Howard D. White
After
taking his PhD in librarianship at the University of California, Berkeley, in
1974, Howard D. White joined Drexel University's College of Information Science
and Technology, where he is now professor emeritus. He co-authored For
Information Specialists: Interpretations of Reference and Bibliographic Work
with Marcia Bates and Patrick Wilson (Ablex, 1992). A later book is Brief Tests of Collection
Strength (Greenwood, 1995). He has also published on bibliometrics and
co-citation analysis, evaluation of reference services, expert systems for
reference work, innovative online searching, social science data archives,
library publicity, American attitudes toward library censorship, and literature
retrieval for meta-analysis and interdisciplinary studies. In 1993 he won the
Research Award of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
(ASIST) for distinguished contributions in his field. In 1998 he and Katherine
McCain won the best JASIS paper award for Visualizing a Discipline: An
Author Co-Citation Analysis of Information Science, 1972-1995. He was a
Drexel Distinguished Professor for 1998-2002, using the grant awarded to
develop the AuthorMap
system. In 2004 he won ASIST’s
highest honor for career achievement, the Award of Merit. In 2005 the International Society for
Scientometrics and Informetrics honored him with the biennial Derek de Solla Price Memorial
Medal for contributions to the quantitative study of science.
For Information Specialists: Interpretations of Reference and Bibliographic Work
Brief Tests of Collection Strength: A Methodology for All Types of Libraries