Tefko Saracevic Explained
Tefko Saracevic is professor emeritus at the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University. He is a contributor to the theoretical concept of relevance [1] and a prominent information scientist.[2] He has been President of the Association for Information Science and Technology[3] Born November 24, 1930, in Zagreb, Croatia came to U.S., 1959; naturalized, 1964.
Education
Electrical Engineering University of Zagreb, Croatia equivalent to B.S., 1957; Case Western Reserve University, Information Science M.S., 1962; Case Western Reserve University, Ph.D., 1970. Dissertation: "On the concept of relevance in information science.".[4]
Career
Saracevic was a member of faculty at Case Western Reserve University, Matthew A. Baxter School of Information and Library Science School: 1962–64, assistant professor, 1964–66, U.S. Office of Education fellow, 1966–70, associate professor, 1970–74, professor 1974- 1985.
He was concurrently Visiting professor, Brazilian Institute for Bibliography and Documentation, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Brazil) Rio de Janeiro, 1971–77.
From 1985-1991 he was Professor and 1991– 2010 was Professor II at the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University. In 2010 he was honored as Professor Emeritus. [5]
Professional associations and editing
Selected conference presentations
- 2015. "Why is relevance still the basic notion in information science?"International Symposium on Information Science (ISI 2015). Zadar, Croatia. May. 18-21, 2015
- 2012. "Quality of Information: Considerations for library and information services in the networked world." Keynote address at the Tenth International Conference on University Libraries held in Mexico City, Mexico, Nov. 7–10, 2012.
- 2010. "Digital natives. Digital immigrants. Libraries. The challenge faced by libraries in reaching out to borne digital." Presentation at the Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, Spain. October 2010.
- 2003. "Human information behavior and digital Libraries." Information Behaviour in Digital Libraries, Bratislava, Slovakia.
- 1996. "Relevance reconsidered." Second international conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science. Copenhagen, Denmark, 13-16 Oct. 1996.
Awards and honors
Selected publications
- (2017). The Notion of Relevance in Information Science : Everybody Knows What Relevance Is. But, What Is It Really? Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
- (2016). Saracevic, Tefko. "Chapter 8 Relevance: In Search of a Theoretical Foundation." Theory Development in the Information Sciences, edited by Diane H. Sonnenwald, New York, USA: University of Texas Press, 2016, pp. 141–163.
- (2012). "Research on relevance in information science: A historical perspective." In; Carbo, T. & Bellardo Hahn, T. (Eds). Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 2012 Preconference on the History of ASIS&T and Information Science and Technology. pp. 49–60.
- (2008). "Effects of inconsistent relevance judgments on information retrieval test results: A historical perspective." Library Trends, 56(4), 763–783.
- (2006). "Relevance: A Review of the Literature and a Framework for Thinking on the Notion in Information Science." Advances in librarianship 30, 3-71.
- (1997). "The stratified model of information retrieval interaction: Extension and applications." Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science, 34, 313–327.
- (1995).“Evaluation of Evaluation in Information Retrieval.” In Annual ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval: Proceedings of the 18th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval; 09-13 July 1995, 138–46.
- (1993). (with Martin Kesselman). “Trends in Biotechnology Information and Networks.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 700, no. 1 (1993): 135–44.
- (1986).“Processes and Problems in Information Consolidation.” Information Processing & Management 22, no. 1 (1986): 45–60.
- (1981). Saracevic, Tefko, Judith B. Wood, and UNESCO. 1981. Consolidation of Information : A Handbook on Evaluation, Restructuring, and Repackaging of Scientific and Technical Information. Pilot ed. Paris: General Information Programme and UNISIST of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
- (1975). "Relevance: A Review of and a framework for the thinking on the notion in information science." Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 26, (6), 321–343.
- (1970). Introduction to Information Science. New York: R.R. Bowker Co.
External links
Notes and References
- Hjørland, Birger. “The Foundation of the Concept of Relevance.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 61, no. 2 (2010): 217–37.
- Winberry, Joseph, LaVerne Gray, Jean Hardy, Baheya Jaber, and Bharat Mehra. “Conceptualizing Relevance of Information as a Social Justice Issue: An Interactive Panel Discussion.” Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 58, no. 1 (2021): 667–72.
- "Tefko Saracevic." Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2001. Gale In Context: Biography, link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000087063/BIC?u=tamp44898&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=e59d58e0. Accessed 20 Feb. 2024.
- Saracevic Tefko. 1970. “On the Concept of Relevance in Information Science.” Dissertation Saracevic. Case Western Reserve University.
- https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/saracevic-tefko Tefko Saracevic.
- Cuadra, Carlos A. “Comments on: Five Years, Five Volumes and 2345 Pages of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology by Tefko Saracevic: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology.” Information Storage and Retrieval 7, no. 3 (1971): 141–46.
- “ASIS Award of Merit: Saracevic Accepts ASIS’ Highest Honor.” American Society for Information Science. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science 22, no. 3 (1996): 19–21
