People in the News
American Library Association · College & Research Libraries News · 2020
People in the News P eter Ja c s o , associate pro fessor at Rosary College in River Forest, Illinois, has won the 1993 UMI Excel lence in Writing Award for his article "Searching for skeletons in the database cu p b o a rd ."P ublished in DATABASE, the tw o-part article presents techniques to help searchers find data base errors that could pre vent them from retrieving accurate search results.Jacso wrote the article while he was a visiting associate professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the Uni versity of Hawaii.He received $1,500 and was honored at a banquet hosted by Learned Infor mation at the Seventeenth International Online Information Meeting.H o w a rd D. W h ite , p ro fe s so r at D rex el University's College o f Information Studies, has received the 1993 Research Award of the Ameri can Society for Information Science (ASIS).The award is given for a systematic program of re search beyond the single study that has led to outstanding contributions with a significant and recent impact on the field.White has published on a wide variety of topics including bibliometrics, citation analysis, social science data archives, and library collection evaluation.In a tribute, ASIS described White as "an articulate spokesman for the quantitative point of view in information science."White has been at Drexel since 1974.