Reports on Special Events
by Bonita Wilson
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Letters
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E-Books: Challenges and Opportunities
John Cox, National University of Ireland, Galway
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Visualizing Bibliographic Metadata - A Virtual (Book) Spine Viewer
Naomi Dushay, Cornell University
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An Orderly Retreat from the Big Deal: Is It Possible for Consortia?
Jeffrey N. Gatten, Kent State University and Tom Sanville, OhioLINK
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Developing a Web Analytics Strategy for the National Science Digital Library
Casey Jones and Michael Wright, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research; Sarah Giersch, iLumina Digital Library; Tamara Sumner, University of Colorado, Boulder; Anita Coleman, University of Arizona; and Laura Bartolo, Kent State University
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Portable soft drink stand at Bowling Green Office Building, New York City, October 1, 1942. Copyright © 2004, The Trustees of Indiana University.

The Charles W. Cushman Collection is D-Lib Magazine's featured collection this month.

Report on the 8th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2004): 12 - 16 September 2004, Bath, United Kingdom
Jonas Holmström, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration
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Cross-Language Evaluation Forum - CLEF 2004: 15 - 17 September 2004, Bath, United Kingdom
Carol Peters, ISTI-CNR
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Healthcare Digital Libraries Workshop - HDL 2004: 16 September 2004, Bath, United Kingdom
Anne Adams, University College London and Patty Kostkova, City University, London
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ECDL 2004 Workshop Report - Networked Organization Systems/Services (NKOS): User-centred Approaches
Marianne Lykke Nielsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark
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The Charles W. Cushman Collection
Kristine Brancolini, Indiana University
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RCDL 2004: Sixth Russian Conference on Digital Libraries: Pushchino, Russia, September 29 - October 1, 2004
Arkady Avramenko and Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Sciences
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DELOS and the Future of Digital Libraries
Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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ACRL 2005 Awards Program
Megan Bielefeld, Association of College and Research Librarians (ACRL)
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In the News: Recent Press Releases and Announcements

In Print

• A Patent System for the 21st Century
• Survey of the State of Audio Collections in Academic Libraries
• Implementing Preservation Repositories For Digital Materials: Current Practice And Emerging Trends In The Cultural Heritage Community
• A Guide to Good Practice in Collaborative Working Methods and New Media Tools Creation
• Directory of Digital Repositories and Services
• Contracting Out for Digital Preservation Services
• Copyright and intellectual property rights: a case study from the web face
• Standing Our Ground: A Guidebook for STEM Educators in the Post-Michigan Era
• Surveying the Digital Future: The Digital Future Report Year Four: Ten Years, Ten Trends
• DigiCULT.Info Issue 8 - A Newsletter on Digital Culture
• Digital Document Quarterly
• Delivery, Management and Access Model for E-prints and Open Access Journals within Further and Higher Education
• Journal of Digital Information
• Information Research

Point to Point

• Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
• Search Engines 2

Calls for Participation

• International Conference on Research Trends in Science and Technology, 7 - 9 March 2005, Beirut & Byblos, Lebanon. Call for papers. Paper submission deadline: November 15, 2004.
• Informing Science + Information Technology Education (IⁿSITE), 16 - 19 June 2005, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. Call for papers. The submission date is 30 November 2004.
• Information Architecture (IA) Summit 2005 - Crossing Boundaries, 4 - 7 March 2005, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Call for posters. The deadline for submission is 5 December 2004.
• Librarians for the 21st Century, Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Call for proposals. The submission date is 15 December 2004.
• The 9th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-05), 18 - 20 May 2005, Hanoi, Vietnam. Call for papers. The submission date is 22 December 2004.
• CE2005: The 12th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, 25 - 29 July 2005, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 31 December 2004.

Goings On

• Sixth International Conference on Grey Literature, 6 - 7 December 2004, New York, New York, USA
• International Conference on Developing Digital Institutional Repositories: Experiences and Challenges , 9 - 10 December 2004, Hong Kong, China
• ICADL 2004: International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries, 13 - 17 December 2004, Shanghai, China
• 4th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP 2004), 16 - 18, Kolkata, India

Deadline Reminders

• ICIC International Conference for Science & Business Information
• 19th Brazilian Symposium on Databases (SBBD'2004) and 18th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES'2004)
• Educause 2004
• Brick and Click Libraries Symposium
• Information Architecture (IA) Summit 2005 - Crossing Boundaries
• 12th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2004)
• Pacific Northwest Preservation Management Institute
• E-Learn 2004
• ICMC 2004: International Computer Music Conference
• Tackling the TEACH Act
• Sofia 2004: Libraries, Globalization, and Cooperation
• Second PLANNER
• The 19th CODATA International Conference - The Information Society: New Horizons for Science
• 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004)
• 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2005)
• The Virtual Reference Desk Conference 2004
• Thirteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2004)
• Archiving Web Resources: International Conference on Issues for Cultural Heritage Institutions
• ACM GIS 2004
• ASIST&T Annual Meeting 2004
• Partnerships in Innovation - Serving a Networked Nation
• FUTUREGROUND, Design Research Society (DSR) 2004 International Conference
• Institutional Repositories: The Next Stage
• 1st Asian Library & Information Conference (ALIC2004)

(On October 19, two links regarding the Cushman collection were changed at the request of Kristine Brancolini, Indiana University.)

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