A New Feature for D-Lib Magazine
by Bonita Wilson

To the Editor: Letters

Internet Publishing and Beyond: The Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property
Brian Kahin and Hal R. Varian. MIT Press, 2000
Reviewed by: William Y. Arms, Cornell University

This book consists of "...a set of nine essays that examine whether conventional economic models match the realities of digital information."

Image of a DNA molecule courtesy of the Molecule of the Month web site.

Molecule of the Month is D-Lib Magazine's featured collection this month.

Strike Up the Score: Deriving Searchable and Playable Digital Formats from Sheet Music
G. Sayeed Choudhury, Tim DiLauro, Michael Droettboom, Ichiro Fujinaga and Karl MacMillan, Johns Hopkins University

Smart Objects and Open Archives
Michael L. Nelson, NASA Langley Research Center, and Kurt Maly, Old Dominion University

Building the Archives of the Future: Advances in Preserving Electronic Records at the National Archives and Records Administration
Kenneth Thibodeau, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

From the Digitized to the Digital Library
Manfred Thaller, University of Cologne

Molecule of the Month
Dr. Paul May, University of Bristol

Leading Edge Metadata Workshop In Melbourne: An Australasian Perspective on the Critical Metadata Research Issues
Jane Hunter and Nigel Ward, University of Queensland

Towards a Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK
Neil Beagrie, Joint Information Systems Committee

New Listserv for the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER)
Alicia Wise, Joint Information Systems Committee

An International Training Programme: STIMULATE: Scientific and Technological Information Management in Universities and Libraries -- an Active Training Environment
Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

The 21st-Century Librarian Award
Kizer Walker, Syracuse University

Classification Web: Pilot Test Offers Library of Congress Classification on the World Wide Web (Press Release)
Peter Seligman, Library of Congress

$148 Million in Federal Grants for Essential Library Services
Institute of Museum and Library Services

ARNO Project Launched
Kurt De Belder, University of Amsterdam

Digital Production Centre Established at the University of Amsterdam
Kurt De Belder, University of Amsterdam

Also in the News: Excerpts from Recent Press Releases

In Print

• Standards for Electronic Publishing: An Overview
• Changing Trains at Wigan: Digital Preservation and the Future of Scholarship
• Safeguarding Australia’s web resources: guidelines for creators and publishers
• Working with the DNER; Standards and Guidelines to Build a National Resource
• Assessing Digital Library Services
• Digital Imaging: a Practical Handbook

Deadline Reminders

• Hypertext 2001: 12th ACM Conference Hypertext and Hypermedia
• VLDB 2001: 27th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
• Interact 2001: Eighth IFIP TC.13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
• EduTex Regional Conference
• DRH2001: Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities
• NFAIS 2001 Annual Conference: Networking @ Internet Speed
• KDD-2001: The 7th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
• ED-MEDIA: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications
• ACM Multimedia 2001: Multimedia at the Dawn of the Millennium
• SIGIR 2001 - The 24th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
• 5th International Conference on Electronic Publishing - ELPUB2001: 2001 in the Digital Publishing Odyssey
• Education Odyssey: Continuing the Journey through Adaptation and Innovation
• The Second International Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers
• Public Library Association (PLA) Spring Symposium
• Libraries Without Walls 4 - The Delivery of Library Services to Distant Users: Distributed Resources - Distributed Learning
• Copyright Town Meeting 2001
• Computers, Freedom and Privacy 2001
• AMIA 2001 - A Medical Informatics Odyssey
• ACM1: Beyond Cyberspace, A Journey of Many Directions
• Computers in Libraries
• Museums and the Web 2001
• National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library
• The Second IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia
• ACRL 10th National Conference (ACRL X): Crossing the Digital Divide
• The North East Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) - E-learning: Enhancing Education In and Out of the Classroom
• Ebooks 2001 Conference
• 4th British-Nordic Conference: Library and Information Studies
• ETD 2001: The Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations
• Third USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
• EUNIS 2001: The 7th International Congress of European University Information Systems
• Digital Libraries: Advanced Methods and Technologies, Digital Collections: Third All-Russian Scientific Conference

Calls for Participation

• Cross-Language Evaluation Forum
• 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.
• Upcoming Book from the American Library Association on Digital Licensing
• National Leadership Grants for Library-Museum Collaborations. The deadline for applications for these grants is 1 April 2001.
• The 3rd Annual Digital Reference Conference, 12 - 13 November 2001, Orlando, Florida, USA. Call for papers. The deadline for submission of papers is 2 April 2001.
• International Workshop on Digital Libraries, 3 - 7 September 2001, Munich, Germany. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 8 April 2001
• Eighth International Conference - Crimea 2001 - Libraries and Associations in the Transient World: New Technologies and New Forms of Cooperation, 9 - 17 June 2001, Sudak, Crimea. Call for papers. The deadline for submission of papers is 10 April 2001.
• National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library, Program Solicitation: NSF 01-55. The deadline for submission of optional Letters of Intent is 15 March 2001. The deadline for full proposals is 11 April 2001.
• IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship. The application deadline for this Fellowship is 26 April 2001.
• MCN2001: The Annual Conference of the Museum Computer Network , 24 - 27 October 2001, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 30 April 2001.

Goings On

• 20th ICDE (International Council for Open and Distance Education) World Conference , 1 - 5 April 2001, Düsseldorf, Germany.
• Issues in Digital Librarianship: Accessing the Future, 2 - 3 April 2001, British Library Conference Center, London, United Kingdom.
• Computers and Learning CAL2001 Conference: Learning Across the Ages - Looking Back and Looking Forwards, 2 - 4 April 2001, University of Warwick, Warwick, United Kingdom.
• First SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 5 - 7 April 2001, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• Search Engines: Diversity and Controversy - The Sixth Search Engine Meeting, 9 - 10 April 2001, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• First International Conference on Human Aspects of the Information Society, 9 - 11 April 2001, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
• WIIW 2001: International Workshop on Information Integration on the Web - Technologies and Applications, 9 - 11 April 2001, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Networking 2001, 10 - 12 April 2001, Washington, DC, USA.
• The Fifth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 16 - 18 April 2001, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
• HPC 2001 - High Performance Computing Symposium: Grand Challenges in Computer Simulation, 22 - 26 April 2001, Seattle, Washington, USA.
• DAC 2001 - Fourth International Digital Arts and Culture Conference, 26 - 28 April 2001, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
• International Graduate Summer School in Library and Information Science: iGSS 2001, 23 June - 20th July 2001, Aberystwyth, Wales.

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DOI: 10.1045/february2001-contents

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