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1990 Publications

Carbo, Toni

• Personal Experiences, presentation for graduate women students, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, November 17, 1990.
• Improving Information Systems: Applying Information Science to Research (SIG/ED), presentation at American Society for Information Science (ASIS) Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, November 3, 1990.
• Professional Leadership Development Program -- Motivation and Leadership, American Society for Information Science (ASIS) Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, November 5, 1990.
• Staffing for the Year 2000 and Beyond, Pennsylvania Library Association (PLA) Conference, Hershey, PA, October 29, 1990.
• CD-ROM in the Library: Meeting the Changing Needs of Library Users, presentation at CD-EXPO, Boston, MA, October 2, 1990.
• Increasing Productivity Through Information Technology, Pennsylvania Governor's Conference on Library and Information Services, Harrisburg, PA, September 13-15, 1990.
• Increasing Productivity Through Information Technology, Inside Education 4 (August/September 1990), pp. 2-3.
• The Changing Needs of Users of Scientific, Technical, and Societal Information, International Symposium on the Future of Scientific, Technological and Industrial Information Services, May 28-31, 1990, Leningrad, USSR, (in press).
• Information Transfer in the 1990's: Are We Doing All We Can? symposium opening remarks, ASIS/DVC, Philadelphia, PA, March 14, 1990.
• The Changing Role of the Information Professional, presentation at NORASIS/SLA Chapter Joint Dinner Meeting, Cleveland, OH, March 7, 1990.

Cox, Richard J.

• American Archival Analysis: The Recent Development of the Archival Profession in the United States (Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1990).
• The History of Primary Sources in Graduate Education: An Archival Perspective, Special Collections 4, no. 2 (1990): 39-78.
• Textbooks, Archival Education, and the Archival Profession: A Review Essay, Public Historian 12 (Spring 1990): 73-81.
• Professionalism and Archivists Revisited: A Review Essay, Midwestern Archivist 15, no. 2 (1990): 5-15.
• RAMP Studies and Related UNESCO Publications: An International Source for Archival Administration, American Archivist 53 (Summer 1990): 488-95.

Detlefsen, Ellen

• Detlefsen EG, Olson JE. The Special Librarian: Results From a Survey of MLS and MBA Graduates. Special Libraries 81:294-304 (1990).
• Frieze IH, Olson JE, Detlefsen EG. Having It All? Combining Work and Family in a Male and a Female Profession. Sex Roles 23:515-533 (1990).

Druzdzel, Marek

• Druzdzel, M. J. Scenario-based explanations for Bayesian decision support systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1990.
• Druzdzel, M. J. and Henrion, M. Using scenarios to explain probabilistic inference. In Working notes of the AAAI-90 Workshop on Explanation, pages 133-141, Boston, MA, July 1990. American Association for Artificial Intelligence. HTML File
• Henrion, M. and Druzdzel, M. J. Qualitative and linguistic explanation of probabilistic reasoning in belief networks. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU), pages 225-227, Paris, France, July 1990. HTML File

Hirtle, Stephen C.

• Mascolo, M. F., & Hirtle, S. C. (1990). Verbal coding and the elimination of Stroop Inference in a matching task. American Journal of Psychology, 103, 195-215.
• Davidson D., & Hirtle, S. C. (1990). The effects of nondiscrepant and discrepant information on the use of base rates. American Journal of Psychology, 103, 343-357.

Josey, E. J.

• Politics and the Support of Libraries with Dr. Kenneth Shearer was published in November, 1990.

Lewis, Michael

• Denault, L.G., Lewis, C.M., Debons, A., and Stein, K.L. (1990). An integrative display for patient monitoring. Proceedings of the 1990 International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Los Angeles, CA, 515-517.
• Jamison, Wesley and Lewis, C. Michael (1990) UnixTutor: A Menu-Based Transitional Interface
• Kuntz, Timothy E., Amorosa, William P., and Lewis, C. Michael (1990) Display characteristics and errors at a complex data entry task. Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 34th Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 499-503.
• Lewis, C. Michael. (1990) Modeling individual differences at a process control task. Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 34th Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 917-921.

Rasmussen, Edie M.

• Rasmussen, E. (1990). Current research in information science and its impact upon librarianship. In: Organizing a Research Agenda: Information Studies for the 1990s. Proceedings of a Symposium held at the School of Library and Information Studies, Dalhousie University, March 16-17, 1989. Halifax: Dalhousie University. (Occasional Paper 48)
• Rasmussen, E. M. and Willett, P. (1990). Database processing using a highly parallel array processor. Prospects for Intelligent Retrieval: Informatics 10. Proceedings of a conference jointly sponsored by Aslib, the Aslib Informatics Group, and the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the British Computer Society. University of York, England, 21-23 March 1989. London: Aslib. pp. 185-203.
• Rasmussen, E. M., Willett, P., Wilson, T., Manson, G. A. and Wilson, G. A. (1990). Searching of chemical structure databases with parallel computer hardware. Analytica Chimica Acta, 235: 77- 86.
• Willett, P. and Rasmussen, E. M. (1990). Parallel Database Processing: Text Retrieval and Cluster Analysis using the DAP. London: Pitman. (Research Monographs in Parallel and Distributed Computing).

Spring, Michael B.

• Ledrick, D.P., and Spring, M.B., International Standardized Profiles. Computer Standards and Interfaces. 1990, 11(2), pp 95-103.
• Spring, M.B. and Flynn, I. M. (1990). Review of hypertext '89 conference. Library Hi Tech News, 70, 9-12.
• Spring, M.B., Informating with Virtual Reality. Multimedia Review, Summer 1990, 1(2), pp 5-13.
• Spring, M.B., Information System Standards Education. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, February/March, 1990, 16(3), pp. 28-29.
• Spring, M. B., Electronic Publishing. In A.G. Holtzman, A. Kent, and J.G. Williams (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Microcomputers Volume 6. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1990, pp 71-84..
• Spring, M.B., Jamison, W., Fithen, K.T., and Thomas, P., Preliminary Notes: Human-Computer Interaction Reference Model(HIRM). SIS Research Report LIS032/IS90010; December, 1990.
• Spring, Michael B. and Weiss, Martin B.H. IEEE Standards Board Standards Research in Pittsburgh, 1990
• Spring, M. B., Review: The Art of Human Computer Interface Design by Brenda Laurel(ed.). Computer Standards and Interfaces. 1990, 11(3), pp 257-258.
• Spring, M.B., Review: Nonimpact Printing by Gerhard Nothman. GATFWORLD. (March/April 1990), 2(2), pp. 49.

Thompson, Richard A.

• Lithium Niobate Devices and their Role in Photonic Switching, (with Izutsu, Whitehead, Mura-kami, Thylen, Kondo, and Tangonan), Photonic Switching II, Springer-Verlag, 1990.
• Architectures for Space- and Time-Switching Systems in Lithium Niobate, invited paper for the OSA Topical Meeting on Photonic Switching, Kobe, 1990.
• Photonic Switching of Universal Timeslots, (with JJ Horenkamp and GD Bergland), Interna-tional Switching Symposium, Stockholm, 1990.
• Telecommunications: Expanding into new Horizons, invited presentation for the Technology Conference of the State Library of Pennsylvania, 1990.

Weiss, Martin B.H.

• Weiss, Martin B.H. and Marvin Sirbu Technological Choice in Voluntary Standards Committees: An Empirical Analysis Economics of Innovation and New Technology Vol. 1, pp. 111-133, 1990.
• Weiss, Martin B.H. Telecommunications Planning for Emerging Economies: Considerations for China Beijing '90 International Symposium on the Economics and Technology of Telecommunications
• Weiss, Martin B.H. Observations and Suggestions for Telecommunications in China: A Report to the United Nations Development Program, August 6, 1990.