Rob Kling [obituary]

Recounts the life and professional achievements of Rob Kling. Rob Kling was born August 1944 and died 15 May 2003. He was one of the foremost authorities in the US on the social aspects of information technology. His more than 85 scholarly articles and book chapters addressed issues from computer reasoning through computer- related public policy issues to the influence of computers on office work and the ideological aspects of computerization. His coedited books included a collection on postsuburban California and another on high technology in local government. At the time of his death, he was working primarily on issues around electronic scholarly publishing and digital libraries.