Challenges and Opportunities
by Bonita Wilson
doi:10.1045/january2009-editorial

Letters
doi:10.1045/september-letters

From Stevan Harnad, American Scientist Open Access Forum

A Policy Checklist for Enabling Persistence of Identifiers
Nick Nicholas, Nigel Ward, and Kerry Blinco, Link Affiliates
doi:10.1045/january2009-nicholas

A Set of Transfer-Related Services
Justin Littman, Library of Congress
doi:10.1045/january2009-littman

Sharing Functionality on the Web: A Proposed Services Infrastructure for The European Library
Theo van Veen and Michel Koppelaar, Koninklijke Bibliotheek; Georg Petz, Austrian National Library; and Christian Sadilek, Austrian Research Centers
doi:10.1045/january2009-vanveen

Search Web Services - The OASIS SWS Technical Committee Work: The Abstract Protocol Definition, OpenSearch Binding, and SRU/CQL 2.0
Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
doi:10.1045/january2009-denenberg

Institutional Repository on a Shoestring
George Wrenn, Carolyn J. Mueller, and Jeremy Shellhase, Humboldt State University
doi:10.1045/january2009-wrenn

Classroom Information Needs: Search Analysis from a Digital Library for Educators
Marcia A. Mardis, Florida State University
doi:10.1045/january2009-mardis

A Workshop Series for Grid/Repository Integration
Andreas Aschenbrenner, State and University Library, Goettingen; Tobias Blanke and Mark Hedges, King's College London; Neil P Chue Hong, OMII UK, and Nicholas Ferguson, OGF Europe
doi:10.1045/january2009-aschenbrenner

Baltimore SPARC IR and SUN PASIG Meetings: Towering Content and Evolving Online Scholarly Publishing Models
Carol Minton Morris, Cornell University
doi:10.1045/january2009-morris

Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears
Jessica Fries-Gaither, The Ohio State University
doi:10.1045/january-featured.collection

Airbrushing History, American Style: The Mutability of Government Documents in the Digital Era
Kalev Leetaru and Scott Althaus, University of Illinois
doi:10.1045/january2009-inbrief

DL.org - Digital Library Interoperability, Best Practices and Modelling Foundations: A Common Journey to New Frontiers
Donatella Castelli, Italian National Research Council; and Stephanie Parker, Trust-IT Services Ltd.
doi:10.1045/january2009-inbrief

IMPACT: Improving Access to Text
Lieke Ploeger, Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands
doi:10.1045/january2009-inbrief

The UCL Data Audit Framework (DAF) Pilot Implementation Project
Panayiota Polydoratou, University College London
doi:10.1045/january2009-inbrief

Permanent Access to Raw Scientific Data: PARSE.Insight
Beate Sturm, Goettingen State and University Library / Max Planck Digital Library
doi:10.1045/january2009-inbrief

In the News: Recent Press Releases and Announcements

Gentoo penguins and the Research Vessel LAURENCE M. GOULD near Petermann Island. Christine Hush, National Science Foundation. Used with permission

This month D-Lib's featured collection is Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears.

In Print

• Sustaining the Digital Investment: Issues and Challenges of Economically Sustainable Digital
• For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project
• Staying the Course: Online Education in the United States, 2008
• Distance Education at Degree-Granting Postsecondary Institutions: 2006-07
• The Future of the Internet III
• Networked Families
• The Tower and The Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing
• Internet Governance Forum (IGF): The First Two Years
• The e-Revolution and Post-Compulsory Education: Using e-business models to deliver quality education
• State Library Agencies: Fiscal Year 2007
• DRIVER Guidelines v2.0
• PoWR: The Preservation of Web Resources Handbook
• Networked Families
• 2008 IIPC Member Profile Survey Results
• Highlights from the 2008 Digital Future Report
• Highlights from The World Internet Report 2009
• IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL) Bulletin
• ARIADNE
• International Journal of Digital Curation
• Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter
• Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship
• Primary Source
• ERCIM News
• ScieCom Info
• Digital Document Quarterly

Point to Point

• The Google Book Search Bibliography
• ticTOCs - Journal Tables of Contents Service
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

Calls for Participation

• The 9th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 11 - 14 October 2009, Xiamen, China. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 15 February 2009.
• ETD 2009, The 12th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 10 - 13 June 2009, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 16 February 2009.
• WORLDCOMP'09: The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, 13 - 16 July 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 25 February 2009.
• 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, 27 September - 2 October 2009, Corfu, Greece. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 21 March 2009.
• The 1st IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications, 23 - 25 August 2009, Dalian, China. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 31 March 2009.
• The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'09), 27 - 30 October 2009, Lyon, France. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 1 April 2009.
• Sixteenth International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, 23 - 25 July 2009, Brixen, Italy. Call for papers. The submission deadline for abstracts is 6 April 2009.
• 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI'09) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'09), 15 - 18 September 2009, Milan, Italy. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 10 April 2009.
• XI All-Russian Scientific Conference RCDL 2009, 17 - 21 September 2009, Petrozavodsk, Russia. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 15 April 2009.
• he 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering 29 - 31 August 2009, Vancouver, Canada. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 15 April 2009.

Goings On

• 2009 NFAIS Annual Conference, Barbarians at the Gate? The Impact of Digital Natives and Emerging Technologies on the Future of Information Services, 22 - 24 February 2009, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
• Digital Preservation Training Programme, 23 - 25 February 2009, London, United Kingdom
• CALIBER 2009: Convention on Automation of Libraries in Education and Research Institutions), 25 - 27 February 2009, Pondichery, India
• International Conference e-Society 2009, 25 - 28 February 2009, Barcelona, Spain
• WebWise 2009, 26 - 27 February 2009, Washington, DC, USA
• ICKMIC 2009 - International Conference on Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital, 26 - 27 February 2009, IMT Ghaziabad, India
• Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education and Practice, 6 - 8 March 2009, Tsukuba, Japan
• 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 8 - 12 March 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
• 14th ACRL National Conference, 12 - 15 March 2009, Seattle, Washington, USA
• ASIDIC (Association of Information and Dissemination Centers) Spring 2009 meeting, 22 - 24 March 2009, Tampa, Florida, USA
• AAAI-SSS-09: Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0, 23 - 25 March 2009, Stanford, California, USA
• The 3rd International Conference on Adaptive Business Information Systems (ABIS 2009), 23 - 25 March 2009, Leipzig, Germany
• 5th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), 23 - 26 March 2009, Lisboa, Portugal
• International Conference on Computer Supported Education(CSEDU), 23 - 26 March 2009, Lisboa, Portugal
• Stewardship of Digital Assets Workshop, 24 - 25 March 2009, New York, New York, USA
• EG workshop on 3D Object Retrieval, 29 March 2009, Munich, Germany
• Computers in Libraries, 30 March - 1 April 2009, Arlington, Virginia, USA
• DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects, 1 - 3 April 2009, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
• American Society of Engineering Education Northeast Conference 2009, 3 - 4 April 2009, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
• CHI 2009: Digital Life, New World, 5 - 9 April 2009, Boston Massachusetts, USA
• European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2009), 6 - 9 April 2009, Toulouse, France
• Learning on Screen Conference 2009, 7 - 8 April 2009, London, United Kingdom

Deadline Reminders

• 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference
• CALIBER 2009: Convention on Automation of Libraries in Education and Research Institutions)
• TextGrid Summit
• InfoVision 2009
• International Conference on Knowledge Networking in the ICT Era
• Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2009
• BOBCATSSS 2009
• 6th International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications: CITSA 2009
• Thriving on Diversity - Information Opportunities in a Pluralistic World ASIS&T 2009 Annual Meeting
• User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP)
• IADIS International Conference Informatics 2009
• 7th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)
• 3rd Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval
• International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML2009)
• 7th IFLA International Marketing Award
• International UDC Seminar 2009: Classification at a Crossroads
• 2009 International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-09)
• 2009 International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09)
• 2009 International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology and Applications (RAITA-09)
• Hypertext 2009: The Twentieth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
• 9th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2009)
• Digital Futures: from digitization to delivery
• 9th International Bielefeld Conference 2009
• ER&L (Electronic Resources & Libraries) 2009

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