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Alastair Smith teaches in the Information Studies group of the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington.

Alastair can be contacted by:

• Email: Alastair.Smith @ vuw.ac.nz
• Phone: +64 4 463 5785
• Fax: +64 4 463 5446
• Post: School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand/Aotearoa
• Visits in person: Room RH426, Rutherford House, Pipitea Campus.

Teaching

Teaches continuing education courses for librarians (contact VUW Centre for Continuing Education/Te Whare Pukenga for details):

• Searching the Internet effectively, a course in Internet research.

While Alastair's students do learn quite rapidly, Alastair is not an expert in Accelerated Learning. If this is your interest, you might want to try his namesake Alistair Smith (who seems an nice chap, apart from spelling his name wrong!)

Research Interests

Application of computers and networks to information retrieval of document-based information. Particular interests are

• investigating the types of links made between websites, and reasons for linking, in order to have better understanding of web link counts as a measure of importance of websites.
• strategies and tactics for searching web based information.

Maintains the WWW Virtual Library section on Evaluation of information sources. On the editorial boards of Cybermetrics, the Journal of Web Librarianship, and Information Science Research. .

External

Alastair is also interested in cycling, tramping, and travel. His book, Everyday Cycling in Aotearoa New Zealand, has been published by Awa Press.

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