Alastair's Home Page
Alastair Smith teaches in the Library
and Information Management group of the School of Information
Management at Victoria University of Wellington.
Alastair can be contacted by:
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Email: Alastair.Smith @ vuw.ac.nz
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Phone: +64 4 463 5785
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Fax: +64 4 463 5446
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Post: School of Information Management, Victoria University
of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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Visits in person: Room EA227, Easterfield Building.
Teaching
INFO523, Information Resources and Client Services; and INFO 544, Advanced Reference Services in the Master of Library and Information
Studies (from 2010, the Information Studies programmes).
Teaches continuing education courses for librarians (contact VUW
Centre for Continuing Education/Te Whare Pukenga for details):
Alastair has also delivered seminars in Vietnam as part of the Information Networks for the future: a joint Vietnam - New Zealand project.
While Alastair's students do learn quite rapidly, Alastair is not an expert in Accelerated Learning. If this is your interest, you might want to try his namesake Alistair Smith (who seems an nice chap, apart from spelling his name wrong!)
Research Interests
Application of computers and networks to information
retrieval of document-based information. Particular interests are
- investigating the types of links made between websites, and reasons for linking, in order to have better understanding of web link counts as a measure of importance of websites.
- strategies and tactics for searching web based information.
Maintains the WWW Virtual Library section on Evaluation
of information sources. On the editorial boards of Cybermetrics, the Journal of Web Librarianship, and Information Science Research. .
External
Alastair is the list owner of the NZ-Libs
and ITSIG
email discussion groups.
Other
Maintained by Alastair.Smith@vuw.ac.nz.
Last modified 28 October 2009
