International
Predecessors of Scientific Indexing Structures in the Domain of
Religion. Slide-lecture presented at the Second Conference on the
History and Heritage of Scientific and Technical Information
Systems, Nov. 17, 2002. 26-page presentation text; 63
transparencies. Abstract published on the World Wide Web and in
hard copy. Draft paper submitted for review, June 2002; revised for
publication in the conference proceedings; submitted Jan. 13, 2003.
(Refereed abstract and paper.)
Researching the Earliest Hebrew Indexes in European Libraries:
The Importance of Accurate Cataloging, Codicological Analysis, and
Cooperation Among Libraries. Slide-lecture presented at the 7th
Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies, July 25,
2002, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (Refereed abstract.) 21-page
presentation text; 62 transparencies.
Variant Record Structures in the Cataloging of Judaica Non-Book
Materials: Implications for the Primacy of MARC. Slide-lecture
presented at the Convention of the Association of Jewish Libraries,
June 24, 2002, Denver, Colorado. (By invitation.) 54
transparencies. Four-page handout: Annotated Bibliography. The
abstract was published in the Program Book, and the edited paper
was published in the Electronic Proceedings.
Who In Who Invented the Index? An Agenda for Research on the
Information Access Features of Latin and Hebrew Manuscripts.
Slide-lecture presented at the Conference of the International
Federation of Library Associations, August 17, 2001, Jerusalem,
Israel. 52 transparencies; 13-page presentation text.
(Refereed.)
"Cross References in Indexes." Seminar, presented with Enid L.
Zafran Annual Meeting of the American Society of Indexers and the
Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada. June 9, 1995,
Montreal.
"Compromises in Cataloging and Classification: When Special
Judaica Libraries Join the General Library World." Joint session of
the Association of Jewish Libraries and the American Library
Association. (International.) June 22, 1995, Chicago, IL.
"Non-Roman Scripts in the Library of the Future." Brandeis
University. March 11, 1996, Waltham, MA.
United Nations Indexing Workshops. Two-day seminar,
Documentation Center of the U.N., New York, Sept. 9 and Sept. 16,
1996.
National
Thesaurus Design for Semantic Information Management. Professional
Development Seminar, sponsored by St. John’s University.
April 16, 2002. The Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Full-day seminar. Packet of handouts includes outline (4 pages),
bibliography (11 pages), and illustrations (52 pages). These
packets are sold by the Division of Library and Information
Science.
Thesaurus Design for Semantic Information Management.
Professional Development Seminar, sponsored by the Southern Ohio
Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and
LexisNexis. (National attendance.) May 21, 2002. Dayton, Ohio.
Full-day seminar. The abstract was disseminated electronically. The
handouts from my St. John’s seminar were modified, duplicated, and
enclosed in a three-ring binder. (By invitation.) –I gave the same
seminar for the Special Libraries Association, June 8, 2003.
Contemporary Index Structures and Formats: Far Older Than You
May Think. One-hour slide-lecture presented at the 3rd Annual
Conference of the New York Chapter of the American Society of
Indexers, June 14, 2002, The Williams Club, New York. (By
invitation.) 73 transparencies
Pinpointing the Topic: Analysis of Entries in Book Indexes.
Three-hour workshop presented at the conference of the American
Society of Indexers. June 1, 2001. Boston, MA. 51
transparencies. (By invitation.)
Hines Award Presentation to Linda Fetters. Speech delivered at
the conference of the American Society of Indexers, June 3, 2001.
Boston, MA. 6-page presentation text. (By invitation.)
Acceptance of the Reference Book Award of the Association of
Jewish Libraries for Shimeon Brisman. Speech presented at the
Conference of the Association of Jewish Libraries. June 26,
2001. San Diego, CA. 7 pages. (By invitation.)
Metadata: An Introduction for Judaica Librarians. Slide-lecture
presented at the Convention of the Association of Jewish Libraries.
(International attendance.) June 20, 2000. Washington, D.C.
29 transparencies; 13-page presentation text; 8-page handout. (By
invitation.)
"Thesaurus Design." Two-day workshop presented at the Getty
Institute, Los Angeles, CA, May 27-28, 1998. (By invitation.)
Psychological Abstracts. PsycInfo Advisory Committee. Thesaurus
Subcommittee Meeting. October 31, 1996, Washington D.C. (National.)
Formal presentation of responses to queries by the thesaurus
editor; slide-lecture analyzing the PsycInfo thesaurus in print and
online. (By invitation.)
Regional
Presentation on classification for the staff of Grolier
Online, publishers of electronic encyclopedias, St. John’s
University, Dec. 4, 2002. (By invitation.)
Cumulative index to Judaica Librarianship. Presentation at the
Faculty Authors Book Reception, St. John’s University, April 3,
2001.
"Searching Full Text." Two-hour workshop presented at
SUNY/Westchester. January 15, 1998. Valhalla, New York. (By
invitation.)
"Metadata and Subject Retrieval." One-hour lecture Dec. 1, 1998,
St. John's University. (By invitation.)
"Introduction to Indexes." Presentation to the 7th and 8th
grades, Beth-Jacob Beth-Miriam School, Bronx, New York, Oct. 18,
1996. (By invitation.)