D-Lib Magazine (February 2003)

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	A Special Issue on Digital Reference by Bonita Wilson Digital Reference: An Overview Guest Editorial by Joanne Silverstein, Syracuse University Letters To the editor: From Karen SchneiderLibrarians' Index to the Internet Authors' response to Karen Schneider's letter: From Steve Mitchell, Margaret Mooney, and Julie Mason, INFOMINE Coordinators	Noternigonus crysoleucas (golden shiner) cleared and stained, lateral view. University of Michigan Zoology Museum, Fish Division. Used with permission. Flora and Fauna of the Great Lakes Region is D-Lib Magazine's featured collection this month.
	Current State of Digital Reference in Primary and Secondary Education R. David Lankes, Syracuse University The Technological Challenges of Digital Reference: An Overview Jeffrey Penka, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Question Negotiation and the Technological Environment Joseph Janes, University of Washington and Joanne Silverstein, Syracuse University Evaluation of Chat Reference Service Quality: Pilot Study Marilyn Domas White, Eileen Abels, and Neal Kaske, University of Maryland Visual Resource Reference: Collaboration Between Digital Museums and Digital Libraries Abby A. Goodrum, Syracuse University The Virtual Reference Librarian's Handbook by Anne Grodzins Lipow, Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., January 2003 Reviewed by: Jennifer Barth and Kate Bejune, AskERIC "...the book would be helpful for all virtual librarians, regardless of how far along they might be in implementing their own services." Flora and Fauna of the Great Lakes Region Terri Geitgey, University of Michigan Report on the First AHDS Copyright and Digitisation Workshop Iain Wallace, Performing Arts Data Service Getting a Handle on Federal Information: Persistent Identification Using Handles Laurence Lannom, Corporation for National Research Initiatives Report on the 4th Annual Virtual Reference Desk (VRD) Conference Joanne Silverstein, Syracuse University Multilingual Applications of the DOI: the mEDRA Project Sergio Bernardi and Gabriella Scipione, Cineca Report on the Digital Reference Symposium Joanne Silverstein, Syracuse University Top Issues Facing Distance Education and eLearning Professionals in 2003 William Winfield, University of Wisconsin, Madison ParaTools Reference Parsing Toolkit - Version 1.0 Released Mike Jewell, University of Southampton In the News: Recent Press Releases and Announcements
	*In Print* Intellectual Property on the Internet: A Survey of Issues The Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning from September 11 Creating and Using Virtual Reality: a Guide for the Arts and Humanities Digital Libraries SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide CD Forum Guidance Papers Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure: Report of the NSF Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure ZETOC Evaluation Report ISMIR 2002 Conference Proceedings *Point to Point* Library News Daily Office of News and Public Information EdNA Online MyLifeBits Project Music-IR.org Open Access to Scientific and Technical Information: State of the Art and Future Trends - Multimedia Meeting Proceedings *Calls for Participation* VRD 2003, The Virtual Reference Desk 5th Annual Conference, "Reference Roundup", Fall of 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Call for Proposals. The deadline for submission will become available in February 2003 DAFx-03, 6th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, 8 - 11 September 2003, London, United Kingdom. Call for Papers. The exact deadline for submission is not yet available but could be as early as April 2003 EEI21 - 2003, Ethics of Electronic Information in the 21st Century (EEI21) Symposium, 23 - 26 October 2003, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Call for Papers. The deadline for submission is 4 April 2003 National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL), National Science Foundation. The deadline for submission of full proposals is 21 April 2003. Letters of Intent are optional but if submitted are due by 12 March 2003 ISMIR 2003, The International Conferences on Music Information Retrieval and Related Activities, 26 - 30 October 2003, Washington, D.C., USA. Call for Papers. The deadline for submission of full proposals is 25 April 2003 DC2003, 2003 Dublin Core Conference, Supporting Communities of Discourse and Practice—Metadata Research and Applications, 28 September - 2 October 2003, Seattle, Washington, USA. Call for Papers and Posters. The deadline for submission is 3 May 2003 2003 International Conference on CYBERWORLDS, 3 - 5 December 2003, Singapore. Call for Submission. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 5 May 2003 Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2003. Call for Papers. The deadline for participant submissions 15 May 2003 WRSM 2003, Workshop on Reliable and Secure Middleware, 3 - 7 November 2003, Sicily, Italy. Part of DOA 2003. Call for Papers. The deadline for submission is 15 June 2003 DOA/OBASE/CoopIS 2003, International Federated Conferences, "On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems and Ubiquitous Computing", 3 - 7 November 2003, Sicily, Italy. Call for Papers. The submission deadline for each conference is 15 June 2003 *Goings On* Digital Library Competence Center, March - April Courses, Piza, Italy Preservation and Conservation Issues Related to Digital Printing and Digital Photography, Second International Conference, London, United Kingdom. The date has been changed to 24 - 25 March 2003 Texas Library Association, Libraries: Freedom in Action, 1 - 4 April 2003, Houston, Texas, USA CFP 2003, 13th Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy, Freedom to Move Think and Speak!, 1 - 4 April 2003, New York, New York, USA ELAG 2003, 27th Library Systems Seminar, Cross Language Applications and the Web, European Library Automation Group, 2 - 4 April 2003, Bern, Switzerland Copyright in the Digital Age: Challenges Facing the Academy, 3 - 4 April 2003, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA 8th Annual Search Engine Meeting, The Synergy between Search, Systems and Information, 7 - 8 April 2003, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Scholarly Publishing and Archiving on the Web: New Opportunities, 7 April 2003, Albany, New York, USA. The deadline for registration is 1 April 2003 Long-term Preservation of Databases, ERPANET, Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network, 9 - 11 April 2003, Bern, Switzerland Future proof: delivering scientific archives in the twenty-first century, 9 - 11 April 2003, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom ACRL 11th National Conference, Learning to Make a Difference, Association of College and Research Libraries, 10 - 13 April 2003, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Buying & Selling eContent, 13 - 15 April 2003, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA Microfilming and Digitisation for Preservation, LIBER Workshop, 14 - 15 April 2003, The Hague, The Netherlands Web Development with XML: Design and Application, Association of Research Libraries (ARL), 16 - 18 April 2003, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Emerging Visions for Access in the 21st Century Library, DAI Institute, 21 - 22 April 2003, San Francisco, California, USA NDDL-2003, 3rd International Workshop on New Developments in Digital Libraries, 22 April 2003, Angers, France Book Conference 2003, From Creator to Consumer in A Digital Age, 22 - 24 April 2003, Cairns, Australia School for Scanning, Creating, Managing, and Preserving Digital Assets, presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center, 23 - 25 April 2003, Los Angeles, California, USA ICEIS 2003 - 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 23 - 26 April 2003, Angers, France New Media, Technology and Everyday Life in Europe Conference, 5th RTD Framework Programme of the EU, 23 - 26 April 2003, London, United Kingdom Networked World: Information Technology and Globalization, 24 April 2003, Santa Clara, California, USA Can there be a Social Movement Informatics?, 29 April 2003, Leeds, United Kingdom NET2003, Teaming Up to Make Effective IT Policy, 30 April - 1 May 2003, Washington, D.C., USA PAKDD 2003, Seventh Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 30 April - 2 May 2003, Seoul, Korea Eighth International Summer School on the Digital Library, August 2003, Tilburg, The Netherlands *Deadline Reminders* DEXA 2003 Events - DEXA 2003, DaWaK 2003, EC-Web 2003, EGOV 2003, HoloMAS 2003 IT in Higher Education: Mobilizing the Mission JCDL 2003 3rd ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 8th Interlending and Document Supply International Conference - Breaking barriers: reaching users in a digital world WebWise 2003 Closing Gaps in the Digital Divide Regional Conference on Digital GMS LIANZA Conference 2003 ALT-C 2003, 10th International Conference of the Association for Learning Technology RENCON, a Workshop on Methods for Automatic Music Performance and Their Applications in a Public Rendering Contest 4th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers CMMR 2003, Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval 2003 Libraries Without Walls 5: The Distributed Delivery of Library and Information Services 7th Annual KMWorld & Intranets 2003 CORES Schema Creation ECDL 2003, 7th European Conference on Digital Libraries RIDE-MLIM 2003 Computers in Libraries 2003 NERCOMP 2003, North East Regional Computing Program 2003 Annual Conference MW2003, Museums and the Web 2nd International Conference on Preservation and Conservation Issues Related to Digital Printing and Digital Photography Educause 2003 Midwest Regional Conference IUC23, 23rd Internationalization & Unicode Conference EVA 2003, The New Renaissance Internet Librarian International 2003 Technoscience, Material Culture, and Everyday Life Networking Multimedia Resources FORO 2003 - Freedom Beyond Borders: Information Networking in Action DRH 2003 Conference, Digital Resources for the Humanities
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