Four Winds on the Grey Landscape: A Review of Four Information Professionals Their Work and Impact on the Field of Grey Literature

A special tribute will be paid at this Fifth International Conference on Grey Literature to four information professionals, who have had long careers in information, who themselves attended and presented papers at the First International Conference on Grey Literature, and who have made lasting contributions to specific areas in the field of grey literature. The four are Vilma Alberani, Italy; Peter Auger, United Kingdom; Ulrich Wattenberg, Germany; and Andrei Zemskov, Russia. Early this summer, each of the four was contacted via GreyNet’s office and was asked to provide bibliographic, autobiographic and other human-interest reference material in an effort to gather firsthand information for the paper and its subsequent presentation. GreyNet also used its website to request from other colleagues secondary information that would contribute in the process of writing this review article. Where historical, biographical, and documentary facts leave off; the author exerts his own prerogative drawing comparisons, forming analyses, and seeking a celebrated closure.