Free and Fee: Future Information Discovery and Access
by Peter Hirtle

To the Editor: Letters

The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization
Elaine Svenonius. MIT Press, 2000
Reviewed by: Caroline R. Arms, Library of Congress

"...This book about cataloging certainly deserves to be read outside the community whose principles and traditions it describes and illuminates."

Commercial Digital Libraries and the Academic Community: How New Firms Might Develop New Relationships between "Publisher" and Higher Education
Gregory Crane, Tufts University

Photograph of sea grasses which are monocots that live in the sea.

Copyright © Dr. C.M. Sean Carrington, Department of Biological & Chemical Sciences, University of West Indies. Used with permission. The web site Introduction to the Plant Kingdom is D-Lib Magazine's featured collection this month.

Keeping Dublin Core Simple: Cross-Domain Discovery or Resource Description?
Carl Lagoze, Cornell University

First Steps in an Information Commerce Economy: Digital Rights Management in the Emerging E-Book Environment
Eamonn Neylon, Manifest Solutions

Interoperability: Digital Rights Management and the Emerging EBook Environment
Stephen Mooney, Stephen P. Mooney & Associates, LLC

Searching the Deep Web: Directed Query Engine Applications at the Department of Energy
Walter L. Warnick, R.L. Scott, Karen J. Spence, Lorrie A. Johnson, and Valerie S. Allen, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, and Abe Lederman, Innovative Web Applications

Introduction to the Plant Kingdom
Dr. C.M. Sean Carrington, University of the West Indies

Realizing the Vision of Networked Access to Library Resources: An Applied Research and Demonstration Project to Establish and Operate a Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed
William E. Moen, Ph.D., University of North Texas

Open Working Group on Agents in Digital Libraries
José Borbinha, National Library of Portugal

Museums, Libraries and the 21^st Century Learner
Beverly Sheppard, Institute of Museum and Library Services

Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnerships (LAAP): A Grant Program Administered by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)
Karen B. Levitan, U.S. Department of Education

Cross-sectoral Stewardship Strategy for Museums, Archives and Libraries
Julie Carpenter, Education for Change Ltd

New Email List on Digital Preservation
Neil Beagrie, Joint Information Systems Committee

JSTOR Completes General Science Collection (News Release)
Carol MacAdam, JSTOR

In Print

• The Power of the Internet for Learning: Moving from Promise to Practice
• Preservation Science Survey: An Overview of Recent Developments in Research on the Conservation of Selected Analog Library and Archival Materials
• Library Services for Visually Impaired People: A Best Practice Manual
• Cataloging Electronic Resources: OCLC-MARC Coding Guidelines
• Papers from the Preservation 2000 Conference
• Digital Libraries of the 21st Century
• Going Digital: issues in digitisation for public libraries
• ERCIM NEWS
• Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)

Point to Point

• Issue Papers
• Web Based Resources: Free Access, Full Text Electronic Journals and Selected Websites
• Changes in LIS Education: A Bibliography

Deadline Reminders

• Information Online 2001 - Digital Dancing: New Steps, New Partners
• 27th International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) Conference: IASSIST/IFDO 2001
• Open Meeting of the Open Archives Initiative
• Arts and Humanities Online
• 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
• Tele Learning 2001
• ASIST 2001 Annual Meeting - Information in a Networked World: Harnessing the Flow
• 10th Pacific Science Inter-Congress
• Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for Libraries
• "Dublin Core Standardisation in Europe" Workshop
• Ontario Library Association Super Conference
• American Association for History and Computing Annual Meeting
• Call for Proposals - New Subject Hubs for the Resource Discovery Network
• International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting: Cultural Heritage and Technologies in the Third Millennium
• ASIS Summit 2001: Practicing Information Architecture
• CyberSystems and Computer Science 2001 Conference
• JCDL 2001: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
• The R&D Management 2001 Conference
• New Media Conference 2001
• Web Design 2001: HTML and Beyond
• Computing Arts: Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities 2001
• Hypertext 2001 - The 12th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia: Transforming Information, Entertainment, and Culture
• Second ARL/OCLC Strategic Issues Forum: Toward Rethinking Academic Library Performance in the Digital Age
• VLDB 2001: 27th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
• EduTex Regional Conference
• NFAIS 2001 Annual Conference: Networking @ Internet Speed
• KDD-2001: The 7th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
• ACM Multimedia 2001: Multimedia at the Dawn of the Millennium
• 5th International Conference on Electronic Publishing - EPUB2001: 2001 in the Digital Publishing Odyssey

Calls for Participation

• The Second International Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, 10 - 14 October 2001, Minneapolis - St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. Call for papers. The deadline for submission is 2 March 2001.
• Libraries Without Walls 4 - The Delivery of Library Services to Distant Users: Distributed Resources - Distributed Learning, 14 - 18 September 2001, Lesvos, Greece. The deadline for submissions is 2 March 2001
• AMIA 2001 - A Medical Informatics Odyssey: Visions of the Future and Lessons from the Past, 3 - 7 November 2001, Washington, DC, USA. Call for participation. Papers are being accepted now and the deadline for submission is 8 March 2001.
• Call for Papers: Special Topic Issue of JASIS on Information Architecture. The deadline for submission is 15 March 2001.

Goings On

• Public Library Association (PLA) Spring Symposium, 1 - 3 March 2001, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• Computers, Freedom and Privacy 2001, 6 - 9 March 2001, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
• ACM1: Beyond Cyberspace, A Journey of Many Directions, 10 - 14 March 2001, San Jose, California, USA.
• Computers in Libraries, 14 - 16 March 2001, Washington, DC, USA.
• Museums and the Web 2001, 14 - 17 March 2001, Seattle, Washington, USA.
• ACRL 10th National Conference (ACRL X): Crossing the Digital Divide, 15 - 18 March 2001, Denver, Colorado, USA.
• The North East Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP)- E-learning: Enhancing Education In and Out of the Classroom, 18 - 20 March 2001, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
• Ebooks 2001 Conference, 20 March 2001, London, United Kingdom.
• 4th British-Nordic Conference: Library and Information Studies, 21 - 24 March 2001, Dublin, Ireland.
• ETD 2001: The Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 22 - 24 March 2001, Pasadena, California, USA.
• Third USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, 26 - 28 March 2001, San Francisco, California, USA.
• EUNIS 2001: The 7th International Congress of European University Information Systems, 26 - 30 March 2001, Berlin, Germany.
• Sixth International Summer School on the Digital Library. Three one-week sessions: 30 July - 3 August 2001, Tilburg, The Netherlands; 5 - 10 August 2001, Tilburg, The Netherlands; and 7 - 12 October 2001, Florence, Italy.

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DOI: 10.1045/january2001-contents

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