Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, February 9, 1991 TAG: 9102090116
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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Cochrane will help set the agenda for library and information issues for the decade. She is one of three librarians to be receive the honor.
A play written by GEORGE BLUME, "What Might Be Called the Bill of Rights," has been published by the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution.
Blume is a sociology professor and an extension specialist at Virginia Tech.
\ THOMAS DUNLAP, a member of the Department of History at Tech, has been appointed to a blue-ribbon commission on the administration of the National Wildlife Refuge system.
The commission was formed to undertake a two-year review of United States' 450 wildlife refuges and what the system can do to preserve wildlife in America.
\ VICKI KOK, coordinator of Virginia Tech's branch libraries, has been named chairwoman-elect of the veterinary medical library section of the Medical Library Association.
\ THE PUBLIC RELATIONS STUDENT SOCIETY OF AMERICA chapter, which is sponsored by the Department of Communication Studies, has been selected in a national competition to help conduct a new-product launch for Schick.
Students in the society proposed a three-month campaign that is in progress on campus and which will run through March.
\ WARREN STUTZMAN, a Virginia Tech professor of electrical engineering, has beem elected by international ballot to the post vice president of the Antennas and Propagation Society.
The society is part of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the largest professional engineering organization in the world.
\ ROBERT MORRILL of the Virginia Tech Department of Geography, has been working with administrators of Arlington County Public Schools to develop a geography course for the school system's middle-school curriculum. The course is titled "Geography and the World Today."
A book by TIMOTHY LUKE of Virginia Tech's Department of Political Science, "Social Theory and Modernity," has been published by Sage Publications.
Luke's book "Screens of Power: Ideology, Domination and Resistance in Informational Society," recently has been issued in paperback.
A book co-authored by\ JOSEPH BALL of the mathematics department, entitled "Interpolation of Rational Matrix Functions," has been published by Birkhauser.
Ball was also named to the editorial staff of the new Journal of Mathematical Systems, Estimation and Control.
An essay by BONHAM RICHARDSON of the geography department entitled "The Migration Experience," will be published as a chapter in Volume V of the UNESCO-sponsored "General History of the Caribbean."
\ JOHN CAIRNS JR., a university distinguished professor of biology, edited "Integrated Environmental Management" with Todd Crawford of Westinghouse Savannah River Co. The book was published by Lewis Publishers Inc.
\ PAUL METZ, principal bibliographer in University Libraries, wrote a chapter entitled "Bibliometrics: Library Use and Citation Studies" in "Academic Libraries: Research Perspectives," published by the American Library Association.
\ DONALD J. KENNEY, head of the reference department in University Libraries, and GAIL MCMILLAN, online maintenance team leader in the cataloging department, wrote "Librarians in Academic Limbo: Support for Scholarship," which was published in Southeastern Librarian.
Kenney and McMillan, along with JOHN COSGRIFF, who is head of the information center, wrote "Support for Publishing at Academic Libraries," which appears in a Journal of Academic Librarianship volume.
An article by CHARLES LITCHFIELD, VTLS database administrator in University Libraries, entitled "Vendor Training: A Question of Commitment to User Success," was published in a volume of the Journal of Library Administration.
\ ROGER STELK, a reference librarian, co-authored an article on the use of textbooks that was published in a volume of Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory.
"Videodiscs and Surrogate Travel: The Map-Environment Interface," by WILLIAM CARSTENSEN of the geography department, has been published in Cartographica.
by CNB