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Richardson, John Vinson was born on December 27, 1949 in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Son of John Vinson Senior and Hope Irene (Smith) Richardson.
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Pierce Butler is considered one of library science's greatest intellects. His ideological conflicts with Douglas Waples, social scientist par excellence, became legandary in the 1940s. A humanist himself, Butler initially supported the introduction of social science methods in his seminal Introduction to Library Science (1933), which is reprinted in this volume. Yet he recanted this position late in life, and his critique of American librarianship was that it was becoming scientistic. He argued for something more―a deeper, more spiritual librarianship. In this biography, Richardson provides a well-documented narrative of Butler's life, with appendixes including a complete list of Butler's publications, course offerings, graduate students, and selected sermons.
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The goal of this book is to improve reference service in libraries and information centers, by improving the accuracy of answering capabilities. The authors provide a detailed analysis of the question-answering process and methods of evaluating the completeness, usefulness, user satisfaction, and accuracy of the information provided. This is an important contribution to library studies, and it will be a useful textbook for teaching references courses in library schools. Powerful research models help explain what is happening in the reference transaction. It encompasses a comprehensive review of the research literature. It offers a unique systems analysis of the reference transaction and includes a detailed appendix of the concepts, operational definitions, and research variables used to measure outcomes as well as statistical results from all known prior studies.
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By focusing on knowledge-based systems technology, the primary purpose and goal of this book is to improve the quality of reference service rendered in libraries. Within reference service, this book examines question-answering, a complex and difficult task. For those interested in the theoretical aspects of reference work, they have to look no further than the first chapter. In addition, the book features theoretical chapters on modelling the reference transaction, a chapter on the logic of ready reference work, and a chapter on the appropriate criteria to apply in selecting an expert system shell. Several practical chapters focus on what KBS work has already been done in the field and evaluate nearly fifty expert system development shells, so that readers can select the most appropriate shell for their domain. The subtitle of the book is applications, problems, and progress in regard to expert systems in reference work. Applications are covered most clearly in chapter 8 which reviews the more than extant prototypes. Chapter 3 covers what is feasible, chapter 4 models the reference transaction, and chapter 7 covers interface issues so that future applications can be more successful. Problems are covered throughout the book, starting with chapter 1 which discusses the traditional emphasis on reference sources. It argues that the field needs to shift toward procedural knowledge related to work in reference departments. The chapter on expert system feasibility reveals that there are alternative ways of conceptualizing the intellectual work of an expert, and, of course, chapter 9 directly points out limitations in extant systems. Encouraging words occur in chapter 1 about the shift to a balanced or complete paradigm for doing reference work. Similarly, the chapter on modelling is optimistic, in that reference work can be modelled and systems implemented which act like human experts. The final chapter tries to avoid the technological optimism inherent in many books on expert systems by identifying the near-term factors which will influence the development of expert systems. Key Features * Historical background presenting the field's paradigmatic thinking * Decision trees for basic formats of reference material * Flowchart modelling the reference transaction * Reviews of more than fifty extant KBS in general reference environments * Evaluative criteria on more than forty expert system shells
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Richardson, John Vinson was born on December 27, 1949 in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Son of John Vinson Senior and Hope Irene (Smith) Richardson.
Bachelor, Ohio State University, 1971; Master of Library Science, Vanderbilt University, 1972; Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana U., 1978.
Assistant professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1978-1983;
associate professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1983-1998;
editor The Library. Quarterly, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1994;
professor, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1998. Faculty coordinator University of California at Los Angeles-St. Petersburg State Academy of Culture Exch.
Program, since 1996; fellow advanced research Institute University of Illinois, 1991. President Information Transfer, Inglewood, California, since 1988. Member editorial board Reformed Superior vena cava syndrome Review, AnnArbor, Michigan, since 1991, Journal Government Information, Oxford, England, since 1975, Index to Current Urban Documents, Westport, Connecticut, since 1987, University of California Press Catalogues and Bibliographies series, 1993-1997.
Visiting fellow Charles Stuart U. NSW Australia, 1990. Visiting scholar ALISE Russia Project, St. Petersburg and Moscow, 1996. Visiting distinguished scholar Online Computer Library Center Inc., Dublin, Ohio, 1996-1997.
Chairman California Pacific Annual Conference Committee on Archives and History, 1992-1996. Henderson lecturer U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1997.
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(Pierce Butler is considered one of library science's grea...)
Member University of California at Los Angeles Graduate Council, 1992-1996, chair, 1995-1996. Member University of California systemwide coordinator commission on graduate affairs, 1993-1996. President Wesley Foundation, Los Angeles, 1981-1987.
Lay delegate Cal-Pac Conference United Methodist Church, 1985, 86, 92-96, chair conference commission on archives and history, 1992-1996. Member American Library Association (Justin Winsor prize 1990, Reformed and Adult Superior vena cava syndrome division Outstanding Paper award 1992), American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association Library. and Information Science Educators (research paper prize 1986, 91, research grants 1984, 87, 98), American Society forInfo. Science (Best Information Science book 1995), American Association Advisory Slavic Studies, Sigma Xi.
Married Nancy Lee Brown, August 22, 1971.