Jane Beaumont
Beaumont and Associates Inc.
6770 Jubileee Rd. #2
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 2H8
Phone: (902) 422-8817
Fax: (902) 422-0474
E-mail: jbeaumon@fox.nstn.ns.ca
Dave Binkley is a Librarian/Analyst and rhythm guitar player with Simon Fraser University Library. He previously worked as a reference librarian with California State University Chico and the University of Waterloo. Recent projects include various aspects of the design and development of the SFU webbed workstation, user authentification, and customizing WebSpirs.
Dave has a BA from the U of Toronto, an MLS from UWO and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Waterloo.
Dave Binkley
Librarian/Analyst
W.A.C. Bennett Library
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Phone: (604)291 5753
Fax: (604)291 3023
E-mail: binkley@sfu.ca
Daniel Boivin
Canadian Marketing Representative
Chadwyk-Healey
1384 Colbert St.
Chambly, Quebec J3L 2X5
Phone: (514) 658-6583
Fax: (514) 658-6231
Email: danielb@chadwyk.com
Jane Burke is President and CEO of ENDEAVOR, a two-year old, employee-owned company. She was previously president of Notis Systems, Inc. for 10 years.
Jane has a library degree for Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois.
Jane Burke
President and CEO
Endeavor Information Systems
9700 West Higgins Road, Suite 100
Rosemont, Illinois 60018-4734
Phone: (800) 762-6300
Fax: ((847) 292-2296
E-mail: burke@endinfosys.com
John Campbell has worked as a Senior Programmer / Analyst at the University of British Columbia Library since 1972. He has been chiefly responsible for the initial and ongoing development of the Library's local system known as UBCLIB. He has extensive experience and familiarity with computerized library applications (acquisitions, cataloguing / authority control, circulation, PAC, serials management, etc.) and most of the associated computer related standards (MARC, Z39.50).
Recently John has developed and implemented Z39.50 support on UBCLIB and tested it with similar facilities available on several of the well known integrated library systems available from vendors and a WEB-based interface to the local UBCLIB system. Current projects include the development of a PC-based facility that provides user authentication and network access control for student notebook ports that will be located in several branches of the UBC Library.
John Campbell
Senior Programmer / Analyst
Systems Division
University of British Columbia Library
2206 East Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3
E-mail: john_campbell@library.ubc.ca
Bill Casselman
Professor of Mathematics
University of British Columbia
121-1984 Mathematics Road
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z2
E-mail: cass@math.ubc.ca
As Vice-President of Technology at Dataware Technologies (Canada), Mr. Cheney is responsible for the direction of technical operations of product development and programming. Mr. Cheney's affiliation with Dataware Technologies began with the co-founding of OPTIM in 1987, preceding Dataware's acquisition of OPTIM and Megalith Technologies in 1994. Prior to that, Mr. Cheney had two decades of experience in computer science and information management, predominantly with the Defence Research Board and Statistics Canada. During the course of his extensive career in the IT sector, Mr.Cheney has designed and produced software for numerous public and private sector organisations. He has directed a multitude of technology tests and training modules in addition to developing multimedia CD-ROMs. Among his many professional accomplishments, Mr. Cheney is credited with producing Canada's first CD-ROM XA prototype (searchable talking books for the print impaired) and was the developer of the first numeric database on CD-ROM. He has served as technical advisor to a number of government inter-departmental committees and task forces, as well as advisor to other departments on CD-ROM applications.
Mr.Cheney holds a B.Sc. (Hons.) from Carleton University and an M.Sc. from the University of Toronto.
Brian Cheney
Vice-President, Technology
Dataware Technologies
One Antares Drive, Suite 200
Nepean, ON K2E 8C4
Phone: (613) 225-2300
Fax: (613) 225-2304
E-mail: bcheney@exchange.dataware.com
David Crinall
System Engineer
Sun Microsystems of Canada Inc.
Suite 403, 4567 Canada Way
Burnaby, B.C. V5G 1J9
Phone: (604)268-4465
Fax: (604)291-8322
E-mail: david.crinall@canada.sun.com
Deb deBruijn is Manager of the British Columbia Electronic Library Network (ELN), and one of the Access '96 conference organizers. ELN is a provincially-funded service, with a mandate to provide expanded, equitable and cost-effective access to information for British Columbians, through the innovative application of technology and in partnership with the province's 29 post-secondary libraries. ELN coordinates and delivers a variety of network-based services in B.C., including union databases, consortium licenses to research databases, online document requesting and rapid delivery services, and seed funding for research and development initiatives. Prior to joining ELN in 1994, Deb held several positions with the University of Calgary Libraries, the most recent as Manager of Network and Microcomputer Services. Deb holds a B.A. degree from University of Calgary, and an M.L.S. degree from the University of British Columbia.
Deb deBruijn
Manager, Electronic Library Network
Open Learning Agency
4355 Mathissi Place
Burnaby, BC V5G 4S8
Phone: (604)431-3019
Fax: (604)431-3381
E-mail: debd@ola.bc.ca
Christopher Deephouse is project director for NetBill, the Internet micropayments project at Carnegie Mellon University. He is responsible for working with publishers and financial institutions to link their systems with NetBill, and for overall coordination of NetBill software development. He came to Carnegie Mellon in 1992 to research planning, design and coordination processes in software engineering. In the prior ten years as a consultant, he developed financial and marketing software for major corporations in the New York City area. Mr. Deephouse earned master degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelors degree in engineering from Princeton University.
Chris Deephouse
National Accounts Manager
NetBill
Hamburg Hall A222
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: (412) 268-8272
Fax: (412) 268-7196
E-mail: cdeephouse+@cmu.edu
Peter Deutsch is one of the architects of the Archie information system and an active developer of Internet tools and services. He is President of Bunyip Information Systems Inc of Montreal, a company specializing in new Internet services, and has been on the Internet since 1987, when he helped bring the first link into Eastern Canada. Mr. Deutsch holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from McGill University and thinks that with the Internet he's finally found what he wants to do when he grows up.
Peter Deutsch
President
Bunyip Information Systems Inc.
Phone: (514) 875-8611
Fax: (514) 875-8134
E-mail: peterd@bunyip.com
Tina has been with Blackwells' for the past 12 years. Before that, she was Head of the Serials Division at Princeton University Library, and had been Head of Serials at the Free Library of Philadelphia before that.
She is the Past-Chair of the Serials Industry Systems Advisory Committee (SISAC), and is a Past-President of the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG). In 1994, Tina was awarded the ALA - Bowker Serials Award for her contribution to serials librarianship.
Tina holds a BA in Sociology from Allegheny College, an MA in Librarianship fron the University of Denver, and an MBA from Temple University.
Tina Feick,
Sales-Manager - North America
Blackwell's Periodicals Division
P.O. Box 1257
Blackwood, NJ 08012
Phone: 1-800-458-3707
Fax: (609) 232-5397
E-mail: feick@bnamf.blackwell.com
Matthew has worked as a Software Engineer for University of Washington Computing & Communications since 1990. Most of his time has been spent developing Willow -- the Washington Information Looker-upper Layered Over Windows -- a freely available general purpose bibliographic database search client. Willow has been the primary interface to the UW Libraries Online Catalog and bibliographic database collection since 1992. It is also in use at many other institutions around the world. Willow's user interface has undergone extensive testing and refinement over the last several years. It can be fairly easily configured to work with any standard Z39.50 database, or with some effort, customized to work with other bibliographic databases. Though originally developed for Unix/X Windows, a version of Willow for Microsoft Windows was released this year.
Matthew's current research is focused on exploring the possibilities of using Willow's user interface paradigms with Java technologies, for Web-based search and retrieval.
Matthew Freedman
Software Engineer
University of Washington Computing & Communications
4545 15th NE
Seattle, WA 98105
Phone: (206) 543-5593
E-mail: mattf@cac.washington.edu
Home Page: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~mattf
Kevin has designed and implemented various Z39.50 information systems over the past few years. Those systems include the freely available Isite information system which includes a full text search engine, a Z39.50 server, an interface layer to arbitrary database systems, a World Wide Web interface and more. Turn-key systems include an AIDS patent system and a front-page patent system. He is an active member of the Z39.50 standards body and is a past contributor to the Z39.50 Government Information Locator Service (GILS) Z39.50 profile.
Kevin Gamiel
Research Team Leader
MCNC Information Technologies Divn.
Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval
P.O. Box 12889
3021 Cornwallis Rd.
Research Triangle Park
North Carolina 27709-2889
Phone: (919) 248-1911
Fax: (919) 248-1101
E-mail: Kevin.Gamiel@CNIDR.org
A member of UBC's Senate, and the Coordinating Committee of the Institute of Hearing Accessibility Research, John Gilbert currently chairs the Senate Library Committee and the Task Force to Examine the Administrative Organization of Studies in Human Health at UBC.
John Gilbert received his undergraduate education at the University of London and was awarded a "Fullbright Scholarship" in 1963 for graduate studies at Purdue University where he was also the "David Ross Research Fellow." He received his Ph.D. in Speech Science in 1966.
John has been published widely on phonetic aspects of child language, and his major research interests include articulatory and acoustic phonetics. He currently serves as Chair of the Advisory Committee of the BC Medical Services Foundation.
John H.V. Gilbert
Co-Ordinator of Health Services
P.A. Woodward Instructional Resources Centre
University of British Columbia
2194 Health Sciences Mall,
4th Floor
Vancouver, BC
V6T 1Z3
Phone: (604) 822-5662
E-mail: johnhvg@unixg.ubc.ca
Carl Grant
Vice-President
Data Research Associates
P.O. Box 8495
St. Louis, MO 63132-1806
E-mail: carl@dra.com
Greg is the Vice President for SIRSI's Library Products Division. Based in Huntsville, AL , SIRSI specializes in the development, delivery, and support of library and information management software. Greg's division is responsible for all products and services delivered to libraries. Integrated library systems include: UNICORN, a highly-configurable systems for all sizes of libraries; UnicornSTILAS for scientific and technical libraries; UnicornOASIS for public libraries; and UnicornECOLE for K-12 libraries.
Greg Hathorn
Vice-President
698 Discovery Drive
Huntsville, AL 35806-2801
Phone: (205) 922-9825
Fax: (205) 922-9818
E-mail: greg@admin.sirsi.com
Mike Hrybyk
General Manager, BC NET
6356 Agricultural Road
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
E-mail: michael.hrybyk@ubc.ca
Dana Johnson
Director of Product Development
Ovid Technologies
333 Seventh Ave.
New York, NY 10001
Phone: (212) 563-3006 Ext. 210
Fax: (212) 563-3784
E-mail: danaj@ovid.com
Bruce Jolliffe
Applications Services
UBC Computing & Communications
6356 Agricultural Road
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
E-mail: bruce.jolliffe@ubc.ca
Djun Kim
Department of Mathematics
University of B.C.
121-1984 Mathematics Road
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Phone (604) 822-8779
Fax (604) 822-6074
E-mail: djun@math.ubc.ca
John Kolman
Vice-President Emerging Technologies
Ameritech Library Services
333 North Wacker Drive
Suite 2900
Chicago, Illinois 60606
Kristina Long has worked as a Systems Analyst at Simon Fraser University Library since 1993, primarily on BRS/MNS, VMS/DCL, and Unix/C++, Perl programming. She has a BSc (COOP) from SFU,1993. Her co-op work included student/programming experience with Simon Fraser University, TransCanada Pipelines, and IBM.
Kristina Long
Systems Analyst
W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC
V5A 1S6
Phone: (604)291-3037
Fax: (604)291-3023
E-mail: klong@sfu.ca
Tyson Macaulay
Consultant
Canadian Cybercasting Co.
929-Suite A River Road
Ottawa, ON K1K 3V2
Phone: (613) 744-2243
Fax: (613) 230-6956
E-mail: tyson@homer.ic.gc.ca
Alan MacDonald
Director of Information Services
University of Calgary
Room A100, 2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB T2N 1N4
Phone: (403) 220-5956
Fax: (403) 289-6800
E-mail: ahmacdon@ucdasvm1.admin.ucalgary.ca
Slavko Manojlovich (Session 2)
Slavko has been working with computers for the past 20 years as a reference librarian, data archivist and systems librarian. He is co-convenor of the Canadian Library Association's Emerging Technology Interest Group. One of his current research interests includes analysing the ongoing problem of slow response time. In 1979, Slavko ran computer jobs by hauling 10,000 punched cards 3 miles to the computer centre and waiting a day for the output. Today, he spends a lot of time staring at blank computer screens waiting for web pages to appear.
Phone: (709)737-7470
Fax: (709)737-2153
E-mail: slavko@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
Rob McKinney
Director of Business Development
Network Solutions
SilverPlatter Information, Inc.
100 River Ridge Drive
Norwood, MA 02062-5043
Phone: (617) 769-2599
Fax: (617) 769-8763
E-mail: robm@silverplatter.com
Sharon Neary has been Data Librarian for the University of Calgary since 1992. During this time she has coordinated the development of the Academic Data Centre, a joint program of the Library and University Computing Services. The focus of the Academic Data Centre has been the creation of a data collection and service equally productive for the teaching and research activities of the University. With this goal, she has been the recipient of several Teaching Development awards which have allowed the creation of an innovative Web interface for the University's microdata collection. The LANDRU system greatly simplifies collection access and data extraction making it both a popular and practical tool for the design of class assignments based on data analysis. Sharon will be discussing the design of the LANDRU interface, and demonstrating its use.
Sharon is a member of the Canadian Association of Public Data Users and is currently participating as a CAPDU representative in a national lobbying effort to negotiate more equitable access to spatial and environmental data for academic use.
Sharon Neary
Data Librarian
University of Calgary
2500 University Dr. NW
Calgary, AB T2N 1N4
E-mail: neary@acs.ucalgary.ca
Terry Noreault (Keynote Speaker)
In April 1994, Dr. Noreault was appointed director of research and special projects division, which consists of the office of research, the electronic publishing solution section, and the distributed systems section. He guides a staff of approximately 50 in the pursuit of research and advanced product development which supports OCLC's mission of improving access to information. This includes research in automated tools to enhance database quality and publishing and information discovery in a networked environment. Current work in the division is focused on automatic authority correction for cataloging records, use of subject classifications for improving access to information, MetaData for the electronic environment, display and navigation of scholarly documents, and Internet standards (Z39.50, HTTP, HTML, and URI).
The electronic publishing solution section is doing advanced product development in an integrated tool to the management and production of scholarly journals. This repository system is currently being installed at the Association of Computing Machinery to assist in the capture, conversion to SGML, tracking, editing, and composition of author submitted materials for ACM's journals. The distributed systems section is responsible for the SiteSearch system which includes Newton (full text searching system), a Z39.50 interface, Image Station (an image database builder), and WebZ, a Web gateway.
Prior to his appointment to the office of research, Dr. Noreault was director for reference service development and was responsible for the development and support of: EPIC, FirstSearch, and Electronic Journals Online. Prior to that he was the database department manager for the development of the Prism system. He held faculty positions in the School of Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh and in computer science at Colgate University.
Dr. Noreault has a Ph.D. from Syracuse University in Information Transfer and a BA in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Oswego.
OCLC Inc.
6565 Frantz Rd.
Dublin OH 43017
Phone: (614) 764-4392
Fax: (614) 764-2344
E-mail: noreault@oclc.org
Doug Poff has been the Head of Information Technology Services at the University of Alberta Library since 1989, and is a member of Planning Directorate of the University's Learning Support Systems responsible for the development of an integrated technology plan for the University.
He was involved in the planning of the Library's NEOS consortium and Health Knowledge Network initiatives, and in electronic access projects including consortium licensing of databases, and the Relais project to develop a digital document management and delivery system for interlibrary loans and reserve reading room applications.
He is a graduate of the University of Toronto, and has been with the University of Alberta Library since 1979.
Doug Poff
Information Technology Services
University of Alberta Library
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2J8
Phone: (403) 492-4770
Fax: (403) 492-9243
E-mail: doug.poff@ualberta.ca
John Price-Wilkin (Session 11)
John Price-Wilkin serves as the Head of Digital Library Production Services at the University of Michigan. The DLPS is a federated organization of the University's Library, its technology division (ITD), and the Media Union. One of the units within the DLPS is the University of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative, an organization responsible for SGML document creation and online systems. Price-Wilkin earned graduate degrees in English from the University of Virginia ('80) and Library Science from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville ('86). In 1988 he assumed responsibility for the University of Michigan's English and American language and literature collection development, as well as library research support for English faculty and graduate students. Soon after, he implemented a campus-wide service for the analysis of electronic text and encoding text in SGML. In 1992, he began work at the University of Virginia as the Systems Librarian for Information Services, where (among other responsibilities) he authored the Library's plan for establishing a group of electronic centers, provided technical support for those centers, and consulted for the University's Insitute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities in textual issues.
John Price-Wilkin
Head, Digital Library Production Service
302 Hatcher North
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205
Phone: (313) 764-8074
Fax: (313) 763-5080
E-mail: jpwilkin@umich.edu
Bill St. Arnaud is Director of Network Projects at CANARIE Inc., an industry government consortium to promote and develop information highway technologies in Canada. At CANARIE Bill has been responsible for the coordination and implementation of the world's largest ATM test network connecting network initiatives in most of the major provinces in Canada.
Prior to joining CANARIE Bill was the President and founder of a network and software engineering firm called TSA ProForma Inc. TSA developed wide area network client/server systems for use primarliy in the financial and information business fields in the Far East and the United States. In 1989, TSA was sold to ABC Communications in Hong Kong.
Bill holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree from Carleton University and is a member of the Internet Society, the CANARIE ONPS committee, Industry Advisor to ITU National Study Group 8, ATM Forum, and the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario. He also holds 2 patents in audio/video encryption set top boxes for PAY-TV systems.
In his spare time, Bill and his wife Janice are building a log cabin at Bob's Lake about an hour's drive from Ottawa.
Bill St. Arnaud
CANARIE
410 Laurier Ave. West, Suite 470
Ottawa, ON K1P 6H5
E-mail: bill.st.arnaud@canarie.ca
Marc Salomon (Session 13)
Marc Salomon (B.A. Political Science/Latin American Studies, Univ. of Texas-Austin, 1989) gropes towards a new epistemology from the voracious heart of the information food web as a software engineer at the UCSF (A graduate health sciences campus) Library and Center for Knowledge Management. Recent projects include designing and implementing parts of MedSage, a World Wide Web interface to the Melvyl(R) Medline(R) medical journal article database, the RedSage electronic journal project. His talk at Access '96 focusses on his participation as WWW guru in the Melvyl Web Interface Design Team.
Professional interests include slicing through the hype surrounding the WWW and society, keeping a sober perspective of how existing and emerging technologies interrelate, ensuring that the web stays a place of free and open standards in spite of stratagies driven by nearsighted corporate greed, leveraging the library experience with digital metadata to enhance the usability of the WWW for high-value-added intellectual content, fighting for public space in an increasingly privatized world, and trying to figure out just what it was that I did that I can make a living doing work like this in this time of incredible change.
Mark Salomon
Software Engineer
University of California - San Francisco
Library & Center for Knowledge Management
530 Parnassus Avenue - Box 0840
San Francisco, CA 94143-0840 USA
Phone: (415) 476-9541
Fax: (415) 476-4653
E-mail: marc@ckm.ucsf.edu
Corey Scholefield (Session 13)
Corey Scholefield has been a Systems Programmer with the UVic Libraries since graduating from UVic with a B.Sc in Computer Science in 1995. Corey has been involved with the technical implementation and maintenance of the Libraries' Gateway system.
The Gateway is a public access system based on Unix/X-Windows that provides a Web browser interface to library patrons via a network of almost 50 X-terminals in the main campus library.
Corey's past experience includes work semesters at Bell-Northern Research (Ottawa) and Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (Waimea, HI).
Corey Scholefield
Systems Programmer
University of Victoria Libraries
P.O. Box 1899
Victoria, BC V8W 3H5
Phone: (604)721-8266
Fax: (604)721-8215
E-mail: coreys@uvic.ca
Peter Scott is Manager of Small Systems at the University of Saskatchewan Libraries in Saskatoon. He created the HYTELNET utility in 1990, which lists online library catalogues accessible via telnet. He has also created many web indexes i.e. Freenets Home Page , Publishers' Catalogues Home Page , and "webCATS": Library Catalogues on the World Wide Web , which he will be presenting at the conference.
He is a frequent speaker at Internet-related conferences; a blues musician; poet; and Juno award winner.
Peter Scott
Manager, Small Systems
University of Saskatchewan Libraries
3 Campus Drive
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Canada, S7N 5A4
Phone: (306)966-5920
Fax: (306)966-6040
Home Page: http://www.usask.ca/~scottp/
E-mail: scottp@moondog.usask.ca
Steve Silberstein
Vice-President Development
Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
5850 Shellmound
Emeryville, CA 94608
E-mail: steve@iii.com
Michael Williamson (Session 12)
Michael Williamson has worked in public libraries in Ontario and British Columbia before moving to Ottawa in 1983 to work at the National Library of Canada. With experience in library administration and management as well as service areas such as reference, collections management and systems, he has been working exclusively with information networks and policy for the past three years with emphasis on access and service issues. He has participated in the work of the Coalition for Public Information and the Alliance for a Connected Canada and has published articles in various library-related journals on subjects as diverse as collections management, reference and access to electronic information.
Michael Williamson
Newtork Specialist
Information Technology Services
National Library of Canada
395 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada, K1A 0N4
Phone: (819)994-6997
Fax: (819)994-6835
E-mail: michael.williamson@nlc-bnc.ca