He is the immediate past president of SLA’s Washington, D.C., Chapter and now serves as the chapter’s Webmaster and as convener of the association’s Information Futurist Caucus. He recently helped Gali Halevi of Elsevier to coordinate a one-day seminar, Impact and Productivity Measurements in a Changing Research Environment, at which speakers shared their perspectives on various research metrics. The presentations from the seminar, which was hosted by Elsevier, are available free online at http://rainingdesk.elsevier.com/bibliometrics2010?utm_source=ECU001&utm_campaign=&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&bid=PJFG62F:VLGVS1F.