Eugene Garfield Speaks

By Susan Johnson

October events for the chapter also included an afternoon with Dr.Eugene Garfield, the founder and chairman emeritus of the Institute for Scientific information. Held in the Library & information Science program classroom at the University of Hawaii on October 7th, Dr. Garfield spoke to a mixed crowd of library school students and other information professionals. Known as the father of citation indexing, Dr. Garfield regaled
the audience with bibliometric tales of past and present , about the use of citation analysis in rapidly emerging fields of inquiry, and about about his latest project, the HistCite software. The lecture was videotaped, and will be made available for viewing in the future. Thanks to Dr.Peter Jacso and his online searching class for opening the lecture to the public,and the student chapter of ALA, who co-sponsored the afternoon with the Hawaiian Pacific Chapter of SLA.