United States
GL5 - Dr. Helmut Artus, Information Centre for the Social Sciences, Germany
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