Robert C. Heterick, Jr.


Recent Publications


Book Chapters

"Foreword", Community Networks: Lessons from Blacksburg, Virginia, Andrew Cohill and Andrea Kavanaugh, Editors, Artech House Publishers, Norwood, MA, 1997.

"Are Libraries Necessary in the Electronic Environment", The National Electronic Library, Gary M. Pitkin, Editor, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1996.

"Information Technology and the Year 2020", Battledoor: Handbook on Academic Preparation for the Millennium, University of South Carolina Press, 1995. (with John Gehl)

"A Dialogue Concerning Two New Sciences", Academic Libraries: Their Rationale and Role in American Higher Education, Gerard B. McCabe and Ruth J. Person, Editors, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1995. (with Paul Gherman)

"The Institutional Perspective", The Evolution of Library Automation: Management Issues and Future Perspectives, Gary M. Pitkin, Editor, Meckler Publishing, Westport, CT, 1991.


Monographs and Reports

"The Public Policy Implications of a Global Learning Infrastructure", Robert C. Heterick, Jr., James R. Mingle, and Carol A. Twigg, NLII/SHEEO seminar, Educom, November 1997.
http://www.educause.edu/nlii/keydocs/policy.html
"Maybe Adam Smith Had It Right", Reflections on Leadership, CAUSE Professional Paper Series, #15, (Boulder: CAUSE Inc..), December 1996.
http://www.educause.edu/asp/doclib/abstract.asp?ID=pub3015
A National Learning Infrastructure, Keynote Address, National Learning Infrastructure Initiative, New Orleans, 1995.
http://www.educause.edu/nlii/meetings/orleans95/heterick.neworleans.html
Reengineering Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Sheltered Groves, Camelot, Windmills and Malls , R. C. Heterick, Jr., editor (Boulder: CAUSE Inc.), March 1993.
http://www.educause.edu/asp/doclib/abstract.asp?ID=pub3010
A Single System Image: An Information Systems Strategy, (Boulder: CAUSE Inc.), June 1988.



Journal Articles

"Through A Glass, Darkly", Ubiquity, Association of Computing Machinery, Issue 4, (March 13, 2000).
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/r_heterick_1.html
"Inadequate Dogmas: New Thinking for New Times", Educom Review, Volume 33, Number 2, (March/April 1998).
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/33260.html
"Will Technology Transform Education?", Planning for Higher Education, Volume 26, Winter 1997-98.

"Willie Mays Notwithstanding", Educom Review, Volume 32, Number 4, (July/August 1997).
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/32456.html
"Creative Destruction", Educom Review, Volume 32, Number 3 (May/June 1997).
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/32318.html
"Interpolating the Future", Educom Review, Volume 31, Number 6, (November/December 1966). (with Carol Twigg).
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/32160.html
"The Old Regime and the New Order", Educom Review, Volume 31, Number 5, (September/October 1996).
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/31560.html
"A Platonic Paradox", Educom Review, Volume 31, Number 3, (May/June 1996).
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/31360.html
"Getting Organized", Educom Review, Volume 31, Number 2, (March/April 1996).
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/31260.html
"Rechecking the Weather", Educom Review, Volume 31, Number 1, (January/February 1996).
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/31160.html
"The Cost Conundrum", Educom Review, Volume 30, Number 6 (November/December 1995).
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/30660.html
"The Aggregation Mire", Educom Review, Volume 30, Number 5, (September/October 1995).
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/30560.html
"The Four Horsemen", Educom Review, Volume 30, Number 4, (July/August 1995).
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/30460.html
"The Virtual University", Educom Review, Volume 30, Number 3, (May/June 1995).

"Overcoming Murphy", Educom Review, Volume 30, Number 2, (March/April 1995).
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/30260.html
"Engineers and Ivory Towers", CAUSE/EFFECT, Volume 18, No. 1 (Spring 1995).
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/text/cem9515.txt
"The Dreaded 'P' Word", Educom Review, Volume 30, Number 1 (January/February 1995).
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/30168.html
"Information Technology and the Year 2020", Educom Review, Volume 30, Number 1 (January/February 1995). (with John Gehl).
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/30122.html
"A Stone Soup", Educom Review, Volume 29, Number 6, (November/December 1994).
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/29664.html
"Three-Legged-Chicken Breeding and Other Investment Strategies", Educom Review, Volume 29, Number 5, (September/October 1994).
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/29576.html
"The Electronic Paradigm for Scholarly Information", Educom Review, Volume 29, Number 4, (July/August 1994).
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/29468.html
"Is Virginia Ready for the Information Age?", Virginia Issues & Answers, Volume One, Number Two (Summer 1994). (with Erv Blythe)
http://www.unirel.vt.edu/via/summer94/infoage.html

"The Shoemaker's Children", Educom Review, Volume 29, Number 3, (May/June 1994).
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/29360.html
"The First Law of Change", EDUCOM Review, Volume 29, Number 2, (March/April 1994).
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/29216.html
"A New Order of Things", EDUCOM Review, Volume 29, Number 1, (January/February 1994).
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/29168.html
"Too Smart Is Dumb", EDUCOM Review, Volume 28, Number 6 (November/December 1993).

"From Plutocracy to Pluralism: Managing the Emerging Technostructure", EDUCOM Review, Volume 28, Number 5 (September/October 1993). (with William H. Sanders)
http://tecfa.unige.ch/pub/documentation/Internet-Resources/information-systems/Managing-the-Emerging-Technostructure-Heterick.text

"A Malthusian Solution?", EDUCOM Review, Volume 28, Number 5 (September/October 1993).

"The Blacksburg Electronic Village: A Field Of Dreams", Information Technology and Libraries, American Library Association, June 1993.

"Where Is the E in the NII", EDUCOM Review, Volume 28, Number 4 (July/August 1993).

"You Can Make It Secure or You Can Make It Accessible", EDUCOM Review, Volume 28, Number 3 (May/June 1993).

"An Unsurmountable Opportunity", EDUCOM Review, Volume 28, Number 2 (March/April 1993).

"If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It", EDUCOM Review, Volume 28, Number 1 (January/February 1993).

"Operating in the 90's", EDUCOM Review, Volume 27, Number 4 (July/August 1992).

"Huxley's Hubris", EDUCOM Review, Volume 26, Number 3/4 (Fall/Winter 1991).

"Academic Sacred Cows and Exponential Growth", CAUSE/EFFECT, Volume 14, Number 1 (Spring 1991).

".Less is More", CAUSE/EFFECT, Volume 13, Number 3 (Fall 1990).

"Networked Information: What Can We Expect and When?", CAUSE/EFFECT, Volume 13, Number 2 (Summer 1990).

"The Rise of the Network Nomad", CAUSE/EFFECT, Volume 13, Number 1 (Spring 1990).


Proceedings Papers

"Managing Intellectual Property on the Net", What's Fair? A Report on the Proceedings of the National Conference on Educational Fair Access and the New Media, TECHNOS Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 1994.
http://www.technos.net/proceed/RHeterick.htm

"The Electronic Information Era: A Vision of the Future", Proceedings of the Annual FLICC Forum on Federal Information Policies, Federal Library and Information Center Committee, Library of Congress, March 1993.

"Challenges and Opportunities", Proceedings of CAUSE 90, CAUSE Inc., December 1990.


Electronic Newsletters

"The Learning MarketSpace", A publication of the Center for Academic Technology at Rennsealear Polytechnic Institute.
http://www.center.rpi.edu/LForum/LdfLM.html





For more information, please send mail to heterick@vt.edu.