Fifth International Conference on Grey Literature

 Four Winds on the Grey Landscape:

A Review of Four Information Professionals

Their Work and Impact on the field of Grey Literature

Dominic J. Farace and Jerry Frantzen,

GreyNet - Grey Literature Network Service

Celebrating GL Conferences 1993-2003

Celebrating GL Conferences 1993-2003

Accomplishments in Grey Literature

Timeline

Technological

Breakthroughs

Societal Challenges

Weinberg Report - Careers Started for Four Information Professionals

1960s Space Pollution, Smog

Peter Auger - First Edition Reports Literature ... Sources in GL

1970s Video Oil Embargo

Vilma Alberani, Director ISS Ed. ServicesEuropean Association for GL Exploitation

1980s Personal Computer

AIDS

Ulrich Wattenberg - Edited OeuvreJapanese Information in ST&Commerce

1990s Internet Millennium Crisis

Andrei Zemskov, Director NPLS&TRussian-German Digital Archive, RusDML

2000s Mobile Communication

9-11, Terrorism

Dr. Vilma Alberani - Italy -

• AcademicsForeign Languages, Literature, and Biology

• Professional Career1958-2000

• OrganizationItalian National Institute of Health, ISS

• Affiliation with Grey LiteratureYork Seminar 1978, CNR Focal point for GL,AIB Seminars and trainings; Author of 80 publications;Responsible for editing some 250 reports.

• Quote“Grey Literature is not dependent on the means of distribution and circulation.”

Notus – South Wind The European

Celebrating GL Conferences 1993-2003

Peter Auger- United Kingdom -

• AcademicsCommerce

• Professional Career1957-1997

• OrganizationLucas Industries – Automotive & Aerospace Products,Peter Auger Research Service

• Affiliation with Grey LiteratureInformation Sources in Grey Literature, 1st edition, 1975 … 4th edition, 1998

• Quote“Today, Grey Literature is that which fails to appear in paper format.”

Zephyrus - West Wind The Encyclopaedist

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Dr. Ulrich Wattenberg- Germany -

• AcademicsNatural Science, Mineralogy; Japanese

• Professional Career1972-2002

• OrganizationGMD, Society for Mathematics and Data Processing -Tokyo and Berlin Offices

• Affiliation with Grey LiteratureThe promotion of Japanese scientific and technical information worldwide.

• Quote“Industry shows interest in Japanese grey literature when it is free-of-charge, exclusive, and well translated.”

Eurus – East Wind The Ethnologist

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Dr. Andrei Zemskov- Russia -

• AcademicsNuclear Physics

• Professional Career1965-2003

• OrganizationKurchatov Atomic Energy Institute, Moscow;Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, NPLS&T

• Affiliation with Grey LiteratureMore than 90 publications on Physics and Librarianship

• Quote“Information specialists can benefit from an electronic depository of grey full-text documents on compact discs.”

Notus – North Wind The Envoy

Celebrating GL Conferences 1993-2003

Thank you

Vilma, Peter, Ulrich, and AndreiVilma, Peter, Ulrich, and Andrei

for the combined 100+ years in the information profession

serving as

Ambassadors of GreyAmbassadors of Grey

Thank you

Vilma, Peter, Ulrich, and AndreiVilma, Peter, Ulrich, and Andrei

for the combined 100+ years in the information profession

serving as

Ambassadors of GreyAmbassadors of Grey

Celebrating GL Conferences 1993-2003

Fifth International Conference on Grey Literature