Bert Boyce
Bert Boyce is a professor and dean emeritus of information science at Louisiana State University.
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Life
Boyce, along with wife, Judith I. Boyce (a Youth Services Librarian at West Baton Rouge Parish and a Library Director at Jefferson Parish Library in Louisiana), endowed a professorship at Louisiana State University: the Bert R. and Judith I. Boyce Professorship in School of Library and Information Science.
Contributions
Boyce served as the Department Chair for Information Science within the School of Library and Informational Science at the University of Missouri, in Columbia, Missouri. In 1983 he became faculty at Louisiana State University and became Dean of the School of Information Studies in July 1990.[1]
His research examines measurement and retrieval in information science, youth librarianship, and library resource access for rural communities. He developed DAPPOR, a drill and practice program for online retrieval in 1982 at the University of Missouri. He wrote frequently in the late 1980s to mid-90s with his wife Judith I. Boyce on the growth of the bookmobile as a way to provide outreach for rural libraries, and as advocates for subject classification in children sections of libraries. He contributed and served as Book Reviews Editor for JASIS in the 1980s and 90s.
Publications
- Boyce, B. R., Kraft, D. H., Barry, C. L., & Meadow, C. T. (2007). Text Information Retrieval Systems (3rd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Academic Press.
- Boyce, Bert R. & Boyce, Judith I. (2002). A Reexamination of Shelf Organization for Children's Books. Public Libraries. 41 (5): 280–283.
- Boyce, J. I. & Boyce, B. R. (1995). Library Outreach Programs in Rural Areas. Library Trends 31 (5): 50–52. https://hdl.handle.net/2142/8010
- Kraft, D. H., Meadow, C. T., & Boyce, B. R. (1994). Measurement in Information Science. Cambridge, MA: Academic Press.
- Bert R. Boyce & Mary Stowe. (1991). A Brief Investigation of U.S. Superintendent of Documents Filing Practice. Government Publications Review 18 (4): 347-352. https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-9390(91)90030-2
- Boyce, B. R. & Cho, Y. (1988). Tracking School of Library and Information Science Faculty Productivity. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 29 (1): 63–65. https://doi.org/10.2307/40323586
- Boyce, B. R., & Heim, K. M. (1988). The Education of Library Systems Analysts for the Nineties. Journal of Library Administration 9(4): 69–76. https://doi.org/10.1300/J111v09n04_07
- Wallace, D. P. & Boyce, B. R. (1987). Computer Technology and Interdisciplinary Efforts: A Discussion and Model Program. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 27 (3): 158–168. https://doi.org/10.2307/40323670
- Boyce, B.R. (1986). Online information systems use and operating characteristics, limitations, and design alternatives. JASIS 37: 171-172. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198605)37:3<171::AID-ASI12>3.0.CO;2-B
- Sievert, M. & Boyce, B. R. (1985). The Evaluation of a Drill and Practice Program for Online Retrieval. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 26 (2): 67–78. https://doi.org/10.2307/40323206
- Boyce, Bert. (1982). Beyond topicality: A two stage view of relevance and the retrieval process. Information Processing & Management 18 (3): 105-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-4573(82)90033-4
- Boyce, B.R. & Martin, D. (1981). The Brillouin measure of an author's contribution to a literature in psychology. JASIS 32 (1): 73-76. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630320110
- Boyce, B. R. (1979). Instruction in On-Line Library Tools at the University of Missouri. Journal of Education for Librarianship 20 (2): 158–161. https://doi.org/10.2307/40322632
Awards
- ASIS Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award, 1989
- Jesse Shera Award for Outstanding Published Research, ALA, 1988 for “Holdings as a Measure of Journal Value” with Danny P. Wallace in Library & Information Science Research 11(1)