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This project has taken several years and spanned two countries and several institutions. We have, therefore, many people to thank, and in these few pages we will do those who we mention scant justice. |
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None of the work below would have been possible without the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF EVS grant no. SBR 9514744). |
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We would like to thank our colleagues on the Classification Project, University of Illinois: Stefan Timmermans, Niranjan Karnik, Laura Neumann, Jesper Döpping, Theresa Chi Lin, and Randi Markussen for ongoing discussions and insight. Stefan and Laura assisted with the interviews at Iowa. The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois gave us continual supportwe thank all faculty members and doctoral students there for their unfailing intellectual generosity. We also thank the Advanced Information Technologies Group, University of Illinois, for project support for parts of the study, especially Robert Alun Jones. |
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We are much indebted to the members of the Nursing Interventions Project at the University of Iowa. In particular, Joanne McCloskey and Gloria Bulechek provided many helpful suggestions during conversations. We would further like to thank the following Iowa team members who have graciously allowed us to interview them: Laurie Ackerman, Sally Blackman, Gloria Bulechek, Joan Carter, Jeanette Daly, Janice Denehy, Bill Donahue, Chris Forcucci, Orpha Glick, Mary Kanak, Vicki Kraus, Tom Kruckeberg, Meridean Maas, Joanne McCloskey, Barbara Rakel, Marita Titler, Bonnie Wakefield, and Huibin Yue. Bill Donahue was a great support in facilitating access to the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) list-serve archives and in helping us during our trips to Iowa. |
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