Paying to Read? Peter B. Hirtle

To the Editor: Letters

Taking the British Library Forward in the Twenty-first Century
Lynne Brindley, The British Library

Harvard's Library Digital Initiative: Building a First Generation Digital Library Infrastructure
Dale Flecker, Harvard University Library

Spoken Words, Unspoken Meanings: A DLI2 Project Ethnography
Michael Seadle, Michigan State University

Resource Guide for the Social Sciences: Signposting a Dissemination and Support Route for Barefoot and Meta-librarians in UK Higher Education
Lesly Huxley and Karen Ford, Institute for Learning and Research Technology, University of Bristol

Mireya Mayor, co-principal investigator of the Marojejy project records a blood sample taken from one of the silky sifaka, an all white lemur from Madagascar threatened with extinction.

Photograph by Peter Tyson, Online Producer of NOVA. Copyright 2000 NOVA Online. Used with permission. The NOVA Online collection of web sites is D-Lib Magazine's featured collection this month.

A MAGiC Project
Paul A.S. Needham, Cranfield University

The People's Network
Helen Baigent, Resource: the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries

Building an Audio-visual Digital Library of Historical Documentaries: The ECHO Project
Pasquale Savino, I.E.I - C.N.R.

High Level Thesaurus Project - HILT
Susannah Wake, University of Strathclyde

The Program for Cooperative Cataloging Task Force on Multiple Manifestations of Electronic Resources
Wayne Jones, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Reference 24/7: High Tech or High Touch RUSA President's Program, American Library Association Annual Meeting, 2000
George S. Porter, Caltech

New Developments at the Visual Arts Data Service (News Release)
Philip Pothen, Arts and Humanities Data Service

UC Berkeley Professors Measure Exploding World Production of New Information (Press Release)
Kathleen Maclay, University of California, Berkeley

OCLC Researchers Measure the World Wide Web (Press Release)
Ed O'Neill, OCLC Online Computer Library Center

IFLA Core Programme for the Advancement of Librarianship (ALP) Announces DANIDA Travel Grant 2001
Birgitta Sandell, IFLA ALP

In Print

• White Paper on Electronic Journal Usage Statistics
• Preservation Management of Digital Materials Workbook (Draft):
• NISO Standards
• White Paper: The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value
• Moving Theory into Practice Digital Imaging Tutorial
• Electronic Journals Tutorial
• The 2000 National Survey of Information Technology in US Higher Education: Struggling with IT Staffing
• Texts Available from the First International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval
• Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial
• The Lawyer's Guide to Internet Research

Point to Point

• Digital Reference Services: A Bibliography
• Papers on Document Imaging - Document Management
• Critical Thinking on the Web: A Directory of Quality Online Resources
• Search Tools Chart
• Information Longevity
• Directory of Digitized Collections

Deadline Reminders

• Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium
• CUU 2000: ACM Conference on Universal Usability
• 2nd Schemas Workshop: Publishing and Sharing Your Metadata Application Profile
• 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
• EPublishing Conference 2000
• Participatory Design Conference 2000: Designing Digital Environments -- Bringing in More Voices
• EUNIS 2001: The 7th International Conference of European University Information Systems Conference
• ICHIM 2001: The Sixth International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting
• LAMA National Institute - Vision, Mission and Reality: Creating Libraries for the 21st Century
• Informing Science: Where Parallels Intersect
• 2nd European International Coalition of Library Consortia Conference
• Records Management Association of Australia National Convention 2000: Bridging the Gap
• MALVINE and LEAF. Gateways to Europe�s Cultural Heritage
• Online Information 2000
• XML 2000
• Two CEDARS Project Events Scheduled
• Open Learning 2000 Conference
• ICADL 2000: The 3rd International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries
• Workshop on DOI
• First DELOS Network of Excellence Workshop on "Information Seeking, Searching and Querying in Digital Libraries"
• Knowledge Access Management: Tools & Concepts for Next-Generation Catalogers (An OCLC Institute Seminar
• 9th Special, Health & Law Libraries Conference: Rivers of Knowledge

Calls for Participation

• IFLA International Conference, Section on Education and Training, 16 - 25 August 2001, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 31 December 2000
• EDUCAUSE 2001: An EDU Odyssey, 28 - 31 October 2001, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Call for preconference seminar proposals. The deadline for submission is 31 December 2001
• Annual Conference of the Mid-America American Studies Association, 20 - 21 April 2001, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 3 January 2001
• Sixth International Web Caching and Content Delivery Workshop, 20 - 22 June 2001, Boston Massachusetts, USA. Call for participation. The deadline for submission of proposals is 8 January 2001.
• The First ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 24 - 28 June 2001, Roanoke, Virginia, USA. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 9 January 2001.
• 3rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), 7 - 10 July 2001, Setúbal, Portugal. Call for participation. Proposals for tutorials, workshops and exhibitions are due 31 December 2000. The deadline for proposals for papers is 10 January 2001.
• The First International Workshop on New Developments in Digital Libraries (as part of the ICEIS Conference described above), 6 - 7 July 2001, Setúbal, Portugal. Call for papers. The deadline for submission of papers for this workshop is 10 January 2001.
• ETD 2001, the Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations 22 - 24 March 2001, at Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 15 January 2001.
• The Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers in the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, 13 - 17 June 2001, New York, New York, USA. Call for papers. The deadline for posters and demonstrations, only, is 15 January 2001.
• CAIS 2001 - 29th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science - Beyond the Web: Technologies, Knowledge and People, 27 - 29 May 2001, Quebec, Canada. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 15 January 2001.
• SIGIR 2001 - The 24th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 7 - 12 September 2001, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Call for papers. The deadline for paper submissions is 29 January 2001.
• ECDL 2001: 5th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 4 - 8 September2001, Darmstadt, Germany. Call for papers. The deadline for submission for ALL proposals is 1 April 2001.

Goings On

• Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-34), 3 - 6 January 2001, Outrigger Wailea Resort Maui, Hawaii, USA.
• 8th International Conference on Database Theory: ICDT 2001, 4 - 6 January 2001, London, United Kingdom.
• Equal Access to Software and Information (EASI) Workshop: Barrier-Free Web Design, 8 - 29 January 2001, a distance learning course offered online.
• SAINT-2001: The 2001 Symposium on Applications and the Internet, 8 - 12 January 2001, San Diego, California, USA.
• Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) 2001 Conference: Reconsidering Library and Information Science Education, 9 - 12 January 2001, Washington, D.C., USA.
• Measuring Public Library Network Services: Practical Techniques Workshop, 14 January 2001, Rosslyn, Virginia, USA.
• Information Online 2001 - Digital Dancing: New Steps, New Partners, 16 - 18 January 2001, Sydney, Australia.
• Online Northwest 2001 - Eighteenth Annual Conference: Promoting Innovation and Technology in Libraries, 26 January 2001, Portland, Oregon, USA.
• National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII) Annual Meeting, 28 - 30 January 2001, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
• Open 2001: BOBCATSSS Symposium, 29 - 31 January 2001, Vilnius, Lithuania.
• The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) Fourth International Digitisation Summer School, 8 - 13 July 2001, Glasgow, United Kingdom. Due to limited registration, early enrollment is recommended.
• Digital Cultural Heritage III, 11 - 14 July 2001, Maastricht, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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DOI: 10.1045/november2000-contents

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