Nicholas J. Belkin
Encyclopedia
Nicholas J. Belkin is a professor at School of Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers University
. Among the main themes of his research are digital libraries; information-seeking behaviors; and interaction between humans and information retrieval systems
.
Dr. Belkin was the chair of SIGIR
in 1995-99, and the president of American Society for Information Science and Technology
in 2005.
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
. Among the main themes of his research are digital libraries; information-seeking behaviors; and interaction between humans and information retrieval systems
Information retrieval
Information retrieval is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web...
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Dr. Belkin was the chair of SIGIR
Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
SIGIR is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval. The scope of the group's specialty is the theory and application of computers to the acquisition, organization, storage, retrieval and distribution of information; emphasis is placed on working with...
in 1995-99, and the president of American Society for Information Science and Technology
American Society for Information Science and Technology
The American Society for Information Science and Technology, sometimes abbreviated ASIS&T or ASIST, is a non-profit membership organization for information professionals...
in 2005.