'Tis the Season
by Bonita Wilson

To the Editor: Letters

Distributed Interoperable Metadata Registry
Christophe Blanchi and Jason Petrone, Corporation for National Research Initiatives

How Do Physicists Use an E-Print Archive? Implications for Institutional E-Print Services
Stephen Pinfield, University of Nottingham

A Framework for Building Open Digital Libraries
Hussein Suleman and Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech

Implementing Digital Sanborn Maps for Ohio: OhioLINK and OPLIN Collaborative Project
Charly Bauer, OhioLINK, and Carol Lynn Roddy, OPLIN

American Society for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting (ASIST 2001): Information in a Networked World: Harnessing the Flow, 2 - 8 November 2001, Washington DC
Sally Jo Cunningham, University of Waikato

AM Lightning, a plasma sculpture by Exploratorium artist-in-residence, Bill Parker.
Copyright 2001 Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu. Used with permission. Exploratorium is D-Lib Magazine's featured collection this month.

The Exploratorium
Kurt E. Feichtmeir, Exploratorium

RQL: A Declarative Query Language for RDF
Greg Karvounarakis, Vassilis Christophides, and Dimitris Plexousakis, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH

DP9 Service Provider for Web Crawlers
Xiaoming Liu, Old Dominion University

RDN-include Takes the RDN on to University and College Web Sites
Philip Pothen, Resource Discovery Network (RDN)

The EDC Gender and Science Digital Library Project
Sarita Nair, Education Development Center, Inc.

The CEDARS Project Website
Maggie Jones, University of Leeds

Library Research Seminar II: A Research Conference for Scholars, Practitioners, and Students
Bill Edgar, University of Arizona

In the News: Recent Press Releases and Announcements

In Print

• The Evidence in Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections
• Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment
• Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits
• HEADLINE Evaluation Report - PIE Evaluation Report: Phase Two
• INSPIRAL Final Report
• Database Selection in Distributed Information Retrieval: A Study of Multi-Collection Information Retrieval
• Bibliometrics of electronic journals in information science

Point to Point

• Resources for Professional Education & Grant Writing
• Digital Continuity Forum
• The 21st Century Learner Resource Listing
• "What's in the other free e-journals?"
• Version 40, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

Calls for Participation

• 8th Annual Reference Research Forum, Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), American Library Association Annual Conference 2002, 13 - 19 June 2002, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Call for Submissions. Deadline extended to 1 January 2002.
• New Directions in Humanities Computing, Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities, 24 - 28 July 2002, Tübingen, Germany. Call for Software Demonstration Proposals. The submission deadline is 15 January 2002.
• The eContent Programme, European support for information society projects. Call for Project Proposals. The submission deadline is 1 February 2002.
• The Fifth International Conference on Virtual Communities, 17 - 18 June 2002, Westminster, London, United Kingdom. Call for proposals. The submission deadline is 14 February 2002.
• IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2002), 26 - 29 August 2002, Lausanne, Switzerland. Call for Papers. The submission deadline is 15 February 2002.
• ELPUB2002: Technology Interactions, ICCC/EFIP 6th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 6 - 9 November 2002, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. Call for Papers. The deadline for abstracts is 15 February 2002.
• The Challenge of Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2002), 18 - 19 July 2002, London, United Kingdom. Call for Papers. The deadline for submission of full papers is 4 March 2002.
• Ariadne Magazine, Copy Deadline and Publication Dates for 2002 Quarterly Issues. The Copy Deadline for Issue 31 is 4 March 2002.
• AUSWEB02, 6 - 10 July 2002, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. Call for Papers. The submission deadline for full papers is 11 March 2002.
• CATaC'02 - The Net(s) of Power: Language, Culture and Technology, International Conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication, 12 - 15 July 2002, Montréal, Canada. Call for Papers. The submission deadline is 15 March 2002.
• Digital Library -- IT Opportunities and Challenges in the New Millennium, An International Conference, 9 - 11 July 2002, Beijing, China. Call for Papers. Papers must be received by 31 March 2002.
• National Leadership Grants for Library-Museum Collaborations, Institute of Museum and Library Services. Call for Grant Applications. The submission deadline is 1 April 2002.
• ICONIP'02, SEAL'02, FSKD'02, 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning, 2002 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, 18 - 22 November 2002, Convention City, Singapore. Call for Papers. The submission deadline is 30 April 2002.

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Goings On

• High Quality Information For Everyone and What It Costs, 6th European Bielefeld Colloqium, 5 - 7 February 2002, Bielefeld, Germany.
• VALA2002: e-volving Information Futures, 6 - 8 February 2002, Melbourne, Australia.
• Seminar on Digital Preservation of the Record of Science- state of the art, International Council for Scientific and Technical Information, 14 - 15 February 2002, Paris, France.
• EduTex Regional Conference: IT-Through HE** or High Water, 20 - 22 February 2002, Austin, Texas, USA.
• 2001 National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS) Annual Conference, Integrating @ Internet Speed: Strategies for the Content Community, 24 - 27 February 2002, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
• Online Northwest: promoting innovation and technology in libraries, Oregon University System Library Council, 1 March 2002, Eugene, Oregon, USA.
• International Spring School on the Digital Library and E-publishing for Science and Technology, 3 - 8 March 2002, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ALCTS AACR2 and Metadata Institute, 8 - 9 March 2002, San Diego, California, USA.
• ACM SAC 2002: Special Track on Database and Digital Library Technologies, 10 - 14 March 2002, Madrid, Spain.
• Computers in Libraries 2001, 13 - 15 March 2002, Washington, DC, USA.
• NERCOMP 2002 Annual Conference, New Directions in Collaboration: Support, Strategy, Content, Emerging Technologies, and Infrastructure, 17 - 19 March 2002, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
• Internet Librarian International, 18 - 20 March 2002, London, United Kingdom.
• EVA (Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts) 2002 Florence: The New Renaissance, 25 - 29 March 2002, Florence, Italy.

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Deadline Reminders

• The 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
• ACM SIGWEB 2002 Hypertext Conference
• American Historical Association 2002 Annual Meeting
• 2002 LITA National Forum - Making Connections
• Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
• IASSIST 2002 - Accelerating Access, Collaboration and Dissemination
• The 3rd Annual Information Architecture Summit - Refining our Craft
• ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
• LIVE!@yourlibrary: Building Cultural Communities
• CoLIS4 - Emerging Frameworks and Methods
• CAIS/ACSI 2002 - Advancing Knowledge: Expanding Horizons for Information Science
• INFO'2002 - Information, Knowledge and Society. Challenges of a New Era
• ALISE Conference 2002 - Jazz Mosaic: Faculty Recruitment in a New Key
• Knowledge Access Management: Tools and Concepts for Next-Generation Catalogers
• NLII 2002 - Innovative Practice, Policy, and Partnerships: A New Alignment
• 25th ACM SIGIR 2002 Conference: Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
• BOBCATSSS 2002 - Human Beings and Information Specialists
• SAINT-2002: Sharing an Internet Vision
• OCLC Systems & Services
• Trans-European Telecommunication Networks for Access to Europe's Cultural Heritage
• American Library Association Poster Sessions
• Super Conference 2002

(On December 18, 2001, the subtitle for the ASIST Meeting was corrected from "Harvesting the Flow" to "Harnessing the Flow".)

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DOI: 10.1045/december2001-contents

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