Professional Activities > Advisory Boards & Panels

Current Service:

November, 2005 -

Thomson Scientific Strategic Advisory Board for Academic and Government markets

November, 2004 -

Member, Oxford E-Science Executive Committee. University of Oxford. [link]

October, 2003 - September, 2007

Member, US-UK Oversight panel for Digital Libraries in the Classroom Programme, funded by the (U.S.) National Science Foundation and the (U.K.) Joint Information Systems Commission.

May, 1994 -

Member, Advisory Board, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Washington, D.C.

Completed Service:

April, 2001 - December, 2004

Member, Study Committee on Internet Navigation and the Domain Name System: Technical Alternatives and Policy Implications, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Academy of Science.

April, 1999 - April, 2004

Member, Award committee, Zipf fellowship, Council on Library and Information Resources (annual competition).

March, 2001 - February, 2003

Member, Advisory Committee, Collection Management Strategies in a Digital Environment Grant ($700,000) to the University of California Office of the President, Systemwide Library Planning, from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Gary S. Lawrence, PI.

September, 2001 - October, 2001

International reviewer, U.K. Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).

April, 1998 - December, 2001

Member, Advisory Council, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), National Science Foundation.

May ,1998 - October, 2000

Member, Board of Directors, Council on Library and Information Resources, Washington, D.C.

January, 1995 - December, 1997

Member, Advisory Board, Internet Program, Open Society Institute, Soros Foundations, Budapest, Hungary and New York.

August, 1994 - December, 1997

Member, International Advisory Board, Regional Library Program, Open Society Institute, Soros Foundations, Budapest, Hungary and New York.

September, 1992 - September, 1995

Member, Review Panel for Library and Information Science, Fulbright Program, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Washington, D.C.

May ,1992 - May, 1998

Member, Board of Directors, Council on Library Resources, Washington, D.C. (merged with Commission on Preservation and Access in 1998 to form the Council on Library and Information Resources).

October ,1986 - September ,1988

Member, Technical Advisory Committee, Division of Information, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation.

October, 1985 - September ,1986

Member, Technical Advisory Committee, Program on Information Technology, Division of Information Science and Technology, National Science Foundation.

November, 1996

Member, Advisory Panel, Resource discovery scouts for science teachers. SRI International, Center for Technology in Learning.

May, 1996

Site Visitor, Digital Libraries Initiative, National Science Foundation, Advanced Research Projects Administration, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

June, 1995

Member, Committee of Visitors, Information Technology and Organizations Program, Division of Information, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems, Directorate for Computing, Information Science, and Engineering, National Science Foundation.

March, 1995

Site Visitor, Research Infrastructure Program, Office of Cross-Disciplinary Activities, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation.

March, 1988

Member, External Review Panel, Rutgers University, School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies PhD Program (2- day site visit).

November, 1987 - December, 1989

Advisory Panel, "Evaluation of Interactive Library Catalogues." Project conducted by The Centre for Research on Information Seeking and the Human-Computer Interface, Information Science Department, City University, London; funded by the British Library. Micheline Hancock, Nathalie Mitev, Stephen Robertson, Investigators.

1990

External examiner for graduate theses:

University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
Nanyang University, Singapore
University of Canberra, Australia

1986 - 1990

Member, External Advisory Council, Kellogg Project, Resources for Educators of Adults, Syracuse University.