Biographies

BIOGRAPHIES

Steve Almagno has been at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Sciences since 1972. During that time his major research and teaching has been in the area of historical bibliography and the humanities. With Toni Carbo he established the Information Ethics course and has taught that course, twice a year, since l990. Professor Almagno will retire from SIS in 2002. For more information, visit http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~lsdept/faculty/almagnocv.html for info.) For more than 15 years, Dr. David L. Armbruster has been interested in ethical issues of scientific communication. The web has created many more opportunities and reasons for discussing such issues. Dr. Armbruster is head of Scientific Publications and Library Communications at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. In the early 1990s he helped create and direct a required graduate course, Integrity in the Conduct of Scientific Research, and in 1997 was responsible for creating an electronic thesis/dissertation program in conjunction with the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations program at Virginia Tech. He is a past president and Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication and a member of the Council of Science Editor and Medical Library Association, Southern Chapter. John Baxter is a Professor in the Health Sciences Library and Biocommunications Center with a joint faculty appointment in the Department of Biochemistry, and he is a Director in the Division of Computing and Telecommunications at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. His interests include computer-based education, network services, and systems services. He is a codeveloper of the university's Internet 2 application and its proposal for inclusion in the Early Adopters program of the Internet 2 Middleware Section. He holds a B.S. in chemistry from Millsaps College, an M.S. in physics from Vanderbilt University, and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Duke University. He received postdoctoral training at Duke University and was on the faculty of N.C. Wesleyan College before joining the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Tennessee. Nathaniel Borenstein is the primary author of MIME, the Internet standard multimedia data format, and of three books, two patents, numerous articles and Internet RFC documents, and several pioneering and widely used software systems. In 1994, he co-founded First Virtual Holdings, which was the first company to move payments over the Internet, and which became Message Media (NASDAQ:MESG) in 1998. He is currently a part-time entrepreneur and a part-time research faculty member at the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Jack Buchanan is Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine and Director of Research Computing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. He is also Associate Professor in the Herff College of Engineering at the University of Memphis and holds a clinical appointment in Cardiology at the Memphis Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is coordinating many of the UT Health Science Center efforts in the Internet 2 consortium. He is chair of a national Internet 2 committee on Medical Middleware, which seeks to better define authorization, authentication, and electronic credentialing for health practitioners in clinical environments, particularly as it pertains to electronic patient records. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and an M.D., all from the University of Kentucky, and has completed internal medicine and cardiology clinical and research training at UK and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was on the faculty prior to coming to Memphis. Byung Lee is an assistant professor in journalism and communications at Elon College, N.C. At Elon College, he has taught print journalism courses while integrating new technology. He has taught Web Publishing and Design; Polling, Research and Presentation; Editing and Layout; and Writing and Information Gathering. He also launched the online version of the Pendulum, the college newspaper, in 1996. He was selected as a Visual Journalism Educators Seminar fellow for 2000 by the Poynter Institute and a Civic Journalism 2000 fellow by the Pew Center. He was also chosen as American Society of Newspaper Editors' IJE (Institute for Journalism Excellence) fellow for 1999 and worked for washingtonpost.com during the summer of 1999. The research area of his interest includes application of the Internet as a vehicle for information gathering and dissemination and ethics on the Internet. His recent papers include "Evaluating the effectiveness of a mass media ethics course," "Online weekly newspapers' contents and their strategies to meet challenges," and "Information privacy: How much privacy does the public want on the web?" He also offered workshops in areas such as online surveys, innovative ways to use graphics for web publications, and software programs for the web. He holds a Ph.D. and master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and a BS degree in international economics from Seoul National University in Korea. Netiva Caftori is an associate professor of computer science and women studies at Northeastern Illinois University where she has been teaching for the past 18 years. Prior to NEIU she taught at DePaul University and worked in industry. She studied in Paris and Tel Aviv and received all 3 of her degrees from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Currently she serves on the national board of CPSR (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility) for which she is the MidWest regional director. Netiva's main concerns include universal access and effective use of computers in education. She is also an artist (check her Web page - http://www.neiu.edu/~ncaftori/index.htm) and a mother of 3. Wanda Dole is University Librarian at Washburn University. Her previous positions include Assistant Director of Libraries for Collections and Public Services at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook, Head Librarian of Penn State's Abington College Library, Assistant Director for Collection Development at the University of Miami, Humanities Bibliographer at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Architecture Librarian at the University of Kentucky. She has also worked in publishing (assistant editor, Scott, Foresman and Co.), book selling (NE Regional Sales Manager, Blackwell North America) and teaching. She received a B.A. (Lawrence University) and M.A. in Classics (Tufts University) and completed course work for the doctorate in that field at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana before obtaining the M.S. in library science. Ms. Dole is active in committees of the American Library Association and is acting chair of the IFLA Statistics Section. A frequent speaker at conferences, she is the author of numerous articles on strategic planning, staff development, budget allocation, and library evaluation. Dr. Eugene C. Eckstein received S.B., S.M., and Ph. D. degrees from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Individual research projects in biomedical engineering (BME) were common in many MIT departments during his undergraduate years, usually as a result of individual faculty collaborations with colleagues at other Boston institutions. During his graduate years, a more extensive program in BME was developed by Harvard and MIT: the Program in Health, Science, and Technology. Through such efforts, he was trained in areas of peristaltic transport and dispersion in flowing blood; both areas link fluid dynamics to physiological function, pathological states, and artificial organs. Direct clinical experience with hemodialysis and other modes of mass transfer came with a postdoctoral position at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital/Harvard Medical School. On moving to the University of Miami, Dr. Eckstein rose through the professorial ranks and worked in areas of blood flow, implantable urinary devices, and orthopedic biomechanics. The educational effort in BME at the University of Miami grew from a program with M.S. degrees to a graduate department during the time Dr. Eckstein was there. In 1992, Dr. Eckstein accepted the J. R. Hyde Chair of Rehabilitation Engineering at the University of Tennessee, where he has continued work on blood flow. A rewarding part of work at UT has involved development of curricular aspects for the graduate program in biomedical engineering and service as the first Coordinator of the Joint Program in Biomedical Engineering of the University of Memphis and the University of Tennessee. Stephen P. Foster has received an MLS from Western Michigan University and PhD in Philosophy from St. Louis University. He is currently Associate Dean of Libraries at Central Michigan University and is the author of Melancholy Duty: The Hume-Gibbon Attack on Christianity (1997), a book relating to the 18th century British thinkers David Hume and Edward Gibbon. He writes and speaks on topics in librarianship, philosophy, and culture. Thomas Froehlich is a Professor of Library and Information Science at Kent State University. He teaches in the areas of information science, online information systems, network and software resources, user interface design and ethical concerns of information professionals. Committed to fostering international development and cooperation, he has taught workshops, seminars or classes, or made presentations in China, Thailand, France, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Portugal, Wales, Canada, Great Britain, Finland, as well as throughout the United States. His education includes a Ph.D. in Philosophy (Duquesne University), an M.S. in Information Science (University of Pittsburgh), M.A. in Philosophy (Pennsylvania State University), and B.A. in English Literature (St. Vincent College). Research interests include: ethical concerns of the information professions; foundations of information science, with special focus on social epistemology and relevance criteria in information retrieval systems; information technologies in library and information centers; international developments for and in library and information science. The largest portion of his research writings are devoted to ethical issues in the information professions. Bernd Frohmann received a Masters of Library Science degree from the University of Toronto in 1981 and a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1982, specializing in Wittgenstein's later philosophy of language. After working on the Bertrand Russell Editorial Project at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Frohmann joined the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Western Ontario in 1988, where he is now an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies. His teaching duties include courses in the masters and doctoral program in library and information science, and in the faculty's undergraduate program, called Media, Information and Technoculture. Frohmann's major research focus is on social and cultural studies of information, the foundations of information science, and the political economy of information. He has published on discourse analysis in library and information science, information policy, knowledge organization, communications technologies, and scientific communication. He is currently finishing a book manuscript on the role of the journal article in scientific documentation. More information may be found at: http://instruct.uwo.ca/faculty/Frohmann/Index.html Bruce Gilbert is associate professor of librarianship at Drake University. His current position is Director of Library Operations and Technology. Earlier positions included Assistant Director of Technical Services at University of Missouri-Rolla. Publications include chapters in volumes published by ALA and Scarecrow Presses. Gilbert's campus-wide involvement at Drake ranges from serving as a dissertation adviser and teaching for-credit Web courses to serving on the campus's Curriculum Committee. Robert Hauptman is a professor at St Cloud State University, where he does reference work and teaches primarily graduate courses in the Center for Information Media, and undergradute honors program classes in the humanities and social sciences. Among his 500 publications are Ethical Challenges in Librarianship (Oryx, 1988) and The Holocaust: Memories, Research, Reference (Hayworth, 1998). Hauptman edits The Journal of Information Ethics. He built a house in the Vermont woods using hand tools. In his spare time, he climbs mountains. Jitka Hurych is a Professor, Head of the Science, Engineering, and Business Department, and a subject specialist for health sciences in the Founders Memorial Library of Northern Illinois University. She received an M.A. degree in Czech and Russian from Masaryk University in Czechoslovakia and an M.A. degree in Library Science from Northern Illinois University. Her professional career includes over 20 years of academic librarianship, research, publication, translation work, and teaching. She has published articles on the reference interview, information seeking behavior of the university faculty, professional ethics, health science librarianship and information services in the Internet environment. In 1992, she received an ALA/USIA Library Fellowship to the All-State Library of Foreign Literature in Moscow, Russia, to present seminars on American reference sources and services, and to recommend improvements in Russian library services. Since then, she has been interested in the role of libraries in emerging democracies of Eastern Europe and has written and presented papers on Russian and Czech libraries. She has also presented papers on the new information technologies at international conferences in Crimea, Ukraine, China, Poland, and in the Czech Republic. Scott Johnston is a doctoral candidate at Rutgers University in the School of Communications, Information and Library Studies. He is an adjunct lecturer at the School of Library Studies at Rutgers University and the School of Information and Library Studies at the Pratt Institute in New York City. Scott earned an MA in English and a Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Western Ontario. He has worked in special and academic libraries in New York City and in Canada. At Columbia University, he was a business reference librarian; as Assistant Librarian at the Canadian Consulate General, he performed policy and media research; and at A.T. Kearney, Inc. he served as an electronic commerce researcher. His dissertation will examine the feasibility of current privacy law addressing information privacy problems in the information age library. He has presented papers at the Information Seeking in Context conference at the University of Sheffield in England and the ACM policy conference in Washington, DC. A. Dale King is currently a Professor of Business at Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina. Below is a sampling of her credentials. EDUCATION: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. Ph.D. in Administration, Cognate Area in Business. Dissertation topic: "Owners'/Managers' and Educational Administrators' Perceptions of Small Business Needs." December 1984. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. Part-time coursework in Marketing toward a Ph.D. 1981-1982. Radford University, Radford, VA. M.S. in Business, Minor in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Directed Thesis Study: "Financial Analysis of a Corporate Structure-Southern Railway." August 1977. Radford University, Radford, VA. B.S. in Marketing and Management, Minor in Mathematics. May 1976. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 1990-Present Professor of Business Lenoir-Rhyne College Hickory, NC 28603 1985-1990 Associate Professor of Business Lenoir-Rhyne College Hickory, NC 28603 1984-1985 Assistant Professor of Business Gardner-Webb College Boiling Springs, NC 28017 1983-1984 Instructor of Marketing Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 1979-1982 Instructor of Business Radford University Radford, VA 24142 1977-1979 Instructor of Business Patrick Henry Community College Martinsville, VA 24112 CONSULTING EXPERIENCE: Currently conducting Marketing Communication Training in the marketing and customer service staff of a large textile company. Currently conducting Teamwork and Effective Communication training for a Catawba County Agency. Developed and Authored Business Plans for Physicians, Jewelry Retailer, Distribution/Warehouse Company, Children's Clothing Retailer, Solar Technology Company, and Salvage Yards. Presented and Coordinated Teamwork, Ethics, and Communication and Management Training Seminars and Workshops for Fiber Optic Manufacturers, Clothing Retailers, Textile Manufacturers, Trade Associations, Civic Organizations, and Chambers of Commerce PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES: Participant and National Marketing Committee Member at the Eleventh Annual ACBSP National Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 1999. National Marketing Committee Member at the SouthEast Regional ACBSP Conference, Jacksonville, FL, October 1998. Co-presented with J. Wayne King "Social Responsibility in an Information Technology Age" at the Ethics of Electronic Information in the 21st Century Conference, Memphis, TN, September 1998. Participant and National Marketing Committee Member at the Tenth Annual ACBSP National Conference, Kansas City, MO, June 1998. Participant at the Mecklenburg BioEthics Conference, Charlotte, NC, April 1998. National Marketing Committee Member at the SouthEastRegional ACBSP Conference, Birmingham, AL, October 1997. Participant at the SouthEast Regional ACBSP Conference, Nashville, TN, October 1995. Discussion Coordinator for Marketing Ethics Workshop at the Fourth National Conference on Ethics in America, Long Beach, CA, February 1993. Discussion Coordinator for Marketing Ethics Workshop at the Third National Conference on Ethics in America, Long Beach, CA, February 1992. Co-presented with J. Wayne King "Perceptions of ACBSP Members on Business Ethics as a Program Curriculum Requirement," Second Annual National Conference on Ethics in America, Long Beach, CA, January 1991. Co-presented with J. Wayne King "Perceptions on Ethical Decision Making: A Comparative Study Between Practicing Business People and Business Majors," National Conference on Ethics in America, Long Beach, CA, January 1990. J. Wayne King is currently a Professor of Business at Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina. Below is a sampling of his credentials. EDUCATION: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. Ph.D. in Administration, Cognate Area in Business. Dissertation topic: "Postsecondary Institutions' Role in Meeting the Training Needs of High Technology Industries." August 1984. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. Part-time coursework in Marketing toward a Ph.D. 1975-1982. Appalachian State University, Boone, NC. M.A. in Business and Economics, August 1969. Appalachian State University, Boone, NC. B.S. in Business, May 1966. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 1987-Present Professor of Business Lenoir-Rhyne College Hickory, NC 28603 1984-1987 Associate Professor of Business Lenoir-Rhyne College Hickory, NC 28603 1983-1984 Assistant Professor of Marketing Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 1974-1983 Assistant Professor of Business Radford University Radford, VA 24142 1980-1981 Acting Department Chair, Department of Business Radford University Radford, VA 24142 CONSULTING EXPERIENCE: Currently conducting Statistical Analysis Training for a health care consulting company. Currently conducting Market Trade Area Assessment for an advertising agency. Currently conducting Marketing Communication Training in the marketing and customer specification staff of a large textile company. Currently conducting Teamwork and Effective Communication training for a Catawba County Agency. Developed and Authored Business Plans for Physicians, Jewelry Retailer, Distribution/Warehouse Company, Children's Clothing Retailer, Solar Technology Company, and Salvage Yards. Presented and Coordinated Teamwork, Ethics, and Communication and Management Training Seminars and Workshops for Fiber Optic Manufacturers, Clothing Retailers, Textile Manufacturers, Trade Associations, Civic Organizations, and Chambers of Commerce PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES: Participant and National Global Committee Member at the Eleventh Annual ACBSP National Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 1999. National Global Committee Member at the SouthEast Regional ACBSP Conference, Jacksonville, FL, October 1998. Co-presented with A. Dale King "Social Responsibility in an Information Technology Age" at the Ethics of Electronic Information in the 21st Century Conference, Memphis, TN, September 1998. Participant and National Global Committee Member at the Tenth Annual ACBSP National Conference, Kansas City, MO, June 1998. National Global Committee Member at the SouthEastRegional ACBSP Conference, Birmingham, AL, October 1997. Participant at the SouthEast Regional ACBSP Conference, Nashville, TN, October 1995. Discussion Coordinator for Marketing Ethics Workshop at the Fourth National Conference on Ethics in America, Long Beach, CA, February 1993. Discussion Coordinator for Marketing Ethics Workshop at the Third National Conference on Ethics in America, Long Beach, CA, February 1992. Co-presented with A. Dale King "Perceptions of ACBSP Members on Business Ethics as a Program Curriculum Requirement," Second Annual National Conference on Ethics in America, Long Beach, CA, January 1991. Co-presented with A. Dale King "Perceptions on Ethical Decision Making: A Comparative Study Between Practicing Business People and Business Majors," National Conference on Ethics in America, Long Beach, CA, January 1990. Wallace C. Koehler teaches library and information science at the University of Oklahoma. He received his Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University (1977) and his M.S. in Information Science from the University of Tennessee (1997). His research and interests include mapping Web page and site behavior and the social science of professional ethics. Charles W. Manning, Chancellor, Tennessee Board of Regents. Charles W. Manning earned his B.A. degree in Chemistry from Western Maryland College and his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Maryland. He has done postdoctoral work in Chemistry at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. After serving in the U. S. Army in the Chemical Corps, Manning served as a Staff Associate at the National Center for Higher Education Management Center (NCHEMS) in Boulder, Colorado from 1971 to 1974. Upon leaving Boulder, Manning accepted the position of Assistant Provost at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Serving in this position from 1974 to 1979, he left on a one-year grant to serve as a consultant with the Vice President for Planning and Finance at the Federal University in Ceara, Brazil. When he returned to the U.S., Manning became Associate Executive Director for Academic Affairs at the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. In 1981, he was given a leave of absence by the Commission to serve as the Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Northern Colorado. As the chief academic officer, Manning was instrumental in regaining the accreditation for programs at risk and overcoming turmoil in the areas of finance and enrollment. Between 1982 and 1988, Manning served as Deputy Executive Director for the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, where he developed the Colorado Statewide Master Plan. In 1988, he became the Executive Vice Chancellor for the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, and served in that position for two years. For the last ten years, Manning has served as Chief Executive Officer of The University System of West Virginia, the flagship system of higher education of the state. As its first Chancellor, Manning increased the resource base significantly over those ten years, selected presidents of each university for the System, and guided the Board to become an effective leadership engine. During his term of office, West Virginia rose to thirteenth among the states in public investment in higher education relative to the per capita income of its citizens. On April 1, 2000, Manning joined the Tennessee Board of Regents as its Chancellor and assumed the leadership position of the sixth-largest system of higher education in the nation, with forty-five campuses, 180,000 students, and a budget of over a billion dollars. Manning is married to Dr. Sherry Manning, and they have three children. Sherry Manning, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of ECCI, the Education Communications Consortia, Inc., and the ECCI-NACUBO Long Distance Consortium, has invested a lifetime of service to education. She has served as president of two colleges, and trustee of several. She has served on the faculties of the University of Colorado and the University of Kansas, and served as a national speaker on entrepreneurship and leadership at Columbia University, Emory University, Carlow College, the University of San Diego, and the Kenan-Flagler School of Business of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published hundreds of papers and two books, Telecommunications and Higher Education: Leadership Perspectives, and Telecommunications and Higher Education: Issues, Opportunities, and Applications. Dr. Manning is active in the community, serving on a number of corporate and community boards, including, most recently, the Board of Trustees of the Fountain Valley School, in Fountain, Colorado. Dr. Manning is married to Dr. Charles Manning, Chancellor of the Tennessee Board of Regents; they have three children. Ma Ziwei is currently Director of the Library at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He is also Vice Chairman of the Library Working Society of Colleges and Universities affiliated with the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and Chairman of the Library Automation Research Society of Colleges and Universities in Beijing. In 1989-90 Professor Ma was a Visiting Scholar at Ohio University and (then) Memphis State University. In 1993 he participated in the Developing Countries Network Training Workshop and Conference in San Francisco. He has taught courses in library automation and networking, database applications, microcomputer principles, digital control systems, digital telephone and transmission, and digital circuit design. His publications include works on the networking of university libraries in the Beijing area, on the use of microcomputers and CD-ROM in the library context, and on public information retrieval and the circulation management system. Ma Ziwei has served as consultant to university libraries throughout China on the topic of automation and library automation. Thomas Nenon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He received a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Universität Freiburg (Germany), where he taught and served as an editor in the Husserl Archives before he returned to Memphis in 1985. He is best known for his book on Kant (Objektivität und endliche Erkenntnis (Alber Verlag 1986)), his two critical editions of Husserl (Huserliana, Vols. XXVI and XXVIII) and his many articles on Kant, Husserl, and Heidegger. He has also published widely on other figures in modern German philosophy such as Dilthey, Weber, Gadamer, and Schutz and more recently on questions of genetic ethics. Thematically his earlier work centered around questions of truth and objectivity and more recently on the ontology of values and the nature of personhood. At the University of Memphis he also served for several years as Managing Editor for The Southern Journal of Philosophy, as Director of the Center for the Humanities and since 1997 as Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. He is also on the Board of Directors for the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology and has served on the Board of Directors of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy and as guest professor at the Europa Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). Prior to her appointment in 1998 to her current position as Director of the Biomedical Library at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Jan T. Orick received her Masters in Library and Information Science in 1989 from Louisiana State University. She has worked in a variety of library settings from Lafayette Public Library, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit Satellite Law Library, to solo medical librarian at Methodist Hospital in Memphis. She came to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital as the Biomedical Librarian in 1995. She is member of the Medical Library Association and a Senior Member of the Association of Health Information Professionals. She is an active member in the Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association, serving as Chair for the Hospital Libraries Committee, serving as a member of the Executive Board, The Program planning committee, and local arrangements committee since 1996. She is currently president of the Mid-South Chapter of the Special Libraries Association and the Training Committee Chair for Tenn-Share. Jan was appointed to the Database Selection Committee for the Tennessee Electronic Library and helped to evaluate and select resources for a statewide initiative. Jan has presented papers at the Tennessee Library Association Annual Meeting 1999, the Southern Association for Clinical Microbiology, Annual Meeting 1999, and her chapter on "Evaluating medical information on the web" for the St. Jude Handbook of Childhood Cancer will be published this year. Lester J. Pourciau was the Director of Libraries at the University of Memphis from 1970 until his retirement on August 20, 1999. He chaired the planning effort which resulted in a new library building, opened in 1994, which accommodates all currently available information technology. Les is currently serving as the Deputy Chair of the International Organizing Committee for CRIMEA 2000 and has participated in the 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999 CRIMEA Conferences. Immediately prior to the 1999 CRIMEA Conference, he was an invited lecturer at the USIS Headquarters in Kiev, at the Kiev National University of Culture and Arts, and at the Lesya Ukrainka Public Library, speaking about Library Organization and Management, Conflict Management in Libraries, and Information Literacy. Following the Conference, he spoke as an invited lecturer at Kharkiv State University in Kharkiv, presenting lectures on Conflict Management in Libraries and on Information Literacy. He has been a five time invited lecturer at various Chinese universities and, in 1996, was named a Consulting Professor to the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He was a member of the International Organizing Committee for a Conference on New Missions of Academic Libraries in the 21st Century, held in Beijing, China in 1998 and he has additionally participated in and given papers at conferences in Australia, Canada, England, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain; and at the 1998 and 1999 BOBCATSSS Conferences in Budapest, Hungary and in Bratislava, Slovakia. In April,1999, he was an invited participant in the 2nd Conference of the Association of Information Professionals in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1988, he was chosen as the Outstanding Alumnus of the School of Library and Information Science at Louisiana State University and, in 1999, was chosen to receive the Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University. He has given papers at two ETHICOMP (Ethical Uses of Computer Technology) conferences and his paper, "Codes of Ethics for Computing at Russian Institutes and Universities," presented at a conference in 1996 in Phoros, Republic of Crimea, Ukraine, has been translated into Russian and published by the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology. He has served as Executive Chair of the Organizing Committee for EEI21, Ethics of Electronic Information in the 21st Century, held on the campus of the University of Memphis since 1997. Debbie Rabina is a Ph.D. Candidate at Rutgers University, School of Communication, Information and Library Studies. Debbie is writing her dissertation on information policy in Israel, examining the appropriateness of democratic models to predict formation of information policies. Prior to her studies, Debbie worked in academic and special libraries in Israel. She is also an adjunct teacher at Queens College, Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Anton J. van Reeken was born in 1938 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He was a Quality Control Statistician at Philips, Eindhoven from 1959-1963, a Scientific Computer Systems Developer at Tilburg University, 1963-1970; Studied econometrics (MBA equivalent, cum laude) at Tilburg University, 1964-1970. Van Reeken was Head of the University Computing Center at Tilburg University, 1970-1985, Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Tilburg University, 1985-1987, and Associate Professor of Information Management at Maastricht University, 1987-2000. He has been retired since September, 2000. Barbara Rockenbach is currently the Instructional Services Librarian in the Arts Library at Yale University. She has her MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh where she was the Information Ethics Fellow. After graduating in 1997 she came to Yale University as the Kress Fellow in Art Librarianship where she completed a paper and annotated bibliography on image ethics. She in an active member in both ARLIS/NA (Art Libraries Society of North America) on the Public Policy Committee and the VRA (Visual Resources Association) on the Intellectual Property Committee. She has several publications in the Journal of Information Ethics, the Journal of Scholarly Publishing, and she served as co-editor for the 6th edition of Esdaile's Manual of Bibliography. Richard S. Rosenberg is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. He has done extensive research in Artificial Intelligence, with a special interest in natural language interfaces to databases and in the social impact of computers with specific interests in privacy, freedom of expression, intellectual property rights, universal access, work and education. Additionally, he is a Vice-President of Electronic Frontier Canada, an organization dedicated to preserving Internet rights and freedoms. Thomas Singarella is professor, director, and academic chair of the Health Sciences Library and Biocommunications Center at the University of Tennessee, Memphis. He is a recognized expert in the field of biomedical communications and information technology, and has authored more than 40 publications and presented numerous papers. He is a past president of both the Health Sciences Communications Association and the Association of Biomedical Communications Directors. He currently serves as president/chair of the Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association. He is also a gourmet cook and his bread making recipes have appeared nationally. Marti Smith is the Executive Director of the International Center for Information Ethics in the United States. The Center, founded by Rafael Capurro (Germany) in response to the United Nations/UNESCO initiative, is an international network to support research, teaching, and policy making. A faculty member at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science of Long Island University, Dr. Smith teaches courses in the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral programs. She has degrees from Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and frequently consults with various non-profit groups on web design and building electronic communities. Mark Teicher, CISSP Senior Security Consultant, has been working in security, networking, and distributed systems for more than 10 years. In that time, he has held contributing positions in the following areas: Customer technical and system support Information security technologies Implementation and design of Internet-based security solutions Product development, evaluation, and planning Steve Teicher led development teams in the design mini-computers, VLSI based computers, workstations, graphics subsystems, and networking tools for more than 30 years. HIs products included several generations of PDP-11's, the VT100 terminal, the MicroVAX VLSI program, and a number of network service tools while a senior manager at Digital Equipment Corporation. Steve was the first manager of Digital's Semiconductor Engineering Group where he assembled the Hudson, Mass, Team as well as starting Digital's efforts in Jerusalem, Israel. After leaving Digital in 1991, Steve was vp of Engineering at Kubota Pacific Computers and later VP of Worldwide Software Products and Tools for Apple Computer. During his time at Apple Steve served as chairman of the board for a joint venture between Apple Computer and the South Software Park in Zhuhai, PRC. Currently Steve is working with several start-up ventures and is also in his second year in an MBA program at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fl. Feili Tu is Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at San José State University. Prior to this, she was Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, The University of Iowa, where she taught courses on health information resources, health sciences librarianship, information organization and retrieval, electronic resources access, and information technology applications. She received her Ph.D. in Library and Information Studies from Texas Woman's University, an M.L.I.S. from Louisiana State University, and a B.A. from Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan. Her area of expertise in both research and teaching is in medical informatics and health sciences librarianship. In addition, she has a strong academic background and experience in information resources retrieval and management, especially client-based information services and computer and information technology applications. Her research in medical informatics, particularly consumer health information issues and the use of the Internet as a health information source, has resulted in an article which will be published by the Public Libraries Quarterly and in a poster presentation at the Partnerships for Health in the New Millennium: Launching Healthy People 2010 conference. She is an active member of the American Library Association (ALA), Medical Library Association (MLA), and American Society for Information Science (ASIS). Currently, Joanna Wall is a graduate student in the SLIS program at the University of Oklahoma. She received her bachelors from Southern Illinois University in 1993 and her J.D. from University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1997. Nancy P. Zimmerman is an Associate Professor in the College of Library and Information Studies at the University of South Carolina where she teaches courses on educational services in libraries, school library media, children's and young adult materials and services, information technology, and information policy. She received her Ph.D. in Library and Information Studies from Texas Woman's University, an M.L.S. from the University of Pittsburgh, an MS in Computer Education and Cognitive Systems from the University of North Texas, and a BA from Carlow College. Her research is in the areas of education for librarianship, innovation diffusion, integration of information technologies into the instructional process, and communication channels of school library media specialists, and her work has been published in the Journal of Reading, Journal of Youth Services, JELIS, School Libraries Worldwide, and Teacher-Librarian. In 1998 she received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and in 1998-99 she served as President of the New York Library Association. She is active in the American Library Association (ALA), serving on ALA Council, and is a past chair of ALA's Library Research Round Table. Currently, she is a member of the Steering Committee of the ALA Second Congress on Professional Education, on the Advisory Board for the Gateway to Electronic Materials (GEM) Project, and on the SLM Committee of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.