2009 Lazerow Memorial Lecture with Peter Ingwersen

Peter Ingwersen, an internationally-known scholar in the areas of interactive information retrieval, will present the University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences’ Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture on October 14. The lecture will be held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in the Haslam Bldg., Room 202.

Professor Ingwersen, a Professor at the Royal School of Library and Information Science in Denmark, will discuss information retrieval in the context of information behavior and information seeking in a talk entitled “Research Frameworks for Information Retrieval and User
Behaviors.”

What: 2009 Lazerow Memorial Lecture with Dr. Peter Ingwersen
When: Wednesday, October 14, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Where: UT Haslam Bldg. Room 202

Webstreaming link: http://mediabeast.ites.utk.edu/mediasite4/Viewer/?peid=dcd41c71284140fcb7fb28c1adf2a9b1

Title: Research Frameworks for Information Retrieval and User Behaviors 

Abstract
Information retrieval (IR) is a research topic of longevity. Researchers have developed important frameworks to observe information-seeking behaviors in various IR contexts. Dr. Ingwersen's lecture will guide the audience through the four decades of rich IR research from the traditional Laboratory IR paradigm to the Integrated Cognitive IR Research Framework. He presents the selected models and compares them in contexts to build a 9-dimensional framework, from which he further presents a research program for the renewed interests in IR research from new perspectives.
    
Biography of Peter Ingwersen
Dr. Ingwersen is an internationally-known scholar and a frequently-invited keynote speaker. His research areas include Interactive Information Retrieval (IR), IR in Context, Evaluation methods for work task-based IR, Informetrics-Scientometrics & Webometrics. He has published several highly cited research monographs, and more than 90 journal articles and conference papers. He has provided free access to his highly cited 1992 book Information Retrieval Interaction. He co-authored The TURN: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context, which was nominated for ASIST Best Book in 2006. He is a member of the editorial boards of several international journals: the Journal of American Society for Information Science & Technology, Information Processing and Management, the Scientometrics, and the Journal of Informetrics. He serves on the International Advisory Board of International Collaborative Academy of Library and Information Science at Wuhan University, China.

His honors and awards include Jason Farradane Award (UK) for contributions to Information Science, 1993; internationally most cited Danish Social Scientist 1990-2004; ASIS New Jersey Chapter Distinguish Lectureship Award,1993; the ASIS&T Research Award, 2003; Derek de Solla Price Medal, 2005; and the ASIS&T Best Teacher Award in Information Science, 2007.

For more information on this lecture series, visit http://www.sis.utk.edu/research/isilazerow.