Introduction to Contributing Editors

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(2001), "Introduction to Contributing Editors", Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 18 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/lhtn.2001.23918daa.001

Introduction to Contributing Editors

Emma Pearse has worked as a writer and researcher for academic journals and textbooks for several years. After passing the vocational Bar exams at Gray's Inn she became the editor of a financial journal, Financial Regulatory Briefing and then worked in editorial on legal textbooks for Butterworths. She regularly works on reference titles for Helicon publishing and has also written for Online Information Review and The Electronic Library as well as Library Hi Tech News.

Howard Falk is a free-lance writer who reports and comments on library-related computer-based technology. He is a former Managing Editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and Editor of Small Business Computers Magazine, and is the author of seven books on computer technology, including Personal Computers for Libraries (Learned Information, 1985), a book that introduced the benefits of PCs to many early library adopters. For the past three years, he has been examining and reporting on electronic book developments.

Gerry McKiernan currently serves as a Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer at Iowa State University (ISU) with specialization in Computer Science and selected fields of Engineering. Prior to assuming his present position, Gerry served as the Coordinator of the Science and Technology Section of the ISU Reference and Instructional Services Department at Iowa State and as an Information Services Librarian and Reference Librarian with specialization in the life and physical sciences.

Before joining ISU in April 1987, Gerry served as the Museum Librarian of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and was an Assistant Librarian with the Library of the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York, his home town.

Gerry was recently named a member of the editorial board of Science and Technology Libraries. He has been the contributing editor for the "News from the Field" column for the Journal of Internet Cataloging since 1997. He is the Curator of CyberStacks(sm), a virtual science and technology reference collection, http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/ and compiler of several Web registries and clearinghouses on emerging and innovative digital technologies and applications.

Dr Les Pourciau was appointed Director of Libraries at the University of Memphis on 15 August 1970. He retired on 19 August 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 the Crimea Conferences and has participated in each of the Crimea Conferences since 1995. 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 Kharkov State University in Kharkov, presenting lectures on Conflict Management in Libraries and on Information Literacy.

He has been a five-times 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 Conferenceon New Missions of Academic Libraries in the Twenty-first Century, held in Beijing, China in 1998 and he has additionally participated in and given papers at conferences in Australia, Canada, the UK, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa and Spain; and at the 1998 and 1999 BOBCATSSS Conferences in Budapest, Hungary and in Bratislava, Slovakia. In April 1999, he was an invited participant at the 2nd Conference of the Association of Information Professionals in Tbilisi, Georgia, and at the 1st Conference, Library and Information Resources in Science, Education, Culture, and Business, held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, in October 1999. He is also the Editor of Ethics and Electronic Information in the Twenty-first Century (Purdue University Press, 1999). This volume contains the papers presented at the 1997 Symposium, "Ethics of Electronic Information in the Twenty-first Century", which he initiated then at the University of Memphis as an annual event.

In 1988, he was chosen as the Outstanding Alumnus of the School of Library and Information Science at Louisiana State University and, in 1999, he was chosen to receive the Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University. He received the Administrative Staff Award from the University of Memphis in 1982 and, in 1989, the University Career Women presented him with the "Boss of the Year" award. Also, in 1989, the Memphis Library Council named him "Librarian of the Year."

Upon his retirement, he was presented with the University's Allen J. Hammond Memorial Award for Distinguished Service. Further, in 1999, his name was added to the 30th Anniversary Honor Roll of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom and the Freedom to Read Foundation. In June 2000, he was awarded an honored diploma and the title, "Man of the World," by the International Organizing Committee of the Crimea Conferences. His biographical listings appear in Who's Who in the South and Southwest, Who's Who in the World (1993), Who's Who in American Education (1991), and Who's Who in America (since 1975).

Stuart Hannabuss writes and lectures on information/knowledge, law and ethics, heritage and literature, management and financial topics. He is a Chartered Secretary, Chartered Marketer, and Chartered Librarian. Educated at the Universities of Oxford and London, Aberdeen and Heriot-Watt, he holds qualifications and research degrees in literature, information studies, education, and management, and a Doctorate in organizational culture. He is Internet Editor for Library Management, on the editorial board of The New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship, and contributes articles, papers, and reviews regularly to a range of professional and academic journals. He obtained professional library experience at the Bodleian Library, Oxford and in school and public library work in London, and is a Fellow of the (UK) Library Association, a member of the abstracting team for the Anbar International Management Database and an experienced indexer of academic monographs. He has written short stories for BBC Radio and writes for a variety of (e)newsletters like The Side Salad. He is currently at work on a book on liability and contributes widely to MCB publications.