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Avalara Inks 60 New OEM Partnerships in 2012
- Avalara News
- Jan 27, 2013 | Brian Austin
New integrated solutions across ERP, POS, Ecommerce, Mcommerce, and CRM channels expand Avalara's market reach and give value-added reseller partners access to new selling opportunities
Bainbridge Island, WA – January 28, 2013 – Avalara (www.avalara.com), the market leading provider of sales tax and compliance automation solutions in the cloud, today announced it added 60 Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) partners in 2012, bringing its total count to nearly 220 at the start of 2013. Avalara's OEM partners are software publishers that integrate AvaTax, Avalara's trailblazing software as a service offering, directly into their own applications.
Today, AvaTax seamlessly integrates into a broad array of accounting and business software programs that span all computer operating systems, allowing end users to receive fast, accurate sales tax calculations with just the click of a button.
In addition, these integrations create new selling opportunities for Avalara's rapidly-expanding Channel Partner program, which represents one of the strongest value-added reseller channels in the small to medium-sized business (SMB) marketplace. Channel partners are attracted to the financial incentives, sales tools, marketing resources, training, and sales and technical support offered by Avalara's program, which is ideal for organizations that resell financial, ecommerce, mobile commerce, point-of-sale (POS) or other technology solutions.
"Avalara pioneered the service-based platform for tax automation nearly a decade ago and emerged as the dominant player in this market by leading the automation effort for ERP, ecommerce, POS, CRM and mobility applications for businesses," said Pascal Van Dooren, EVP Sales & Marketing at Avalara. "Avalara was also one of the first SaaS solution providers to help value-added resellers successfully transform their business model around the recurring revenue software subscription model. Today's announcement underscores Avalara's commitment to serve businesses of all sizes by providing innovative, integrated solutions online, on location and on-the-go. Additionally, it further enables our value-added reseller partners to better serve their customers and prospects, while simultaneously expanding their service offerings."
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ERP/Retail: Microsoft Dynamics AX for ERP, a complete ERP solution for enterprises that provides a purpose-built foundation across five industries – along with comprehensive, core ERP functionality for financial, human resources and operations management – joined Avalara's list of leading ERP vendors, as well as Microsoft Dynamic AX for Retail, a seamless solution for multichannel management, store operations, merchandising, and enterprise resource planning.
Additionally, Avalara added relationships with QAD, an online ERP solution created for global manufacturing companies; Jeeves Information Systems AB, which develops ERP systems for small and midsized companies; NetSteps, providers of an end-to-end software solution for the global direct-selling industry; Alterity, Inc., suppliers of business software solutions for small and medium sized businesses; ABAS-US, providers of ERP solutions for midmarket manufacturers and distributors; DCSC, Inc., supply chain management and warehouse automation software providers; Distribution Management Systems, Inc., which provides business accounting software to building material distributors and dealers; Jesta, a global supplier of enterprise business solutions for retailers, manufacturers and distributors; and StepUP Systems, which offers a full suite of strategic SAP services.
POS: Raymark, which provides software solutions that help international retailers optimize stock turns, build customer loyalty, and increase sales.
Ecommerce: BigCommerce, which provides a comprehensive SaaS solution for retailers and merchants to manage ecommerce online; DeliveryAgent, the leader in transactional media for more than 350 of the world's leading global media brands; LiveGamer, the world's first combined ecommerce and advertising platform; and FASTSIGNS, the sign industry's leading franchise.
Additionally, Avalara entered partnerships with Keyora, which provides customized, integrated e-business solutions for midsize and enterprise organizations in the retail, beverage and parts industries; Sana Software, which creates .NET based ecommerce platforms for Microsoft Dynamics NAV and AX; Aria Systems, a subscription billing platform that offers a billing and management solution for recurring revenue models, and FRY Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of MICROS Systems, Inc., which helps retailers and consumer goods manufacturers optimize their direct-channel businesses.
Mobile Commerce: Buck, a mobile payments company that allows mobile users to single click to purchase digital and physical items globally across all mobile operating systems.
Compliance: Avalara now provides a jurisdiction/boundary and data feed to three U.S. states.
CRM: Webfortis for Dynamics CRM, a Microsoft gold customer relationship management competency partner and a leader in developing and deploying Microsoft Dynamics CRM solutions for companies of all size. Arxis Technology, a technology consulting firm specializing in the implementation and support of accounting and business management software, developed an integration between AvaTax and SugarCRM, the cloud-based CRM platform that helps thousands of businesses manage sales, marketing and support. Information Systems Management (ISM), a business software provider specializing in Sage SalesLogix customer relationship management (CRM) and Sage ERP applications, developed and released a new SalesLogix AvaTax Connector.
About Avalara
Founded in 2004, Avalara pioneered a service-based platform for sales tax and compliance automation and has been recognized for years as one of America's fastest growing technology firms. The company's cloud solutions help thousands of customers stay focused on their core businesses by providing automated end to end compliance services including sales and use tax calculation, exemption certificate management, filing and remittance, and a broad array of related services.
Avalara built its technology platform and extensive user base using internal expertise and the strategic acquisition of industry leading organizations, technologies, and personnel. Operating behind the scenes via seamless integration with virtually any business management system, Avalara delivers fast, easy, accurate, and affordable solutions for companies of any size.
The company employs more than 300 professionals at its headquarters on Bainbridge Island, WA and offices in Seattle WA; Irvine, San Diego and Rocklin, CA; Falls Church, VA; Harrisburg, PA; and Pune, India.


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Sweat Bee on Prickly Pear Cactus
A native North American solitary bee foraging on eastern prickly pear cactus. Often called the "forgotten pollinators" native bees and other native pollinating insects receive little media and scientific attention compared to the non-native honey bee. The prickly pear cactus is an endangered species in Ontario. Make sure to purchase native plants for your garden from reliable, locally sourced native plant nurseries, and never collect plants from the wild (bee: Apoidea: Halictidae: "Agapostemon texanus"; plant: Cactaceae: "Opuntia humifusa", Species at Risk in Ontario).
Great Crested Flycatcher on Red Oak
Birds depend on bugs, and bugs depend on native plants. If you want an ecosystem in your backyard, you need to plant native species. This is the essence of biodiversity gardening (Great crested flycatcher, family Tyrannidae, "Myiarchus crinitus"; red oak family Fagaceae, "Quercus rubra"). In late May in Ontario.
Giant Swallowtail Cat on Hoptree Leaf
Caterpillars themselves are not pollinators, but they grow up to be pollinators. Most cats* feed on fresh green leaves of their food plants, and many are highly specialized on native species. If you want beautiful moths and butterflies flying around your garden, you'll want to plant the food plants of the caterpillars. You'll need to plant native species. Caterpillars are fascinating animals in their own right, and a major food source for birds. Native plants attract the insects, insects attract the birds. This is what biodiversity gardening is all about. The image shows the defensive display of a papilionid. All papilionid cats have an osmeterium (forked red structure), or an everscible gland behind the head that emits a foul odor, warding off potential predators (Cat: Papilionidae: "Papilio cresphontes"; plant: Rutaceae: hop tree, "Ptelea trifoliata"). *those of us that love caterpillars refer to them as "cats" for short.
Phyciodes on Nodding Onion
The pearl crescent or the northern crescent butterfly on nodding onion (butterfly: Nymphalidae: "Phyciodes" sp.; plant: Amaryllidaceae, "Allium cernnum").
Great Golden Digger Wasp on Virginia Mountain Mint
The great golden digger is a parasitoid sphecid wasp specializing on Orthoptera. Adults are pollinators. Shown feeding on the floral resources of Virginia mountain mint (wasp: Apoidea: Sphecidae: "Sphex ichneumoneus"; plant: Lamiaceae: "Pycnanthemum virginianum").
American Goldfinch Eating Cup Plant Seeds
A native North American bird on its native food plant. Goldfinches love cup plant seeds, and we often have flocks of 10-12 feeding in our biodiversity garden in late summer.
Silver Spotted Skipper on Virginia Mountain Mint
Canada's largest skipper, the silver spotted skipper, nectaring on Virginia mountain mint in our biodiversity garden (butterfly: Hesperiidae: "Epargyreus clarus"; plant: Lamiaceae: "Pycnanthemum virginianum").
Butterfly Milkweed with Honey Bee
The fresh green leaves of milkweeds support the caterpillar of the monarch butterfly and other milkweed specialists. The flowers support insect pollinators of all sorts including the non-native honey bee shown here (plant: Apocynaceae: "Asclepias tuberosa"; bee: Apidae: "Apis mellifera").
Pollinating Fly on a Native Rose
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Monarch Butterfly
A monarch butterfly nectaring on the tiny flowers of cup plant in our biodiversity garden in summertime. Adult monarchs may take nectar from flowers of native and non-native species, but the caterpillars can eat only the leaves of native milkweed plants (butterfly: Nymphalidae: "Danaus plexippus"; plant: Asteraceae, "Silphium perfoliatum").
Tiger Swallowtail on Milkweed with Moonseed Leaf
A tiger swallowtail drinks nectar from common milkweed flowers using its straw-like mouthpart called a proboscis. Common milkweed is an essential biodiversity garden plant for two reasons: the leaves provide food for numerous specialist insects including caterpillars of monarch butterflies, and the flowers are an important source of food for pollinators. The curved stem and leaf on far right belongs to Canada moonseed (butterfly: Papilionidae: "Papilio canadensis"; plants: Apocynaceae: "Asclepias syriaca"; Menispermaceae: "Menispermum canadense").
Halictus on Pinnate Prairie Coneflower
A solitary sweat bee foraging on the disc florets of native pinnate prairie coneflower (bee: Apoidea: Halictidae: "Halictus" sp.; plant: Asteraceae: "Ratibida pinnata").
Vanessa on Eupatorium
This butterfly is nectaring on a native plant commonly called tall boneset or tall thoroughwort. This plant is a member of the daisy family, but the small flowers are not typical-looking daisies. For plant nerds, the flowers are lacking ray florets. Abundant blooms are an important food source for pollinators in late summer and the flowers have an amazing fragrance! Butterfly: "Vanessa" sp., family Nymphalidae; plant "Eupatorium altissimum", family Asteraceae.
Sweat Bee on Nodding Onion
A tiny native sweat bee gathering pollen on the rare plant nodding onion (bee: Apoidea: Halictidae; plant: Amaryllidaceae: "Allium cernuum").
Beetles on Milkweed in June
A pair of red milkweed beetles on common milkweed in mid-June, when the flower buds are young and the leaves are soft (beetle: "Tetraopes tetrophthalmus", family Cerambycidae; plant: "Asclepias syriaca", family Apocynaceae).
Papilio on Pagoda Dogwood
The giant swallowtail is North America's largest butterfly. Pictured in our biodiversity garden in spring, it is nectaring on the tiny flowers of native pagoda dogwood, (butterfly: "Papilio cresphontes", family Papilionidae; plant: "Cornus alternifolia", family Cornaceae).
Sweat Bee on Fleabane
A small sweat bee, probably a male due to the blueish color, on daisy fleabane (bee: Apoidea: Halictidae: "Augochlora pura"; plant: Asteraceae: "Erigeron annuus").
Bombus on Flowering Raspberry
A native bumble bee gathering food from flowering raspberry, one of several gorgeous native roses (bee: Apoidea: Apidae: "Bombus" sp.; plant: Rosaceae: "Rubus odoratus").
Bombus on Culver's Root
A native bumble bee gathering food from culver's root (bee: Apoidea: Apidae: "Bombus" sp.; plant: Plantaginaceae: "Veronicastrum virginicum").
Tiger Swallowtail on Cup Plant
The tiger swallowtail drinking nectar from the tiny flowers of a native daisy (butterfly: Papilionidae: "Papilio canadensis"; plant: Asteraceae "Silphium perfoliatum").
Sweat Bee on Green-headed Coneflower
Green iridescent solitary sweat bee foraging on the outer disc florets of native green-headed coneflower in our garden (bee: Apoidea: Halictidae: "Augochlora pura"; plant: Asteraceae: "Rudbeckia laciniata").
Milkweed with Honey Bee
"Asclepias syriaca" commonly called milkweed, larval food plant of the monarch butterfly. Also an important pollinator plant, shown here with the non-native honey bee. Family Apocynaceae (dogbane or milkweed family).


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Gioachino ROSSINI (1792-1868)
Zelmira (1822) [155.10]
Cecilia Gasdia (soprano) - Zelmira; William Matteuzzi (tenor) - Ilio;
Chris Merritt (tenor) - Antenore; Bernarda Fink (mezzo) - Emma; José
Garcia (bass) - Polidoro; Boaz Senator (bass) - Leucippo; Vernon Midgley
(tenor) - Eacide; Leslie Fyson (baritone) - High Priest of Jove
Ambrosian Singers; I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone
rec. Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, July 1989
During the 1980s Claudio Scimone, the Rossini enthusiast
and scholar, made a whole sheaf of recordings of rare Rossini operas
for various labels. This was the penultimate of these issues, featuring
the same three principals as in several other of these sets. It gave
us the first studio reading of Rossini's penultimate Italian opera
- the last of the series of operas the composer wrote for Naples before
his departure for Paris, during which he made a number of experiments
with both the form and style of his music. Zelmira is an interesting
work which, following its Naples première was performed in Vienna
and London. Its subsequent neglect was undeserved, even though some
of Rossini's more interesting innovations in the score had already
been anticipated in his earlier Naples operas. One example is the interruption
of the orchestral prelude by the male chorus, a device which he had
already employed in Ermione. The work has other parallels with
that earlier work, being set similarly during the mythological period
of the Trojan War. The equally neglected Ermione has been substantially
rehabilitated during recent years, including a production at Glyndebourne;
but it has the advantage of being based on a well-made adaptation by
Andrea Leone Tottila of a play by Racine which has some real dramatic
force. Zelmira has a plot, also adapted by Tottila, whose ridiculously
convoluted back-history would make even Wagner at his most prolix hesitate.
The main theme of the action is founded on a ridiculous farrago of false
accusations and misunderstandings which make one totally lose patience
with the wimpish behaviour of the two principals. Their total failure
to communicate with each other about the most basic matters makes one
fear for the future of their married relationship at the final curtain.
Nonetheless Rossini gave these two principals, and their fellow singers,
some really good music to get their teeth into. There are some delightfully
original touches too, such as the accompaniment for cor anglais and
harp for Zelmira's cavatina Perchè mi guardi (CD
1, track 16) and the skirling woodwind over the trombones in the Act
One finale. Having said which, the best music of all is that written
for the villainous Antenore who, not content with having usurped the
throne of Lesbos and murdered his predecessor, now seeks to pin responsibility
for his crimes on the innocent Zelmira and her gullible betrothed Ilio.
The part was written for Andrea Nozzari, a tenor who had an extraordinary
range which extended well into the baritone register. Rossini takes
full advantage of this, writing passages for the voice which veer from
the highest notes to the lowest with startling effect. The writing has
a certain generic similarity to that for Mozart's Fiordiligiin
Così fan tutte. Having recently witnessed several unconvincing
attempts by sopranos in the Cardiff Young Singer of the World to encompass
that range in Come scoglio, one is not altogether surprised
to find even a singer like Chris Merritt struggling to come to terms
with the see-sawing vocal lines he is asked to attempt. Merritt's
baritonal lower notes oddly enough come off better than his high ones,
which are not free of a degree of strain. Still, one wonders who else
at the time of recording could even have attempted the part so convincingly.
By comparison, the parts for the two principals are fairly straightforward
- if one means by this that they stick to their normal registers. Mind
you, the register for William Matteuzzi as Ilio is very high indeed.
It is creditable that he makes it all sound so easy and natural as he
soars into the stratosphere. Cecilia Gasdia is also completely unfazed
by all the difficulties in the title role, even though she is unable
to make the character much more than the put-upon milksop she so clearly
is. Bernarda Fink is superlative in the role of Zelmira's confidante.
José Garcia as the deposed King - who came in for some stick
from earlier critics, notably in the Penguin Guide and Fanfare
- seems to me to be quite adequate in what is after all a fairly small
part. Boaz Senator is steadier in the other bass role of the villainous
henchman. The other parts are mere ciphers, but the chorus and orchestra
are assured and capable under the baton of Claudio Scimone. Despite
some very fast speeds he seems to relish the discovery of the music
and has clearly prepared the performance with care and understanding.
The recording sessions had been preceded by concert performances in
Venice, but Gasdia and Merritt had both sung their roles onstage in
Rome earlier in the same year and their experience clearly shows.
There was an earlier recording of Zelmira conducted by Carlo
Franci, but this made substantial cuts in the music. Here we are given
a more complete edition edited by Scimone which also includes additional
material written for Emma by Rossini for the Vienna production. This
makes for two very full CDs and there is a very odd solution for the
problem this creates with the break between the discs. The chorus which
opens the Act One finale is given at the end of the first disc; the
succeeding recitative for Antenore is then faded out as it begins. The
second disc opens with a fade-in of the closing bars of the same chorus
after which the recitative then continues normally. I note that David
Johnson in Fanfare complained bitterly about this procedure in
the original Erato release, suggesting that a clean break should have
been made at the end of the chorus. On the other hand, the inevitable
artificiality of getting up to change the CD would then have interrupted
the continuity of the music no less disastrously. Given the evident
desire to fit the whole opera onto two CDs, the Erato solution, reduplicated
in this reissue, might be seen as the lesser of two evils. Not that
I suspect the engineers at Warner even considered the matter when dealing
with this reissue, which simply replicates the track layout of the original
discs. The reissue completely omits the substantial booklet material
- including an essay on the edition employed by Scimone - which came
with the Erato release. This also contained the libretto in four languages.
Instead we are given only a very basic cued synopsis which occupies
a mere page and a half. It hardly helps the listener to come to terms
with the plot - such as it is. By the way, I can find no trace of an
original Greek myth on which the scenario is based. It seems to have
been entirely the uninspired invention of the French playwright Dormont
de Belloy (1727-75), otherwise known only for a later play on the subject
of the siege of Calais.
The principal competition for this set comes from an absolutely complete
2004 recording for Opera Rara. However, it has to be said that the singing
on that recording is generally rather less assured than in this Scimone
issue. Bruce Ford is generally the equal of Merritt, although his lower
register is weaker; but the reedy-voiced Antonio Siragusa totally lacks
Matteuzzi's ease with the high tessitura. Elisabeth Futral
is no more able than Gasdia to make the character of Zelmira herself
interesting. The main advantage of the Opera Rara set is that the recording
is spread over three discs - a considerable amount of the additional
playing time being required for applause from the enthusiastic audience
at the live concert performance. This obviates the break in the Act
One finale. Whether one will regard the acquisition of a third CD as
sufficient warrant for preferring this may be debatable. There is a
modern-dress production on DVD and Blu-Ray conducted by Roberto Abbado,
which I have not seen; this needs no break to be made in the music,
and the cast looks very interesting if the production is acceptable.
Otherwise, this current reissue will do very nicely as a representative
Zelmira for the library shelf. It is good to have it back in
circulation despite the noted reservations.
Paul Corfield Godfrey


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Playing for the first time in Rockwell Cage, the MIT men's volleyball team defeated Emmanuel College, 30-23, 31-33, 20-30, 30-26, 15-12, in the season-opener for both squads on Wednesday night.
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Legendary Arizona Wildcats coach Lute Olson surprised everyone with yesterday's announcement that he's leaving the team for an undisclosed amount of time, effective immediately.
"I've given 110 percent to this team and this job," Olson said through his wife Christine's press personnel. "In light of this personal matter, I feel it is in the best interest of the team and the University of Arizona to take a leave of absence."
At a news conference Sunday, Arizona Athletic Director Jim Livengood confirmed it was not a health-related issue, repeating that it was a personal issue. Olson has asked for his family's privacy, and Livengood and O'Neill have asked the media to respect those wishes.
It's pretty obvious that it would take something of great significance to pull Coach Olson away from his team, especially with the season getting underway. The last time the Hall of Famer missed significant time was back in 2001, when Olson lost his wife Bobbi to cancer.
Newly imported assistant coach Kevin O'Neil will take over the program until Olson can return. O'Neil is best known as the former head coach of the Toronto Raptors (they're like an NBA team only they play in Canada) and an assistant with the Pacers and Knicks. The suspected Canadian was brought in to be the heir apparent to Olson's kingdom, but now he's going to have to pick things up as he goes. The roster is stacked with talent and assistant coach Josh Pastner has an intimate familiarity with all things Arizona basketball.
It's also worth noting that Olson's grandson, and former walk-on, Matt Brase is a member of the coaching staff.


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Volume 25, No. 2
December / January 1999
The Noble Brow of History:The History and Heritage of ScienceInformation Systems
by W. Boyd Rayward
It is a fact worthy of note that over the last few years a strong interest has emerged in the history of information science. Why is this so? Is it because the field has attained that state of maturity in which a desire to understand the processes and stages of the field organically develops? Is it merely the result of a number of hitherto isolated and fragmentary historical studies at last having achieved a critical mass that commands attention? Is it simply the achievement of a limited number of individuals believing passionately that, in this as in any other field, effective knowledge of the present requires a critical element of historical understanding? Could it be that their energy and commitment have helped create an agenda that cannot be ignored?
Whatever the other reasons, there is such a cast of characters in the field of information science, and they do indeed have an agenda. This was made abundantly clear by Michael Buckland in his opening remarks at the Conference on the History and Heritage of Science Information Systems, which was held in Pittsburgh, October 23-25, 1998, just prior to the ASIS Annual Meeting. He should know. He was at the time the president of ASIS, which co-sponsored the conference with the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF). He was also one of the key members of the conference organizing committee.
Buckland noted that within ASIS an important starting point for a concerted push to create interest in the field's history was a session on information science before 1945 that was organized at the Society's 1991 Annual Meeting by Irene Farkas-Conn. Other history sessions at ASIS meetings have followed -- in fact every year since then and mostly organized by Buckland himself. To focus and encourage institutional interest he, Bob Williams and others were instrumental in having the ASIS Special Interest Group/Foundations of Information Science transformed into SIG/History and Foundations of Information Science (SIG/HFIS).
Meanwhile, CHF, over a 10-year period, had been collaborating with Eugene (Gene) Garfield, a noted information scientist who was originally a chemist. Gene had for many years displayed a strong interest in the history of science, in general, and in the integrally related disciplines of chemistry and information science, in particular. In the period 1993-95, he and Arnold Thackray, CHF's president, began actively to explore means of stimulating historical interest in information science.
Then, accelerando and crescendo, came a series of important developments. In 1994 with a small grant from ASIS, Williams began a project to identify pioneering individuals and organizations in the field and to create a database of information about them, including especially, where this was known, the location of personal and corporate papers. This project, carried out sensitively but with steely tenacity, was completed in 1996. It is located at
In 1995 Buckland and Liu prepared a chapter for the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) on the history of information science. In 1996 Rayward edited a history issue of Information Processing & Management, and Williams was named the first Garfield Fellow in the history of information science at CHF. In 1997 Buckland and Hahn edited what became a double issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS) on the subject. These three items have now been brought together with other material and updated in Historical Studies in Information Science, edited by Hahn and Buckland (ASIS, 1998). Also in 1998, to celebrate the American Chemical Society's Chemical Information Division's 50th anniversary, CHF issued the posters, Chronology of Chemical Information Science, 1778-1944, and 1945-1988, compiled by Williams and Mary Ellen Bowden, senior research historian at CHF.
And, sfortzato, in 1997, Williams began to plan what became the1998 Conference on the History and Heritage of Science Information Systems. Onto his capable shoulders fell the burden of bringing off this important scholarly and professional event.
The Organization
Williams had help, of course. A small advisory committee was created to assist him. CHF President Thackray played a leading role in this committee along with Michael Buckland. Gene Garfield brought to it his incomparable experience of the field's evolution. In addition to Mary Ellen Bowden, senior research historian at CHF, other committee members were Colin Burke, Toni Carbo, Irene Farkas-Conn, Trudi Bellardo Hahn and myself. June Brets, Marie Stewart and other CHF staff provided invaluable administrative help.
We decided that the Conference on the History and Heritage of Science Information Systems would have a double purpose. First, it was to be a major public occasion devoted to historical inquiry. But it would also be one that was demonstrably relevant not only to those involved with aspects of information science, but to others in the community of historians of science more generally. Second, because the field of study had emerged relatively recently and its origins were so strongly applied, we believed that the forum should take cognizance of the innovative systems developments of its pioneers. Many of these men and women were very much alive to tell their stories. Some had actively participated in Bob Williams' earlier Pioneer's project and the oral history interviews that were completed as part of his Garfield Fellowship.
To enable as broad an attendance as possible, a successful application was submitted to NSF for financial support. One of our aims was to help to defray the costs of international participants, some pioneers, and to encourage interested Ph.D. students to attend. We hoped to draw the latter from programs in the history of science and technology as well as information science.
Our first objective led us to invite four distinguished historians of science and technology to present papers on their research as it related to the conference's focus. Their papers reflected a number of important general themes in the history of information technology and systems. One was the complex role of government. Another was the transformative role of information technology in scientific practice, including scientific communication. Yet a third, the wide range of appropriate historiographical methodologies that is available for such studies.
Thomas P. Hughes from the University of Pennsylvania reported on the National Research Council's recent study on the history of the federal government's funding of computing since World War II, Funding a Revolution - Government Support of Computing Research (NRC Committee on Innovations in Computing and Communication: Lessons from History, to be published February 1999.) He suggested that only a long-term narrative approach could reveal the nature of the complex interactions among government funding, industry and developments in information technology that had taken place in this period. He pointed out that while the government's support was primarily for the research and development needs of the military establishment, over the longer term this support had immense civilian repercussions. It can be shown to have been responsible for a range of breakthroughs, such as the development of digital computers, timesharing, networks, artificial intelligence and virtual reality, that were later taken over and commercialized in various ways and are now changing society.
But the government both created information systems to support research and development and restricted access to these systems and the information that was their freight. Robert Seidel, director of the Babbage Institute in Minneapolis, discussed the emergence after the War and during the Cold War of secret scientific communities built around the research and development programs sponsored by the Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Agency. Drawing on a range of different kinds of sources, he showed how gradually, as these communities grew in size, they developed a complexity of communications processes and systems reminiscent of the open world of science but closed by the needs of national security.
Information systems and technology impact science substantively at the same time as they help to transform its communications infrastructure. His research into the impact of information technology on the communications aspects of the cold fusion debates of the late 1980s and early 1990s has led Bruce Lewenstein from Cornell University to conclude that we need new models of scientific communication. These will take into account "the permeable boundaries between primary and secondary information, between formal publication, preprints, electronic computer networks, fax machines, mass media presentations and other forums for scientific discussions."
Timothy Lenoir from Stanford on the other hand has explored the ways in which the process of "informatization" that the biomedical sciences have been undergoing since the 1960s and 1970s has transformed scientific practice. He examined the developmental impact dating from this early period of the introduction into chemistry of computer simulation and modeling, artificial intelligence techniques and computer graphics and computer-generated visualization. His view is that these new forms of scientific instrumentation, the changing practice of science and the development of theory have become so intricately interdependent that we now need to think of theory-building in terms of "knowledge engineering."
And Variations
The papers that were presented in two parallel sessions in the main body of the conference were from a wide variety of authors -- pioneers, academics and professionals. They also reflected national and international approaches.
The Early Systems: A number of pioneers discussed the early systems with which they were familiar. Madeline Henderson, who was principal early compiler of the series of reports, Nonconventional Information Systems in Current Use, issued from 1957-66 by NSF's Office of Science information, selected a number of especially innovative systems for discussion. Jim Cretsos, former president of ASIS, discussed the systems based on superimposed coding he had worked with. Herbert Ohlman surveyed the history of automatic indexing, focusing on the permuterm system he developed in the 1950s.
Chemical Information: Much innovative early systems development was stimulated by the information needs of chemists and the problems created by their literature. Echoing a theme dealt with in a quite different way earlier by Tim Lenoir, several conference papers were devoted to aspects of chemical information services. Helen Schofield, from the University of Manchester Institute on Science and Technology, examined the historical development of the secondary literature in chemistry focusing on Beilstein's Handbook for Organic Chemistry, Gmelin's Handbook for Inorganic Chemistry and Chemical Abstracts. Kenneth Ostrum from Chemical Abstracts Service discussed the evolution of that organization over its 90 years of life. A not unrelated account by Florence H. Kvalnes concentrated on the sequence of information system migrations that occurred as new technology became available in the DuPont Company beginning in the 1960s. She pointed out that work at DuPont on the storage and retrieval of information by chemical structure served as a foundation for the development of Chemical Abstracts registry file.
Citation Indexing: Another major "bibliographic" invention was the citation index developed by Gene Garfield and introduced commercially in the early 1960s through what eventually became the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). A descriptive paper by a member of the ISI staff, Jacqueline Trolley, formed a lead-in to a powerful study of the origins of Science Citation Index by Paul Wouters from the University of Amsterdam. Drawing on Garfield's personal papers, he explored Garfield's relationships in this early period with a number of scientists, especially Joshua Lederberg, the geneticist. Wouters situated the origins of the new instrument of science and the impulse for its promotion and development in a challenging conceptual framework. This involved not only a set of assumptions about the nature of science but a conviction that a total reorganization of the documentary infrastructure of science was needed. Citation indexing, it was believed, would make this possible. In the event emergent uses and commercial forces were to dissipate these aspirations.
International Perspectives: Several papers concentrated on historical developments outside of the U.S. The establishment and growth of VINITI (the All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information) in Russia were outlined by Ruggero Giliarevsky, a professor in VINITI. Pamela Spence Richards from Rutgers University provided a special perspective on these developments in a study of what she called "the Soviet overseas information empire." From Japan, Takashi Satoh, a professor in the University of Library and Information Science, introduced the appealing figure of the nobleman, Shigenori Baba. Baba's work as a government official and an academic was central to the development both of libraries and of library and information science in Japan before and after World War II.
Biographical Perspectives: In addition to Shigenori Baba, the conference was introduced to another major international figure whose work is little known in the United States, the German Nobel laureate in chemistry, Wilhelm Ostwald. In his paper on Ostwald's information work before World War I, Thomas Hapke from Hamburg Technical University, discussed the creation and influence the Bridge, a movement to create new procedures and standards for coordinating the production and dissemination of scientific and technical information.
Ralph Shaw, director of the Library of the US Department of Agriculture, was a major figure in the development of both documentation and librarianship in the United States. In her paper on Shaw's work especially with the Rapid Selector, Jana Varlejs from Rutgers University suggested that the controversial views Shaw formed out of this experience about the relationship of librarians and documentalists stimulated debate for several decades.
Professional and Technical Issues: The emergence of this conflict between librarians and documentalists was the subject of the paper by Mark Bowles from Case Western Reserve University, who explored it in the context of the work of Allen Kent in the Center for Documentation and Communication research at what was then Western Reserve University. A paper by Susan Cady from Lehigh University surveyed the use of microfilm for information purposes beginning in the late 1920s. It was the much-hyped revolutionary technology before the development of the computer by means of which all information storage and retrieval problems were to be solved. An interesting duo of papers looked at issues concerning scientific nomenclatures. Geof Bowker from the University of Illinois in an elegant scholarly account, examined the history of attempts to create a standardized nomenclature for botany. Bernadette Callery from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh discussed historical record-keeping systems in museums and the current problems that the different naming schemes adopted in the past now present for the design of modern systems to provide cooperative access to museum collections.
Bernd Frohman from the University of Western Ontario, in a provocative analysis drawing on current approaches within science studies to the practice of science, challenged the very basis on which information systems for science have been built. It is now an accepted paradox, he observed, that the scientific paper does not provide the most important or useful information for the practicing scientist. We should, therefore, he suggested, not be concerned with the informative content of the scientific paper at all; we should simply study the role it plays in scientific labor as a "material discursive resource."
Bob Hayes from UCLA summed up the conference in a magisterial survey of the developments that have influenced the evolution of the field in the period since WWII.
Recognizing Pioneers: The Social Dimension
At the first conference dinner after the introductory speeches, Toni Carbo (andante cantabile) with great charm and tact, microphone in hand, and wearing lightly her great historical knowledge of the field, conducted a ceremony of recognition and nostalgia. With overhead lights dim, followed by a spotlight, she sought out each of the pioneers strategically placed at tables throughout the room and invited him or her to offer the gathering a brief word of reminiscence. Whatever rivalries and passions different systems and philosophies may have engendered in the past, what was evoked on this celebratory evening was an extraordinary sense of camaraderie arising from what was clearly regarded as a fascinating shared adventure.
At the final dinner, Gene Garfield in a fine personal essay, referring to a dismayingly thick file of transparencies that flashed by (allegretto), surveyed the people who had played an important role in the development of the field. Some were in the room, some gone. Some, like Paul Otlet from Belgium, are now very remote figures indeed. Finally, Bob Williams, with help from Mary Ellen Bowden, Toni Carbo and the Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences, had created what he called the "History of Information Science Theater." This consisted of a "series of videos and slides, collected from various sources, that illustrated people, events and information technology over the past 75 years." Set up in a nearby room this was available for inspection throughout the conference. It will continue to be developed and made available at future ASIS meetings.
At lunches, at coffee breaks, from the floor at the formal papers, the pioneers and other participants raised with each other questions, made comments, started threads of discussion and argument, established contacts for future use - a social dimension that characterizes all successful conferences.
The Future
(Coda: Rallentando) We hope that this is just a first conference of its kind. We hope it will stimulate more interest in historical work. Until the Proceedings are published in September 1999, the abstracts are available at
The organizing committee will consider what next steps are possible. There are many possible tacks historical investigation might take, much that needs to be reassessed historically, much haste that is needed to capture what remains in the memories of those growing older, much to be understood about the present that only the past can provide. We have barely touched the surface but, it has revealed the richness that lies beneath waiting to be explored.
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If schoolyard bullying is a federal issue, then everything must be, right? But in the eyes of the Obama administration, everything is a federal issue.
The Obama administration has taken a keen interest in what otherwise has to be the most local of issues. Last year, Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights Russlynn Ali issued a "Dear Colleague" letter in which she threatened school districts that don't do enough to prevent schoolyard bullying. The letter makes it clear that simply punishing bullies who harass others on account of their race, sex, national origin or disability is not enough. Schools must wipe out the culture of bullying.
Ali repeatedly urges extensive teacher training and "age-appropriate" programs for students designed to diffuse tensions over race, sex, national origin and disability issues. This is sure to be a boondoggle benefiting the groups that provide such training (including many of the organizations that lobbied for federal action).
Ali's letter makes it clear that bullying includes any conduct -– whether intended to harmful or not -– that creates a "hostile environment" for students. It need not necessarily be severe. It certainly need not be violent. If it somehow interferes with a student's ability to participate in or benefit from some school activity, it is covered. Teasing? You bet. Eye-rolling? Rumor mongering? All of it can constitute bullying. All of it can get schools in hot water with the federal government.
Earlier this year, Obama himself convened a full-scale White House conference on bullying, which highlighted initiatives by the Department of Education, the Department of Justice, and others. "I have to say, with big ears and the name that I have, I wasn't immune," Obama told the crowd. "I didn't emerge unscathed." This is an issue with which Obama wants to have his name associated.
Try to imagine George Washington convening a conference on playground bullies. Just try. Or better yet Andrew Jackson. Or Teddy "Bully!" Roosevelt.
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights issued a long, ponderous report on bullying yesterday. As you might guess, the commission has had a change in personnel since last year, when it issued a highly-critical report on the Department of Justice's handling of the New Black Panther Party case. The new report is short on new material or new ideas; it is clear that the commission now sees its job as supporting the Obama administration's initiatives. The only bright spots were the dissenting opinions of Commission holdovers Todd Gaziano, Gail Heriot, and Peter Kirsanow.
Commissioner Heriot, a law professor at the University of San Diego, writes:
Remember when children used to say "Don't make a federal case out of it"? In those days, even fourth graders understood that not every problem is best dealt with at the federal level."
Commissioner Heriot predicts that Department of Education's bullying policy will lead to the same kind of "zero tolerance" policies that the Department's sexual harassment policy has already led to and that common sense as well as the First Amendment are likely to suffer further. In Maryland alone, in the 2007-2008 school year, 166 elementary school students, including 16 first graders and 22 first graders were suspended for "sexual harassment."
I would like to be able to say that it doesn't get any sillier than that –- sending kindergartners home for hugging the teacher too enthusiastically. But it does.
According to the Daily Mail, more than 20,000 British youngsters, aged 11 and younger were reported last year to the authorities for using "racist" or "homophobic" language in school. The British government now keeps a register of all such "hate crimes" incidents.
One child, for example, was accused of racism for calling another child a "broccoli head." All of this is the result of U.K. anti-bullying policies. It can get sillier here in the good old US of A. Just you wait. The Obama administration is moving us a giant step closer to that.


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You know the feeling. You're looking at the best-seller list and a title catches your eye.
"What?!" you sputter. "That piece of (expletive deleted) is a hit, while (insert title of favorite obscure novel) is a flop? Ah, the injustice!"
Life is not fair. Neither is the literary world.
Many good books never get a decent chance; they are, like the lovely flower in Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard" (1751), "born to blush unseen," destined to "waste its sweetness on the desert air."
Many bad books, conversely, climb the best-seller list like a nimble burglar scaling the fire escape.
This situation is infuriating. It is odious. It is insulting. And worst of all, it is something about which absolutely nothing can really be done.
Thomas Vinciguerra knows whereof I speak. He is the editor of "Backward Ran Sentences: The Best of Woolcott Gibbs From The New Yorker" (Bloomsbury), a new collection of sparkling essays, book reviews and theater criticism by Gibbs (1902-58), a writer of whom I had never heard until Vinciguerra's book crossed my desk.
My ignorance was a perfect illustration of literary injustice. Why didn't I know about Gibbs, when I certainly knew plenty about his contemporaries in the New York magazine world, writers such as Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley? Or so many of the glib, smartypants, ultra-popular essayists of today, grinning anecdote-dispensers such as David Sedaris?
Gibbs, as the selections in Vinciguerra's book demonstrate, was as good as any of those folks and better than most. Yet he remains a well-kept secret in American journalism.
"I'm not irate about it, but I am astonished" that Gibbs is largely forgotten today, Vinciguerra said in an interview from his New York office. "No one is as determined to resurrect him as I am. When you're determined to tell the story, it's hard to keep the proselytizing tone out of your voice."
Gibbs, who suffered from alcoholism and debilitating illnesses throughout much of a sad and emotionally turbulent life, was once "mentioned in the same breath as E.B. White and James Thurber," Vinciguerra noted.
But time has a funny way of teaching writers who's boss — and it isn't the guy or gal with the pen.
Brief quotations can't give you a true sense of Gibbs' style; his essays move from point to point like beautifully meandering conversations, building steadily and entertainingly toward an amusing and fearless conclusion. But take a look at his delicate assessment of the songs of "South Pacific," offered in his 1949 review:
"Some time ago ... Cole Porter remarked that he wished to hell theater critics would refrain from discussing music, on the grounds that even the most educated of them wouldn't recognize the national anthem unless the people around them stood up. Having taken that advice to heart, I will confine myself to say ... that 'Some Enchanted Evening' ... seems to me to be a tremendously moving song, and ... 'There Is Nothing Like a Dame,' as sung, or bellowed, by the naval personnel, strikes me as being among the liveliest of Mr. Rodgers' and Mr. Hammerstein's joint efforts; and, to intrude one dismal note in this rhapsody, I wasn't particularly impressed by 'Bali Ha'i,' which sounded to me a good deal like any number of other songs celebrating exotic place names, or by something called 'You've Got to Be Taught,' a poem in praise of tolerance that somehow I found just a little embarrassing."
Vinciguerra hopes that his book will bring new readers to Gibbs' work, and I do, too. But I'd also like to put in a quick word for two living novelists who ought to be tearing up the best-seller lists: Irish writer Peter Cunningham and Australian writer Peter Temple.
Each time I see what's selling, I gnash my teeth. I snap my pencil in half. Why, I rage at the heavens, don't more people read Temple and Cunningham, and forgo reading that mediocre nonsense peddled by (insert name of scandalously overrated and inexplicably successful novelist)?
There is no answer, of course.
There is only a perpetual sense of outrage at egregious literary injustice, and, as a consequence of all that reading and seething, a determination within many of us to share with others the books that strike us as unforgettable — even when their authors, alas, are forgotten, if indeed their names were ever widely known at all.
JULIA KELLER is the Chicago Tribune's cultural critic. She was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.