2000 inFIRE Annual Conference
Organized by Institute for Research in Construction (IRC), National Research Council of Canada (NRC),
Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | May 9-12
About the Conference
Theme: Fire Information in the New Millennium: Challenges and Opportunities
Conference Program
Presentations
Tuesday 9th May
- Consideration of Reliability and Performance of Fire Protection Systems in FiRECAM
Dr. David Yung, Institute for Research in Construction, NRC, Canada - Mapping Multiple Vocabularies for Better Subject Access to Fire Science
Materials
Lian Ruan, Librarian, Illinois Fire Service Institute, USA
Wednesday 10th May
- An Automatic System for Monitoring and Mapping Forest Fires, Scars and Smoke from
Satellite
Dr. Robert Fraser, Canada Center for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada. - A Field Study on Photoluminescent Signage Used to Guide Building Occupants to Exits in Complete
Darkness
Dr. Guylène Proulx, Institute for Research in Construction, NRC, Canada - Electronic Libraries: Challenges to Bibliographic Instruction at the Institute for Research in Construction
Ian Henderson, Information Specialist, Institute for Research in Construction, NRC, Canada - Creating a Virtual Library at the National Research Council of Canada
Scott Mellon, Project Coordinator, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), NRC, Canada
Thursday 11th May
- The Canadian Fire Service - Overview
Gary Richardson, Ottawa Fire Chief, Ottawa, Canada - Protective Clothing for Firefighters - Research at the National Research Council of
Canada
Dr. David Torvi, Institute for Research in Construction, NRC, Canada - inFIRE - A Short History [html]
Nora H. Jason, Manager, Fire Research Information Services, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA - Teaching Fire Science and Fire 11:00am Protection Engineering to University Engineering Students
Dr. David Torvi, Institute for Research in Construction, NRC, Canada - Fire and Emergency Services - A Snapshot of Western Australia
Elizabeth Hides, Manager, Information Resources, Fire & Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia - A Customer-Defined Library Service for Emergency Services Personnel
Jill Don, Librarian-in-Charge, Dept. of Emergency Services, Queensland, Australia - 'Virtually Yours': Searching the Web
Ann Kelly, International Association of Fire Chiefs; Chris Dahms, Nuclear Service Organization, USA
Proceedings
Tuesday 9th May
- Consideration of Reliability and Performance of Fire Protection Systems in
FiRECAM
Dr. David Yung, Institute for Research in Construction, NRC, Canada - Mapping Multiple Vocabularies for Better Subject Access to Fire Science
Materials
Lian Ruan, Librarian, Illinois Fire Service Institute, USA
Wednesday 10th May
- An Automatic System for Monitoring and Mapping Forest Fires, Scars and Smoke from
Satellite
Dr. Robert Fraser, Canada Center for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada. - A Field Study on Photoluminescent Signage Used to Guide Building Occupants to Exits
in Complete Darkness
Dr. Guylène Proulx, Institute for Research in Construction, NRC, Canada - Electronic Libraries: Challenges to Bibliographic Instruction at the Institute
for Research in Construction
Ian Henderson, Information Specialist, Institute for Research in Construction, NRC, Canada - Creating a Virtual Library at the National Research Council of Canada
Scott Mellon, Project Coordinator, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), NRC, Canada
Thursday 11th May
- Protective Clothing for Firefighters - Research at the National Research Council of
Canada
Dr. David Torvi, Institute for Research in Construction, NRC, Canada - Teaching Fire Science and Fire Protection Engineering to University Engineering
Students
Dr. David Torvi, Institute for Research in Construction, NRC, Canada - A Customer-Defined Library Service for Emergency Services Personnel
Jill Don, Librarian-in-Charge, Dept. of Emergency Services, Queensland, Australia - Fire and Emergency Services - A Snapshot of Western Australia
Elizabeth Hides, Manager, Information Resources, Fire & Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia - 'Virtually Yours': Searching the Web
Ann Kelly, International Association of Fire Chiefs, USA
Chris Dahms, Nuclear Service Organization, USA - inFIRE - A Short History
Nora H. Jason, Manager, Fire Research Information Services, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA - The Canadian Fire Service - Overview
Gary Richardson, Ottawa Fire Chief, Ottawa, Canada