From Hand Printer to Ecological Informatician Dr John

From Hand Printer to Ecological Informatician Dr. John V. Richardson Jr. UCLA Professor of Information Studies 4 th Kaser Lecture, Lilly Library, 2009

Captain George Vancouver “In most things, to understand the present and anticipate the future, it is important to know something of the past, and so it is with [our own field]”

Something of the Past Sociology at Ohio State University Relevance Criminology by Simon Dinitz (distinguished teaching) Sociological Theory by Laurel Richardson (no relation) Librarianship at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College Practical Wiley J. Williams (interned at JUL’s Documents Dept. ) Frances Cheney (my reference instructor)

Dick Whittington & His Cat, 1974

Doing Something Interesting Going on for the Doctorate: University of Kentucky: Documents and ILL Taught LIS 636 “Government Publications” SLIS faculty: Ellen Altman (Rutgers; moved to IU) Mike Harris (IU) Tom Waldhart (IU) Wayne Cutler (History at UTA)

Three Poems of Passion, 1975

IU Years, 1975 -1978 SLIS faculty (*indicates committee members): Altman* Bennett Fry Kaser* Pratt Shepherd Whitbeck*

UCLA: Change over Time The Period, 1978 -1988 (great time) The Period, 1988 -1998 (not so great) The Period, 1998 -2008 (better time)

The Period 1978 -1988 Just Show Me Your Publications Municipal Government Reference Sources (1978) Calligraphy (1981) and Dozens of book reviews

Spirit of Inquiry, 1982

The Period, 1988 -1998 National, if not international reputation Refereed Journal Articles

Gospel of Scholarship, 1992

Knowledge-Based Systems for General Reference Work, 1995

The Library Quarterly, 1994 -2003

The Period, 1998 -2008 The Entrepreneurial Professoriate Need for extra-mural grants Research Centers Rise of the i-School movement

Understanding Reference Transactions, 2002

Library and Information Terminology, 2005

Anticipating the Future Intersection of three concentric circles 1) Information resources (bibliography) 2) Information technology (internet/WWW) 3) Information processes (cataloging & classification) Information Ecology

OCLC, 1996

How I Discovered the Lost Ship of the Colorado Desert

Multidisciplinary Approach This topic intersects: anthropology, archeology, astronomy, biography and history, folklore, geography, geology, and linguistics

Information Ecology Undergraduate Course at UCLA 180 entitled “Information Ecology” Ph. D Seminar proposed for 2009/2010 academic year

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