26 — Spring/Summer 2006 North Carolina Libraries The conclusions reached in this study were based on a list of Laura Gasaway’s publications created by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During the course of this research, a number of additional books and articles not a part of this list were located. Recommendations for further research would include a study based on a complete list of publications by this author. References 1 Barbara Ringer. “Copyright and the Future of Authorship; originally published in January 1, 1976,” Library Journal 119 (November 1994): 32-33. 2 “Laura Gasaway.” American Library Association. Available at 3 “Expert.” Merriam-Webster On-Line. Available at 4 Jean-Pierre V.M. Hérubel. “Historical Bibliometrics: Its Purpose and Significance to the History of Disciplines,” Libraries and Culture 34 (Fall 1999): 380-388. 5 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Available at 6 “Lotka’s Law” Laws of Bibliometrics. University of Texas. Available at 7 Ibid. 8 William Potter “Of Making Many Books There is No End: Bibliometrics and Libraries,” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 14 (September 1988): 238-239. 9 J. Michael Brittain. “A Highly Visible Scientist – Jack Meadows,” Journal of Information Science 26, no. 4 (2000): 267-272. 10 Ali Al-Ghamdi, et al. “Authorship in JASIS: A Quantitative Analysis,” Katherine Sharp Review (Winter 1998). Available at 11 D. R. Dillon and D. G. O’Brien. “Article Content and Authorship Trends in The Reading Teacher, 1948 – 1991.” Reading Teacher (January 1992): 362-368. 12 Melanie J. Norton. Introductory Concepts in Information Science. (Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2000), 64. 13 Brittain, 268. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Elizabeth H. Smith, Professor Emeritus, Academic Library Services, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC Katherine M. Wisser, NC ECHO Metadata Coordinator, Duke University, Durham, NC Brenda Ambrose-Fortune, Social Sciences Cataloger, Davis Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC Sarah H. Jeong, Science Librarian, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC Lea Ann Robertson, Ph.D. student, International Development, University of Southern Mississippi http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/lpss/LauraGasaway.doc http://www.m-w.com http://library.law.unc.edu/faculty_services/new_faculty_publications.html http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~palmquis/courses/biblio.html http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/review/6/al_ghamdi.html http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/review/6/al_ghamdi.html