GREGORY B. NEWBY

School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB# 3360 Manning Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-3360
Telephone: 919-962-8064. Fax: 919-962-8071
Email: gbnewby@ils.unc.edu; Internet: http://ils.unc.edu/gbnewby/

EDUCATION

Syracuse University	Ph.D.	1993	Information Transfer
SUNY Albany	M.A.	1988	Communication
SUNY Albany	B.A.	1987	Communication and Psychology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1997 - Present
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL-HILL, CHAPEL HILL, NC.
Assistant Professor School of Information and Library Science.

1991 - 1997
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, URBANA, IL.
Assistant Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

1989 - 1991
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, SYRACUSE, NY.
Adjunct Faculty, School of Information Studies.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• ASIS SIG/ED Chair, 1998-1999
• Program Committee, ASIS Annual Meeting 1998.
• Co-Chair, ASIS Mid-Year Meeting 1997.
• Chair, ASIS Awards and Honors Committee, 1993-1995.
• Co-Founder of Prairienet, the Free-Net of East-Central Illinois.
• Reviewer for SCI/ISAS 1999
• Reviewer for ACM SIGGRAPH 1997
• Reviewer for ASIS Annual Meeting Contributed Papers, 1992, 1995, 1998
• Reviewer for Information Processing and Management, 1999.
• Reviewer for the Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1992-99.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"Information Space Gets Normal." Gregory B. Newby. 1999. Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-6) Proceedings. Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Science and Technology. November 9-11.

"The Relation of Information Need, Data Type, and Retrieval Mechanism for Information Systems." Gregory B. Newby. 1998. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting. Medford, NJ: Information Today. Pittsburgh, PA: November 12-16.

"The strong cognitive stance as a conceptual basis for the role of information in informatics and information system design." Gregory B. Newby. 1998. Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI '98) and the 4th International Conference on Informatics Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS '98). Orlando, Florida, July 12-16.

"A Prognosis for Continued Disarray in Electronic Scholarly Communication." Gregory B. Newby. 1997. The Canadian Journal of Communication. 22: 511-523.

Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier. 1996. Edited with Robin P. Peek. Cambridge: MIT Press. xxii + 364pp.

COLLABORATIONS

• Bishop, Ann P. (University of Illinois). Prairienet.
• Daessler, Rolf. (University of Potsdam). Information Visualization.
• Guthery, Scott. (Schlumberger, Inc.). Text Mining.
• Hart, Michael S. (Executive Director of Project Gutenberg). Project Gutenberg
• Nilan, Michael S. (Syracuse University). Information System Use.
• Peek, Robin P. (Simmons College). Electronic Publishing.

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