D-Lib Magazine (December 2000)

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	Guest Commentary: E-Book Literacy by Robert Bolick, McGraw-Hill To the Editor: Letters From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked World Christine Borgman. MIT Press, 2000 Reviewed by: Edward A. Galloway, University of Pittsburgh "...The book synthesizes her earlier journal articles that were based on extensive empirical research..." PhysDoc: A Distributed Network of Physics Institutions Collecting, Indexing, and Searching High Quality Documents by using Harvest Thomas Severiens, Michael Hohlfeld, Kerstin Zimmermann, Eberhard R. Hilf, Carl von Ossietzky-University Oldenburg The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Mission, Current Activities, and Future Directions Stuart L. Weibel, OCLC Office of Research, and Traugott Koch, NETLAB Information Services for Higher Education: A New Competitive Space Carol Ann Hughes, Questia Media, Inc. Intellectual Property Conservancies David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics	Bust of Beatrice of Aragon Francesco Laurana, Italian, c.1430-c.1502 Beatrice of Aragon, Probably 1470-1479 Marble, H. 16 in. x W. 15 7/8 in. x D. 7 7/8 in. The Frick Collection, New York, NY, USA Bequest of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 1961 61.2.86 The AMICO Library: TFC_.19612086 © 1998 The Frick Collection, New York. Used with permission. The AMICO Library is D-Lib Magazine's featured collection this month.
	Report on the Virtual Reference Desk Conference October 2000, Seattle, Washington Roxanne Missingham, National Library of Australia NKOS Group Reviews Draft DTD for Thesauri Gail Hodge, Information International Associates, Inc. Taxanomic Databases Working Group Meeting TDWG 2000 - Digitizing Biological Collections Walter G. Berendsohn, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem Nupedia.com: The Open Content Encyclopedia Lawrence M. Sanger, Ph.D., Nupedia NoVA - Non-Visual Access to the Digital Library Jenny Craven, CERLIM, Manchester Metropolitan University NASIG Seeks Applicants for Student Grants and for the Fritz Schwartz Serials Education Scholarship Anne E. McKee, The North American Serials Interest Group, Inc. E-Learning Takes Important Step Forward (Press Release) Stuart Weibel and Eric Miller, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative First Personalized Alert Service for Preprints Walter Warnick, OSTI, U.S. Department of Energy IDEALOnDemand Now Offers Pay-Per-View Access To All Journal Articles Published on IDEAL® (Press Release) Daria DeCooman, Academic Press 29 Leading Ecology Journals Now Available Online (News Release) Carol MacAdam, JSTOR
	*In Print* Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access Impacts of the Internet on Public Library Use: An Analysis of the Current Consumer Market for Library and Internet Services Information Technologies and Social Transformation Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large *Point to Point* Version 34, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography eSpectra UK Online Citizen Portal Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information *Deadline Reminders* IFLA International Conference, Section on Education and Training EDUCAUSE 2001: An EDU Odyssey Annual Conference of the Mid-America American Studies Association Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-34) 8th International Conference on Database Theory: ICDT 2001 XML Europe 2001 SAINT-2001: The 2001 Symposium on Applications and the Internet Equal Access to Software and Information (EASI) Workshop: Barrier-Free Web Design The First ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) 2001 Conference 3rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) The First International Workshop on New Developments in Digital Libraries Measuring Public Library Network Services: Practical Techniques Workshop ETD 2001, the Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations The Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing CAIS 2001 - 29th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science - Beyond the Web: Technologies, Knowledge and People Information Online 2001 - Digital Dancing: New Steps, New Partners Open Meeting of the Open Archives Initiative Online Northwest 2001 - Eighteenth Annual Conference: Promoting Innovation and Technology in Libraries National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII) Annual Meeting SIGIR 2001 - The 24th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval Open 2001: BOBCATSSS Symposium *Calls for Participation* 27th International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) Conference: IASSIST/IFDO 2001 14 - 19 May 2001 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Call for proposals. The deadline for submission is 22 January 2001. 10th Pacific Science Inter-Congress 1 - 6 June 2001, Tumon, Guam. Call for papers. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 1 February 2001. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for Libraries Call for participation. The deadline for grant application is 1 February 2001. Computing Arts: Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities 2001 26 - 28 September 2001, Sydney, Australia. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 16 February 2001. Hypertext 2001 - The 12th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia: Transforming Information, Entertainment, and Culture 14 - 18 August 2001, Arhus, Denmark. Call for participation. The submission deadline is 16 February 2001. VLDB 2001: 27th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases 11 - 14 September 2001, Roma, Italy. Call for papers. The submission deadline for abstracts is 19 February 2001. KDD-2001: The 7th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 26 - 29 August 2001, San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline for abstracts is 26 February 2001. ECDL 2001: 5th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 4 - 8 September 2001, Darmstadt, Germany. Call for papers. The deadline for submission for ALL proposals is 1 April 2001. CIMI-MCN 2001 - Real Life: Virtual Experiences, New Connections for Museum Visitors 24 - 27 October 2001, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 30 April 2001. *Goings On* Open Meeting of the Open Archives Initiative 23 January 2001, Washington, D.C., USA. There is no fee to attend this meeting, but space is limited and early registration is encouraged. Arts and Humanities Online one-day seminars held on various dates and locations. Please see description for details. American Association for History and Computing Annual Meeting 1 - 3 February 2001, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. ASIS Summit 2001: Practicing Information Architecture 2 - 4 February 2001, San Francisco, California, USA. WSCG'2001: The 9th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 5 - 9 February 2001, Plzen, Czech Republic. The R&D Management 2001 Conference 7 - 9 February 2001, Wellington, New Zealand. EduTex Regional Conference 21 - 23 February 2001, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Public Library Association (PLA) Spring Symposium 1 - 3 March 2001, Chicago, Illinois, USA. ACM1: Beyond Cyberspace, A Journey of Many Directions 10 - 14 March 2001, San Jose, California, USA. Computers in Libraries 2001 14 - 16 March 2001, Washington, D.C., USA. Museums and the Web 2001 14 - 17 March 2001, Seattle, Washington, USA. ACRLX - 10th National Conference: Crossing the Divide 15 - 18 March 2001, Denver, Colorado, USA.
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