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Lynn Westney

My research is theoretical in nature.

MAJOR BOOKS

Westney, Hattendorf Lynn C. Editor. Educational Rankings Annual, 2006. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005, 869 p.

Westney, Hattendorf Lynn C. Editor. Educational Rankings Annual, 2005. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2004, 869 p.

Westney, Hattendorf Lynn C. Editor. Educational Rankings Annual, 2004. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2003, 867 p.

Westney, Hattendorf Lynn C. Editor. Educational Rankings Annual 2003. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2002, 880 p.

Westney, Hattendorf Lynn C. Editor. Educational Rankings Annual 2002. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2001, 949 p.

Westney, Hattendorf Lynn C. Editor, Educational Rankings Annual 2001. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2000, 933 p.

Westney, Hattendorf Lynn C. Editor. Educational Rankings Annual 2000. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 1999, 947 p.

Westney, Hattendorf Lynn C. Editor. Educational Rankings Annual 1999. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1998, 730 p.

Hattendorf, Lynn C. Editor. Educational Rankings Annual 1998. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1997, 733 p.

Hattendorf, Lynn C. Editor. Educational Rankings Annual 1997. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1996, 688 p.

Hattendorf, Lynn C. Editor. Educational Rankings Annual 1996. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1995, 841 p.

Hattendorf, Lynn C. Editor. Educational Rankings Annual 1995. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1994, 872 p.

Hattendorf, Lynn C. Editor. Educational Rankings Annual 1994. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1993, 795 p.

Hattendorf, Lynn C. Editor. Educational Rankings Annual 1993. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1992, 843 p.

Hattendorf, Lynn C. Editor. Educational Rankings Annual 1992. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1991, 659 p.

Hattendorf, Lynn C. Editor. Educational Rankings Annual 1991. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1990, 562 p. (Invited to edit this new reference publication by Gale Research)

ADDITIONAL BOOKS

Hattendorf, John B. and Lynn C. Hattendorf. A Bibliography of the Works of Alfred Thayer Mahan. (Naval War College Historical Monograph Series, No. 7). Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 1986. 116 p. (Reprinted in 1990).

MAJOR ARTICLES

Trivial Pursuit?: Information Technology and the Tenure Track. Campus-Wide Information Systems, 17:4 (2000), p. 113-119. (Invited article by the editor; refereed)

Historical Rankings of Science and Technology: A Citationist Perspective. The Journal of the Association for History and Computing, vol. 1:1 (June 1998) (Inaugural issue, refereed) http://ssdl.cas.pacific.edu/history/may/jahc/jahcindex.htm

"College and University Rankings: Part 5--An Annotated Bibliography of Analysis, Criticism, and Evaluation." RO 29:3 (Spring 1990), p. 402-20. (Refereed)

"The Art of Reference Collection Development." RO 29:2 (Winter 1989), p. 219-29. (Refereed)

"College and University Rankings: Part 4--An Annotated Bibliography of Analysis, Criticism, and Evaluation." RO 28:3 (Spring 1989), p. 340-67. (Refereed)

"College and University Rankings: Part 3--An Annotated Bibliography of Analysis, Criticism, and Evaluation." RO 27:3 (Spring 1988), p. 337-57. (Refereed)

"College and University Rankings: Part 2--An Annotated Bibliography of Analysis, Criticism, and Evaluation." RO 26:3, Spring 1987, p. 315-22. (Refereed)

"College and University Rankings: An Annotated Bibliography of Analysis, Criticism, and Evaluation." RO 25:3, Spring 1986, p. 332-47. (Refereed; Silver Anniversary Issue)

BOOK CHAPTERS

Mutually Exclusive? Information Technology, Digital Scholarship, and the Tenure, Promotion, and Review Process. Part I, Chapter One, in Digital Scholarship in the Tenure, Promotion, and Review Process: A Primer. Armonk, NY: 2003, M.E. Sharpe, 2003. (Invited chapter by the editor, Deborah Lines Andersen)

CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS

"Reference Services," in The ALA Year Book of Library and Information Services, 15th edition, Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1990, p. 208-11. (Invited article; honorarium)

"Communications" (p. 25-26), and "Transportation" (p. 37-43), in Business Serials of the U. S. Government, edited by Priscilla C. Geahigan and Robert F. Rose. Second edition. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1988.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

The Global Gumshoe: Ranking International Scholarship Through Citation Analysis, in the Proceedings of the International Conference on the Social Impact of Information Technologies. St. Louis: MO, October 12-14, 1998. (Refereed; available in CD- ROM format).

Educational Quality Rankings of Graduate Departments and Institutions: An Historical and International Perspective,? in Proceedings of the International Symposium on A Blueprint for Better Graduate Studies, Graduate School of Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, p.149-159, 1997. (Refereed)

Scholarly Publishing and International Rankings of Higher Education: Citation Analysis as a Ranking Instrument,? in Proceedings: Bridging the Atlantic: Educating for a Global Society, October 19-24, 1997, Franklin College, Lugano, Switzerland. (Refereed; pages not numbered)

Educational Rankings of Higher Education: Fact or Fiction?? in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Assessing Quality in Higher Education July 15, 1996. paper presented at the Eighth International Conference on Assessing Quality in Higher Education, July 15, 1996, at the Pan Pacific Hotel Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. (Refereed)

WEB PUBLICATIONS

Selective Bibliography of International Web Sites Relating to Toponyms, Anthroponyms and Miscellaneous Name Sites: For use in Conducting Onomastic Research, 2002. http://www.wtsn.binghamton.edu/ANS Hattendorf%20Bibliography.htm

Louise Pound in Who Was Who In North American Name Study. http://www.wtsn.binghamton.edu/onoma/#Pound (This site was created to celebrate the 50th anniversary (December 29, 2001 of the American Name Society) http:// www.wtsn.binghamton.edu/onoma/

Dew Drop Inn and Lettuce Entertain You: Onomastic Sobriquets in the Food and Beverage Industry, presented at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 35th Annual Meeting, Universite Laval, Quebec, QC, May 23 - 30, 2001 and the Canadian Society for the Study of Names, May 25 - 26, 2001. http:// www.dinersoft.com/sobriquets.htm

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR

H-INFO, 2006-2008.

COLUMN EDITOR

Journals--Inside and Out. The Journal of the Association for History and Computing, Vol. 5:3, 2002--). http:// mcel.pacificu.edu/JAHC/JAHCindex.HTM

INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATIONS

"Gastronomy and Toponymy: Recipes with North American Place Names," presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names CSSN, May 28-June 5, 2005 at the Annual Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Social Sciences and Humanities CFSSH, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, CN. (Refereed; proceedings not published; awarded travel stipend from CFSSH)

"An Onomastic Voyage: Recipe Name Origins in the New World," at The Voyage Out: 4th Biennial Conference International Society for Travel Writing, October 21-24, 2004, Hyatt Regency, Milwaukee, WI. (Refereed paper, first part of a 4-paper panel, "Culinary Travel Writing and the Sea," October 23, 2004). http:// www.english.uwosh.edu/ISTW/

"Petoskey Stones and Pudding Stones: Onomastic Origins of Fossils." Presented at the Canadian Society for the Study of Names, CSSN at the Annual Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Social Sciences and (CFSSH), May 29-30, 2004. (Refereed; proceedings not published; awarded travel stipend from CFSSH)

"What's In It for Me? Will Community Outreach and the Scholarship of Engagement Equal Tenure?" Presented at the European-American University Forum (EAUF) and the 13th Annual International Conference of the American Association of University Administrators (AAUA), San Jose, Costa Rica, November 2-7, 2003. (Refereed)

"What's in a Recipe Name? Or Why Aren't There any Plums in Plum Pudding?" Presented at the 2003 Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names (CSSN), May 25-26, 2002 at the Annual Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Social Sciences and Humanities (CFSSH), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. (Refereed; proceedings not published; awarded travel stipend from CFSSH)

"Try It, You'll Like It! Origins of Ambiguous Recipe Names." Presented at the 2002 Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names CSSN, May 25-26, 2002 at the Annual Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Social Sciences and Humanities CFSSH, Toronto, CN. (Refereed; proceedings not published; awarded travel stipend from CFSSH)

"Dew Drop Inn and Lettuce Entertain You: Onomastic Sobriquets in the Food and Beverage Industry." Presented at the 2001 Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names CSSN, May 25-26, 2001 at the Annual Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Social Sciences and Humanities CFSSH, Universite Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. (Refereed; proceedings not published; awarded travel stipend from CFSSH)

"What's In It for Me? Does Community Outreach and Service-Based Scholarship Equal Tenure?" Presented at the International Conference on the University as Citizen: Engaging Universities & Communities. Sponsored by the University of South Florida (USF), February 21-24, 2001 at the Embassy Suites, USF, Tampa, Florida. (Refereed; 250 participants from 6 countries) http://usfweb.usf.edu/uac/

"Canadian Place Names: Linguistic Corruptions in Bodies of Water." Presented at the 10th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods X), August 1-6, 1999 at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John?, Newfoundland, Canada. (Refereed, triennial conference: 16 countries represented: proceedings not published)

"The Global Gumshoe: Ranking International Scholarship Through Citation Analysis." Presented at the International Conference on the Social Impact of Information Technologies, October 14, 1998, at the Regal Riverfront Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri. (Refereed; proceedings published, available in CD-ROM format)

"Scholarly Publishing and International Rankings of Higher Education: Citation Analysis as a Ranking Instrument." Presented at "Bridging the Atlantic: Educating for a Global Society," at the European-American University Forum (EAUF) and the Eighth Annual International Conference of the American Association of University Administrators, October 20, 1997, Franklin College, Lugano, Switzerland. (Refereed; 12 countries represented; proceedings published)

"International Quality Rankings of Higher Education: Citation Analysis as a Ranking Instrument." Presented at the Ninth International Conference on Assessing Quality in Higher Education, July 21, 1997, Indiana University - Purdue University IUPUI, at the University Place Conference Center, Indianapolis, Indiana. (Refereed; 17 countries represented; proceedings not published)

"Educational Quality Rankings of Graduate Departments and Institutions: An Historical and International Perspective," presented at Grad Blueprint '97 International Symposium on Blueprint for Better Graduate Studies, February 5-7, 1997, at Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, February 6, 1997. (Refereed, 14 countries represented; proceedings published)

"Educational Rankings of Higher Education: Fact or Fiction?" Presented at the Eighth International Conference on Assessing Quality in Higher Education, July 15, 1996, at the Pan Pacific Hotel Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. (Refereed, 35 countries represented; proceedings published)

AWARDS & HONORS

Educational Rankings Annual 1991, selected as one of Library Journal's Best Reference Books of 1991, an annual feature. Coutts, Brian E. with John B. Richards, "Best Reference Books of 1991," Library Journal 117:39-46 (April 15, 1992).

Educational Rankings Annual 1991 selected by the New York Public Library to its annual list of outstanding reference books.

Recipient of the second annual Reference Service Press Award (1987) for publishing the most outstanding article in the refereed journal RO (volumes 24 and 25) consisting of a citation and cash award presented at the RASD Annual Program at ALA Annual Conference San Francisco, June 29,1987. Awarded for my article, "College and University Rankings: An Annotated Bibliography of Analysis, Criticism, and Evaluation," RO 25:332-347 (Spring 1986).

SERVICE ACTIVITIES

MEMBERSHIP on ADVISORY and EXECUTIVE BOARDS

2006-2008 Advisory Board, H-INFO

2006-2009 Executive Council, AAHC: The American Association for History and Computing

2003-2006 Editorial Advisory Board, OCLC: Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives. (formerly OCLC: Systems & Services through 2004)

2002-2005 Editorial advisory board, The World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Correctional Systems. Projected publication, 2005. (Formal invitation extended by George Kurian, editor-in-chief).)

2001-2003 American Anthropological Association (AAA) Library Advisory Board

1998-- Library/Archives Advisory Group of The Journal of the Association for History and Computing (JAHC).

1998-- Editorial Board of The Journal of the Association for History and Computing (JAHC).

SELECTED SERVICE TO THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

1997-2005 Archivist of BRASS, the Business Reference and Services Section of the American Library Association.

Anthropology & Social Sciences Section (ANSS) Appointed to the Review and Planning Committee, 2005-2007

Elected Secretary 2005-2007 in the 2005 Spring election.

Appointed Co-Chair of the Program Planning Committee for the 2005 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.
Arranged a tour of UIC: Jane Addams Hull House, June 27, 2005;
Arranged a tour of UIC: Special Collections Department, June 28, 2005;
Compiled the bibliography for our Annual Program June 26, 2005, "Endangered Species"

Reappointed Chair of the Publications Committee, 2002-2004.

Appointed to the Publications Committee, 2000-2002.

Appointed Chair, 2001-2002.

Reappointed Chair of the Dun & Bradstreet Award for Outstanding Business Service to Minorities Committee, 2002-2003.

Appointed Chair of the Dun & Bradstreet Award for Outstanding Business Service to Minorities Committee, 2001-2002.

Appointed Chair of the Dun & Bradstreet Award for Outstanding Business Service to Minorities Committee, 2000-2001.

Appointed to the Dun & Bradstreet Award for Outstanding Business Service to Minorities Committee, 1999-2000.

Appointed Chair, Gale Research Award for Excellence in Business Librarianship Committee, 1998-1999.

Reelected Chair, BRASS Discussion Group, 1997-1998.

Elected Chair, BRASS Discussion Group, 1996-1997.

EDUCATION

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL Graduate School of Library and Information Science M.S., Library and Information Science.

University of Chicago, Graduate Library School, Chicago, IL Completed all course work for the M.L.S. degree

Loyola University, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Chicago, IL B.A., Sociology


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