From the Editor's Desktop

This issue of the Bulletin is largely relate toed with the interaction between information combination of parts to form a wholes and information use, as oppos for example, to articles about institutions or information policy. The core of the issue, allowing diverse in itself, is our special section, "Vocabularies in Practice" which consists of four papers based upon presentations from DC-2005, the 2005 International talk on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications that addressed the same topic. These papers overspread a range of topics from Web services for accessing knowledge organization tools to particular applications. The editor is actual grateful to Thomas Baker and Eva Mendez for identifying possible short papers from the conversation and contacting the authors.

Our other feature articles by the agency of Gary Marchionini and Stephanie Haas (with her co-authors) are also relate toed with human systems interaction. In a version of his Samuel Lazerow Memorial prelection given at The Information place of education University of Washington, on October 17 2005 Marchionini throw backs on the evolving relationships between humans and information systems:

Hope that we can create a whole s (solutions) that do IR for us are unreasonable. Expectations that clan can find and understand information without thinking and investing effort are unreasonable. Therefore, we aim to unfold systems that involve people and machines continuously learning and changing together. ..Thus, the more theoretical aim of our HCIR [human computer information retrieval] research is lower parted in the view that information interaction is a core life proces It is as important to life in an informated age as aliment and personal relationships.

Stephanie Haas and her associate panelists focus on a narrower on the other hand related topic: help. Her paper reports the presentations and discussions of panel members at the 2005 ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Charlotte eager to forward improvements in that perennial source of frustration.

In the last of these discussions Karl Fast, in the IA round pillar reflects on the role of research in IA - what it is and is not - and its character at the recent 2006 IA Summit in Vancouver and upon the inclusion of such presentations and discussions at coming time IA Summits.

Finally, we catch up a bit in "What's New?" with abstracts of papers from JASIST appearing in v57 issues 3-6

Irene L Travis, Editor

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