Beginning with the keynote presentation by Pauline Atherton Cochrane of the Graduate School of Library & Information Science, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, Advances of Classification Research, Volume 13 includes all of the papers presented at the workshop, which was held in Philadelphia, P.A. on November 17, 2002. Each paper concludes with a transcript of the discussion that followed the live presentation.

The papers presented at the workshop and included in the new volume are:

• “Promising Past and Future Research Agendas in Classification,” by Pauline Atherton Cochrane

• “Look Back to Look Forward: The Classification Research Study Group and SIG/CR,” by Kathryn La Barre

• “Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Bibliographic Classification Research,” by
D. Grant Campbell

• “Three Spheres of Classification Research: Emergence, Encyclopedism, and Ecology,” by Joseph T. Tennis

• “Report on the First Panel of Presentations and Associated Discussion,” by Jonathan Furner

• “Bringing People, Technology, and Systems Together Through Classification Research: Designing for Change, Learning, and Maintenance,” by Paul Solomon

• “Bibliographic Relationships, Citation Relationships, Relevance Relationships, and Bibliographic Classification: An Integrative View,” by Jonathan Furner

• “Effective Display of Browsable Classification on the WWW and other Hypertext Media,” by James D. Anderson

• “Report on the Second Panel of Presentations and Associated Discussion,” by Edie Rasmussen

• “Integration of Knowledge Organization Systems into Digital Library Architectures,” by Linda Hill, Olha Buchel, Greg Janée, and Marcia Lei Zeng

• “Creating and Maintaining Machine-Generated Taxonomies in Human Organizations: Contributions from Research and Practice,” by Wendi Pohs, Dick McCarrick, and Michael Muller

• “Classification in the Physical Sciences,” by Michael L. McGlashen and Anne Rogers

• “Grounding Classification Research in Real World Problems: Report of the Third Panel of Presentations and Associated Discussion,” by Paul Solomon

• Concluding remarks by Marcia Bates

The volume is edited by Jens-Erik Mai, assistant professor, the Information School at the University of Washington; Clare Beghtol, professor of Information Studies, University of Toronto; Jonathan Furner, assistant professor, Department of Information Studies, University of California at Los Angeles; and Barbara Kwasnik, professor, the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University.

Advances in Classification Research, Volume 13 (90 pp/softbound/$31.60 ASIST member/$39.50 nonmember/ISBN: 1-57387-199-0) is published by Information Today, Inc. on behalf of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST). For more information or to order, contact the publisher directly at (800) 300-9868 [outside the U.S. call (609) 654-6266]; fax (609) 654-4309; e-mail: custserv@infotoday.com; or log on to the ITI Web site at www.infotoday.com.